Eugene Rogan directs the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford, which Hourani created.

尤金•罗根是牛津圣安东尼大学中东中心的领导者，而这个研究中心，正是侯莱尼创建的。

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The Hourani hospital has been accepting injured protesters since the start, but others, afraid of secret police interference, had to be persuaded to open their doors.

打一开始，侯莱尼（Hourani）医院就一直在接收受伤的抗议者，但其余的医院害怕遭到秘密警察的干涉，因而不得不劝说它们接收伤员。

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Yet the last attempt at a general history of the Arabs, written nearly 20 years ago by Albert Hourani, a British academic of Lebanese origin who died in 1993, proved a triumph.

最近一次撰写全貌式的阿拉伯民族史的成功尝试，还要追溯到将近20年以前。 作者是阿尔伯特•侯莱尼，卒于1993年，英国学者，拥有黎巴嫩血统。

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Wisely, Mr Rogan has avoided trying to match the scope or depth of Hourani's masterpiece.

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Nor does Mr Rogan replicate Hourani's technique of weaving history out of multiple strands such as demography, trading patterns and literature.

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Seif al-Hourani, an activist from a rebel group which reportedly helped the man and his family out of the country, told AP news agency via Skype that the escape had been planned for months.

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