History of male circumcision of the glans. Later during the Talmudic period (500–625 CE) a third step, known as "Metzitzah", began to be practiced. In this step the "mohel" would suck the blood from the circumcision wound with his mouth to remove what was believed to be bad excess blood. As it actually increases the likelihood of infections such as tuberculosis and venereal diseases, modern day mohels use a glass tube placed over the infant's penis for suction of the blood. In many Jewish ritual circumcisions this step of Metzitzah has been eliminated. First Maccabees tells us that the Seleucids forbade the practice of
A Well-Trained Stray is the first time ever Aladdin uses slang-even in dialogue- in his books. A Well-Trained Stray ‘’'A Well-trained Stray'’' ( ‘'ʿKālb Bālādy Mudārab") is a novel by Egyptian author Muhammad Aladdin. Published in Arabic in 2014, the book, ostensibly set in 2013 after the time of the 2013 Egyptian coup d’état, is a Picaresque novel, a minimalistic scathing portrayal of modern generation in the Egyptian society since the nineties. The locale of the novel is some unnamed lower and middle middle class areas Cairo, it also represent some affiliation with documenting porn industry and how it reflected on modern Egyptian