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Sinai
Peninsula, NE Egypt. Located between the gulfs of Suez and Aqaba at the N end of the Red Sea, it covers 23,500 sq mi (61,000 sq km). Its S region is mountainous and includes Mt. Sinai, while its N two-thirds is an arid plateau known as the Sinai Desert. Inhabited since prehistoric times, it is famous as the route of the Israelite exodus from Egypt. For centuries, its N coast was the main trade route between Egypt and Palestine. From the 1st cent. AD until its takeover by the Ottoman Turks in the 16th cent., it was part of the Roman empire and the empire's successors. It was turned over to Egypt at the end of World War I. It was the scene of the principal campaign of the Arab-Israeli War (1967) and occupied by Israel 1967-82; it was then returned to Egypt.


Sirhindi
Indian mystic and theologian. He traced his descent from Umar ibn al-Khattab. After a traditional Muslim education, he joined an important Sufi order and devoted himself to preaching against the tendencies of Akbar and his successor, Jahangir, toward pantheism and Shiite Islam. His views are outlined in his most famous work, Maktubat, a compilation of his letters. His burial place at Sirhind is a site of pilgrimage.


Siskind
U.S. photographer, teacher, and editor. Born in New York City, he began to photograph in 1932 while teaching English in a public school. While documenting the Great Depression, he attended as closely to pure design as to his subjects. In the 1940s he began to photograph patterns and textures of such subjects as coiled ropes, footprints in sand, and weathered pavement and billboards. Though not immediately accepted by photographers, his abstract work was admired by W. de Kooning and F. Kline, with whom he later exhibited. He was most influential as a professor of photography and as coeditor of the magazine Choice.


Spain
Nation, SW Europe. One of Europe's largest countries, it is located on the Iberian Peninsula; it also includes the Balearic and Canary islands. Area: 194,898 sq mi (504,783 sq km). Population (1997 est.): 39,323,000. Capital: Madrid. The people are predominantly Spanish, with a minority of Basques and Gypsies. Languages: Castilian Spanish (official), Catalan, Galician, and Basque. Religions: Roman Catholicism (95%), Islam. Currency: peseta. Spain's large central plateau is surrounded by the Ebro River valley, the mountainous Catalonia region, the Mediterranean coastal region of Valencia, the Guadalquivir River valley, and the mountainous region extending from the Pyrenees to the Atlantic coast. It has a developed market economy based on services, light and heavy industries, and agriculture. Mineral resources include iron ore, mercury, and coal; agricultural products include grains and livestock. Spain is one of the world's major producers of wine. Tourism is also a major industry. It is a constitutional monarchy with two legislative houses; its chief of state is the king, ...

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