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Question 1 of 6What is the commentary's central argument? Question 2 of 6What do the displaced look for in the model of the new city? Question 3 of 6What does the commentator imply by "if they're allowed to stand there at all"? Question 4 of 6How can return be made impossible "without anyone officially forbidding it"? Question 5 of 6What does the example of cities rebuilt "with finer stone" show? Question 6 of 6What does calling bad reconstruction "another kind of demolition" mean? Vocabularyالْمَدَافِعcannons, guns
ضَجِيجnoise
إِعَادَة الْإِعْمَارreconstruction
الْمُجَسَّمَاتmodels (scale)
الْمُهَجَّرُونthe displaced
بِامْتِيَازpar excellence
الْأَنْقَاضrubble
عَقَارِيَّةreal estate
وَثَائِقdocuments
عَلَى مَقَاسِto fit, tailored to
الْبَقَّالgrocer
الْإِسْمَنْتcement