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Zar
Ethnomedicine A possessing spirit that is said to afflict people in primitive African cultures. Zars are believed to speak through the host’s mouth, placing him/her in a hypnotic trance, evoking unusual behaviour and leaving temporary amnesia
Psychiatry A term used in north African and in Middle Eastern societies for being under the influence of spirits, which may evoke various emotions or dissociative episodes, which are not regarded as pathological in the culture


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\n David Zar, of Zar Property, leased the ground-floor, 3,800-square-foot space to the Milan Chamber of Commerce, which filled the store with Italian retailers who have yet to break into the United States market.
64-68 Wooster Street sold to Zar Properties for just under $13 million.
Zar Property has snapped up another diminutive and lovely Soho building, this one an eight-story commercial edifice at 64 Wooster Street for $12.
 
 
 
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