The giant R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds' best-known cigarette brands.

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From a historical and tourist point of view,Salem, or Old Salem, as it's called today, is the interesting and unusual part of town.

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Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians, a strict Protestant sect originally from what is now the Czech Republic and eastern Germany.

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But Salem became so worldly that, except for the academy, a beautiful church and a graveyard called God's Acre, Salem lost its Moravian character.

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In fact,one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women - the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 - is still in operation.

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Fast-growing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem, so in 1913,people in the area voted to combine them into a single place.

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Over the years, Salem deteriorated and,by the 1950s,it was a slum.

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Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the Piedmont, or plateau, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina.

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"It's a long awaited step." Paul Salem,who heads the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, thinks that President Obama's trip to Cairo is likely to have positive reverberations across the Arab world.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum, with exhibits,music, and tours of 18th-Century houses,taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in Winston-Salem.

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Salem also thinks that the recent improvement of relations between the United States and regional powers, as well as relations among those regional powers, should impact positively on Iraq's geo-political situation.

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Paul Salem,who heads the Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,argues that, despite the current impasse, it is a positive sign that Iraqi political adversaries are discussing their differences in parliament.

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The historic community is thriving again. Just as R.J.Reynolds is taking in millions of dollars making cigarettes across town, Old Salem is generating about $15 million a year in tourism revenue and donations.

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The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.

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