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...largest oil players in the country—China National Petroleum Company (parent company of Petrochina), the Oil and Natural Gas Company of India, and Petronas. Gould told me that his company pays $13.2 million every year to the Sudanese government and Sudan’s former finance minister Abda Yahia el-Mahdi has said that more than 70 percent of the government’s share of oil profits is spent on defense. Though it’s difficult to say with certainty without accounting records, if this proportion holds true for Schlumberger’s payments, almost...
...regularly and even burned her with a hot ladle for serving eggs fried instead of poached. In a nightmare parody of bourgeois house pride, Nazer's owners showed her off like a new Sub-Zero refrigerator. "Let me tell you," her mistress chattered to visitors, "if you have an abda [a slave] in your home, like her, it's like a blessing...
Salem's father had to stay in Beirut in his official capacity to see that hospitals remained open and water was available for the patients. The rest of the family fled to Ba'abda, Lebanon, a little town overlooking Beirut which houses the Presidential palace and the American embassy residence...
Even our of Beirut, the air raids were ever-present. "What was really cerise was that we could watch the air raids from our house in Ba'abda. The magnitude of the air raids--which could go on for hours and hours--was something which no one had ever seen before, never of this intensity...
...Israelis approached Beirut the family planned to have Lisa and Mark married in Ba'abda as soon as possible, however, a few days later the Israeli army rolled into Ba'abda itself and set up artillery and surveillance positions next to their house. "The whole night was very dangerous. We were all huddled together in the basement Mark's parents were very shattered, worried and scared." The family was forced to escape to nearby Byblios in the midst of the bombings...