Word: ahmad
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...Freshmen are basically clueless," said Ahmad I. Atwan '96, head of the fellows program at the IOP. "So they have to hit as many open houses as possible. By the time they realize that classes take up all their time, the commitment wears...
...Sohad Ahmad, an impoverished Egyptian farmer's wife, knew nothing about the huge United Nations population conference going on 50 miles to the north, in Cairo. For her, family planning was not a global issue but a personal, practical matter. Getting a checkup last week at a health clinic in the rural town of Sinnuris, Ahmad laughed when a nurse asked if she was pregnant. "No," she replied, "we know pregnancy is an evil now." She and her husband, Sohad explained, had decided to stop after two children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad...
...health affairs in Sinnuris, says he must also meet birth-control targets set each year (an approach deemed ineffective in the Cairo plan) and that after a second child, families must pay steep fees for hospital delivery (a disincentive generally frowned on as coercive). In general, women like Sohad Ahmad are limiting the number of their children not because of any economic or political empowerment but because of economic hardship...
...Schwarzkopf gazed across the table at two grim-faced Iraqi generals and calmly dictated cease-fire terms that put an end to the six-week Gulf War. Stunned to learn that the U.S.-led forces had captured more than 60,000 of his soldiers, Iraqi Lieut. General Sultan Hashim Ahmad al- Jabbari acceded to each and every condition. "His face went completely pale," Schwarzkopf later recounted. "He had had no concept of the magnitude of their defeat...
During the dinner, Ahmad Mahdavi-Damghani, visiting scholar at the Center for Middle-Eastern studies, delivered an address on Persian culture and on the origins of the Persian calendar. Last night's activities concluded with a poetry reading by Farivar...