Word: ahmad
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...says Mounir Moqdah, a veteran warlord with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He and his rivals in Hamas agreed, however, that military action against Israel from south Lebanon would not serve the Palestinian cause. "At this time, we will not retaliate from south Lebanon," says Abu Ahmad Fadel Taha, the leader of Hamas in Ain al-Hilweh. "We are counting for now on the support of the Arab people to stand beside us in our ordeal...
...waste of the little water that is available is rampant. New Delhi loses as much as 50% of its water through leakage and other forms of inefficiency. It is a pattern repeated throughout the ill-planned urban areas of the developing world. "These cities are leaking buckets," says Junaid Ahmad of the World Bank. (See pictures of the politics of water in Central Asia...
...declined 15% to 20% over the past several years. With almost no connection between the amount of water used and its cost, there is little incentive for rural farmers to stop drilling wells or for urban residents to conserve. "The price of water is a very important mechanism," says Ahmad...
...Masriadi has come to prominence so quickly that there has been little critical analysis of his work. "The art critics haven't caught up with the art market," says Ahmad Mashadi of Singapore's NUS Museum. And with about a week left to run on "Black Is My Last Weapon," his solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, www.singart.com, you have a chance to see what the collectors have been fussing about. Expect to be amused and provoked...
...muslim holiday of Hari Raya, the final days of Ramadan, is usually a joyous time in Malaysia. The offices of Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers empty as Malaysians travel to their home villages to celebrate with family and friends. But this year is different. As Ahmad Mustapha, a 48-year-old banker, boarded a bus in Kuala Lumpur with his wife and two children to visit his parents, all he could think about was what might happen to him and to his country when he returned to work. After Wall Street's U.S. stock swoon on Sept. 29 and Washington...