Word: arabian
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...year ago, the country's voters elected their first parliament, an unprecedented exercise in democracy by the authoritarian standards of the Arabian peninsula. But for the past two weeks, armies from the conservative North and socialist South have waged bloody but inconclusive armor and artillery battles in bitter rivalry over the division of political power and the distribution of oil revenues. "Unity is dead," said an Arab League | official in Cairo, and so were hopes that political pluralism had taken root in traditionally monarchical Arabia...
...what was announced as the largest telecommunications contract for an American company abroad, the Saudi Arabian government awarded AT&T a $4 billion contract to modernize its phone system. Intense lobbying from the Clinton Administration, including visits from Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, contributed to the success of the deal...
...convey the pleasure some of Harvard's older alumni expressed as they went through "The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe" saying "Harvard finally recognized its past errors." We witnessed Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani walking through that exhibition, just as a group of Jewish alumni were viewing "Harvard's Arabian Nights." We were present when Queen Noor of Jordan opened the exhibition "Monumental Islamic Calligraphy," brought to the museum at the request of then-NELC Professor Annemarie Schimmel, and met with Mrs. Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson who later established the Dorot Professorship which Stager now holds. We were honored be trained...
...museum.'" The truth is that for years we worked with NELC and other members of the Harvard faculty in planning our public programs and our publications. We sponsored an academic symposium in 1982 with Professor Isadore Twersky which resulted in a book publication; we curated the exhibit "Harvard's Arabian Nights" when Professor Muhsin Mahdi published a book about the One Thousand and One Nights; with Professor Shinasi Tekin we published The Imperial Self Portrait, a book of historic photographs of the Ottoman Empire. For years photographer Elizabeth Carella provided negatives and prints for NELC publications free of charge. Over...
...take their seats on the side of the stage, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Marzipan, Mother Ginger, the Sugarplum Fairy, and Russians all perform for their pleasure. The height of the Russian dancer's leaps and their perfect synchronicity elicited tremendous applause from the audience. The slow and sensuous, technically challenging Arabian "coffee" movement performed by Kyra Strasberg, Todd Eric Allen and David Porter, mesmerized the audience and incorporated elements of modern dance into classical ballet. Finally, the rapid speed of the Sugar Plum Fairy's pirouettes and her leaps in plie on point all allowed Jennifer Gelfand to look delicate...