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Just 2½ years ago, she was Lisa Halaby, daughter of a former Pan Am president, Princeton grad, aspiring architect and freewheeling all-American girl. Then she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein, now 46, and nothing -not her name, nationality, religion or rank-is the...
Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic and chairman of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, said last month he journeyed to Cairo to "relax." He is staying at the city's American Research Center, which is involved in several development projects in developing countries, and with whom he is affiliated...
The common denominator of all these unholy alliances is the old Arabic proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The Saudi princes fear Khomeini's antimonarchist Islamic revolution, so they side with Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein wants to succeed the Shah as the principal power in the gulf...
At 43, Saddam is the Arab world's newest and most determined strongman, and he is not about to allow himself to be toppled from his pinnacle by simple negligence. His bold designs to supplant the late Shah of Iran as the watchdog and kingpin of the Persian Gulf...
>New York City, by tradition the largest and most famous immigrant gateway to the New World, now has 80,000 children in bilingual classes. About 60,000 are Spanish. Among the nine other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean and Russian. Naturally, in the shadow of Ellis Island...