Word: ashraf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-story stone-and-plaster house stood in Jerusalem's Abu Saud quarter, named for Arafat's maternal ancestors, who bore the title Maqib el-Ashraf, or scions of the nobles. It was one of a small cluster of homes located close to the Wailing Wall. Since occupying the city in 1967, the Israelis have bulldozed one Arab section to create a broad plaza, and their archaeologists have made extensive excavations to uncover more of the wall, dating from the Herodian period. Recently, the excavating reached the foundations of the Abu Saud house...
Married. Mona Nasser, 18, younger daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, a junior at Cairo's American University; and Ashraf Marwan, 23, Egyptian army lieutenant; in Cairo...
...birth of the Afro-Asian bloc at nearby Bandung, his taste was as impeccable as ever. Screening off unsightly slum areas, Sukarno laced Djakarta's avenues with flags and festive arches, assigned each of the 35 Afro-Asian emissaries-from Chou En-lai to Imperial Princess Ashraf of Iran-his own personal motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens crooned native melodies, Sukarno fed his guests three French wines and six full courses-including sto Bandung (a rice stew...
...government employees who have been drawing pay from several simultaneous jobs lost their sinecures. Chief sufferer: the chancellor of Shiraz University, who reportedly held twelve other high-salaried posts. Amini even dared to attack Ehsan Davaloo, Iran's caviar queen and intimate friend of short-tempered Princess Ashraf, twin sister of the Shah. Mrs. Davaloo was arrested and charged with having got her $450,000-a-year caviar concession by bribing officials...
...says one prosperous contractor. "We all regard it as merely part of the deal. Frequently, we negotiate to come to terms. But dealing with royalty, for example, remains pretty much of a command performance." Most notable of Iran's royal tycoons: the Shah's twin sister, Princess Ashraf, who has already made two husbands wealthy...