Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly ugly incident, some 20 armed men stormed the house of two stonecutters, Abdel Aziz Idris and his brother Hussein. Every window in their house, which they had built themselves, was broken. The Idris children and Abdel's pregnant wife were beaten before an Israeli army patrol arrived to rescue them. The Idrises do not know why they were targeted. "We enjoyed good neighborly relations," says Abdel Idris, "but after the murder of the Israeli youth, we were told again and again, 'If you won't leave your home, we shall beat you up.' " Counters Zeev...
...heart of Saudi Arabia's problem is the unfinished task of creating a modern state out of a cluster of Bedouin tribes that were unified by Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) under the present kingdom in 1932. The royal leadership is worried by the growing polarization of Saudi society; thousands of young Saudis return from the West every year with university degrees, only to chafe under a puritanical, semifeudal system designed to appease the disparate desert tribes. "When the graduates come back, they are given nice jobs with plenty of money," remarks one educated Saudi. "But how long they will...