Word: bashir
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...discussions turned more scholarly recently when an article in al-Sharq al-Awsat, the Arabic international daily, complained about Penguin paperback books 70th anniversary publication of excerpts from Gustave Flaubert's letters from Egypt. The article's author, Susan Bashir, complained about the provocative new title, "The Desert and the Dancing Girls" and the cover's "half naked girls." Abu Aardvark echoed Bashir: "Is this what Penguin thinks the Arab world really is...empty deserts and exotic dancing girls?" Meanwhile, as the genre's 51 million readers pump gas this summer, will they be dreaming of oil sheikhs in exotic...
...about the only person they did not rough up." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, after members of her delegation and the media were forcibly blocked from her meeting with President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan...
...What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know. I wish I could find out." BASHIR AHMED, uncle of Shahzad Tanweer, one of four British nationals suspected of carrying out the London terrorist bombings...
...ARRESTED. HAJI BASHIR NOORZAI, 44, Afghan narcotics trafficker called a "drug kingpin" by U.S. President George Bush last June; for allegedly smuggling 500 kg of heroin worth more than $50 million into the U.S.; in New York City. U.S. prosecuting attorney David Kelley said Noorzai was involved in a 14- year "unholy alliance" with Afghanistan's former Taliban leaders, trading drugs and weapons for government protection. Noorzai, who faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court last Wednesday...
...subsequent leaders had the opportunity to shape the direction of the BMF. Often, this direction came from the personalities of the leaders themselves. “We were all very big personalities, very out spoken. We were viewed not as BMF, but…as Derrick and his group, Bashir and his group,” says Salahuddin...