Word: bedouin
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...Bedouin shepherds find Dead Sea Scrolls hidden in clay jars in Israel's Qumran Cave, overlooking the Dead...
...always more than merely a survivor. Though he made costly mistakes, he emerged as the region's strongest force for moderation. Though he was frequently betrayed by friend and foe alike, even targeted for assassination, he responded with magnanimity. He molded a modern, cohesive state from a collection of Bedouin tribes and Palestinian refugees, and won something rare in his nasty neighborhood: a lifelong reputation as a man of tolerance...
...Israel and opposes Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The son of Briton Toni Gardiner, the second of Hussein's four wives, he received an extensive education at Sandhurst and Oxford and attended Georgetown University in the U.S. He heads the army's elite Special Forces, and his popularity in the Bedouin-based force is a strong point. He may have an advantage in dealing with the country's Palestinians: his wife hails from the West Bank. But Abdullah has no political or government experience. And strict Muslims are unhappy with his Western ways--he speaks better English than Arabic...
...unprepared as they were for life after Hussein, many Jordanians took comfort watching the new crown prince going about his first official duties. As he stood in Raghadan Palace, shaking hands with thousands of subjects--army officers and Bedouin chiefs, imams and Palestinian businessmen--Jordanians took note of the same strong yet polite way with people that was the magic of his father...
...individual comes close to matching the affection and respect enjoyed by Hussein among both Israelis and Palestinians, but Hussein's life had always been about straddling different worlds. He was at once the beloved monarch of the nomadic Bedouin tribesmen and the cosmopolitan statesman trained in British military academies who loved flying his own plane and was married to an American -- Queen Noor, formerly Lisa Halaby. (She was his fourth wife: A youthful marriage to a Palestinian woman ended in divorce, as did his union with Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British Army officer and mother of his heir, Crown...