Word: bedouins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, would appreciate Sang's relentless sense of purpose. Under the leadership of the Sheik, who told developer Emaar Properties to go for 160 stories rather than the planned 90, this former backwater of Bedouin and Persian Gulf traders is rapidly being transformed into the Middle East's Hong Kong - a glitzy global hub for doing business, having fun and ... well, constructing a lot of tall buildings...
...triumph for Israel. Within hours of its start, the Egyptian air force had been destroyed in pre-emptive air strikes. Israeli troops sliced through Egyptian defenses in the Sinai Peninsula, moved against the Syrians in the Golan Heights and outflanked King Hussein's Bedouin army in the West Bank. In 132 hours, it was all over. Israel had more than tripled its territory, its forces moving into ancient Jerusalem, fulfilling the age-old quest of the Jews to return to their holy city. The war changed mental maps in the Middle East as much as it did the political landscape...
Dubai lures visitors not only with its year-round sunshine and superlatives - a "seven-star" hotel, the biggest theme park - but also its over-the-top luxury. Heck, even living like a bedouin can be a deluxe experience. Al Maha is set in the 225-sq-km Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve - 5% of the emirate's total land area - and is designed to resemble a bedouin camp. Endangered Arabian oryx (al maha in Arabic), desert foxes and gazelle meander around the grounds and, if you're lucky, quench their thirst in your own private pool. The spa and airy suites...
...civil rights lawyers working for minorities in Israel spoke to Harvard’s Progressive Jewish Alliance at Hillel yesterday about the plight of the Bedouin minority in Israel. Morad El-Sana and Gil Gan-Mor, both law fellows at the Israeli human rights foundation New Israel Fund (NIF), told the group of 14 people at the event that having studied the American civil rights movement will be instructive when they return to advocate minority rights in Israel. “NIF has beliefs that are similar to ours,” said Jaclyn B. Granick...
...first got a psychology degree at the Sorbonne in Paris...When I do films, such as my last film about family life and my next one which is going to be about Bedouin woman, I’m stepping out of my role as sex therapist and doing documentaries as a sociologist of family life...