Word: darwish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense of urgency now because he would like to strike the deal himself," says Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, an analyst at the Ford Foundation in Cairo. "He would rather go as the man who brought the Golan back...
...Middle East are in trouble," said Nawaf Salam, a law lecturer at the American University of Beirut. "Only Peres was willing to offer something the Arabs could accept. With him, Israel had a real possibility of reconciliation with the region. Now all this is in doubt." Said Bassma Kodmani Darwish, Middle East specialist at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in Paris: "It will be difficult to convince public opinion anywhere that there is a need to make peace...
When the police finally gained control of the Temple Mount at 1 p.m., 19 / Palestinians lay dead or dying from bullet wounds, and another 140 were wounded. Said Abu Darwish, who witnessed the clashes, "I saw the soldiers deliberately aiming at the chests and heads of the Palestinians." At least six Israeli policemen and more than two dozen Jewish worshipers were also hurt...