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...Exile and alienation are recurring themes in the work - and life - of the London-based, Nigerian-born author. His father, the son of a Nigerian witch doctor, "ran away and was raised by missionaries," says Afolabi, and later became a diplomat. While the family bounced around everywhere from Canada to the Congo, Afolabi was dispatched to boarding school in the U.K. On his childhood trips abroad, Afolabi's status as the son of a diplomat didn't prevent him from being treated roughly at certain borders. "I have always been astonished and angered,"he says, "by the fact that some...
Aberra, 53, came to the U.S. from Addis Ababa in 1973 to study commercial art at Green Mountain College in Vermont. Four months after she arrived, the Ethiopian government collapsed, and her diplomat father was imprisoned, leaving Aberra without any financial resources. She moved to Boston to live with her half sister and took a job waitressing in a hamburger joint. After she was fired for speaking too softly, Aberra found another gig, as a cashier at a small coffee shop at the Harvard Science Center, but dreamed of becoming a clothing designer. "I always made my own clothes when...
Hosseini was born in 1965, the son of a prosperous career diplomat. In 1979 Hosseini's father was working at the Afghan embassy in Paris when the Soviets invaded. He moved his family-- Hosseini is the oldest of five children--to San Jose, Calif...
...blow to Saudi diplomacy was reflected in what the Kingdom's top diplomat described as the "stern" messages he has delivered to Palestinian leaders on behalf of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud. The Saudi monarch, Prince Saud explained, is holding Palestinian President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and Hamas exile chief Khaled Meshaal "firmly to the commitment they made in the eyes of God." In mediating the accord, the Saudis argued that Palestinian unity was essential in order to start negotiations with Israel, brushing aside U.S. concerns that Hamas, a radical group that...
...came to office through democratic elections and is supported by Washington, Arab governments in Sunni Muslim countries see the Shi'ite prime minister as an ally of Iran who is helping Tehran extend its influence in Iraq. "Al-Maliki is not representing all of Iraq's people," an Arab diplomat told TIME on the sidelines of the conference. "He is too Iranian. He's serving Iran's interests...