Word: easternism
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Until last spring, the University rented one building to the Harvard Provision Company, a popular campus winery, and Skewers, a Middle Eastern restaurant. The lot also housed a smaller, 1.5-story building that was rented to the Typewriter Store...
...midnight Eastern Time Saturday, our website was flat on its back,” McBride told the audience...
...borders, dismantling the major part of the Jewish settlements. Where dismantlement is no longer possible, the resulting loss of Palestinian land would be compensated by “one to one” land swap. Second, the agreement deals with the question of Jerusalem, dividing it into western and eastern parts, which would become the capitals of Israel and Palestine respectively. The Old City would remain undivided and open, but the different quarters would be attributed to either Israel or Palestine according to the majority of the quarter’s population, as in the Clinton parameters. The Temple Mount/Haram...
...transform a small patch of sand surrounded by conflict into a magical vacation paradise that draws tourists from East and West alike. In 2002, 4.8 million visitors checked into Dubai's hotels, double the total for the past six years. Despite the war in Iraq, an upswing in Middle Eastern terrorism and the global SARS scare, hotel occupancy rose once again in the first nine months...
Dubai's tourist boom is part of a bold plan to transform the tiny city-state (part of the United Arab Emirates) into a Middle Eastern Singapore--that is, an ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only...