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...group to clear the way for peace talks in Kuala Lumpur. Salamat is credited with bridging the nationalist and pan-Islamic elements within the MILF. Three weeks before he died, he formally renounced terrorism, a condition for attending the talks. He is succeeded by former deputy Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim, who headed the group's military wing. "We are still determined to achieve lasting peace and our commitment to resume peace talks has not changed," a MILF spokesman said...
...letters to his mentor Ebrahim Nana, who runs the Mill Valley, Calif., mosque where Lindh converted to Islam, Lindh has written of his dreams about building Islamic schools so American children would not have to go abroad to study. For now, he will recite a special prison prayer Nana has given him: "Our Lord, take us out of this town whose people are oppressors and raise for us from yourself one who will protect us." Says Nana: "Allah has kept him alive for a purpose...
...that dominated Arab headlines this week. And Arab papers see Ariel Sharon rather than Yasser Arafat as the problem. Egypt's Al Ahram blames the crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon, but has harsh words for Hamas, too: "As religious and political leaders throughout the Arab world have repeatedly...
...poignantly symbolized by a passage in which Nafas and her last guide, an angry, erratic older man, join an all-female party heading across the sands to a wedding. Even the man disguises himself in a burka, and the pictures of this group shrouded in costumes of many colors (Ebrahim Ghafouri's photography is the year's best) are strikingly beautiful. Yet we are also made aware of how their movements are restricted by their clothes, how they must struggle just to see and breathe. There can be no more powerful image of the sexism of theocratic tyranny (beauty accidentally...
...math department T shirts (WE MATH GOOD) than football jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted. Ebrahim and Dickson bumped chests...