Word: egyptianizing
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...eyes look like marbles in a bowl. He has cocoa-colored skin and wavy white hair that seems to uncoil as the humid Kerala day wears on. The architecture that surrounds him is classically Keralite: the roof is low-slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang near a miniature print of the Mona Lisa; a pair of Japanese paintings face off against a profile of Lenin. They're mementos of the director's many trips around the global film-festival circuit, reminders that Adoor's movies, like his home, have a local heart...
...Egyptian woman called al-Sahhaf "the only entertainment we get in this god-awful war." We never warmed to Joseph Goebbels quite this way--but then the Nazi didn't have that funny hat. A website WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com--deluged with up to 4,000 visitors a second--explains al-Sahhaf's terrier-like appeal: "His message is consistent--unshakable, in fact, no matter the evidence." Dee Dee Myers, former press secretary to Bill Clinton, deadpans that a spokesperson should "make sure your words would make sense down the road--say, in a day. This was certainly not his forte." Sadly...
...strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "Our initial assessment is that they will all die," and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis." An Egyptian woman called al-Sahhaf "the only entertainment we get in this god-awful war." People never warmed to Joseph Goebbels quite this...
...Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser emerged as the personification of Arab nationalism after surviving the Israeli-British-French attack in the Suez Crisis of 1956. But his empty threats led to the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel seized huge chunks of Syrian, Jordanian as well as Egyptian territory in a lightning strike...
...charges of running operations for Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group based in northeastern Iraq with suspected links to a-Qaeda. Ansar forces in Iraq were also routed last week in fighting with coalition-backed Kurdish troops. Italian authorities charged two Kurds from northern Iraq, two Tunisians, an Egyptian and a Somali with international terrorism, accusing them of providing false documents, financing and recruiting for Ansar, which is allegedly headed by Abu Mussab Al Zarkqawi, one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants. According to Italian police transcripts obtained by TIME, several of those arrested made apparent references to future...