Word: farah
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...Cheung (Ashes of Time) and luminous mainlander Zhou Xun (The Little Chinese Seamstress) star as actors in contemporary Shanghai filming a musical set in the decadent 1930s. A love triangle ensues, giving the stars a chance to work out their feelings in song?and dance, choreographed by India's Farah Khan. ("Chinese people don't dance," Chan explains. "I had to go to Bollywood.") In a Christmas season choked with high-profile Asian films like Memoirs of a Geisha, Perhaps Love promises to sing out above the rest...
...trying to hold a public meeting. All but three were released after pledging not to organize an opposition movement. The three who refused-a poet, an Islamist scholar and a political-science professor-are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
...trying to hold a public meeting. All but three were released after pledging not to organize an opposition movement. The three who refused--a poet, an Islamist scholar and a political-science professor--are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
...lost, but that's okay,? he says. ?I am proud of what I did.? Al Ammari's wife Riqaiah, an elementary school teacher, was disappointed not only by her husband's defeat but her own inability to vote for him. Now, Al Ammari's 19-year-old daughter Farah hopes that she and her mother will be able to make their own history in 2009, the year Saudi officials say women may be given the right of suffrage. ?We have been discussing the election at school,? says Farah, a medical student at King Saud University. ?We have our own ideas...
COVER: An Iraqi religious student. Photograph by Farah Nosh--Getty Images