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...culture, concentrated in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iran and southern Georgia. Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled their desire for formal independence from Iraq. The Kurds are predominantly Sunni Muslim, although there is a Shiite minority, but Kurdish identity...
...asset, because the mayor in Cambridge doesn’t have that much authority.” VOCAL AT HARVARDAt Harvard, Reeves was a founder of the Kuumba Singers and also sang in the Glee Club. In 1972, when students protested the University’s investments in the Gulf Oil Company, Reeves joined them in taking over Mass. Hall. He wrote his thesis on W.E.B. DuBois, whom he today calls his “favorite person in history.” Reeves says his class was only the third with more than 50 African-American students, and that students...
...funding a Hamas-led government would think about the implications of that for the Middle East and for the Middle East peace process," Rice told a group of Washington-based Arab journalists last week."Most of the Arab states are committed to a peace process, including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan - all committed to a peace process. Now, if you're committed to a peace process, you also have to be committed to partners who are prepared to seek peace and I would hope that would be the case...
...Secretary Rice is also looking to strengthen diplomatic pressure on Iran to desist from its defiance on the nuclear issue. In Cairo and Riyadh and during her Thursday session with Persian Gulf ministers gathered in Abu Dhabi for a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting, Rice is seeking to solidify moderate Arab support for U.S. and European efforts to pressure Iran to suspend its quest for a nuclear weapon...
...elected democratically and should be given time to prove itself in government. But the group is aware it needs help. Party leaders say if Western aid stops, the group can still sustain itself with money from countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia and wealthy benefactors from the Persian Gulf--although U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to discourage such aid during a visit to the region this week. Hamas also hopes to gain some international legitimacy through a scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month. Some experts say a Hamas-led government...