Word: hassan
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...documentary on the effect that decades of oppression, war, sanctions, and occupation have had on the capital city. After the screening of “Dreams of Sparrows” on Saturday evening, the festival concluded with a musical performance with an oud, a traditional Iraqi instrument. Hassan M. H. Al-Damluji, a second-year graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies and president of the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association, and undergraduate Tamara Jafar ’09 organized the event. Al-Damluji said that his goals were to provide Iraqi filmmakers with a platform for their work...
Jafar is also helping Hassan M.H. Al-Damluji, a Harvard graduate student, organize an Iraqi film festival in April...
...Ironically, for anyone who doesn't spend his day following Lebanese politics, an Israeli invasion is exactly what Hizballah wants. A war with Israel would keep Hizballah from losing its resistance mantle, and prevent it from getting caught up in what one of Hizballah's leader Hassan Nasrallah's political interlocutors told me would be Hizballah's worst nightmare - a civil war. A civil war would draw Hizballah into a fight with the Christians and the Sunnis; it would be just another faction with its own parochial interests, the end of Hizballah's special place in Lebanese society...
...American leaders - and people - know what is going on in Iraq," said Hassan Suneid, a member of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party on Sunday. Senator John McCain's surprise visit to Baghdad, he said, was "only for the sake of his candidacy...
...McCain, who is making his eighth trip to Iraq since the U.S. invaded the country in 2003, arrived on Sunday, although for security reasons, only a handful of Iraqis had been made aware of his visit. "Unfortunately," said Faleh Hassan Shansal, a member of the parliamentary bloc loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr, "all American politicians and leaders sneak into Iraq in the darkness, without letting anyone know...