Word: hisham
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...after a trial that captivated the Arab world for nearly seven months, Egyptian billionaire Hisham Talaat Moustafa was sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to kill Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim. The pop star, with whom Moustafa had been romantically involved, was found mutilated in her Dubai apartment last July. The dramatic sentencing, which spurred a scuffle between reporters and Moustafa's relatives in a Cairo courtroom, capped one of the most sensational trials in Egypt's history...
...clear that the authorities in Dubai have some kind of strong evidence against Hisham Talaat Moustafa, and that's why the authorities here had to arrest him and investigate. Otherwise, the Egyptian authorities wouldn't have lifted his immunity and arrested him." - Salama Ahmed Salama, a columnist with Egypt's state-owned newspaper Al Ahram (New York Times, Sept...
...journalist for an Arab-language broadcaster score the first television interview granted by President Barack Obama? Well, at first, Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief for al-Arabiya, a Saudi-backed news channel headquartered in Dubai, thought he was getting someone else. Not that he hadn't tried - like everyone else in Washington - to snag the historic first...
...label called Sublime Frequencies.The Sublime Frequencies imprint is, in itself, a kind of anomaly. The label is best known for its affiliation with Alan Bishop—one of the three musicians that composed the legendary outsider trio Sun City Girls—who founded the label along with Hisham Mayet. The Sun City Girls, composed of Bishop and his brother Richard along with the late Charles Gocher, gained a considerable cult following with their prolific, eclectic output that runs the gamut from folk revival and psychedelic to noise, drone, and experimental world music. While Sublime Frequencies never released...
...Some Arab leaders fear that national reconciliation efforts may be too little, too late. Hisham Youssef, a senior Arab League official, complains that Arab efforts to push reconciliation talks at a 2004 Iraq conference in Sharm el-Sheikh were largely ignored, and now the spread of sectarian killings has made peace between Sunnis and Shi'ites more difficult. "There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people who are now looking for revenge," he says...