Word: ibn
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...unlikely new 10th-grader arrived on the campus of Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts. He was Abdullah ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and scion of the Hashemite dynasty, the onetime princes of Mecca and currently the ruling family of the kingdom of Jordan. Now known as His Majesty King Abdullah II, he points to the years spent as a member of the academy's class of 1980 as the most formative of his life. Deerfield introduced Abdullah to a much broader range of friends than is normally available to young Arab princes, and the character-building crucible...
...viewer who is exposed to art house but also enjoys Bollywood. The budgets are typically small, the cast are good actors but not necessarily stars, and the audience is select. "Noir, comedy, sports - new genres are being explored," says film critic Rajeev Masand of TV channel CNN-IBN. "Filmmakers have finally realized that they need to stop seeing the audience as one giant mouth to feed, and that different mouths have different tastes. There's room for all cuisines...
...Early reports suggested that the bomber may have been one of Zubaie's own bodyguards. Casualties included al-Zubaie's brother and cousin, a close aide and the imam who had just finished leading the Friday prayers. Al-Maliki himself visited al-Zubaie this afternoon at the American run Ibn Sina hospital inside the Green Zone...
...immediately after the Prophet Muhammad died without naming a successor as leader of the new Muslim flock. Some of his followers believed the role of Caliph, or viceroy of God, should be passed down Muhammad's bloodline, starting with his cousin and son-in-law, Ali ibn Abi Talib. But the majority backed the Prophet's friend Abu Bakr, who duly became Caliph. Ali would eventually become the fourth Caliph before being murdered in A.D. 661 by a heretic near Kufa, now in Iraq. The succession was once again disputed, and this time it led to a formal split...
...When FDR had met with Ibn Saud, the Saudi king, three years earlier, the U.S. president had asked for help in resettling Jewish survivors in Palestine. Ibn Saud countered that the survivors should be given choice land in Germany under the protection of the Allies. "Make the enemy and the oppressor pay; that is how we Arabs wage war. Amends should be made by the criminal, not by the innocent bystander. What injury have Arabs done to the Jews of Europe? It is the 'Christian' Germans who stole their homes and lives. Let the Germans...