Word: islamicization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Don't be gauche. In Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries, eat and drink with your right hand; the left is considered unclean.
Yet it is nothing new. For much of the past two decades, every three or four years, like clockwork, the country lapses into famine brought on not just by bad luck but also by the combined follies of nearly everyone involved. The 15-year-old civil war between the Islamic...
But there has been vicious warfare on and off since Sudan's independence in 1956. Africa's largest country is really two: an Islamic, Arabized north and a Christian, animist and African south. The government in Khartoum is headed by Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but the real power...
If you miss Brenda Walsh, come to Israel. Of course Israel is still Israel: a sliver of a Jewish state with minimalistic European architecture and stunning landscapes. There are dazzling markets where spices are as colorful as they are strong, and streets wind thousands of years into the past, where...
Unwilling to risk the domestic political fallout from putting the squeeze on Israel, the White House has washed its hands of the failed Mideast peace process. With the erstwhile guarantor of the Oslo process now telling Israelis and Palestinians to resolve their own problems, the big winner may be the...