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...Jamal Abu Samhadana meets visitors in a narrow first-floor room in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, in a dwelling lit only by a small, battery-powered fluorescent strip. He proffers a misshapen right hand for a shake. Shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell broke Abu Samhadana's forearm in 2001. His hand looks caved in, his wrist bends grotesquely and his skin is unnaturally smooth and hairless, as though the limbs had been melted. For a tough guy like Abu Samhadana, such disfigurements are badges of authenticity. "Luckily," he says, "I shoot with my left hand...
While the eating club received financial and logistical support from the student government for the show, much of the approximately $50,000 production, including an artist fee of $37,000 was funded by the club itself, according to Jamal M. Motlagh, President of Quadrangle Club...
...families cowered in basements or sought safety in stairwells, bullets chipped angry patterns along walls and sliced through windows. Glass tinkled on the streets below. "It was worse than even the summer of 1982," said Jamal Solh, a housewife, referring to the Israeli siege of the Lebanese capital, when thousands of shells and bombs rained down on the city for several weeks. "We thought the world was coming to an end." In some districts, Amal militiamen conducted door-to-door searches for Sunni snipers. One Palestinian family of five was murdered by unidentified gunmen...
...Last month's election enthusiasm in Iraq didn't prove contagious, with only a quarter of eligible Saudis bothering to sign up for the vote in the greater Riyadh region, the start a three-stage election that will run through April. Nonetheless, argues Saudi commentator Jamal Khashoggi, ?the culture of democracy is being introduced into Saudi Arabia.? Al Ammari, 55, a U.S.-educated food company executive and liberal reformer, agrees. ?This election gave me the chance to raise my voice...
...Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force." JAMAL ADNAN, a Fallujah taxi driver, on the foreign insurgents in Iraq who have made his hometown a battleground in their fight against U.S. troops...