Word: khalifas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition, having watched the deaths this year of three fellow Arab stalwarts, King Hussein of Jordan, King Hassan II of Morocco and Emir Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Observes an Assad watcher at the White House: "He has a sense of his own mortality...
Libya did not immediately react to Hardie's offer. Representatives for the North African nation are scheduled to lay out their case Friday. Libya has refused to hand over Abdel Basset Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah despite crippling U.N. economic sanctions imposed...
...when Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 44, enters through a side door, he ignores formalities, proffers a friendly handshake, and talks frankly with a journalist for two hours--acts normally taboo in cloistered Arab monarchies. He breezily inquires, "Can you come to lunch Saturday...
...proved as beneficial--though fraught with palace intrigue--as in tiny, thumb-shaped Qatar (pop. 500,000). Eighteen months ago, Hamad, trained at Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, was merely an heir apparent. Then he staged a bloodless coup that ended the 23-year reign of his father Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, 64, who had developed an unseemly fondness for liquor and opulent palaces. Since then, Qataris have witnessed one of the bitterest Arabian family spats in memory, involving cash and arms, ritual and reform. Only last week did a cease-fire seem to take hold. Khalifa appeared...
MANAMA, Bahrain: Bahrain's ruling Suni government struck back at Shiite dissidents Monday, arresting 29 for allegedly attempting to overthrow the ruling Khalifa family with the help of Iran. "For nearly two years Bahrain's government has been experiencing political opposition and unrest from the country's Shiite majority," reports TIME's Scott MacLeod. "The Shiites have been demanding more political and economic representation from the ruling Sunni monarchy." Bahrain's Information Minister Mohammed al Muttawa said the plotters were part of an Iranian-backed group that wants to install a Shiite Muslim government modeled on Tehran's. Despite protests...