Word: mahmoud
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...movement's success has much the same source as fundamentalism elsewhere in the Arab world: the hunger for an escape from political and economic frustration and from the humiliation imposed first by Western colonialism and later by successive military defeats at the hands of Israel. Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, a Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip before his deportation last month, explained it this way: "We have tried everything. We've had Nasserism and socialism. We tried Westernization. They all failed us. Now we see that the only thing that can re-establish the dignity of the people is Islam...
Though Islam has factions hostile to science, it has spawned quite a few of its own researchers. Mustafa Mahmoud, an Egyptian physician, is host of the TV show Science and Religion and operates an education-and-research complex built around a mosque. In Islam, properly understood, Mahmoud contends, "if a believer ignores science and knowledge, he is not a true believer." Sounding like St. Augustine, Mahmoud says that "God, the creator of the universe, can never be against learning the laws of what he has created...
...reduce trade with Iraq, then open the gulf states to trade with us." Jordan's economy has been badly hurt by the punishment meted out by the desert kingdoms for King Hussein's support of Saddam in the war. Echoing widespread sentiments in Amman, Minister of Information Mahmoud al-Sherif complains that the volume of smuggling from Turkey and Syria is much greater than that from Jordan, a judgment the U.S. rejects...
...Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Amer, both members of the P.L.O.'s executive committee, are also contenders. Abbas, a consummate Fatah insider, has made no real enemies among the Palestinians and is considered pragmatic and level- headed. Amer, an independent within the P.L.O., might emerge as a compromise candidate, satisfying both Fatah, because he is a moderate whose selection would avoid an internal Fatah split, and the radical P.L.O. elements, because he is close to Syria...
Last week the Egyptian Supreme State Security Court acquitted Khaled and four others. Six received suspended sentences. Nine, including the group's alleged leader, Mahmoud Noureddin Soleiman, drew sentences ranging from three years to life. President Hosni Mubarak, who will review the verdict, is expected to uphold it. Analysts say it was fair, since the government's case against Khaled was based on hearsay and the confessions of other defendants...