Word: massoud
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...tricky, because you weren't there and you're not talking to anyone who was there. Therefore, what you are going to put down on paper is sensitive conjecture. We try to show both sides in a very balanced light. We employed Muslim actors in three major roles. Ghassan Massoud, who plays Saladin, is a Muslim scholar, and he was very happy with the balance...
...Kurds The Players: A non-Arab minority comprising 25 percent of the Iraqi population, who have enjoyed de facto autonomy under U.S. protection in northern Iraq since the Gulf War in 1991. The most politically cohesive of Iraq's ethnic communities, they are led by Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani, two leaders who have settled their factional differences in order to present a united front in pursuit of enhanced autonomy in the new Iraq. And between them, Talabani and Barzani command 70,000 "peshmerga" militia fighters...
...Massoud took up the life of a fugitive. When he stopped sleeping at home and disappeared for days at a time, his family realized his calling. They accepted the risk he ran. "It's a noble choice he made," says Massoud's brother Khadir. "We knew this road would end either in victory for Palestine or death and he would go to heaven. Both ends are good...
...next three days. When Hani Abu Shkaila, a senior field commander, died in a shoot-out with Israeli soldiers in Gaza City last month, Hamas immediately took charge, just as it has done for many others. Abu Shkaila's wife and 3month-old son, like the family of Massoud, will receive a Hamas stipend for food, clothing and schooling until the children grow up. A Hamas man delivers the prerecorded farewell messages that many fighters prepare. Tito Massoud's called for eternal struggle. "Only fighting will bring back our rights," he said to his family from the grave. "That...
...time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi. "He embodies his characters," says Perelman. Ben Kingsley disappears, and another man comes to life. "He's a chameleon." Kingsley's latest guise, as exiled Iranian Colonel Massoud Behrani in House of Sand and Fog, adapted from Andre Dubus III's 1999 novel, has earned him a Best Actor nomination at this Sunday's Academy Awards. He's pleased with his fourth Oscar nod, and he'd love to add another trophy to the one he took home for Gandhi...