Word: mecca
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...internal strife is often cast as a battle between Hamas and Fatah, but the reality is more complex, involving also clan battles, crime syndicates and old feuds. In the wake of the Mecca agreement that led to the unity talks, those old fissures are widening and new ones forming. Abbas' Sunday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rubbed a number of senior Fatah people the wrong way. Afterwards, at a meeting of Fatah's Central Committee, according to a Committee member who was in attendance, Abbas was fiercely criticized for "engaging in a public relations stunt" and accused...
...Mecca deal stipulates that Hamas gets to choose the Minister of the Interior. The leading contender, Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan told a Palestinian radio station, is a retired Brigadier and security force veteran named Hammoudeh Jerwan. If he gets the job, Jerwan will have to force all of these groups to fall into line (except for the Presidential Guard and the Intelligence force, which stay under the President's office). That means taking on the heads of the various organizations, several of whom have grown rich off their posts. These are men who can buy loyalty and manpower...
Agreements in the Middle East, whether they appear minor or are hailed as breakthroughs, inevitably enter a "prove it" phase, a time when parties must deliver on obligations, uphold promises, and work through thorny questions. That time is now for the Feb. 8 Mecca Agreement that dramatically announced a Palestinian unity government. In Jordan Wednesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he believed Fatah and its rival organization Hamas could deliver. Some important positions in the new government are basically decided; Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will remain Prime Minister, for instance. But, Abbas conceded, "there is a lot of work...
...foible you can make is wearing clothes that are too big or too small,” he says.But don’t call us disappointed. Maybe we hate the clothes, maybe the girls were dangerously emaciated, but that hasn’t tainted our religious experience at the Mecca of all runway shows.Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m.Until now, we haven’t witnessed the “Zoolander”-esque ridiculousness that defines a stereotypical fashion show. Where is the Mugatu-styled hair? The “Derelicte” high fashion concepts? The brainwashed assassination attempts...
...Share, Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room and Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review—a literary magazine—agrees that Harvard fosters a prime atmosphere for writers, but goes one step further, seeing Cambridge as a Mecca for poets...