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Remember that Arab sheik who set Beverly Hills agog with his mint-green, late baroque-kitsch mansion? Now his father, Sheik Mohammad Al-Fassi, 47, head of an international shipping company, is involved in a new episode of Arabian-Angeleno misunderstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Turning the Other Sheik | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Beverly Hills has known more than a bit of architectural ghastliness in its day, but a new record may be in the process of being set. The imminent potential titleholder is Saudi Arabian Sheik Mohammad al-Fassi, 23, who spent $2.4 million to purchase a sprawling, 38-room quasi-Palladian palazzo, originally built in 1917 for a local dairy magnate. Some $1.5 million worth of extensive renovations later, his neighbors are agog at what the sheik hath overwrought on the city's Sunset Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Rich Are Different from You and Me | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...comparisons, and their choices helped put some measure on the rarity of the event. Cairo's leading newspaper, al-Ahram, judged the meeting of Sadat and Begin?the one a devout Muslim, the other a deeply religious Jew?to be the most important of its kind since the Prophet Mohammad made a covenant with the Jews of Medina 1,355 years ago. Some religious Jews even saw the Sadat-Begin meeting foreshadowed in the Torah text for the Sabbath (Vayishlach) to be read at prayer services this Saturday morning. It was a passage from Genesis describing the reconciliation of Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sadat's Sacred Mission | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Mohammad Sadli: "We recognize that confidence was broken when we altered the contracts in a unilateral way." While some companies have expressed interest in renewing exploration, experts agree that the government will have a hard time returning the search for oil to the same fever pitch as before the Pertamina scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: A Land of Promise: the Wealth of a Troubled Paradise | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...terrorists had not called violent attention to it, Mohammad, Messenger of God might have slipped into movie history as a footnote, proving that the capacity to make stupefying religious epics is not exclusively Judeo-Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Sparked It | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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