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...development would be allowed per island, and each had to meet a stringent set of environmental standards, such as importing all building materials and providing all water, power and waste disposal. The result was eco-tourism before the term existed. "Eco-tourism is one of those buzzwords," says Moosa Zameer Hassan, a government environmental analyst. "It's really sustainable tourism. But it's all the same in the Maldives: nature-based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Like Crusoe in the Maldives | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...insight and determination by French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most important issue is, Should we watch unconcerned the emergence of what could be another Khomeini in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters , Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...quiet of suburban Los Angeles, Moosa Hanoukai picked up a pipe wrench and bludgeoned his wife Manijeh to death. When the businessman did not contest the facts, prosecutors assumed they had an easy second-degree murder conviction. But Hanoukai's attorney James Blatt mounted this defense: his client was a victim of husband battering and 25 years of abuse. Furthermore, because of the stringencies of an Iranian-Jewish culture, Hanoukai felt trapped: he killed Manijeh because he was not allowed to divorce her. The jury empathized and found Hanoukai guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. Instead of 15 years to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah! Oprah in the Court! | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...Arabs everywhere. He cracked down on pasha society. He limited land ownership to a maximum of 208 acres, decreeing that larger plots be redistributed to the peasants. His goal, he said, was for the fellah to command a higher rate for a day's work than did the ga-moosa (water buffalo). They still do not. The fellah costs 580 a day to hire; the gamoosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nasser's Legacy: Hope and instability | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...MOOSA MOOLLA Johannesburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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