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...Aquascutum, also resigned last week, after a buyout she put together was rejected by the brand's Japanese parent company, Renown. And according to a report in Women's Wear Daily, Ungaro designer Esteban Cortezar is expected to leave the house after just three seasons, following disagreements with CEO Mounir Moufarrige. The good news for opportunistic Bergdorf shoppers? Maybe even deeper discounts on Floor Two in the fall...
...Sunday, the mood in Ain al-Hilweh, the largest and most lawless of the camps, located outside the southern port city of Sidon, was one of fury and mourning. "All that the Israelis are doing, these massacres, killings and bombings, is creating a new generation of suicide bombers," says Mounir Moqdah, a veteran warlord with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He and his rivals in Hamas agreed, however, that military action against Israel from south Lebanon would not serve the Palestinian cause. "At this time, we will not retaliate from south Lebanon," says Abu Ahmad Fadel Taha...
Sinking into a plush armchair, Mounir Khélifa glances around the lobby of a luxury Tunis hotel and chuckles at the transformation he has seen in his lifetime. "Imagine: I come from a small village," says Khélifa, whose father raised 15 children on the proceeds of his olive grove, and sent all 10 sons to school. Khélifa went on to earn a Ph.D. in literature at Yale, and at 55, teaches the poetry of Wordsworth and Milton at Manouba University in Tunis. Khélifa may sound extraordinary. But in Tunisia, he says, "mine...
...back then, she was the highest-paid woman in Siwa, earning more than $250 a month - more than most local men - as the star employee of Siwa Womens' Native Artisanship Development Initiative. The company was the brainchild of Cairo entrepreneur Laila Neamatalla who, together with her brother, leading environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla, have adopted a unique approach in their effort to plug Siwa into the global economy - the heritage hotels and local industries they have built are based largely on the skills, materials and traditions of the Siwa community...
...CONVICTED. Mounir el-Motassadeq, 32, friend of three of the Sept. 11 hijackers; of being an accessory to murder in the 2001 attacks, overturning a 2004 decision clearing him due to lack of evidence; by a German appeals court; in Karlsruhe. The presiding judge said the fact that el-Motassadeq did not know the exact timing or targets of the attack was "irrelevant" because he knew of a plot to hijack airliners. El-Motassadeq, at liberty in Hamburg awaiting the verdict, faces up to 15 years in prison...