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...Even Nicole Kidman is a fan. And Beri, 30, has been named chief designer for the ready-to-wear division of Paris-based Jean-Louis Scherrer, making her the first Indian designer to gain such a position in France. An auspicious sign: Beri's mentor is renowned fashion mogul Mounir Moufarrige, who supercharged the career of designer Stella McCartney...
...Terror Trail Antiterrorism investigations in three countries led to the arrests of more alleged al-Qaeda collaborators. German police detained Mounir el-Moutassadeq, who is believed to have had links with the Hamburg cell members who died in the Sept. 11 hijackings. Prosecutor Kay Nehm said el-Moutassadeq is accused of "knowingly supporting the terrorist organization with logistical measures." In Belgium, an Algerian man was arrested for passport forgery. He and two men being held in France may have been part of a ring suspected of supplying false papers to the assassins of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud...
...jihad volunteers are mostly from first-generation British families and feel oppressed by the stresses of biculturalism, suggests Mounir Daymi, executive director of Britain's Muslim Students Society. This alienation is felt most deeply in the poorer communities. That's where you will find "some people who want the clash of civilizations to happen," Daymi says. Adam Armstrong, 35, a Luton teacher who converted to Islam in 1989 because he felt "something was missing" in his life, endorses that view. The volunteers, however few, are "devout Muslims, often university students," he says, the sort of idealists who used...
...line also caught the eye of Chloe president Mounir Moufarrige, who was intent on attracting younger customers to the label. Chloe had its heyday during Lagerfeld's tenure in the '60s and '70s, and although the designer returned in 1992, it never managed to regain its cachet. Moufarrige arrived at McCartney's studio in December 1996, pretending to be a Rome retailer. "I was attracted to the level of detail she put in her clothes," says Moufarrige. "And it helped that she did a very good job of convincing me that a 25-year-old and a 45-year...
Israel bagged another Arab MIG during the week-this one without firing a shot. After sending a note to the Israeli air force earlier this month, Iraqi air force Captain Mounir Rowfa, 30, flew his MIG-21 from Al Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad to an undisclosed Israeli airbase, and gave the West its first closeup look at the Soviets' 1,200-m.p.h. fighter. Rowfa claimed that he had been planning his defection for months because of religious discrimination (he is a Catholic) and Iraq's war against the Kurds...