Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer just a theoretical possibility now that Pakistan has exploded its nuclear devices. Clinton Administration officials have secretly begun analyzing scenarios depicting how the two nations might stumble into an atomic exchange. It could go like this: Muslim militants in Kashmir, covertly backed by Islamabad, step up their insurgency in the disputed Himalayan territory, where several Indian and Pakistani soldiers already die each week in cross-border skirmishes. India lashes back, sending its troops across the Pakistani border to chase militants. Islamabad retaliates with heavy artillery shelling. Conventional war breaks out and quickly escalates to the point where both sides...
...International Club back in Andover, where he spent a post-high-school year, and subsequently in positions such as president of the Society of Arab Students and co-founder of the Woodbridge Society of International Students at Harvard. There have been very few students from the Muslim Middle East sharing his American education, much less from Sudan, and his background has been subject to many curious inquires...
Originally, however, el-Gaili's father, a conservative Muslim, was very opposed to el-Gaili leaving the Middle East and tried to persuade him to take the traditional elite Sudanese education--university in Egypt and graduate school in England...
...referred to are true, such as the pressure on one's beliefs, moral code and cultural perceptions. Yet, equally true was my belief in the ability to withstand those challenges without compromising what I stood for. My U.S. experience increased my awareness of my multiple identities--Sudanese, Arab, African, Muslim and international," he says, noting that his parents are now perfectly fine with his choice...
...tangibility of building (and razing) of historical projects. That is, we quite literally walk on top of the past as we cast off our presents onto the giant heap. The Indian-Pakistani rivalry, which harkens back to the 1947 partition creating the two nations and to the historic Hindu-Muslim animosity, is now being grafted onto the setting of a nuclear planet. The weapons of war have changed even as the cultural animosity remains the same...