Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Houston Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon, one of the most eligible Muslim bachelors around, is off the market. He just wed Dalia Asafi, 18, of Houston, in an arranged marriage. "There's no dating, no boyfriends and girlfriends in Islam," said Olajuwon, 33, who has a child from a prior relationship. His new wife, he says, "possesses a maturity, knowledge and wisdom beyond her years...
MOSTAR: More than two years after the European Union assumed control of the city of Mostar, hoping to make it a model for the reintegration of Bosnia, Muslim and Croat leaders agreed today on a plan for governing the city, in spite of anything but model relations between the city's two largest populations. The two sides negotiated an end the Croatian boycott of the June 30 local elections that gave a Muslim-led coalition a majority of the city's council. The Muslims have agreed to a Croat mayor; Croatians have agreed to lift their boycott only after...
During the 1960s Karadzic's life-style offered a complete contrast to what came later. He was charming, well liked, friendly, a bit shy. In keeping with Sarajevo's multicultural past, he lived in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, had several Muslim and Croat friends and never showed any sign of friction with them. "I could not have had a better neighbor," says Ismail Hodzic, 64, a Muslim who still lives next door to Karadzic's former apartment. Karadzic mixed with the Bosnian capital's young bohemians, writers and poets who stayed up all night discussing life, literature and art. Some...
...last vehicle in the convoy. When the Portuguese soldiers fired back, three men ran from the woods. The incident came on the same day that war crimes investigators in Cerska began a meticulous exhumation of the mass graves in which they expect to find about 7,000 bodies of Muslim men who were massacred and then haphazardly buried throughout Bosnia during the four-year conflict. The bodies will serve as evidence in the cases against Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Says TIME's Dejan Anastasijevic: "The attacks are just the product of the Serbs getting a bit nervous...
...success of Ben-Shachar's training partner was not the only interesting element of their alliance. The world champion was a Pakistani Muslim, Ben-Shachar an Israeli Jew. "We had many interesting discussions about this," Ben-Shachar remembers. Through tournaments, he also met and befriended the Jordanian squash champion. "And then wasn't now," he points out. "Now there is peace, but then it was a little more difficult...