Word: mustapha
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...Mubarak] gave the game a sort of political character," says Mustapha al-Sayyid, a political scientist at Cairo University. "Official newspapers depicted the encounter between the two teams as something very decisive, very important...
...Africa, rather than Yemen - some even at lower prices. When questioned about this, SOS Voyages to Comoros argued that seats on other airlines are often fully booked, leaving travelers no choice but to fly Yemenia. "People only fly Yemenia if they can't get on the others," explains Mustapha Abdou-Raouf, the association's Paris representative. "Those who died had to fly Yemenia if they wanted to get to the Comoros this summer...
...muslim holiday of Hari Raya, the final days of Ramadan, is usually a joyous time in Malaysia. The offices of Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers empty as Malaysians travel to their home villages to celebrate with family and friends. But this year is different. As Ahmad Mustapha, a 48-year-old banker, boarded a bus in Kuala Lumpur with his wife and two children to visit his parents, all he could think about was what might happen to him and to his country when he returned to work. After Wall Street's U.S. stock swoon on Sept. 29 and Washington...
...National Museum in Damascus, Syria. It's supposed to be one of the facility's most famous displays, and yet it isn't signposted. Locating it will tax your orienteering skills to their limit - unless, on your quest through the galleries, you happen to glimpse the attendant Abu Mustapha, which we were lucky enough to do. He will lead you down obscure corridors to an unlabeled door and push it open to reveal a 1,750-year-old Jewish house of worship, painstakingly transported, in its entirety, from its original home on the Euphrates...
...links to the Madrid bombings are tantalizing. London's Sunday Times reported that Spanish security sources are said to have warned four months ago that Mustapha Setmariam Nasar, 47, a Syrian, had identified Britain as a likely target and had set up a sleeper cell of terrorists there. Eric Denécé, who heads the French Center of Intelligence Research in Paris, says that "there is some evidence" that Nasar helped plan the Madrid attack, and that "it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's found to have overseen London from afar as well...