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...June 1990, the country would stop renewing the visas of more than a quarter-million Thai workers in Saudi Arabia and would give out no further ones, cutting Thailand off from billions of dollars in remittances. Saudi Arabia also barred its citizens from traveling to Thailand as tourists. Nabil Ashri, the current Saudi chargé d'affaires, said the decision to downgrade relations was "obviously for safety reasons and due to repeated failures of the Thai authorities to adequately solve or explain any of the cases to Saudi authorities...
...NABIL ABU RDAINAH, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, after Israel announced plans to build nearly 700 homes in East Jerusalem. The decision prompted criticism from U.S. and E.U. officials...
...Voting for Ammar al-Hakim is normal because of the symbolism of his family name and the sacrifices that the family made." - SIIC lawmaker Nabil Ismail on voting for al-Hakim. (AlArabiya.net...
Piety alone is not the explanation for the change in dress. "The veil is the mask of Egyptian woman in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men," says Nabil Abdel Fattah of Cairo's al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and author of The Politics of Religion. "The veil gives women more power in a man's world." Ziada, the human-rights activist, says the hijab--her headscarves are in pinks, pastels, floral prints and plaids, not drab black--provides protective cover and legitimacy for her campaigns...
...Middle East. In that time, foreign investment in Saudi Arabia has nearly doubled, to $23 billion. "Foreign businesses are looking at us differently," al-Dabbagh boasts. Companies with a long history of working in the kingdom say they've noticed the difference. "The say/do factor has improved significantly," says Nabil Habayeb, GE's CEO for the Middle East and Africa. "When the government tells investors it will do something, it usually gets done...