Word: nabil
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...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...
...doom the visit this week by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who was due to fly into the Middle East to provide impetus for peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. "In light of the Israeli aggression, such communication has no meaning," said Abbas' spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina...
...Reman," as it's called in the trade, "is the rebirth of a product," says Nabil Nasr, a reman expert at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. It's not the same thing as repairing a broken part, which is often a short-term fix. In reman, once the disassembled bits are cleaned and reassembled, the result is as good as new. It's not a recent concept; Reman's roots go back around 100 years to the advent of the auto industry. And vehicle parts still comprise around 75% of the global market. But the industry...