Word: naim
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...each other, but Palestinians revile them equally. To the Arabs, Israeli settlements have sliced and diced up territory that once belonged to them, taking scarce resources like water and requiring special checkpoints that make their daily lives a misery. Down the hillside a few miles from the Katz home, Naim Sarras, 49, a Christian Palestinian farmer, vehemently disputes the claim that Arabs arrived only in the 1970s. He displays a long row of grapevines with thick trunks, and papers from the Ottoman era that he says prove his family has farmed the land for 150 years. He can no longer...
...Mughal Emperor Akbar, whose court in the 16th century became the epicenter of Persian literary culture. Akbar was so enchanted by these swashbuckling accounts of derring-do that he commissioned 1,400 exquisite canvas folios depicting scenes from them (five of the paintings accompany this article). According to C.M. Naim, professor of Urdu studies at the University of Chicago, the illustrated Hamzanama (as the collected works are known) is "the Taj Mahal of medieval painting...
...adjust the rate or let it float. The argument, made vociferously by the White House, is that the current exchange rate artificially cheapens China's exports, to the detriment of American jobs and the U.S. trade deficit. The trade gap with China is more than $100 billion. Naim called the current rate of $1 to 8.3 yuan "the world's most dangerous number." At issue, he said, is whether it will change in an orderly manner "or suddenly, surprisingly, and unleashing a wave of instability...
...other fearsome exchange rate, of course, is between the euro and the dollar. The euro has taken the brunt of the dollar's depreciation--the greenback has dropped more than 30% against the euro over the past two years. Naim foresees U.S. competitors grabbing European market share "and a wave of European companies investing in the U.S., where they'll find companies 30% cheaper." Blanque calculates that each 5% appreciation of the euro against all currencies translates into a loss of European-GDP growth...
...Naim and Tyson quickly took issue with him. "It's amazing how little worried the Europeans are about the euro," Tyson said, pointing to two controversial areas: the European Central Bank's relatively tight monetary policy and the E.U.'s battered Growth and Stability Pact, which long required governments to limit their debt and budget deficits. Exchange rates matter, she contends. The past 10 years were "a lost decade" for Germany because--among other reasons--the former West Germany reunified with the former communist East Germany at an exchange rate that was too high. "How many times...