Word: nazir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, the reaction to the Iraqi resumption of the tanker war was thinly disguised exasperation. After the initial Iraqi air attacks, Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, summoned Iraqi Ambassador Nazir Hamdoon to his office for a firm dressing down. Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost later summed up the U.S. view by saying the Iraqi action was "very regrettable, extremely unfortunate." The timing of the raids was "deplorable," he said, both because they create a new threat to U.S. warships in the gulf and because they came at a moment when Iran...
...first, led by S. Shahaid Husain, vice president of the World Bank, focuses on the problem of taking cultural differences in account when formulating development strategies, said Kamal Ahmad '87-88' who founded the ODN in 1983 with his brother, Nazir Ahmad...
Attempting to increase American students awareness and involvement in development issues on a broader scale, Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network...
...Headlines only capture a very small part of the reality. There is an ongoing emergency situation that people should know about," says Nazir Ahmad, a doctoral student at the Food Research Institute of Stanford. "Through ODN, a generation of college students are encouraged to take these problems into consideration...
Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...