Word: osman
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...Khan's family rules China. Korea and Mongolia from Dadu (today's Beijing), but related Mongol khanates in central Asia and Russia are virtually independent if not hostile; and the once subservient (and Buddhist) Il-Khans of Persia have converted to Islam. Meanwhile, drawn by the decay of Byzantium, Osman and his Turks germinate the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia...
...Osman F. Boyner and George Nikas are from Turkey and Greece respectively. Boyner is an MPA student at the Kennedy School of Government...
WHEN A DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...
...humanitarian aid. Already the U.S. and many other countries have donated tens of millions of dollars in food, blankets and medicines to the handful of international-aid organizations still in Rwanda. But the fighting makes delivery of most relief supplies nearly impossible. "Money is not enough," says Ibrahim Osman of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. "Without serious military intervention, Rwanda cannot be saved...
...persistent fear among Palestinians is that the hut is all there is. "We believe Gaza first means Gaza last," insists Malki. Says Osman Hallak, editor of the newspaper An-Nahar in Jerusalem: "I would accept a deal as long as I knew that in the end I would have an independent entity." Nusseibeh believes that this will happen, that the Israeli government is moving toward accepting some kind of Palestinian state. A key Israeli official said last week, "Actually, the road to statehood is open to the Palestinians. It is long, but it is open." A Labor Party official seemed...