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...with the global economy slumping and the U.S. in need of poorer countries as partners in the war against terrorism. Right now there is nothing more important on the economic agenda than securing a new round of measures to reduce trade barriers. Trade ministers have just met in the Persian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar, to work out the outlines of such a round. They need to move fast: the World Trade Organization estimates that in 2001 the growth in the volume of world trade in goods will be just 2%, compared with...
Inconspicuously displayed in “Overlapping Realms: Arts of the Islamic World and India 900-1900,” the six paintings and three books that make up the sub-section called “On the Path of Madness: Representations of Majnun in Persian, Turkish, and Indian Painting” are more important in Islamic literature than their small number implies.This new exhibit is organized by Mary McWilliams, the Calderwood curator of Islamic and later Indian art, and Sunil Sharma, a senior lecturer at Boston University, and will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum until...
Through its agreements with nations in the region, the U.S. military has steadily built up its presence in the Persian Gulf over the decades as it has faced foes such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq and, these days, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. The United Arab Emirates, for example, signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States in 1994. The terms of that agreement remain classified, but the presence of U.S. forces in this corner of the Middle East is hardly a secret. About 1,800 U.S. military personnel, mostly with the Air Force, live on military bases here...
China is the most obvious example. But there's also Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors, overflowing again with oil wealth. Even Japan, while not exactly booming, has seen its currency remain curiously weak during the dollar's long fall...
...After an hour, he is ready to respond. He does so first with a half-hour ode to the relationship between man and God that might have been dictated by the Persian poet Rumi. "I believe that Almighty God created the universe for mankind. Man is God's most important creation and it is through him that we appreciate the beauties of the universe. God has sent man here on a mission." That mission, he says, is to pursue love, justice, kindness and dignity. In fact, he repeats those works so often that it begins to sound like a mantra...