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...President Robert Kocharian, seriously injuring 30 people and detaining 115. Opposition leaders, who claim Kocharian rigged his re-election last year, launched another rally at the end of the week, in defiance of a ban on further public protests. Going Public on Abuse SAUDI ARABIA Popular television presenter Rania al-Baz, above, who said she was beaten unconscious by her husband, allowed pictures of her bruised and battered face to be published in what she described as a bid to draw attention to the plight of women in the deeply conservative country. A Clean Sweep SOUTH AFRICA The African National...
...Another serious Arab concern is what Jordan's Queen Rania calls the "hope gap." Apart from fearing the consequences of a new war, Arabs are depressed by their inability to do anything to prevent the American attack. Arab anti-war protests have been notably smaller than those in Western countries, but only because Arab governments have severely curtailed them. Governments in the Arab League, torn by dissension over how strongly to oppose the U.S. plans, couldn't even get it together this week to send a promised peace mission to Baghdad...
...distant relative of the leaders of a Middle Eastern country is not normally enough to impress fashion big shots, who often mingle with the likes of Queen Sofia of Spain or Queen Rania of Jordan. Designers and CEOs know, and care, about Majed al-Sabah because largely through his flashy exoticism and smarts--and, perhaps, wallet--he has become one of the most prominent retailers in fashion...
...write a similarly gloomy tome on Central Africa. The Arab world's failure is noteworthy not because of its scale, but because on Sept. 11 it spilled out of its natural confines and into metropolitan America. With no legitimate channels for political discourse, Arabs have suffered from what Queen Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen...
...Egyptian government spokesman Nabil Osman, "we listen to public opinion." In Jordan, authorities prevented a potentially volatile march on the Israeli embassy in Amman with a massive deployment of security forces. King Abdullah II's government says it is considering options including the expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even led one protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains a major naval facility, a demonstrator died after a throng of protesters broke through the gates...