Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faisal has become the most important Arab leader in modern times. He symbolizes the glorious era of the Arabs when the legendary Saladin, Haroun al-Rashid and Tariq ben Ziyad were so linked with the history of the West...
...once the window of her second-story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...
...asked: "Where lives the 'Prince'?" Then, I stood silenced For I had no address, l am a man in transit, Twenty years in transit A man who was even deprived The right of having an address. -Rashid Hussein...
While his troops surrounded the plane, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, 26, Defense Minister of the Emirates, tried to talk the skyjackers into letting the passengers go. He asked them to name a price, but they refused to discuss money. Were they interested in exchanging the passengers for some political prisoner? the Defense Minister asked. "It was strange, very strange," mused Maktum. "All they ever asked for was sandwiches, ice, breakfast, lunch and dinner." Their only explanation: "We are awaiting instructions from our headquarters...
Talks were begun by Emirate Defense Minister Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid, who was allowed on board the plane, but no progress was reported...