Word: riad
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...Spray-painted on the stairwell of the run-down apartment block where the Mahmoud family lives are slogans reading "God bless Osama bin Laden", "God bless Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." "He was born naturally religious," said Riad Mahmoud, Bilal's father. "He didn't take part in any fighting. He has been with us since it began last week...
...father, Riad, said that the police "executed" his son in cold blood in front of dozens of eye witnesses. "He had just finished praying at the mosque and was drinking a juice and eating a sandwich," he said. "He was only 24 and they shot him like a dog." Bilal died on the sidewalk of a narrow dirty street of drab apartment blocks on one side and a small garden and beige stone clad mosque on the other. Since his death, the Lebanese army and police apparently have not entered the area, wary of the simmering resentment in this close...
...During her 11 years as a resident of Marrakech - where she's worked as an interior designer, hotel operator and property developer - former Paris-based lawyer Meryanne Loum-Martin has seen the local real estate market rapidly go from bubbling to booming. In particularly hot neighborhoods, she says, traditional riad villas that sold for j90,000 per hectare six years ago are now priced at €700,000. Per hectare prices in less effervescent areas have risen from €80,000 to €500,000 during the same period. "The only place that isn't rising as fast...
...even once consensus is achieved, the long-term role of the Lebanese Army in protecting the border would require a massive modernization that would take at least three years and cost upward of $1 billion, according to Dr. Riad Kahwaji, the Lebanese founder of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, a think tank in Dubai. Right now, its 1960s-era American and Soviet armor is so obsolete that spare parts are no longer available. Its only air force consists of 16 very old Huey helicopters that pilots call "flying coffins"; it has no navy except for four...
...Less than 200 m from the walled medieval city center's entrance we found the Riad Fes Baraka, an oasis of tranquillity. Each of the five individually designed rooms?with carved oak furniture, velvet curtains, patterned silk bedspreads and Berber carpets?manages to be grand and yet surprisingly cozy. Our bathroom in the Arabesque suite featured a cool concrete tub and locally produced natural soaps and moisturizers. A splendidly fresh breakfast of crusty bread, Moroccan bread or Moroccan crepes with jam is included. With its sumptuous comfort and kaleidoscopic flair, the Riad Fes Baraka captures all the intense and colorful...