Word: riyadh
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...support for Israel in the course of the current Palestinian intifada, for example, aroused deep hostility on the streets of Cairo, Amman and Riyadh, and boycott calls threatened McDonald's revenues. So, nimble local marketing executives found novel ways to reclaim their market share. In Saudi Arabia, the local license-holders for McDonald's came up with a unique promotion during Ramadan two years ago - giving 25 cents (American) out of every sandwich sold to that country's 'Al Quds Intifada Fund,' which supported Palestinian children's hospitals treating casualties of the uprising. And in Egypt, local marketers chose singer...
...name on her husband's card. If she gets divorced, her name goes on her father's card; if he's dead, her brother's; and if she has no brother, the card of her closest male relative, even if she scarcely knows him. Manar, 35, a Riyadh translator, thinks ID cards for women will make a real difference. "As long as you are a follower, you cannot have a separate opinion, you cannot be outspoken," she says. "Once you have a separate identity, then other things will come." For most Muslim women, there are many things left to come...
When it turned out that as many as 15 of the 19 suspected hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, alarm bells rang in Washington and Riyadh. Although Osama bin Laden himself is a Saudi - or, was, until the government stripped him of his nationality in 1994 - the Kingdom has never been seen as a breeding ground for terrorists...
...name on her husband's card. If she gets divorced, her name goes on her father's card; if he's dead, her brother's; and if she has no brother, the card of her closest male relative, even if she scarcely knows him. Manar, 35, a Riyadh translator, thinks ID cards for women will make a real difference. "As long as you are a follower, you cannot have a separate opinion, you cannot be outspoken," she says. "Once you have a separate identity, then other things will come." For most Muslim women, there are many things left to come...
...point is not whether Saudi rulers hate terrorism; they do. But in a mature relationship, Washington could ask for more than assistance with criminal investigations. It would be able to talk to the Saudis about the need to head off extremism by encouraging democratic debate. It could discuss with Riyadh reform of an education system in which schools preach hatred of infidels. It could suggest ways in which oil revenues could be channeled into a diversified economy, not into princely palaces...