Word: saad
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...demonstrations was Rafic Hariri, the billionaire former Prime Minister, who had engineered the country's economic renaissance after a ferocious and debilitating civil war. Lebanon appeared poised to join the ranks of modern, democratizing states. Then the current war started. Rafic Hariri's son and political heir, Saad, found himself outside of Lebanon when the hostilities started. As a member of the Lebanese parliament and the head of his father's Future Party, he has been shuttling around the Middle East and Europe trying to rally support for his country. On Friday he spoke to TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Scott...
...protection or legal recourse. That behavior won't cut it much longer, and governments like Egypt's now realize that Arab businesses have to play by a new set of rules and on a much bigger field. "We are no longer looking at Egypt as our market," says Saad Sallam, chairman of Olympic Group in Cairo, which is increasing its exports of refrigerators, stoves and other home appliances to other Arab countries. "The region is our market...
...Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an expert on Hizballah at the Lebanese-American University in Beirut, predicts that Hizballah's popularity will increase because of the operation. "It will be seen by many as a perfectly legitimate operation because Israel holds Lebanese detainees," she says. "There will be widespread support for this operation in Lebanon and the region...
...With reporting by Timothy Burger/Washington and Saad Hattar/Amman
...killing two others. On both sides, not all the stories of slaughter and desecration were immediately verifiable, since the violence and curfews--extended through last weekend--restricted the movements of journalists. But the authenticity of the allegations mattered less than their effect on a scared and sullen population. Omar Saad, 73, saw his Sunni mosque in the northern Baghdad district of al-Shaab being attacked twice on the same day by armed Shi'ite militias dressed in black--the uniform of the Mahdi Army. The mosque's guards fought off the attack until they ran out of ammunition. The militias...