Word: sabra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Executive Committee member Abdelhamid I. Sabra, who also called for Safran's departure, said, "The upshot is something I have to view positively since it means everybody has recognized that Nadav is a liability in the center...
...Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N. Frye and Professor of the History of Arabic Science Abdelhamid I. Sabra, two of the three committee members asking for Safran's resignation, said they had reached one of the two other executive committee members, who declined to join them, and were unable to reach the other. The third committee member calling on Safran to resign, Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, could not be reached for comment...
...would like to say a few words about the governance of the Center. The Center's Executive Committee is a divided body. Three members of the Executive Committee (editor's note: Richard N. Frye, Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, Abdelhamid I. Sabra) called publicly for the resignation of the Director immediately after the conference without consulting their colleagues and before a review had been launched. At least one other member of the Executive Committee was deeply offended by that action. Under the circumstances, I believe that the Executive Committee as currently constituted cannot serve a useful function. It will therefore cease...
...outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser Arafat would not assist beleaguered Arafat followers in the camps. Accordingly, Berri ordered...
...many others were left behind without medical attention. According to some accounts, several Palestinians who had been taken to a hospital were slain in their beds by Amal militiamen. Amal leaders in turn charged that angry Palestinians had murdered some sleeping Shi'ite militiamen in a building outside the Sabra camp...