Word: salaam
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...wonderful example of this is a new television show in Egypt called "Salaam Sesame." It adapts the idea of the American "Sesame Street" into a children's program mixing the use of Muppets and live characters. But it has modified the characters to promote social messages tailored towards contemporary Egypt. Set in a working-class suburb of Cairo, it features a similar assortment of human characters as the U.S. version, but they are altered to represent local types--the green grocer, the civil servant, the craftsman and the local schoolteacher...
...example, "Salaam Sesame" has a female Muppet who excels in her studies, to combat traditional biases against girls trying to do well in school. Similarly, it features other Muppets who represent Egypt's Christian minority, to show children a positive example of toleration and diversity...
...Friday the yanis still adorns Queen Noor al Hussein, 47, as she steps into the sitting room of her family home, Bab al Salaam (Door of Peace), to speak with a reporter for the first time since her husband's death. Jordan's official 40-day mourning period ended a day earlier, and in the course of a 2 1/2-hr. interview over lentil soup and tuna sandwiches, the Queen is, for the most part, strong and hopeful, at times bestowing her beguiling smile...
...Laden, who so often refers to God, confess to being pleased at the bestial killings achieved "by the grace of God"? How can he justify the murder of innocent people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam--women, children, men, some of them probably Muslim. Of course he cannot. This unmasks him as the kind of leader he really is--a bloody, murderous terrorist. WILLIBALD SONTAG Koblenz, Germany...
...bombings], we were informed that he is a Saudi from the province of Najd. The fact of the matter is that America, and in particular the CIA, wanted to cover up its failure in the aftermath of the events that took place in Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Capetown, Kampala--and other places, God willing, in the future--by arresting any person who had participated in the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan. We pray to God to end the plight [of the arrested men], and we are confident they will be exonerated...