Word: samir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diplomats are abuzz about Saudi Ambassador Samir Shihabi's election as president of the General Assembly. The largely ceremonial post was expected to rotate to an Asian candidate. Where, then, did Shihabi get the fire in the belly? And how did he win so handily? Some officials believe the Saudis launched their candidate in response to a challenge from the delegate from Yemen, who had occasionally supported Saddam Hussein in the Security Council. U.N. sources also suggest that Shihabi's victory was cemented with some well- placed promises to a few impoverished countries. He was evidently so confident of winning...
Driving Saddam's hardware is the most lethal software. He is a master of 20th century totalitarianism. In Republic of Fear, reissued last year by Pantheon, Samir al-Khalil argues that Saddam's political forebears include not just Adolf Hitler -- the precedent George Bush likes to stress -- but Joseph Stalin as well. A corollary to the cult of personality is the principle that everyone but the leader is expendable. In addition to ensuring obedience, terror reminds the followers that they are cannon fodder in the struggle ("the mother of battles," as Saddam would have it) against all who oppose Numero...
...last week saw what could be the first glimmer of peace. Lebanese Army troops took full control of the capital for the first time since 1975 and dismantled the "green line," which cut the city into Christian and Muslim sectors. Earlier, the last of the Christian forces loyal to Samir Geagea had pulled out of the city and moved north, near the port city of Jounieh, completing the first phase of a Syria-backed Arab League plan to free Beirut of all rival militias...
...baby boomerism, with recent covers on dream houses, good schools and growing old. Some critics now call the Reader smug, self- satisfied, a bit too yuppified, and say it has sacrificed some edge to gain a broader audience. "There's a big chance they will lose their identity," says Samir A. Husni, a University of Mississippi associate journalism professor and magazine watcher. It sounds like the kind of thirtysomething problem that publisher Utne, on his TV-watching days, might appreciate...
Their enthusiasm is not shared by Arab laborers. "What choice do I have?" asks Samir Hassan, a mechanic in an Israeli garage in Jerusalem. Economist Abdel Fattah Abu-Shokor of An-Najah University in Nablus predicts that a total ban on Palestinian labor in Israel would raise unemployment from 20% to 55% in the West Bank and from 25% to 60% in Gaza. Says Abu-Shokor: "The Palestinian economy cannot survive without Israel...