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Subtler, but just as topical, is the creepily hypnotic work of Sana Arjumand, also in the Aicon show. Her glassy-eyed women play with the props of Pakistani nationalism - founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and the crescent and star of the flag. In I am Flexible. Are You?, a spaced-out woman, dangling like a slack marionette, bends down to pick up a crescent, in a pose of submission, both sexual and political...
...civil rights lawyers working for minorities in Israel spoke to Harvard’s Progressive Jewish Alliance at Hillel yesterday about the plight of the Bedouin minority in Israel. Morad El-Sana and Gil Gan-Mor, both law fellows at the Israeli human rights foundation New Israel Fund (NIF), told the group of 14 people at the event that having studied the American civil rights movement will be instructive when they return to advocate minority rights in Israel. “NIF has beliefs that are similar to ours,” said Jaclyn B. Granick...
...SENTENCED. Ali Sufian al-Ammari, 28, and 12 other Islamic radicals, to jail terms ranging from 18 months to seven years; for planning to bomb U.S. targets and kidnap American citizens in Yemen; in Sana'a. The terrorist cell, whose members were arrested in June 2005, was alleged to have stockpiled explosives and weapons and surveyed restaurants and hotels used by Americans in the Yemeni capital. The cell's alleged leader, al-Ammari, received the heaviest sentence for his role in founding and training the group...
...BADAWI, 36, al-Qaeda operative sentenced to death for masterminding the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; from a Yemeni prison, along with 22 other convicts; through a 460-ft. tunnel officials said was dug by inmates as well as conspirators outside the prison; in Sana'a. The carefully planned escape raised questions about whether al-Badawi, who broke out of another Yemeni jail in 2003 and was recaptured 11 months later, had assistance from Yemeni officials...
...BADAWI, 36, al-Qaeda operative sentenced to death for masterminding the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; from a Yemeni prison, along with 22 other convicts; through a 140-m tunnel officials said was dug by inmates as well as conspirators outside the prison; in Sana'a. The carefully planned escape raised questions about whether al-Badawi, who broke out of another Yemeni jail in 2003 and was recaptured 11 months later, had assistance from Yemeni officials...