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...Islam allows girls to play basketball in college. The New Jersey team has been playing for five years, and often before a mixed audience. "As long as we have our hijabs and are dressed in loose clothing, it's all right to play in front of men," says Asma Saud...
Bush clung to his ambitious vision of peace and democracy in the Persian Gulf while assuaging the House of Saud with a $20 billion arms deal. He reaffirmed his devotion to the Iraq war and sent Condoleezza Rice on another "unannounced visit" to Baghdad?as if she could make any other kind. And he issued more warnings to Iran after U.S. warships were threatened in the Strait of Hormuz. "They'd better be careful and not be provocative," Bush said...
...Bush received his warmest welcome in Saudi Arabia, where King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud accorded him an honor reserved for special friends by inviting him to his horse farm outside Riyadh. But the Saudis didn't hesitate when it came to publicly disagreeing with Bush's views on various Middle East matters. Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, standing beside Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, pointedly declined to endorse her call for more Arab gestures toward Israel or her relatively rosy assessment of political reconciliation in Iraq. After Bush jawboned the Saudis about increasing oil production to bring down...
...Middle East envoys. Promoting a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza would be a good starting point." If Hamas remains ostracized, they added, "prospects that they will play a spoiler role increase dramatically." Renewed Hamas violence, the letter suggested, would undercut Israeli public support for the negotiations. Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia, whose country opposes boycotting Hamas, says that neither Hamas nor hard-line Israeli parties need be given a veto over progress. "You have that kind of position on both sides," he told TIME. "We hope reasonable people, people of peace and good faith, will...
TIME: Are you optimistic about Annapolis? Saud: One of the elements of optimism is the sense of determination of the United States to see this through. Peace without the complete and direct involvement of the United States is impossible. The assurance that it is going to be a comprehensive peace that is pursued, to tackle the main issues of borders, Jerusalem, refugees, is certainly one of the elements...