Word: sayyid
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...Kahane case is a perfect example. In the days preceding the trial, the defendant, El Sayyid A. Nosair, seemed headed for conviction on a second degree murder charge. The case was so stacked against him that his lawyer, noted defender of the legally oppressed William Kunstler, advised his client to plead insanity or at least claim extreme emotional distress in order to receive a lesser sentence. But Kunstler prevailed in getting his client off the hook regarding the serious charges...
Five Masters of Persian and Indian Painting: Sultan-Muhammad, Mir Sayyid `Ali, Basawan, Payag and the Kotar Mastert--Through March 8. Sackler Museum...
Five Masters of Persian and Indian Painting: Sultan-Muhammad, Mir Sayyid 'Ali, Basawan, Payag, and the Kotar Mastert--Through March 8. Sackler Museum...
Five Masters of Persian And Indian Painting: Sultan-Muhammed, Mir Sayyid Ali, Basawan, Payag And the Kotar Mastert--Through March 8. Sackler Museum. Whatever...
...steel gate in front of the stucco house in the Iraqi city of Najaf swings open and a bearded man appears, flanked by two armed policemen. "Go away -- please," says the middle-aged son of Ayatullah Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei, spiritual leader of the world's Shi'ite Muslims. The son trembles and speaks in whispers. Had not other journalists spoken to the Ayatullah? "Yes, and after they left the police came -- and it was worse," he says. "Please go away, and don't come back. Ten of our family and dozens of my father's followers...