Word: sheikh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting, `I'm innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the arrest warrant.' '' His two suitcases were...
Soon after, the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Najmuddin Sheikh, phoned Dr. Nafis Sadik, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund and one of the conference's main organizers. The Pakistani official had bad news: concerned about opposition at home, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was reconsidering her decision to attend the conference. Sadik knew that Bhutto's absence could be especially damaging. Not only was she to deliver a keynote speech, but she would also be the only female head of a Muslim country in attendance. Prime Ministers Tansu Ciller of Turkey and Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh had both backed...
...Semitic Museum's public programs have made since 1982 and what Harvard is losing. We wish we could convey the pleasure some of Harvard's older alumni expressed as they went through "The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe" saying "Harvard finally recognized its past errors." We witnessed Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani walking through that exhibition, just as a group of Jewish alumni were viewing "Harvard's Arabian Nights." We were present when Queen Noor of Jordan opened the exhibition "Monumental Islamic Calligraphy," brought to the museum at the request of then-NELC Professor Annemarie Schimmel, and met with...
...sheikh also said that he couldn't predict the nationality of the next hostage freed. Speculation has focused on Jack Mann, a 77-year-old former Royal Air Force pilot who has been missing for two years...