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...regional consensus over Iraq during the past week, in securing European agreement to write off a substantial portion of Iraq's debt, and in opening frank discussions on managing the situation in Iraq with all of the neighbors, including Iran, at a summit hosted by Egypt in Sharm el-Sheikh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Analysis: Bush's Daunting Task in the Mideast and North Korea | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

...write from Abu Dhabi, where last week the nation was overwhelmed with grief at the death of their leader Sheikh Zayed. I moved here over a year ago to take up a position at Zayed University, a women’s college founded by the Sheikh and named after him. It has been an extraordinary experience teaching young women who will be the future leaders in this nation, a nation that has developed more rapidly and with more social responsibility than perhaps any other in the world. It has also been a unique experience to live in a society...

Author: By Jacqueline Armijo, | Title: Sheikh Zayed's legacy besmirched by Harvard slight | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...feel honored to teach at a university named after Sheikh Zayed; I wish I felt as honored to be a graduate of Harvard University...

Author: By Jacqueline Armijo, | Title: Sheikh Zayed's legacy besmirched by Harvard slight | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

Grouped together as the “Wild Boar Hunt,” a number of the photos on display illustrate an anecdote of Field’s hunting with the Sheikh for a wild boar, an animal considered “unclean” to Muslims...

Author: By Melanie A. Tortoroli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Photos of Iraq Document Lost Way of Life | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

Field took the first shot and the Sheikh took the second, fatal shot. “A foreigner and sheikh killing a magnificent specimen together” is how Field sums up his experience. When Field asked for the boar as a specimen, however, the sheikh’s discomfort suggested a larger cultural divide between these...

Author: By Melanie A. Tortoroli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Photos of Iraq Document Lost Way of Life | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

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