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Bush's enthusiasm was genuine. One diplomat, who was in the room at a summit of Arab leaders in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh the day before the Aqaba meeting, said Bush delivered a blunt message: "Look guys, if I didn't think I could do this, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't waste my time and come all this distance if I didn't know I could do it." White House aides later said that the President's words were not so self-referential, and that he didn't mean to suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Got Religion | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN, leader of Hamas, in response to the Palestinian Prime Minister's pledge to end terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...religious authorities in a culture where church and state are not always separated and where the clergy have greater legitimacy than politicians; how to promote human rights and the rule of law at the same time as waging a merciless war on terrorism. President Bush went to Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss the region's problems with pro-Western leaders of Arab countries, having effectively become one himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George W. of Arabia | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...camel racing industry. Zayed also funds the “Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up,” the major think tank of the Arab League, in Abu Dhabi—described on its website “as the fulfillment of the vision of Sheikh Zayed.” The Zayed Centre holds regular lectures and symposiums, and produces publications that spew anti-Jewish and anti-American rhetoric. American extremist Lyndon LaRouche told an audience that the United States was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Umayma Jalahma, a Saudi professor who has declared...

Author: By Rachel LEA Fish, | Title: Losing Veritas | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

Does Harvard Divinity School’s acceptance of $2.5 million from United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zayed, who allegedly had virulent anti-Israeli and anti-American writings posted on his website, concern you? If so, imagine that it wasn’t a question of keeping or returning the money, but of dealing with the fact that people with similar extremist views controlled your student government. As a student at Montreal’s Concordia University, this is the situation I have faced for the past two years. In fact, CNN’s “Capital Gang?...

Author: By Julian Nemeth, JULIAN NEMETH | Title: Welcome to Concordia | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

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