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...Rice's first stop in Egypt is a closed-door session with Maj. Gen. Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence and an key Arab interlocutor with the Palestinians. Soon after the radical group Hamas stunned the world by winning an upset victory in the Jan. 26, Palestinian parliamentary elections, Sulieman added his voice to those of U.S., European and United Nations leaders in calling on Hamas to recognize Israel, abandon violence and commit to talks aimed at establishing a peaceful Palestinian state...
...TIME staff did, however, also see confusion and intimidation. Despite an eleventh-hour agreement to allow independent Egyptian bodies such as the ICEM to monitor voting, TIME encountered Egyptian monitors who claimed to have been blocked from entering some polling stations. ICEM monitor Suleiman Azahiry, 26, said he feared arrest and was ordered to remain 100 yards from a voting station near the village of Tukh, 15 miles north of Cairo. ?They wrote our names down and threatened us,? Azahiri, who acknowledged his opposition to Mubarak?s re-election, told TIME after the incident...
...Egypt, meanwhile, the case of Policeman Suleiman Khater, 24, caused further embarrassment to the government of President Hosni Mubarak. On Oct. 5, Khater shot and killed seven Israeli tourists in the Sinai, including four children. Khater was convicted by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but last week he was found dead in his room at a prison hospital. An autopsy concluded that he had committed suicide by hanging himself, but after demonstrations broke out on university campuses and in the victim's hometown, a court ordered a further investigation...
...What's central to the environment is a sense of Muslim family values. That's why Mohammad (Mo) Suleiman sent his daughter Samia, 18, to Universal. "Family means the older have mercy on the younger," says Suleiman, "and the younger respect the older." The students seem to make an effort, but cultural isolation is impossible. "My dad will hear the word love when I play my music, and he'll say that's against our religion," says freshman Ryan Ahmad. "So I'll stop for a week. But then one of my friends will start singing some lyric...
...think the assurance from Dean Kirby that he was not in favor of such a thing set a number of people’s minds at rest,” Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman said after the meeting. “I think people are really eager to get on with things rather than keep harping on the past...