Word: suleiman
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...question was whether it would be blindly enough anti-Western to break off Jordan's alliance with Britain in favor of a tie with Egypt-a course advocated by veteran Amman Politico Suleiman Nabulsi, who many Jordanians believe will be their next Premier. Says Nabulsi: "We have no reservations about Nasser. He is the symbol of the Arab awakening...
...city through whose streets Jesus walked to His death and triumph 1,923 years ago was vibrant with tension and murderous with hate. It is tense and murderous today. Suleiman's 16th century wall and Palestine's 20th century travail divide Jerusalem between Old City and New, and sentries-Jordan's Arabs, Israel's Jews-stand an uneasy guard. "If one of those soldiers throws a tin can at another across the wall," says a Western diplomat at the bar of the National Hotel, "it could touch off a holocaust." A travel agent sips his drink...
...challenge a Lebanese as powerful as himself: Hussein el Oweini, one of the new republic's richest men and a friend of the Prime Minister. Why, Mohammed el Abboud demanded, was el Oweini permitted to buy gold at a special government rate? In revenge, el Oweini persuaded one Suleiman el Ali to contest Mohammed's seat in the 1951 elections. The government, and el Oweini's money, broke the historic Abboud hold on Akkar...
...gunman confronted him. "The Abbouds have tyrannized us for 50 years," he cried. Then he fired five shots into Mohammed. Guards seized the gunman. Two days later, Mohammed died, telling clansmen that el Ali was the one they should seek in vengeance. "As God is my witness," protested Suleiman el Ali, "I am sorry this happened...
...Saladin, the Hospitallers looked for a new outlet for their energies. They found it as corsairs against the Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their own grand master treacherously handed...