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...presidential ambitions, and his father has publicly scoffed at the notion of a hereditary succession in Egypt. More pertinent, Gamal lacks the backing of the military, which may prefer Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's loyal Defense Minister. Mubarak himself has lately thrust intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman into the limelight by giving him the task of negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Although Suleiman keeps a low profile, he has the distinct advantage of having earned the President's gratitude: in 1995 he insisted that Mubarak ride in an armored car while in Addis Ababa--where his motorcade...
...party, but denies he has presidential ambitions; his father has publicly scoffed at the notion of a hereditary succession. More pertinent, Gamal lacks the backing of the military, which may prefer Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi, Mubarak's loyal Defense Minister. Mubarak himself has lately thrust intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman into the limelight by giving him the task of negotiating an Israei-Palestinian cease-fire. Mubarak completed his speech after a 45-min. break. A squash player, the President is in relatively good health. But many Egyptians doubtless hope that, to prevent future chaos, he will take the time...
...pressure is also on Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to crack down on Hamas. He's getting some much needed behind-the-scenes help from the head of Egyptian intelligence, Omar Suleiman, who dispatched assistants to the Gaza Strip to push the terrorist group into talks on a cease-fire with Israel. But those talks are dragging on, and Abbas continues to have his own problems. Last week his security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, met with Abbas' rival Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian official tells TIME, and assured him that "I am loyal to you. I am willing to implement your...
DIVINE INTERVENTION. Palestinian director-writer Elia Suleiman addresses the strife between his homeland and Israel in this deliberately composed, frequently absurd comedy. Suleiman also plays the film’s quiet protagonist, unimaginatively named E.S. This is not to say that Suleiman does not let his imagination run wild elsewhere in the work; one much-dicussed dream sequence depicts a woman who suddenly rebels against the soldiers using her for target practice, taking the offensive in a blaze of martial arts fury. The film won two awards at last year’s Cannes...
...Suleiman was born and raised in Nazareth and moved at 17 to New York City (where, he says, "I practiced being an illegal immigrant"). In 1989 he went home and picked up his brother's old vhs camera. "I started by filming sheep," he says. "Somehow sheep manage to pose very well." Now he lives in France, where he shot his film's more incendiary scenes. In Palestine, you can't get a movie permit to blow up an Israeli tank...