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That kind of action is crucial because Washington wants to be sure of Turkey's ongoing assistance as a staging point for oil and military supplies headed to Iraq. Turkey is also one of the few countries that can mediate between Washington and countries such as Iran and Syria. With war drums beating, Ankara may be a necessary mediator between Washington and Tehran...
...China's reliance on oil from Sudan is similar to our reliance on oil from Saudi Arabia. Just as China has ignored the displacement of people in Sudan, the U.S. has done little about the refugees that Arab states have created, whether they are in Sudan, Syria, Lebanon or the Palestinian territories. But neither China nor the U.S. is responsible for the refugees. Only Arabs can stop this human tragedy. Albert Reingewirtz, Narberth...
...display at Venice and Islam: 828-1797 - an impressive exhibition being held at the onetime seat of Venetian political power, the Doge's Palace, until Nov. 25. Chronicling nearly a thousand years of exchanges with Egypt, the Levant (roughly present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Western Syria), the Ottoman and Persian empires and beyond, the collection is as eclectic as the history it charts: ceramics colored with Armenian dyes, embroidered silks and enameled glass, carpets and flowing tapestries, maps and ancient texts, elegant portraits of aristocrats and ambassadors, and daggers and scimitars laden with jewel-encrusted malice...
...Murano glass industry employed techniques learned from Anatolian workshops, while Venetian bookbinders and cartographers imitated their Arabic counterparts. One of the exhibit's showcase pieces - a hallowed marble throne from the Church of San Pietro di Castello in Venice - features a backrest that is actually a tombstone brought from Syria, still inscribed with Koranic scripture. The throne "tells a story," says curator Stefano Carboni, "of cultures in tune with each other, of mutual understandings." Venice declined as other European navigators explored and came to dominate the far greater waters of the Atlantic Ocean, but the legacy of its Eastern adventuring...