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...effort.” I wished him the best on his spiritual journey to Mecca. Last month, Ali came up on Google for the first time, providing a new flood of information. His surname comes from Azerbaijan and he uses an uncommon transliteration into English. He lives in Aleppo, Syria, and runs an ophthalmology practice with three other men. His wife is a professor of engineering and architecture at the University of Aleppo; she often lectures on issues of women’s rights in the Arab world. His office boasts a phone number with an exotic +963 country code...
...There is a lot of reason to feel pessimistic about the Middle East. But we have also today some possibility there that should help us to see the future of the region,” he said, citing Syria as an example of a nation that could profit economically from stability...
...Saudis and Egyptians, mindful of the need to prevent Iran from becoming the main patron of the Palestinian cause, would offer financial and diplomatic support and persaude the U.S. to change its position. The text of the platform thanks Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the E.U. for its support - Syria as well - and hopes for better relations with China, Japan, and Russia. (It also "calls on the United States administration to reconsider its unjust positions towards the Palestinian cause.") In response, Regev, the Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, asks the international community "to stand steadfastly on its principles," not to waver...
...limelight. That's due in large part to Rice, who has consolidated her authority over the Administration's foreign policy and made course corrections that have resulted in a denuclearization pact with North Korea, a new push in the Middle East and tentative moves toward negotiating with Iran and Syria about the future of Iraq...
...Pagels: So far as I know, all the so-called "fathers of the church" glorified martyrdom. Ignatius, who wrote in Syria in around 108 AD, speaks passionately about "being ground up by the teeth of wild beasts to become God's wheat," - that is, by martyrdom, he becomes the bread of the Eucharist...