Word: taha
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...character, Zaki Bey, is the scion of an aristocratic clan, an Egyptian Romeo who uses his Yacoubian Building office for lecherous assignations, oblivious to the crumbling edifice around him. At the lower end of the social order are characters who reside in shacks on the building's rooftop; Taha is the earnest son of the building's doorman, and Busayna is a beautiful shopgirl, whose dream of marrying him is gradually crushed by his bleak financial prospects. In the novel's heartbreaking dénouement, Taha dies in a gun battle with police. He had become a radical Islamist, lured...
...Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people--just 12 of whom were Americans--and injuring more than 4,000. The FBI named three Somalia-based suspects: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, originally from the Comoros Islands, off Mozambique; Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan; and bombmaker Tariq Abdullah, a.k.a. Abu Taha al-Sudani. The FBI said the men were members of the "Osama bin Laden network" and offered $5 million for Fazul's arrest or death...
...southern Israel during the past week, the Israelis were in no mood to go lightly on Hamas. On Monday, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh declared in an interview that "no one" in Hamas's leadership was "immune from a strike." Hamas took the threat to heart. Spokesman Ayman Taha also urged militants to stop using cars and gathering in open places where they could be spotted by Israeli aircraft circling over the Gaza strip. "We must be on high alert and very careful," he declared...
...Taha, the eldest of the photographers at 17, claimed that the Israeli people want the town’s residents to suffer, and that this is why the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) attacks. In explaining why children have no places to play, he claimed that if the residents built playgrounds, “The occupation would come demolish them because they don’t want the children to have a normal place to play.” Tahreer, another photographer, states in the Picture Balata slideshow, “The Israelis don’t want...
...houses nearly 700 families designated as hardship cases, and was especially active during the First Intifada, the Palestinian uprising that occurred from 1987 to 1993. In front of a room overflowing with spectators, two girls—Sabreen and Tahreer, 15—and a boy, Taha, 16, each recounted a different aspect of their experience in the camp through an interpreter. During her presentation, Sabreen described how her grandmother was forced to leave her homeland and how the older generations “left everything because they felt for sure they were going to return.” Tahreer...