Word: talal
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...Disney products to protest the theme park?s designation of Jerusalem as Israel?s capital, prompting CEO Michael Eisner to give the assurance that the Holy City won?t be called anyone?s capital. It was reported Tuesday that Eisner had assured Saudi Arabia?s Prince Al Walid bin Talal, a major shareholder in EuroDisney, that the corporation would steer clear of the controversy. Last month, Burger King found itself in similar straits after it opened an outlet in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The Home of the Whopper withdrew its franchise after activists threatened a boycott...
...concentrate on humanitarian efforts andraising awareness among Muslims and non-Muslims,"said Imam Talal Y. Eid, the religious director ofthe Islamic Center of New England, at the ISBUevent...
Jordanians and diplomats alike mourned the death of King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan, and now Harvard is paying its respects with a new program to honor...
...program will include a permanently endowed professorship--the King Hussein bin Talal Professorship of Public Leadership--and a series of King Hussein fellowships...
Jordan's King of nearly a half-century had always been both a fatalist and an optimist. So after six months of unsuccessful treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hussein bin Talal abruptly anointed as successor a little-known son, Abdullah, who promised the failing monarch "to follow in your footsteps...