Word: tawil
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...Sheik Jamal Tawil, 40, is the imam of the Grand Mosque in Beituniya, a district of Ramallah in the West Bank...
...about to leave for the mosque to lead the prayer. My wife tried to persuade me not to go. The Moustaribine (Israeli undercover forces disguised as Arabs) had sneaked into our neighborhood. We prayed at home. I switched on the TV. There were clashes near the settlement at Tawil Mountain, called by the occupiers Psagot (a Jewish settlement). The children woke up. I wanted to take them to school. I gave my son Abdullah his pocket money. We left. My other son came to tell me that the city of Ramallah was under closure. Teachers and most students were...
...received little else from her own people in the nine years since she married the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The latest scandal, though, provides a new low, with her husband's office compelled to issue a statement disavowing her. Even Suha's mother, activist Raymonda Tawil, took the opportunity to throw a punch: "She is so independent," Tawil told Israeli TV. "She has proved [she has] no mother, no husband. 'I am Suha...
...wife most Palestinians had imagined for their austere leader, 70, whose dedication to their liberation is symbolized in his olive drabs, stubbly beard and standard explanation (since abandoned) that he remained a bachelor because he was married to a woman called Palestine. The couple first met in 1985 through Tawil when Suha was a student at the Sorbonne. In 1989 Arafat asked her to join his staff in Tunis, his headquarters-in-exile, as an economic assistant...
Israel's decision to fire Tawil provoked further unrest in the West Bank. Already outraged by Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights last December and the closing of Bir Zeit University last month, local leaders called a three-day general strike that shut down all stores and schools. Late last week, after a series of stonethrowing incidents by youths in El-Bireh, the protests culminated in tragedy. Israeli troops fired on the demonstrators, killing a 17-year-old Palestinian youth and wounding two teen-age girls. Later the same day, Israeli soldiers lobbed tear gas canisters...