Word: wa
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...Ngugi Wa Thiong’o knows change. He’s changed his Christian name to one that better reflects his pride in his heritage. He’s known freedom and he’s known imprisonment. He’s been forced to move 9,500 miles from his birthplace in Kamiriithu, Kenya, due to a hostile Kenyan government. But even separated from the subject of “Wizard of the Crow” by the width of a planet, a span of 22 years, and a great deal of allegory, Thiong’o stays...
...With Chris Hedges & Hamza Yusuf – Berkeley, FREE,” Ali entreated.I soon surmised that Ali planned to go on Hajj, his texts becoming increasingly religious. He sent a few Expedia reservation codes, which I chose not to track online. “FW: HAJJAN MABRURAN WA SA3YAN MASHKURAN,” he kept texting, a shortening of the prayer canted before circling the black rock, or “Allah! Let this be an accepted Hajj, with sins forgiven, and a well appreciated effort.” I wished him the best on his spiritual journey...
...then the Indians who came in took over many of the country's middle-class positions. Nowadays, Rangoon is full of Chinese mobsters and Russian prostitutes, while the foreign media traffics in exotic tales about 12-year-old twins running an eccentric force known as God's Army and Wa former headhunters now thriving as heroin warlords...
...Sadr and the Da'wa took the side of the Iranian revolution, sparking demonstrations and unrest across Iraq. After Sadr's Da'wa attempted to assassinate Hussein's longtime foreign minister Tariq Aziz on April 1, 1980, Saddam, in fairly quick succession, executed Sadr and invaded Iran. Saddam was convinced that unless he pre-empted Sadr - in other words, Iran - he would end up on the gallows. Two years later, in Dujail, the Da'wa did try to assassinate Saddam. Saddam's brutal retribution against Dujail is what got him hanged last Saturday...
...West had its own bloody experience with Sadr's Da'wa. In December 1983, Da'wa attacked the American and French embassies in Kuwait. The Da'wa was the core around which Iran created Lebanon's Hizballah, another violent Shi'a group that went on to kidnap scores of foreigners and hijack half a dozen airplanes during the '80s - long before it also became a political player in Lebanon...