Word: wadi
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Another U.S. air strike against Libya? Not quite. This time the bombs fell on a mock target near Wadi Natrun, some 50 miles northwest of Cairo, during U.S.-Egyptian military exercises last week. But the explosions that jarred the desert floor helped set off diplomatic reverberations in Libya and around the world...
...behalf of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Lebanese Affairs (HRSLA), I would like to thank the reporters of The Crimson and its editorial staff for covering Dr. Wadi Haddad's lecture on April 23rd. It is nonetheless with great pain and frustration that I feel compelled to make some corrections to the sloppy reporting of the reporter who covered the lecture for The Crimson. The reporter's mistakes are unprofessional and the damage she caused is irreparable. She misrepresented the spirit and distorted the letter of Dr. Haddad's speech by misinterpreting and misquoting...
...should the U.S. elevate Lebanon to significant importance by creating a foreign policy?" asked Wadi Haddad, the Lebanese diplomat, as he opened his remarks...
...first major eruption of those long-simmering tensions came on a hot summer's day in 1959 in the squalid Wadi Salib area of Haifa, where 15,000 people, mostly Moroccans, were crammed into tenements. After a policeman wounded a Moroccan, crowds of Sephardim unleashed their pent-up anger. They pelted policemen with stones, wrecked some 25 local shops, burned two buildings and, in the process, sent a shudder through the nation...
Later Berdabali drives his visitor to nearby Wadi-Fami, where 400 government soldiers equipped with only six tanks and 21 Toyotas defeated 3,500 Libyans and rebels last September. How did they do it? "We just charged them, that's all," says the commander. As he roared off in his Toyota, a soldier called after him, "Bonne route, Papa...