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Dallaire is nonplussed by George’s decision to excise his character from the plot line. “He did not think much of the fact that his character was omitted from the narrative,” says his research assistant, Zahra Boodhwani. (The general himself did not return requests for comment...
...Kuala Lumpur. Ebadi was in Paris when the award was announced in October, and when she returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have the same courage as Mrs. Ebadi," says Zahra, a 60-year-old sociologist. "But now when I walk in the street, I stand taller." Ebadi's Nobel is proof that while Muslim women continue to endure severe inequality, many are nonetheless making remarkable efforts to reshape their own lives as well as the societies that shackle them. Ebadi...
Americans have always been interested in just one aspect of Saudi Arabia: oil. You have never dealt with our culture or our religion in a meaningful way, nor have you tried to understand our way of living and thinking. So why should we make concessions to the U.S. now? ZAHRA WAHIDA MEIOUN Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...have always been interested in just one aspect of Saudi Arabia: oil. They have never dealt in a meaningful way with our culture or religion, nor have they tried at all to understand our way of living and thinking. So why should we make concessions to the U.S. now? Zahra Wahida Meioun Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...previous election in 1997. In last month's poll, the Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats in the 110-member assembly, which holds little real power. Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said...