Search Details

Word: zahran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Israel as a Jewish state.” After presenting his own view of the Nakba and related history, Dershowitz answered questions, saying he would only take up questions from audience members who disagreed with him. Some of the questions took a more personal, and more strident, tone. Robin Zahran, of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School, said Dershowitz was “as anti-Jew and anti-Israel as they come.” “You promote nothing but hate, you misconstrue reality,” said Zahran...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Speech, Dershowitz Slams Chomsky | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...ballad which affected me most was probably that of Zahran, the hero of Denshway. Denshway was only five kilometers away and the ballad dealt with a real incident. British soldiers were shooting pigeons in Denshway, the ballad goes, when a stray bullet caused a wheat silo to catch fire. Farmers gathered and a British soldier fired at them and ran away; they ran after him and in the ensuing scuffle the British soldier died. Many people were arrested. Scaffolds were erected before sentences were passed; a number of farmers were whipped, others hanged. Zahran was the hero of the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Reflections from Cell 54 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...listened to the ballad night after night. My imagination roamed free: I often saw Zahran and lived his heroism in dream and reverie: I wished I were Zahran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Reflections from Cell 54 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Married. Prince Mohammed 24 younger brother of Jordan's King Hussein; and Ferial Farid Irshed, 19, daughter of a wealthy Jordanian landowner ma Moslem ceremony at Amman's Zahran Palace, in celebration of which Hussein ordered the release of 40 political prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

| 1 |