Word: ziad
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...sight of Iraqi forces assisting in the search for the missing U.S. soldier; it suggests that even to their own government, an American life is more precious than an Iraqi one. "Iraqis are kidnapped every day, but nobody ever shuts down an entire neighborhood for them," said Mohsen abu Ziad, a Karrada resident. "But I guess an Iraqi life is worth nothing compared to an American life...
...might think it’s exciting, but basically you sit at home, and watch the news, and call loved ones and friends and people you know and make sure everyone is safe,” said Ziad M. El-Zaatari ’09, who left Beirut for his family’s home in Sidon, a port city 40 miles south of the capital, on the first day of fighting. Two weeks later, he was evacuated by the U.S. military...
...Ziad El-Zaatari ’09 wrote in an e-mail from Lebanon Saturday that “a bus left from north Beirut today for Damascus (the only way out of the country at present) and another one is leaving Sunday,” adding that most students “have left or are planning to leave the country...
...ZIAD ABU AMR Gazan legislator and political scientist at Birzeit University Hamas have been taken by surprise by this as much as anyone else. They expected a strong showing but not this overwhelming victory. They tried to form a national-unity government, but Fatah refused the offer. Now Hamas is on its own and figuring out how to handle things. Before it deals with the question of Israel, it will play to its domestic strengths. That means cleaning up corruption and building the social and welfare network it has run over a number of decades...
...whose commitment to Israel's destruction is a cornerstone of its charter. But before that, the Palestinian people--and observers all over the world--have to readjust to last week's stunning results. "Unprecedented not only in the history of the Palestinian people but in the Arab world," says Ziad Abu Amr, a political scientist at Birzeit University and an independent member of the Palestinian legislature. "This is the first time an Islamic party has won such a landslide. It changes everything...