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...Signed on November 21 by Hamdok and Abdel Fattah Burhan, Sudan’s top general and the coup leader, the pact restored the civilian element of the country’s transitional government, supposedly paving the way...
...The national humiliation had an indelible effect on two Egyptian officers, Muhammad Neguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser....
...Abul Muzaffar Mohiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb, better known simply as Aurangzeb Alamgir (conqueror of the world), was not a particularly nice guy....
...An especially puritanical and uncompromising version of this belief can be traced back to the 18th-century revivalist Muhammad ibn Abd-al Wahhab, whose alliance with the Saud dynasty in north-eastern Arabia...
...Mr al-Nashiri, a Saudi national, and Saudi-born Palestinian Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, alleged they were flown to a remote Polish airfield on a CIA jet....
...To the nationalist republicans inspired by Egypt’s General Gamal Abdel Nasser (including Iraq’s regicides), who gained control of much of the Middle East in the 1950s, they were stooges of imperialism....
...Economists say Sudan’s economic woes are holding back the country’s growth, but 35-year-old businessman Abdel Rahim El Sadig is having none of it....
...As well as making repayments, the government is in the process of renegotiating a “fair price” for gas with international oil companies, says Taher Abdel Rahim, chairman of the state-owned Egyptian Natural...
...In 2007 Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani, one of the most distinguished sharia scholars, indicated that some prominent sukuk structures strayed too far from the spirit of Islamic law....
...Gamel Abdel Nasser’s Arab nationalism in the ensuing two decades championed – also with popular support – a different narrative, but at the expense of civil and political freedoms....
...Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup, by Christopher de Bellaigue, Bodley Head, RRP£20, 320 pages Muhammad Mossadegh was overthrown as the elected prime minister of Iran in an Anglo-American...
...Abdel Rahim al-Kib, Libya’s interim prime minister, publicly thanked Tunisia for handing over the 66-year-old physician and former chair of the Libyan Investment Authority – a multibillion-dollar sovereign...
...Abdel Rahim al-Keeb, described as a technocrat and scholar who has taught in the UK, was chosen late on Monday by colleagues in Libya’s provisional government, officials told the FT....
...The self-declared National Transitional Council and the interim government of prime minister Abdul-Rahim al-Keib, both recognised internationally as Libya’s legitimate authorities, are overseeing the country...
...However, Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein, Sudan’s defence minister, announced in Khartoum that the southern army had been driven off the oilfield....
...“We left it to one side,” Abdel Rahim al-Kib, Libya’s prime minister, said on Saturday after signing a declaration with Mr Monti, who emphasised the importance Italy attaches to north Africa by making Libya...
...They are in a small hole," one of the fighters involved in the battle, Muhammad Gomaa, told Reuters. "Today we finish. Today we will end that."...
...In works by Gamal Abdel-Rahim, who studied with Hindemith, we could discern echoes of that German modernist, though his handling of the flute was quintessentially Egyptian....
...“It’s a propaganda coup for the US but nothing more,” said Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of al-Quds al-Arabi, the Arabic newspaper, who interviewed Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda’s founder, in 1996....
...Mr Karzai signalled his intention to replace Muhammad Ibrahim Adel, the mining minister....
...“In the original script of A Prophet [written by Abdel Raouf Dafri], Malik was much harder, a real criminal,” says Audiard....
...(It was co-scripted by Abdel Raouf Dafri, who designed the mazes of Mesrine.) Why again? Because everything is organic, not applied....
...King Faisal bypassed Prince Muhammad, the most senior member of the family, and chose Khalid as crown prince, after consulting all of his brothers....
...As the US continued to raise the pressure on Damascus, describing its promised withdrawal as insufficient, Abdel Rahim Mrad said the redeployment of troops would begin immediately after Monday's summit between...
...But it would be hard pressed to do so if Sudan, one of its members, declined to co-operate as Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, Sudan's interior minister, hinted it might in an interview on Friday in Asharq al-Awsat...
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