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...What price Jebel Ali Port if America were to leave the guarding of shipping lanes to its less liberal rivals?...
...Amid the glut of pandemic fiction, the best — Ali Smith’s Summer (2020), Sarah Moss’s The Fell (2021) — approach the virus as a springboard for commenting on wider political issues, or use it to focus on...
...If you know Azhar Ali it is probably because the Labour party spent a lot of time yesterday also insisting it was standing by him. All in all, a bit of a disaster....
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Abacus)It’s the year for collaborative projects: this collection, timed to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, includes tales by the likes of Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman...
...As you read you’re thoroughly immersed in the intricacies of Ali’s characters....
...Love Marriageby Monica Ali, Virago £18.99/Scribner $27.99 It’s nearly 20 years since Ali burst on to the literary scene with her debut Brick Lane....
...Letter in response to this article: If Russell was a pathfinder, Kareem is a 6-lane highway / From Professor Tom Plate, Laguna Niguel, CA, US...
...Perhaps there had been a quiet abortion down on Maiden Lane.” Perhaps, perhaps . . . perhaps they had perfectly nice homes and personal lives?...
...Other highlights from the first quarter include Love Marriage (Virago, February), a new novel from Monica Ali, and Anne Tyler’s French Braid (Chatto & Windus, March)....
...Brick Lane....
...He’s introduced a bill that would extend the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act to mixed martial arts....
...In 2015, Egypt dug a 35km channel parallel to the canal to create a new lane and allow two-way traffic, an $8bn project funded by public bonds....
...Philip Lane, chief economist at the ECB, has suggested there is no alarm surrounding transitory inflation stemming from temporary supply side bottlenecks (instead of demand overheating)....
...Jonesandmodha papadeli.co.uk Paul Rothe & Son, LondonQuintessential British fodder in Marylebone Lane – eat in, eat out, salads, sandwiches, condiments....
...Round on the Links The link was people and things on a building site The Master Builder The Diggers Asphalt Brick Lane George Foreman (to Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle) Spades Girders...
...Even as the cameras rolled, the story was shaped scene by scene by Bakray, Ali and the others alongside Wilson and Ikoko....
...on the Monica Ali book and directed by Ms Gavron), Jane Eyre, which starred Michael Fassbender, and The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson....
...Tucked into the narrow lanes of New Delhi’s Nizamuddin slum is the global headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat, an influential Islamic missionary movement....
...To explain her argument, she points to Muf’s renovation of Altab Ali Park....
...The lanes are abuzz with small scooters now. Last night’s catch is coming ashore, sold on the beach below the central mosque....
...The former Saudi Arabian oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, used to be fond of saying that if he knew where oil prices were going to go next, he would be sitting on a yacht counting his billions in trading profits...
...The imposition of sanctions against Mr Zarif comes a month after the US took the dramatic step of sanctioning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader....
...Admiral Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said whenever US forces entered the Gulf, “they say ‘we are in hell’”....
...Donald Trump has signed an executive order that imposes new sanctions on Iranian officials including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, as the US president presses on with his “maximum pressure”...
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