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...Meanwhile an Israeli drone strike on Friday in southern Lebanon killed Hizbollah member Ali Naim, the group’s media relations office said....
...Mohanad Hage Ali, deputy director of research the Carnegie Center in Beirut, said Hizbollah was preparing for the possibility of escalation with Israel....
...Bilal Y Saab, an associate fellow at the Chatham House think-tank in London, said: “Hamas doesn’t have a codified doctrine....
...“The complexity of the demands on an asset manager are clearly increasing,” said Ali Dibadj, chief executive of Janus Henderson....
...I tell you flat out, ‘yes it did’,” Bou Saab said last week....
...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)....
...In a quiet street in Neos Kosmos (new world), Naim el-Ghandour is recitingthe call to prayer....
...Ali Allawi, economist, writer. Iraq. 2. Anne Applebaum, journalist. US. 3. Katherine Boo, journalist. US. 4. Margaret Chan, health policy expert. China. 5. Ha-Joon Chang, economist, author....
...The first shoots of the Arab spring arose from the frustrations that Tunisians felt about the regime of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali – although Tunisia was the best managed economy in the region....
...“I believe that we will take the majority in the parliamentary elections because we have wide support,” Sheikh Naim Qassem, the deputy secretary-general of Hizbollah, told the Financial Times....
...About 5,000 apartments in 260 buildings were destroyed and only three per cent of the people have so far received compensation, says Mr Naim....
...He also provides useful documentation, although his dry orthodoxy can be misleading: he overemphasises, for instance, the organisation’s allegiance to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader....
...., Canada Peter Brabeck-Lethmathe, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé SA, Switzerland Nasir Ali Shah Bukhari, Chairman, KASB Bank Limited, Pakistan Baron Paul Buysse, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bekaert...
...But the airport hasn’t opened, UN troops haven’t arrived, so we still feel trapped,” says Sahar Ali-Ahmad, a television programming assistant. “It’s not clear to us what is going to happen.”...
...said Naim al-Kaaby, spokesman for the movement in its north-east Baghdad power base....
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