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...The group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, warned Israel that if it launched a war against Lebanon, Hizbollah would fight back hard....
...“I usually ascribe whatever is happening in Somalia not to the leader but to the community surrounding the leader,” says Nuruddin Farah, the famed chronicler of the country....
...It will showcase Emirati artists, such as Hassan Sharif and Farah Al Qasimi, alongside more established names of modern art such as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat....
...“In Somalia sometimes things cook for a while and then explode out of nowhere,” said Abduikadir Hassan Samatar, a Guriel community leader....
...Guelleh has run the country since 1999 after succeeding his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who led Djibouti’s independence from France in 1977....
...At the top of a lighthouse in a deserted headland, Ali Hassan Ali points across the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, to war-ravaged Yemen. Then, behind him, to war-torn Ethiopia....
...The project draws on the work of Steven Hassan, an anti-cult counsellor and former member of the Unification Church, considered by many experts to be a cult itself....
...They were bought before the 1979 Islamic revolution on the orders of Queen Farah, wife of the last Shah of Iran....
...But the last decade has seen a surge of young artistic and design talent following the rise to international fame of Emirati artists Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem....
...The summit will be hosted by Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan, who will meet Hassan Rouhani and Vladimir Putin....
...In 1514, the Ottoman sultan Selim I, father of Suleiman I the Magnificent, declared a holy war against the Safavids, whom he considered heretics....
...The man photographed kissing the hand of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani bears little resemblance to Iraq’s new prime minister-designate, Haider al-Abadi....
...Barclays was the last big UK lender to deal with many remittance companies and faced a campaign to reverse its decision led by Somalia-born British athlete Mo Farah....
...Olympic champion Mo Farah is opposing the move....
...Additional reporting by Farah Souames in Cairo...
...“If the banks do not reverse their decision it will be a disaster for our country, which is in a fragile state, just recovering from long-term conflict,” said Mohamud Hassan Suleiman, Somali finance minister...
...The Nubian Egyptian singer Ali Hassan Kuban also blew me away – his music is like what I want to achieve with writing: it’s jagged, mad and fast and also sounds somehow ancient....
...Mohamud Hassan Suleiman, finance minister, said almost everything needs to be renewed from scratch including the currency, which has not been officially reprinted for more than 20 years....
...Initiated by five poets (Daud Farah, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ali Goolyad, Hassan Panero and Ahmed Yusuf), De Gabay (meaning “poem or song”) rolled out over one day, bringing something of the community’s history and...
...President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud admits reconciliation is a long way off....
...Speaking after an emergency cabinet meeting on Saturday Premier Najib Mikati told reporters he had offered his resignation but that President Michel Suleiman had asked him to remain for a “period of time...
...Apart from Ayan, Ms Farah and first wife Maryan Mohamed Kahiye, he leaves two other daughters and a son....
...the Aleppo front, rebel fighters from the al-Tawheed brigade said they had over-run the Hanano Barracks about 16km north of the centre, less than a week after another Islamist faction stormed the Sheikh Suleiman...
...Female tourists should wear headscarves and cover their knees, says Mohamed Suleiman Ali, director of Radio Al-Noor, echoing the opinions voiced on radio....
...President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud last week secured parliamentary approval for a slimline 10-member cabinet but risks remain....
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