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...Then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad often used Hizbollah to negotiate with Israel by fire via Lebanon....
...But Syria is now fragmented, with President Bashar al-Assad ruling over only parts of his battered country while Tehran calls the shots....
...Kim GhattasI would think so....
...By then, she was presenting a show on Al Arabiya, In Arabic. “She was always thoughtful, always prepared with extensive knowledge not just about the subject but the person she was interviewing.”...
...Two days after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, a planeload of Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrived in Damascus and headed to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley with Syrian president Hafez al-Assad’s blessing....
...By his own account, Al Ani’s beef was mostly with the state that employed him. But the show’s curators Pedro Azara and Roberta Casagrande-Kim don’t take him at his word....
...Then there is Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, upon whom President Emmanuel Macron bestowed the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest decoration, in 2020....
...The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ When Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan landed in Damascus last week, the first visit by a Saudi official since 2011, Bashar al-Assad’s evident glee was equalled...
...And after a decade in which Syria stood accused of various terror attacks against the west, then president Hafez al-Assad participated in the military coalition of 35 countries that US president George HW...
...Kim Porter’s Pulchra es et decora reflects the beauty mentioned in its title with lightly perfumed, ecstatic music....
...My favourite building is the V&A. I had the chance to work on Tim Walker’s Wonderful Things exhibition in 2019, and spend a lot of time there....
...Al rejoices in his deviance, and it’s hard not to follow, although the line between enthusiastic and fearful compliance blurred from time to time....
...Korean peninsula: Kim Jong Un’s dramatic rejection of Korean reunification has opened a dangerous new phase in the frozen conflict between the two Koreas....
...The UAE’s foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan has returned for a third visit, after breaking the ice in November 2021....
...The Saudis were so eager to maintain the rapprochement that they dragged their feet in co-operating with the FBI to investigate the 1996 al-Khobar bombing, in which Iran had been implicated....
...When Busan-born chef Sun Kim opened his first iteration of Meta in 2016, he specialised in French-inspired fare....
...The US can claim a partial success in the direct struggle against al-Qaeda....
...Egyptians are cutting back on staples as the government advises them to eat chicken feet in lieu of chicken, all while president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is funding vanity projects such as a new capital city...
...Hafez al-Assad was brilliant at that, and it turns out Bashar al-Assad is, too....
...In the audience, Kim Kardashian was already decked out in a full Damoflage outfit....
...Gideon talks to Kim Ghattas about what has motivated this change of strategy and its chance of success in helping restore stability to the region....
...In 1990, when the US wanted Syrian participation in Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait, it turned a blind eye to Hafez al-Assad’s full takeover of Lebanon....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
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