Hints and tips:
...Take a break from the news Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months is the Musée d’Orsay’s supremely enjoyable show on the artist’s last, productive weeks....
...The PA has been hobbled by its inability to provide public services and President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to hold elections....
...“Egypt has one of the oldest Schools of Fine Arts [outside of Europe], and some of the most important modern masters of the Middle East are Egyptian, such as Mahmoud Saïd and Mahmoud Mokhtar,” says Mai Eldib...
...“I’m not afraid,” says Ahed. “I feel like the moment I want to be something else, I can be that. If I decide to be an actress, I will be an actress....
...Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said he was “in love with all of humanity”. What about twice-married Morgan? “I wouldn’t say....
...I’m sure some of that leaked into my ways of visually organising material....
...One was in a suburb of Nazareth, Bir el-Amir, home of the great Palestinian poet Taha Mahmoud. The other was in the nearby village of Sulam....
...I’m no expert on electronic circuit-board testers, and I’d be surprised if this were a huge breakthrough....
...Oil output has slumped from as high as 1.4m barrels a day in 2012 to as low as 200,000 b/d before inching back up to nearly 500,000 b/d by mid-March....
...“I’m not a diplomat. I’m a revolutionary and speak frankly and directly,” he said. “You [Americans] have pointed guns towards Iran, but at the same time you want to negotiate....
...Its exports had fallen from 2.4m b/d in early 2011 to just 0.8m b/d in August....
...That hardly explains the gamut of them from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Zinedine Zidane....
...In a separate interview with CNN, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran was asked if his government would be interested in training and support in Iraq....
...She does not see women’s rights as under immediate threat, saying Tunisian women are very powerful (“If not for my mother, I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing now”)....
...Then you’d go, ‘No, no, it’s an interview.’ And I’d say, ‘Oh my God. I’m sorry.’ ” He shrugs and shakes his head in mock surrender. “I would say, ‘I just can’t do it....
...“I’m very sceptical about this story because it looks very amateurish, this is not the type of thing that the Iranian government or the Quds Force has done in the past,” he said....
...“I’m not sure there will be enough in the document to bring the Russians back to the UN to back sanctions,” the official told the FT on Sunday....
...“The main reason I’m in politics is that I’m scared the Muslim Brotherhood will kill the future of Egypt,” he says....
...“I’m glad to hear they are having problems with their centrifuge machines,” he told a conference in Washington, referring to the centrifuges used to enrich uranium....
...In April, Egyptian Mahmoud Said’s 1934 “Les Chadoufs” sold for $2.1m, a record for a modern Arab artist. Even more remarkably, the painting was guide-priced at below $200,000....
...“What I’m doing is not proper, not exactly what I should do....
...SH: I’m not surprised. FT: Perhaps you’d like to ask it for us. Back in the 1990s, you promised to advance democracy in the country, but things seem to be going rather slowly....
...I’ve met Karzai five times, Netanyahu probably six times, Mahmoud Abbas countless times. I’ve travelled to China, India, Israel, South Africa. FT: Yes....
...In response to the remarks, the British foreign office summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires to a meeting, making clear the comments were “unacceptable”....
...Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad: Even more religious than Rezaei. robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
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