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...Jan Friederich is Head of Middle East and Africa Sovereign Ratings and Mahmoud Harb is Director at Fitch Ratings....
...“The only thing they have in common is that they were critical of the state sometime in the last five years, but many of them have been pretty inactive for a long while,” says H.A....
...His partners recently met representatives of Kuwait’s Alshaya group, a major franchise owner, with brands like H&M, McDonald’s and Starbucks....
...H ardliners in contrast are offering to treble monthly payments to the poor, while providing cheap housing and marriage loans....
...No one can accuse Mahmoud al-Kardoussi of opposing the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi....
...“The ruling and administration of our country is going from bad to worse,” says Jihad Harb, a political analyst in Ramallah....
...Mahmoud Mohamed, a student, said Mr Sisi was very popular with the older generation....
...President Richard Nixon’s aide H.R. Haldeman wrote that Moscow dropped hints to Washington about the possibility of the US agreeing to a Soviet pre-emptive nuclear strike on China in 1969....
...Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League, New York, NY, US...
...Baker, the canny Treasury secretary and future secretary of state, coined the phrase “economic insecurity” as the signature tune of George H.W. Bush’s campaign....
...“These brands aim to cater for all nationalities; whether Emiratis, Arabs, Lebanese, Europeans or Indians,” says Mahmoud Harb, multi-brands manager at Cravia, which owns the franchises for Zaatar w Zeit...
...Another departure from the cabinet welcomed by the protesters is that of Mahmoud Wagdy, the interior minister who was also a Mubarak appointee....
...The families and friends of the Christian victims of the killings at the state television building held a candlelit vigil on Talaat Harb square, a few minutes’ walk from Tahrir....
...Press TV add that “Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China, Venezuela, Sudan and Russia have taken steps to replace the US dollar in their foreign exchange reserves, as well. ” H/T Alea Related links A cabal...
...The disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad as Iran’s president at the weekend might provide that test....
...Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi, an advisor to Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, is not well known to observers outside Iran....
...A prominent member of the March 14th group, member of parliament Boutros Harb, said he understood the sentiments of the people who had lost their homes and who blamed the US for backing Israel and providing...
...In his memoirs George H. W....
...In fact, his business card says he is Prof Dr Jur Dr-Ing E.h. Heinrich v Pierer....
...The same holds for Mr Bush's efforts to bring more democracy to Saudi Arabia - so different from the actions of George H.W. Bush, his father....
...Two years ago it chose H'Angus the Monkey, the simian mascot of the local football team, as mayor. Perhaps Kilroy-Silk, the face of the UKIP, didn't want to be made a monkey of....
...Mr Bush's meeting with Mr Schröder on Wednesday, for example, will be in Mainz, the city where his father, President George H. W....
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