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...A self-described “sucker for leather”, Nasr sources most of her wares on Etsy, where she has recently found numbers from 1980s designers such as Liz Claiborne, Michael Hoban and Jean Claude Jitrois....
...“We give a huge amount of star power to the right client,” says London-based celebrity stylist Michael Miller....
...Nasr al-Shammari, a spokesperson for one of the Shia militias under Muhandis’ influence said no decision had been taken on who would replace him....
...Additional reporting by Matthew Rocco in New York and Michael Peel in Brussels...
...Gordon Veneklasen, co-owner of Michael Werner gallery, says that “it’s hard to say whether or not we would be willing to stay if they move, but it will be a factor certainly.”...
...Nasr al-Hariri, chief negotiator for the Syrian Negotiations Commission, Syria’s umbrella opposition group, is lobbying in Washington and European capitals to bolster the next round of Geneva talks against...
...what is the acceptable end game and how to get there, other than the logic of the hardliners to once and for all to fully repress the Muslim Brotherhood, which is neither possible nor stabilising,” said Michael...
...Mr Nasr points to how domestic investment in Egypt fell 10.5 per cent in 2011, with foreign investment plunging more than 90 per cent to just $500m....
...They also have their allies across the political aisle, though perhaps not the cast of “intellectuals” that bayed for war – Christopher Hitchens (now dead), Michael Ignatieff, Andrew Sullivan and so on....
...“Every country has an issue, or issues, that have to be dealt with,” concedes Michael Froman, the US trade representative....
...The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, by Vali Nasr, Scribe, RRP£18.99/Doubleday, RRP$28.95 Since it was published earlier this year, Nasr’s argument that US foreign policy is “in retreat...
...The Dispensable Nation : American Foreign Policy in Retreat, by Vali Nasr, Doubleday, RRP$28.95, 320 pages Vali Nasr, a former official in the Obama administration, accuses the US president of undermining...
...“People are talking about politics all the time,” says Sherif Seif el Nasr, a political science student who does not plan to vote. “No one will stop talking....
...Set attractively amid the eucalyptus trees of the surrounding al-Nasr forest, the visible damage amounts to little more than the odd stray bullet through a cage roof and a blown-out window in the building...
...Retired Brigadier General Michael Herzog, a former adviser to Israeli defence ministers, says that if Iran were to take the decision to build a bomb now, it might take more than a year to be able to deploy...
...Another Gaddafi opponent suggested in frustration that foreign journalists, corralled in the Swiss Inn al Nasr hotel with government minders, should not bother coming to Tripoli, as they were prevented from...
...While cautioning that these are early days, Michael O’Hanlon of Washington’s Brookings Institution, says the “success” in Libya provides Barack Obama with an opportunity to articulate his foreign policy...
...About 100 people had gathered at a military-guarded Barclays branch in Nasr City district less than an hour before it was due to close at 1.30pm....
...Mr Nasr also known as Abu Omar who was kidnapped in Milan in 2003 was allegedly flown to Egypt for interrogation, under a special US process called “renditions”....
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