Hints and tips:
...I’m still ambivalent about turning 40, but I’d do it all over again for a two-star dinner in Ilimanaq....
...It has given its name to the Orchestre National de Barbès, as well as to Rachid Taha’s first solo album, a Brooklyn bar and a record label....
...“I had heard what he did with Tinariwen, Rachid Taha and Robert Plant. He’s a big musician. And a very nice guy....
...UBS has appointed Oliver Gaunt and Abudy Taha, managing directors on its leveraged finance team, as co-heads of leveraged finance for Emea....
...“I’m seeing wingback chairs that make you feel a little secluded.”...
...Private equity firm Livingbridge has appointed three new associate directors: Isabelle Hemington in London, Tom Reece in Manchester and Taha Bakhtiyar in Boston....
...“I’m a bit ‘Japanese’ in that it should all be put away apart from one object changed once a month — otherwise objects become background wallpaper — so we’ve reached a compromise.”...
...He is discussing the mental strain that goes with realising ambitious designs, and the travails of his fellow British architect Amin Taha, whose London home, 15 Clerkenwell Close, is mired in another planning...
...From a drab office block surrounded by blast walls and coils of razor wire, Taha Abdulsalam has had a ringside view of the travails of Iraq’s stuttering, oil-dependent economy since Saddam Hussein was toppled...
...“I’m sure he will make changes but I doubt these will benefit the workers or the customers,” Mr Taha says....
...UAE-based Studio Muju, co-founded by Jumana Taha and Mentalla Said, produces furniture and lighting incorporating Sadu-style fabrics woven by an artisan in Abu Dhabi....
...The director of operations at Tuweinan, Taha al-Ali, was known as the Syrian Gas Company’s mediator with Isis....
...“Extremist sympathisers among the Kurds are a small minority, but a dangerous one,” Mr Taha said. “Isis cannot create a popular base here to launch another military assault....
...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 not buying or selling, but I’m expecting the market to go up,” says Naeem Abdullah, eyeing the banking sector....
...Kalsi made only uneasy allusion to the shambolic mudbath that was Womad 2007: “Don’t mention the m-word”....
...It is incomprehensible,” says Taha al-Bess, director of the Executive Office of Refugee Popular Committees, a Palestinian organisation....
...“Twice there were problems with them and they would open grenades and say: ‘I’m in a hurry to meet the creator’.”...
...DIWAN 2 Rachid Taha Wrasse The Rai rebel went back to his roots: French chanson meets Mahgreb bohemianism....
...After the hearing, Mr Galloway quipped, “I'm a politician that pleads guilty of using events like these for political purposes.”...
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