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...Why the absence of stories by, say, Syed Mujtaba Ali, the greatest Bengali wit and raconteur?...
...Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the previous incumbent, was named as acting governor....
...There is a long history of black US athletes, including boxer Muhammad Ali and baseball player Jackie Robinson, using their influence to take stands against racial inequality....
...For example, Muhammad Ali, you feel like you know him. Or even Hashim Amla [the former South Africa cricket captain, also a devout Muslim]....
...But he boldly predicted that the December 7 title rematch, dubbed the “Clash on the Dunes”, would go down in the sport’s history alongside Muhammad Ali’s “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in Zaire...
...“[Muhammad] Hamsho is not evil,” said Mazen. “He’s an opportunist.”...
...“The political parties are trying to catch up with the spontaneous demonstrations,” said Hassan Elhag Ali Ahmed, professor of political science at the University of Khartoum....
...Throughout her career, Jahangir bemoaned that Pakistan had veered away from the liberal ideals of its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah....
...“Like [Muhammad] Ali?” he asks. “No.” “I’ve been bitten,” he adds. “Then I was a little bit talkative.” He is joking, but I take it as a prompt to be silent....
...Also facing criminal charges for corruption are Mr Sharif’s two sons Hussain and Hassan Nawaz, his daughter Maryam and her husband Muhammad Safdar Awan....
...“The risk is that down the line China will call the shots and that we will pay the price later,” says Syed Murad Ali Shah, the chief minister of Sindh, the province in which Karachi is located....
...Khrais’ own company, Maysalward, developed ShaqDown 2, a mobile game featuring the basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and boxing legend Muhammad Ali as playable characters....
...Syed Qaim Ali Shah, chief minister of Sindh province, said Sindh could not afford cope with an influx of displaced people as a result of the North Waziristan operation....
...Syed Javed Ali, a 38-year-old Bhopal taxi driver with two young children, says he plans to vote for Mr Modi after observing the BJP’s strong performance in Madhya Pradesh, where power and roads improved...
...“My father fought for Libya in Chad and in Lebanon,” says Hassan Muhammad, a 37-year-old Tuareg....
...“This time Zardari and the coalition partners will seek to compromise with the supreme court and appoint a new prime minister,” said Ahmed Rashid, author of Pakistan on the Brink....
...Ahmed Bassiouny, Egypt Among the graffiti memorials that line the walls of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, it is hard to escape the black stencilled image of Ahmed Bassiouny....
...“For our part, the agreement is finished,” said Muhammad al-Naimi, chief political officer of the opposition....
...Representatives from mainstream opposition parties have presented President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen with a plan for the transition of power....
...For Mr Jilani, the solution to Tunisia’s political crisis had to come from “the good will” of all parties, including the small parliamentary parties formally aligned with Ben Ali, and the RCD itself....
...Also omitted is Ahmed al-Aidy, whose novel Being Abbas el-Abdillustrates the effect of the internet and Hollywood on the Arabic language....
...One of the young men who used to come to his gym was Ahmed Abdullah Ali, a 28-year-old from Walthamstow who is now serving a 40-year prison sentence for leading the plot to bring down seven transatlantic...
...We had “not a penny in compensation”, Sharif says, adding that that was the moment when his father, Mian Muhammad Sharif, directed him to enter politics....
...(The late Muhammad bin Laden, the Saudi business magnate, did fund a scholarship programme, but it has no connection with his son Osama bin Laden.)...
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