Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Farouk Abdel Nabi, an Egyptian with the World Food Program, a United Nations agency operating in Bangkok: "I can tell you after what I have seen I am willing to kill myself to get food for these people." Says a diplomat in Thailand: "The Khmers are teetering on the brink of being extinguished as a race. They will perish unless something is done right now and very fast...
Ever since its first meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
Egyptian and Israeli officers worked amicably together in negotiating the fine points of the transfer of authority over El Arish. "It's easy for each side to get along with each other," said Egyptian Brigadier General Hassan Abdel Fatah. "Some of the Israelis are from Arab countries, and they speak fluent Arabic." On the streets of the city, soldiers of the once rival armies exchanged currency as souvenirs...
...resurgence of the Islamic world began with the end of World War II, when the war-weary European powers saw their colonial empires collapse one by one. Strong nationalist leaders who were also Muslims, like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, rose to power; by the early '60s there was a belt of independent, predominantly Islamic states stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. For Muslims of the Middle East, one event in the past decade stands out as a modern landmark in the history of the faith. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973, the cry of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great...
Gaddafi's curious blend of utopianism, anarchism and militant Islamic fundamentalism is reflected in his own rather vague political status. He is clearly the maximum leader. His picture is everywhere. Often he is pictured with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, his hero, who died in 1970. The "traitor" Sadat is frequently shown in the Libyan press with Moshe Dayan's face in the background-a photo taken during Sadat's speech to the Knesset in 1977. Yet Gaddafi has no official title or post in the Libyan state or government, and he has never allowed himself...