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In the military area, Massoud believes that the mujahedin must strike a decisive blow soon, before Najibullah can adjust to the departure of the Soviets, who are scheduled to complete their troop withdrawal by Feb. 15. The government has 150,000 troops dug in around major cities. To face them...
Mahfouz's untranslated trilogy Al-Thulathiyya (1957) is a 1,500-page family saga that spans 27 years and both World Wars and is read as a microcosm of Cairene society. He supported Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 coup d'etat but gradually grew disillusioned with the colonel's policies...
Frye says that he has also been involved with teaching Near Eastern religions like Manichaeanism and Zoroasterianism. Currently he teaches a course in Sogdian language, the language of people residing near the Soviet-Chinese border, the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, and middle Persian (300 to 700 A.D.) language...
Singh became the sixth foreign hostage to be set free in Lebanon this year, leaving 13 -- including nine Americans -- still in captivity. What his release means for the others, however, remains unclear. Singh and his three colleagues have always been regarded as a group apart. They were abducted by an...
For weeks Algerian workers had staged wildcat strikes at state-owned enterprises, including Air Algerie and the Post and Telegraph Service. Last week the growing anger over high prices and unemployment exploded into the worst riots to rock the nation since it won independence from France 26 years ago. For...