The good news is that the web is awash in reports that Hosni Mubarak has fled Egypt. (Update: Mubarak is currently on TV claiming he's not going anywhere). The bad news is that the New York Times is quoting Donald Douglas on the subject. I...
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This sounds vaguely biblical...Egyptian authorities have begun slaughtering 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu, officials said. BBC reported Saturday that officials said the measure also was aimed at.
In mid-2002, Benjamin Orbach traveled to Jordan. Orbach was 27 at the time, and wanted to improve his Arabic language skills. This is hardly unusual; a handful of Patterson students.
The Al-Qasimi family rose to prominence as religious and temporal leaders in the 16th century in what is now northern Yemen. Of the Shi'ite faith, the Al-Qasimi led resistance to the Ottoman Empire and to tribes from the area of modern Saudi Arabia, winning independence...