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Eisenhower doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine (1957).The Eisenhower Doctrine pledged that the United States would distribute economic and military aid and, if necessary, use military force to contain communism in the Middle East. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the doctrine in January 1957. Congress approved it in... Read more |
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Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz , 1930-, American editor and essayist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. As editor in chief (1960-95) of Commentary, he turned the Jewish monthly into an influential forum for social criticism and American neoconservatism. He subsequently became a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a think... Read more |
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Diseases
DISEASES Major diseases in the Middle East since 1800. Endemic and epidemic diseases spread in the modern Middle East and North Africa in the wake of expanding European political and economic power. Political and medical responses to diseases changed over time according to the interests... Read more |
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Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan , 1917-80, Pakistani general and president (1969-71). He fought with the British in World War II, and rose through the Pakistan army following independence, becoming chief of the general staff (1957-62) and helping to bring General Ayub Khan to power. Yahya Khan performed... Read more |
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Muhammad Ayub Khan
Muhammad Ayub Khan , 1907-74, military leader and president (1958-69) of Pakistan. He was commissioned in the British Indian army in 1928 and saw active service as a battalion commander in World War II. After 1947, when the state of Pakistan was created, he assumed command of military forces in East... Read more |
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Church of the East
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Middle East
Middle East term traditionally applied by western Europeans to the countries of SW Asia and NE Africa lying W of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the Asian part of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the countries of the... Read more |
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International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters at Washington, D.C.; also called the World Bank. Plans were laid at the Bretton Woods Conference (1944) for the formation of a world bank; it was formally organized in 1945,... Read more |
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Madras
Madras was founded by Francis Day of the English East India Company in 1639. It stood on a strip of the Coromandel coast famous for its textiles. A fortification (named after St George) was built and became the headquarters of company activities. The city became the capital of a presidency in the... Read more |
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Palestinian Americans
PALESTINIAN AMERICANS by Ken Kurson Overview Historical Palestine stretched from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea to lands east of the Jordan River, according to commentators, and was bordered by Syria on the north and Egypt on the south. Most of this land is now controlled by... Read more |
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PRESIDENT MUBARAK TO INAUGURATE THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON THE MIDDLE EAST...
President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak of Egypt will inaugurate the World Economic Forum on the Middle East meeting which will be...society leaders in the Middle ... |
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EGYPT: MUBARAK TO INAUGURATE DAVOS ECONOMIC FORUM ON SUNDAY IN SHARM EL-SHEIKH.
President Mubarak will inaugurate the regional meeting of the world Economic Forum better known...Sunday. President Mubarak will address...development in the Middle ... |
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MUBARAK TO INAUGURATE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
...inaugurates the World Economic Forum which attended...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa...attended by the presidents of Afghanistan...President Mubarak ... |
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EGYPT: MUBARAK TO INAUGURATE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
...inaugurates the World Economic Forum which attended...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa...attended by the presidents of Afghanistan...President Mubarak ... |
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EGYPT: MUBARAK-BUSH SUMMIT IN SHARM EL-SHEIKH DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS.
...holding the World Economic Forum on the Middle East known as Davos Economic Forum which...attended by Presidents Mubarak and Bush...relations. President ... |
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MUBARAK-BUSH SUMMIT IN SHARM EL-SHEIKH DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS
...holding the World Economic Forum on the Middle East known as Davos Economic Forum which...attended by Presidents Mubarak and Bush...relations. President ... |
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DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE ON...
President Mubarak will inaugurate next Saturday 20/5/2006 the Davos world economic forum, the biggest gathering...convening of the world economic forum on the ... |
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EGYPT: DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE...
President Mubarak will inaugurate next Saturday 20/5/2006 the Davos world economic forum, the biggest gathering...convening of the world economic forum on the ... |
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Roundup: Egypt gears up for key economic forum
...gears up for key economic forum by Lin Jianyang...embrace a key economic forum due to kick...the venue of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Middle East, which is ... |
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Major news items in leading Egyptian newspapers
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate on Sunday the...activities of the World Economic Forum, Davos, in...Secretary Gamal Mubarak has voiced...visit to the Middle ... |
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