(1) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(2) There is no difference between (Arab) blood and (Jewish) blood.
(3) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(4) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(5) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(6) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(7) Unfortunately it was the Arab spring that failed , and the rise of Islamic State was one of the results.
(8) Asked if his calls for more airstrikes , a ground coalition comprising mainly Sunni Arabs and the deployment of US and international special forces were effectively just a more aggressive re-voicing of current White House strategy, he said: “I don’t agree that’s part of their strategy.
(9) Statements by Kerry, Israeli president Shimon Peres and Arab League representatives on Wednesday and Thursday indicated that significant progress had been made.
(10) The Sunni side includes ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, JRTN, the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, and moderate Sunni Arab tribal members.
(11) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
(12) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(13) By the 1970s, groups of schools were collaborating to offer their children a varied history course which might take in the modern world, the Arab-Israeli conflict and medicine through time.
(14) Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is organising the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva in September, which brings Iranian business leaders and foreign investors – including France’s Alstom, the United Arab Emirate’s Aujan, and Italy’s SACE – together.
(15) The relationship of body fat distribution to glucose intolerance and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Arab women was studied in 102 obese non-diabetic and 40 obese women with diabetes.
(16) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(17) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
(18) The non-significance of one item was probably related to the way it was translated into Arabic.
(19) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(20) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
Persian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.
(n.) The language spoken in Persia.
(n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.
(n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(2) They were hoping to escape attacks from yet another invading army; this time the forces of Khosrau II, the last great Persian king before the Muslims conquered Iran.
(3) During the Persian Gulf war, the entire Israeli population was under the threat of chemical missiles.
(4) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.
(5) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
(6) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(7) The 'Desert Storm Operation' (Persian Gulf, January-February 1991) as it affected the elderly and disabled in Israel is described.
(8) He said Turkey was at pains to maintain a friendly relationship with its Persian neighbour.
(9) An analysis of ages and ranks of hospital-based physicians in one area of the Persian Gulf War was used for a comparison with similar data from the Vietnam War.
(10) Before this, the 66-year-old served as a senior assistant to Obama administration defense secretary Leon Panetta and completed numerous postings in the Persian Gulf war and the Iraq war.
(11) Ali Motahari, an influential MP, said after Trump’s win that his presidency was to Iran’s advantage because Democrats “would chop your head with cotton”, a Persian idiom which means killing someone with kindness, and reflecting a view that the Islamic Republic has historically coped better with the Republicans.
(12) An analogy is made between the Persian Gulf War and its effective, high tech weaponry and future vector control program planning.
(13) These results cannot be explained only by the socioeconomic differences between the five groups, as the North Africans and Persians both belong to the lower urban socioeconomic class and the Arabs to the low rural socioeconomic class, with the Europeans belonging to the middle urban class.
(14) BBC Persian TV, due to launch next week, will broadcast in Farsi at peak time and be available free to the millions of Iranians who have a satellite dish.
(15) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(16) A Mycoplasma sp was isolated from an abscess of the right cranial lung lobe in a 6-year-old Persian cat.
(17) Two Persian cats kept in common, 3 months and 2 years old, presented a heavy infestation with Cheyletiella mites.
(18) During the Persian Gulf war the unified civilian and military command--the supreme hospitalization authority--implemented a national hospital and emergency medical services preparedness system designed to treat the victims of chemical warfare attacks.
(19) Persian Jews appear to have a unique variant of PDS.
(20) The Rosenberg Self-esteem scale was translated into Persian and 12 Iranian bilingual judges confirmed the soundness of translation.