...Nikolaos A. Stavrou Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Nikolaos A. Stavrou is professor emeritus of international affairs at Howard University. Searching for a Brother Lost in Albania’s Gulag Nikolaos A. Stavrou The history of the Cold...

... 1990, passed away on 29 December 2011. He is survived by his wife, Katarina, and two brothers and two sisters and their families. Funeral ser- vices took place in Bethesda, Maryland, on 2 January 2012. The family of Professor Stavrou and the staff of Mediterranean Quarterly have received many...

.../uploads/2011/06/The -­Ghosts-­of-­Hama.pdf; Yvette Talhamy, “The Syrian Uprising: The Muslim Brotherhood Reborn,” Middle Eastern Quarterly (Spring 2012): 33 – 47. 5. Lefevre. Celso: Hama’s Ominous Shadow  85 Syrian Brothers developed along a moderate path...

... or another to lay down those arms and come to join your brothers and sisters to build this new nation. Now that we have obtained the proverbial political kingdom, we are called upon to do what it takes to sustain a sovereign nation. We now have to focus on economic development as the key...

... purged political rivals from positions of authority in the government and the party and appointed trusted mem- bers of his own minority Alawi community to prominent posts in the govern- ment. Asad’s brother Rifat Assad was chief of an elite army unit known as the Defense Companies and his nephew...

... off politically, and the IFS won the local elections of 1990 with a landslide vote, and the fi rst round of ballots of the legislative elections of 1991, until it was interrupted by the army in January 1992. Every Algerian has a brother or a cousin who lives—or has lived—in France, which...

... Mohamed put it, “My sons are going to be different. . . . They have to be differ- ent. They have to treat women with respect.” One of the most moving stories in Excellent Daughters concerns a deceased young woman named Zahra. The reader discovers that her brother has murdered her because one...

... J. Winnifrith, “Vlachs of Greece,” SFN 40, no. 2 (1997/1998). 118 Mediterranean Quarterly: Fall 2004 At various moments in their long history, Vlachs ascended the summits of power—supplying two brothers, John and Peter Asen, who helped estab- lish a shadowy Vlach-Bulgarian kingdom in the fi...

... P. R. Kumaraswamy Let us put aside the literary phrase “We are brothers but others are dividing us . . We in Iraq and elsewhere are not brothers — there are problems we inherited from our own his- tory and social makeup, which were not helped by oppressive modern regimes. . . . Let’s...

... 12.1-08 Novati/Bellucci 1/23/01 1:35 PM Page 103 Novati and Bellucci: Islamic Governance in Algeria and Sudan 103 administrators, university professors, and so forth.6 Indeed, a brief survey of the history of the Ikhwan (Muslim Brothers...

... improved trade relations will. I have earlier referred to the African-American economy of US$800 billion. How much of that can be traded with Africa? My brothers and sisters, if 10 percent is traded with Africa, it would be more than the US$64 billion in extra funding required by NEPAD in its...

... determina- tion to help the cause of your less fortunate brothers in Northern Epirus. I congratulate you on making freedom, self-determination, and individual dignity your primary concerns, and for not being discouraged by the indiffer- ence of the outside world. I also take notice of the fact...

... in Barbary at this point, being more concerned with Portuguese advances in the Red Sea and evicting the Knights of St. John from their Rhodian base.36 Those who did respond included the Barbarossa brothers.37 31. Fisher, 15. 32. Ibid., 10 – 3; G. N. Clark, “The Barbary Corsairs...

... circulated among the drifters and asylum seekers steered to Finsbury Park, inviting them to linger after Friday prayers and join “study groups.” By spring 1998, Beghal had several would-be suicide bombers staying with him in the mosque. Among them were Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, whose brother Abu...

... on opposite sides of this issue, the United States and Russia were brought together by the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its two suspected bombers, the half- Chechen brothers with radical Islamic sympathies, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Borshchevskaya, however, cautions the United States...

... of a young brother and sister, and it sparked a practice of daily meetings among schoolchildren, their teachers, and supporters to recount and record dreams in jour- nals and drawings. The narratives that these dreams and their interpretations took on became complex, often referencing each other...

... shooting in Paris. The attacks by the two French-­born sons of Algerian immigrants associated with al Qaeda in Yemen, brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, are the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in France since twenty-­eight people were killed in the 1961 Vitry-­Le-­François train bombing...

... victims of colonialism, racism, and Western imperialism. They were blood brothers, they stated, to the Viet Cong and similar subject peoples who had fought against such evils and won. Their new position fitted in nicely with the changing guidelines of the popular Left, which was drifting away from...

.... As one Interpol offi cial has testifi ed, “Albanian organized crime groups are hybrid organizations, often involved both in criminal activity of an organized nature, and in political activities, mainly relating to Kosovo.”16 In January 2000, UN police raided the apartment of the brother of Hashim...

... of the fact that a main distributor for its main urban market is the sitting prime minister — and, before that, the mayor of the urban area in question — other details would serve to make the claim dubious: in addition to the ownership shares of Erdogan, his brother, his sis- ter, her husband...