...” Despina Michael On a June 2008 trip to Cyprus I had the dubious pleasure of gaining access to a massive hotel/casino complex in the northern part of the island,1 in the Karpassia (Karpaz) region. It was located at Vokolida (Bafra) on the eastern coastline not too far from the city of Famagusta...

...- 10  Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2009 Peterson: Life after Oil  11 star hotel. The creation of island resorts and residential communities began in earnest with the Dubai Marina but escalated with the Palm Islands...

... to accept the principle of tolerance and equality for all human beings. We have learned what we must do to prevail. Then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, after a terrorist attempt on her life in Brighton’s Grand Hotel on 12 October 1994, spoke...

... an immigrant to work nine months a year, mainly in sectors such as agriculture, construction, and the hotel trade. Foreigners holding this type of permit were not allowed to bring their families and had to go back to their country three months per year until they received renewable annual permits after...

... In this essay I share some thoughts on China and its growing importance in the world. I first went to Beijing over twenty-­five years ago when the tallest building was the Beijing Hotel at eleven stories, and the ten-­lane road from the hotel to Tiananmen Square was congested with black bicycles as far...

... production methods, use low- and middle-level technology, and utilize mostly indigenous resources.”17 In addition, capital owners and managers employed in high-technology sectors also “generate a demand for hotel, catering, entertainment, domestic, and other services, largely based on unskilled and low...

..., and a room was rented for him in the obscure Hotel Anesis for 350,000 old drachmas per month. Of course no one else in Arta would have heard of Grigorios. He had traded in his identity in defense of ideals. Outside the confines of 233 Tagma Proka- lypseos (the border regiment), he was known as George...

... stories and almost all of them drab or in disrepair. Only the broad Skanderbeg Square seemed to have some style to it — the well-proportioned Ethem Bey Mosque, the new national museum, the new Hotel Tirana, an equestrian statue of Skanderbeg, and a gilded non- equestrian statue of Hoxha installed...

... take off your shoes. Forget those places. The best thing that you can do is to invest and to vacation here. We have excellent hotels. If you want, you can go to mosque, if you want, you can go to nightclubs.”18 It was an unusual but perhaps indicative statement coming from a minister of an Isla...

... directed by Shaykh Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktum, the ruler of Dubai, to supply $4 million worth of bricks and roof tiles for the complex of hotels, office buildings, residences, and sports arenas being built as part of the Palmiye City project. There was the promise that the contract would...

... (Symmaxia, which means “coalition”) distributed food to refugees in the abandoned Captain Elias Hotel, which serves as a shelter for them. Further removed from the refugees, volunteers collected food and basic supplies to send to the islands. For example, in Thessaloniki, the second larg- est city...

... with state interference kept to a minimum. Connected to such tran- sient wealth has come much pleasure as well, thus explaining the new Beirut skyline dotted with hotels and casinos. Syrian peacekeeping from 1991 to 2005 combined tough internal security with a free-wheeling economy, just the kind...

... is cheap hostel accommodation. C.A.R.I. will provide some rooms to obviate the expense of staying in a hotel while in Nicosia. 6. Services. One of the most useful services which C.A.R.I. can provide is to act as liaison and guide...

...- 122  Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2012 Reviews  123 rorism, culminating in the bombing of the King David Hotel in July 1946. By 1947, the British decided that the game was not worth...

... forces from Syria and Lebanon. As to Palestine, Britain faced increased Zionist ter- 122  Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2012 Reviews  123 rorism, culminating in the bombing of the King David Hotel...

...- 122  Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2012 Reviews  123 rorism, culminating in the bombing of the King David Hotel in July 1946. By 1947, the British decided that the game was not worth...

...,” Kathimerini, 3 October 2001. 11. N. Koumaros, “An essay, in general terms, of the future Constitution, dictated to me by Ioan- nis Metaxas, on 19 Dec. 1940, Hotel Grande Bretagne, where the General Headquarters has been accommodated,” Athens, General State Archives, Ioannis Metaxas’s Archive, File, 10...

... tsar is Izzatullah Wasti, a man who has served four years in prison in the United States for dealing in heroin at a Las Vegas hotel.53 So, how did Afghanistan get here? According to the report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, it got there by putting local and regional warlords...

... construction company for a residential housing project totaling five thousand units, a shopping center containing two thousand franchises, and three pro- posed hotels in central and suburban Basra, as well the restoration of Persian historical sites in An-­Najaf province.34 In Tehran in March 2009...

... to it. It is in fact unlikely that Cyprus will attract more visi- tors until, in the first place, the island possesses a harbour in which large passenger vessels can be sure of finding an anchorage in all weathers, and secondly, until it also possesses adequate hotel accommodation. So far as the first...