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In the News (Tue 21 May 13)

  
  Amal Express
AMAL EXPRESS, which gave birth to the rest of the Amal Group of Companies, was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of 13 individual Xawala firms.
In merging their capital and human resources, the founders of AMAL succeeded in establishing solid financial and management base nationally and internationally, putting AMAL in the lead in the Xawala business...
AMAL Express, and indeed other Somali Remittance Companies are facing critical challenges, specifically since September 11,2001.
www.amal-express.com   (169 words)

  
  Art Helps Amal to Survive : Personal Stories : Wage Peace Campaign : AFSC
I first met Amal nearly eight years ago, when she was pregnant with her second child and struggling through the deprivation of economic sanctions against the Hussein regime.
Amal’s home is in the Red Zone on Abu Nawas Street, which borders the Tigris River, across from the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.
Amal’s family has also been forced to separate, as she explains: “My husband recently received a Bachelor's degree in Islamic Law from the University of Baghdad.
www.afsc.org /iraq/personal_stories/entries/101504.htm   (981 words)

  
  Amal Basry's long journey finds home - Opinion - theage.com.au
Amal and her teenage son Amjed were among the 421 asylum seekers who boarded a 19.5-metre fishing boat in the pre-dawn darkness of October 18, 2001, in a Sumatran port.
Amal was desperate for Australians to understand why she had risked her life to make the journey.
Amal's final wish was for her elder son, daughter and grandchildren to be allowed to settle in Australia.
www.theage.com.au /news/opinion/amal-basrys-long-journey-finds-home/2006/03/20/1142703280987.html   (981 words)

  
 Amal Movement
Since Amal seeks to change the terms of power in Lebanon in favor of the Shi_a by setting aside the 1946 "national covenant" between Lebanon's Christians and Sunnite Muslims it may be considered a revolutionary actor.
While Amal is indigenous to Lebanon it was founded by an Iranian clergyman, Musa Sadr, who arrived in Lebanon in 1957 and established the "Movement of the Deprived" in 1974 to help the Lebanese Shi_a gain political power.
Amal's role in assuming custody of the hostages taken in the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985 likewise was secondary to that of Hezbollah in planning and carrying out the original hijacking.
www.angelfire.com /il2/redline/doc44.html   (663 words)

  
 Alaskan Malamute Assistance League Home Page
AMAL is pleased to be a 2007 award recipient and gives a hearty thanks to all our friends and affilitates who made this award possible.
AMAL is proud to have them in our rescue family.
AMAL had various wonderful goodies on sale or at auction.
www.malamuterescue.org   (545 words)

  
 Amal (Page 1)
The 'amal is the normative practice of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, or that of the first four khalifs, the Companions and their Successors, the Tabi'un, and the generation after them, the Tabi'u't-Tabi'in.
If the 'amal is from the time of the Prophet, it is preferred because this category of 'amal is definitively authoritative and has a multiple transmission (mutawatir) whereas the other hadiths, being single transmissions, one from one, are merely probable.
To conclude, thus 'amal consists of the parameters of action in Madina which were used to judge the hadith and to preserve the Sunna.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ABewley/Page1.html   (4095 words)

  
 Amal
Amal is short for the Lebanese Resistance Detachments.
Amal became one of the most important Muslim militias during the Lebanese Civil War.
Amal grew strong through its close ties with the Islamic regime of Iran, and the 300,000 Shi'i internal refugees from southern Lebanon after the Israeli bombings in the early 1980's.
i-cias.com /e.o/amal.htm   (189 words)

  
 Amal
Amal is short for the Lebanese Resistance Detachments.
Amal became one of the most important Muslim militias during the Lebanese Civil War.
Amal grew strong through its close ties with the Islamic regime of Iran, and the 300,000 Shi'i internal refugees from southern Lebanon after the Israeli bombings in the early 1980's.
lexicorient.com /e.o/amal.htm   (189 words)

  
 The Eyes of Amal
Faith for Amal and her family was not a matter of religious zealotry.
Interspersed in Amal's diary are scenes of her neighbors reading the Koran, its passages usually committed to memory.
On television, throughout the war, Amal's family and the rest of Baghdad were subjected to a slew of patriotic songs, footage of goose-stepping soldiers and images of Hussein firing into the air.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090300485_pf.html   (2579 words)

  
 Lebanon - Amal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amal, which means hope in Arabic, is the acronym for Afwaj al Muqawamah al Lubnaniyyah (Lebanese Resistance Detachments), and was initially the name given to the military arm of the Movement of the Disinherited.
In the mid1980s, the Amal militia laid siege to Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, in retribution for years of abuses at the hands of Palestinian liberation groups that operated in southern Lebanon.
Amal was linked less closely to Iran than some other Shia organizations, and it did not propose the creation of an Islamic state in Lebanon.
countrystudies.us /lebanon/88.htm   (570 words)

  
 Hizballah Rising
Amal is battling to stay level with Hizballah, whose members are meticulous about maintaining a public reputation for financial probity and an active opposition stance within government.
At the same time, the willingness of Amal's Central Council to unanimously confirm his decision to expel members attests to the fact that Berri is still very much in control of the party.
Both Amal and Hizballah have as one of their major aims to cease the sectarian basis of parliamentary representation that guarantees a political over-representation of the non-Shi'a population.
meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2005/issue1/jv9no1a1.html   (3519 words)

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