For in addition to his higher-profile roles as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and as a controversial commentator on Middle Eastern and international politics, Said was music critic at America's foremost left-leaning political weekly, the Nation, from 1986 until his death in 2003.
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Central and Eastern Europe, as the international agencies cumbrously have it?
While there, he reported on many of the decade's major international stories in Eastern Europe, Northern and Western Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, Japan and the Soviet Union.
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"It has been an opportune time for corporate borrowers from Eastern Europe to tap the international bond markets, with many Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian names taking advantage of the stretch for yield to borrow in dollars for the first time since the global crisis, " says Richard Segal, emerging-market strategist at Jefferies International.
Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto and four other Guinea-Bissau nationals were apprehended aboard a yacht in international waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
On Saturday International Consolidated Airlines Groupthe eastern city of Nanjing banned live poultry trade and closed markets, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
"I think Ahmadinejad underestimated the power of Khamenei, and he overestimated his own power, " Haleh Esfandiari, director of Middle Eastern studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, said last month.
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Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto and two other Guinea-Bissau nationals were taken into custody Tuesday aboard a vessel in international waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean while two others were arrested Thursday in a West African country and later transferred to U.S. custody, the release said.
And to that end I also thought it would be useful for you to know that we'll soon be sending disaster assistance relief teams into eastern Libya and we have for some time been funding about a dozen NGOs and international organizations who are actively assisting folks in the eastern part of the country.
This is because the Bhutanese refugee issue of Southern and Eastern Bhutan is still fresh in the international community and the Royal Government of Bhutan fears from the outsiders of knowing the hidden reality and the prevailing truth of Bhutan.
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The outlook for the Eastern European economy was questioned after the International Monetary Fund this week reduced its growth assumptions for the region as the crisis in the euro zone home to some of its biggest trading partners continues to drag on.
His work on international security, international economics and European and Middle Eastern Affairs make him the perfect person to coordinate our policy in this time of great challenge and opportunity in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf.
The international community has taken its eye off eastern DR Congo for the past six years or so.
Panic's connections in Eastern Europe have been vital to ICN's international pharmaceutical business, but he has been under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for years.
When the judges examined the targets more closely, Bassham was awarded the gold, but Thompson's performance was enough to put pressure on the International Olympic Committee primarily from Eastern European teams to segregate the sport.
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Inclusion of Lithuania, along with Eastern Europe, in a new Contingency Energy Fund (CEF) administered by the G-7 or International Energy Agency (possibly established through an amendment to S.2040, the SEED program for Eastern Europe).
Since the early 1950s, RFE has broadcast objective information about the United States and international events otherwise unavailable to the people of Eastern Europe from Munich, West Germany.
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Mr. Robinson brought to the discussion of "The State of The Globe -- Markets, Political Pressures, Risk and Rewards" rich experience in the private and public sectors, having served as the Chase Manhattan Bank's Vice President for the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia and as the Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the Reagan National Security Council.
With 55 branches scattered around Italy's north-eastern corner, the Cassa di Risparmio hardly looks like an international player.
There are also key areas where businesses -- including those that are struggling -- can't go without help, says Jon Zion, president of eastern U.S. operations at staffing firm Robert Half International Inc.
In 1972, 99 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011 crashed into the Everglades near Miami International Airport in Florida.
According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, only one country in Eastern Europe spends more than 2% of GDP on defense.
"With ease of international travel, and increased rates of MDR tuberculosis in eastern Europe, central Asia, and elsewhere, the threat and range of the spread of untreatable tuberculosis is very real, " the report said.
In other international news, Liberation Army Daily says China impressed Middle Eastern countries with its missiles, warships, drones and other weaponry at recent expos in Abu Dhabi.
It was the first time ever an international auction house had held a jewelry sale in the Middle Eastern tourist and retail mecca, and the second sale of art.
Jamsheed K. Choksy is professor of Iranian, Islamic, and International Studies at Indiana University where he served as director of Middle Eastern Studies.
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The huge international support package for Hungary is a shocking turn of fortune for eastern Europe, a region that has enjoyed growth and stability for a decade.
They accuse the international community of double standards, as Western countries call on other Middle Eastern countries to open up to nuclear inspections, but apply little pressure on Israel to do the same.
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In the 855 intrusions from 2011 it studied from its own clients and in conjunction with the U.S. Secret Service and other international police groups, Verizon found that 67% of attacks originated from Eastern Europe, 20% from the U.S., and 2% from East Asia.
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