But the points Rifaat makes are widely accepted among the opponents of the Assad regime both in the West and in the Arab world, our correspondent adds.
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For people in the West, World War I was the great disillusionment, the moment when orthodoxy crumbled and leaders failed and the faiths of a lifetime fell to pieces.
He is now a shariah scholar, a shariah adviser on dozens of institutions in the West and also in the Islamic world and in Asia as a shariah adviser.
American economic growth during the 80s was the equivalent of adding the third largest economy in the world, West Germany, to the American economy.
We stand the danger we stand the danger of making, in spirit, the kind of mistakes that we in the West made after World War I.
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Modi has revealed the IPL will start a month earlier in 2010, with matches taking place during March and April in a bid to avoid a clash with the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies in April and May.
Life expectancy is also on the rise: Since 1980, women are living longer not only in the West, but in all parts of the world.
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Simmons has kept faith with the squad which played in the ICC World Twenty20 last month in the West Indies, with Jones and Dockrell the only players missing from the tournament.
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Although even a low-cost could be an issue for those living on a dollar a day, or less, Professor Cloete believes that a small surcharge to sales in the West could help subsidize costs in the developing world.
"The developments in the Arab world and the crisis in the West's relations with Iran over the nuclear program has resulted in Afghanistan being relegated into a secondary issue for the U.S. and the West, " read one editorial in 8-Subh, the country's largest private newspaper, last month.
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As we argue in our survey of Islam and the West in this issue, the Islamic world is no monolith: it is complex, diverse and argumentative.
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Multinationals are beginning to take ideas developed in (and for) the emerging world and deploy them in the West.
The encounter, in Stormont on the outskirts of Belfast, confirms Ireland's ascent in the sport and also provides big-game preparation for their World Cup debut in the West Indies.
Countries in the West and the Arab world are supporting the Syrian opposition and want al-Assad to step aside.
QUIST-ARCTON: And of course, Timbuktu as another of the great wonders of the world being in West Africa, my region.
The most memorable treble must be Sir Geoff Hurst's for England against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final at Wembley.
Maj Philip Malins, from Solihull in the West Midlands was held by the Japanese in Burma during World War II.
In his telling, there was a conspiracy by the West and its puppet allies in the Muslim world to destroy true Islam, a conspiracy led by the United States.
Even in Niger, West Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world, my Nigerien friends regularly send me emails from their smart phones.
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"Islamic bankers should do some missionary work in the Western world to promote the concept of Shariah banking, for which many in the West are more than ready now, " Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the World Islamic Economic Forum last month in Jakarta.
Robin Lock is curator of the Eden project, a recreation of a rainforest in the West of England and has worked in rain forests around the world.
Their elevated importance in a globalizing world has drawn commentators in both the East and West to predict that the 21st Century will ultimately become the Asian Century.
Whereas business institutions in the Islamic world remained atomised, the West developed ever more resilient corporations limited liability became widely available in the mid-19th century as well as a penumbra of technologies such as double-entry book-keeping and stockmarkets.
That public system supported largely by the state and the state university systems, not so much in the North East, mostly in the Midwest and the West, flourished, grew dramatically in the post-World War II era.
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Never again will west European workers live in a world with so little competition.
Tait took 23 wickets during the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies at an average of 20.30.
This latest off-field trouble comes just months after England courted controversy at the World Cup in the West Indies in March.
Scotland's cricketers took part in the World Cup in the West Indies as well as in the inaugural Twenty20 tournament in South Africa.
From 1950 until the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, the national team won 42 games, drew seven and lost just once --- in the World Cup final against West Germany.
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