It was not until January that Sheikh Muhammad summoned Dubai's top businessmen and ministers to take stock and plan a recovery.
But the democratic dynamic of balancing interests (including those of ambitious Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla) remains top of mind, along with battling the constant specter of corruption.
Even more troubling for Israel, Field-Marshal Muhammad Tantawi, Egypt's top man for the time being, and others in Egypt's interim military government were unavailable to take calls from Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, until Barack Obama intervened directly with them.
Two top-secret August 1994 letters written by Muhammad Zahadi Nashashibi, the Palestinian Authority's finance minister, and that have now come to light, are illustrative of the problem.
After a screening, Mr. Roach said he was surprised to see how much his hands shook from his Parkinson's, a condition likely caused by punishment he sustained as a fighter. (Muhammad Ali suffers from it.) He may be the top boxing trainer in the world now.
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Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad, who became emir in 2006, has exercised his privilege of giving family members top cabinet posts, repeatedly choosing his nephew, Sheikh Nasser Muhammad, as prime minister.
Mr Fayyad's security forces seem determined not to allow Muhammad Dahlan, a powerful former Fatah security chief who has long wanted the top job, to impose himself at the expense either of Mr Abbas or Mr Fayyad.
Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy for NATO's top job because he was Denmark's prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.
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Muhammad Miro, made prime minister a month ago, is the first from outside the top ranks of the ruling party.
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