"Many people have already donated clothing, food and medicine, " Muhammad Rizieq bin Hussein Shihab said in the video.

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Lebanese judicial sources say Judge Shihab's request constitutes a routine procedure in any lawsuit rather than a formal indictment.

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On April 24, Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab warned that such sparring statements give the impression that Indonesia is unstable.

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Dr. Shihab-Eldin is the former acting secretary-general and director of research at OPEC and an adviser on energy for Kuwait.

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"People are expecting change, and Habibie does not symbolize this, " says Alwi Shihab, a chairman of Gus Dur's National Awakening Party (PKB).

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Sahfe's Shihab al-Din mosque was established as a triumphalist mosque adjacent to the Church of the Annunciation in the lead up to the millennium.

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The request by Judge Abdelrahman Shihab said the singer should be tried for "abasing" Islam and called for a sentence of up to three years in jail.

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"Alwi Shihab may speak English and Arabic very well, " a political analyst says of the urbane new Foreign Minister, a former professor of comparative religion at Harvard.

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and Abby Huntsman are tackling a different but just as urgent problem at HuffPost Live, the question of what TV news will look like in the post-cable era.

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