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Playing With Fire

Nasser Hussain

us off to a flyer and then I would come in and finish the job off, along with people like Ronnie Irani and Robert Rollins, our young wicketkeeper who, but for injury, would have achieved more in the game. In 1997 we played very well in reaching ...

Nasser: a political biography

Robert Henry Stephens

This uncle of Nasser's, Taha Hussein, a gentle, handsome man, probably younger than was Nasser himself, still ... and coal merchant, Mohammed Hammad, originally from Mellawi in the Upper Egyptian province of Miniah, and a family friend.

Nasser: The Last Arab

Said K. Aburish

Any sense of completely secular Arab states ended with him and what we see today happening in the Middle East is a direct result of Western opposition to Nasser's strategies and ideals. Nasser is a fascinating figure fraught with dilemmas.

Wisden Cricketers of the Year: A Celebration of Cricket's ...

Simon Wilde

Matthew Hayden was another chosen for his Nasser Hussain: global impact – and what an impact it had been “England have not had such an ardent captain since Douglas Jardine, another cricketer whose obsessiveness was not in the two ...

Britain, Nasser and the Balance of Power in the Middle East, ...

Robert McNamara

Robert Komer, special assistant at the US National Security Council, had now moved to a firmly pro-Nasser policy Frank Brenchley warned in November 1963 that the Kennedy administration 'was almost as committed as Nasser to the ...

Nasser

Anne Alexander

This biography explores Nasser's life in the context of his turbulent times.

Running on Empty in Central America?: Canadian, Mexican, and ...

A. Imtiaz Hussain

Why? In this new work, author A. Imtiaz Hussain questions if it was in fact HOW they negotiated their case that precipitated their success or failure.

Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy

L. James

There are suggestions that the French Secret Service made an attempt on Nasser's life in 1954, and Paris was known to be deeply opposed to Cairo, seeing Egyptian support for the Algerian rebels as a principal cause of the ongoing battles in ...

The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square

Steven A. Cook

This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the putative leader of the Arab world and a beacon for all developing nations.

Indigenous Groups, Globalization, and Mexico's Plan Puebla ...

Martina Helmig

Martina Helmig, A. Imtiaz Hussain. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hussain, Imtiaz. Indigenous groups, globalization, and Mexico's plan puebla Panama : marriage or miscarriage? / Imtiaz Hussain. p. cm. Includes ...

Ber and Other Jujubes

S. Azam-Ali

Hussain, F., Ahmed, M., Durani, M. J. and Shaheen, G. (1993) Phytosociology of the vanishing tropical dry deciduous forests in district Swabi, Pakistan. I. A community analysis. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 25(1): 51-66. Hussain, F., Ahmed, M., ...

A Revolutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958

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ling Ba'ath Party to use and appeal to Nasser's Egypt as what Malik Mufti has termed a species of "defensive union" designed primarily to bolster their own power base in Damascus.1 That this plan was immediately aborted by Nasser and the ...

Liver MRI: Correlation with Other Imaging Modalities and ...

Shahid M. Hussain

In this second edition of this well-received book on MRI of the liver, Shahid Hussain has evolved all aspects of this work. The text is greatly expanded, including description of up-to-date sequences; many more figures are included; and he has ...

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

Winston H. Yu

... Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands Hussain, S. G. (1995) ' Decision support system for assessing rice ... Z., Ahmed, M., Hussain, S.G. and Rashid, Kh. B. (1994) 'Impact of climate change on the production of modern rice in ...

Real-time Imaging

Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Nasser Kehtarnavaz. Conference Committee Symposium Chairs Giordano B. Beretta, Hewlett-Packard Company (USA) Robert L Stevenson, University of Notre Dame (USA) Symposium Organizing Committee John D. Meyer, Hewlett- Packard ...

Anywhere-Anytime Signals and Systems Laboratory: From MATLAB ...

Nasser Kehtarnavaz

From MATLAB to Smartphones Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Fatemeh Saki. Synthesis Lectures on Signal Processing Editor José Moura, Carnegie Mellon University Synthesis Lectures in Signal Processing publishes 80- to 150-page books on topics ...

Economic Aid and American Policy toward Egypt, 1955-1981

William J. Burns

William Fulbright to author. See also Finer, p. 49. “2 Nasser to Eisenhower, 6 February 1956. Eisenhower Library, Ann Whitman File, International Series, Box 8. 1'3 Eisenhower to Nasser, 27 February 1956. Eisenhower Library, Ann Whitman ...