King Faisal is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
On the border between two languages
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Ten years ago, when Dr. David Sagiv began preparing the Arabic-Hebrew – Hebrew-Arabic dictionary he recently completed, he was more optimistic than he is today. At that time, he and his wife, Marcelle, would go every year to Cairo, where he had established contact with some of the most important intellectuals in Egypt.
The Saudi succession solution
It is ironic, but how the succession to power is determined in Saudi Arabia is becoming more transparent and institutionalized while it is becoming less so in various Arab republics.
Life after Terror: An interview with Frank Gardner
In June 2004 two BBC journalists were attacked by Al Qaeda extremists in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Experienced Middle East correspondent Frank Gardner was shot and left for dead.
Iraqis burn books to protest culture-killing curfew
Several of Iraq's leading booksellers and writers burned a pyre of books Friday to denounce a curfew that they said has turned the center of Baghdad's intellectual life into "a street of ghosts."
Egypt ferry tragedy still shrouded in mystery
Saudi coast guards rescued on Saturday 22 people who were on board the Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea, the head of Duba port, from where the boat sailed on Thursday, said.
Search ends after 76 die in Mecca hostel collapse
Saudi authorities have given up the hunt for survivors from the collapse of a hostel in the holy city of Mecca that killed 76 people, the latest tragedy to strike the Muslim Hajj or pilgrimage.
Iraqi women rotting away in former royal palace
Dozens of women are rotting away, imprisoned in a former royal palace without trial or sentence, penned up in cramped cells over charges of murder, kidnap and the new Iraq nasty: terrorism.
Analysis: Lawrence rides again
Lawrence of Arabia died 70 years ago in a freak motorcycle accident on an almost deserted road. A commemorative exhibition currently at the Imperial War Museum in London offers a mélange of his exploits in the Middle East, their stirring - if not a
Viewpoint: The oil tsunami
The global oil market environment is becoming a target of opportunity for terrorists and world powers. The terrorists increasingly see disruptions of oil facilities as a valid strategy in their war against governments that they oppose.
