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  • …King Abdullah gave women back their dignity which was killed decades ago, said Manal al-Sharif, a female computer technician who was detained in May for posting a video on YouTube of herself driving.

    Saudi King Gives Women the Right to Vote Summer Said 2011

  • Or look at the horizontal developments of the Temple Mount—"Har HaBayit" in Hebrew, "Haram al-Sharif" in Arabic, and the Biblical Mount Moriah.

    The City With the Big Ego Paul Levy 2011

  • Their comrade's unorthodox humor had evoked memories of Afghanistan, of the Kabul Improv and Shecky al-Sharif.

    David Macaray: Double Agents David Macaray 2011

  • Similarly, no Arab leader would compromise on Jerusalem because of the religious convictions tied to the third holiest shrines of Islam in Jerusalem, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock on the Haram al-Sharif.

    Alon Ben-Meir: Root Causes Behind the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse Alon Ben-Meir 2011

  • Their comrade's unorthodox humor had evoked memories of Afghanistan, of the Kabul Improv and Shecky al-Sharif.

    David Macaray: Double Agents David Macaray 2011

  • More doubt about al-Qaeda was planted in the Muslim world when Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, an important ideological influence on al-Qaeda, withdrew his support for the terrorist organization in a 2007 book written from his prison cell in Cairo.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In this way, it is consistent with the core al-Qaeda leadership's growing interest in avoiding Muslim casualties, an objective that has come largely at the behest of respected jihadist dissenters such as the Egyptian cleric Sayyid Imam al-Sharif (also known as Dr. Fadl).

    Al-Qaeda's new strategy: Less apocalypse, more street fighting Steven Simon 2010

  • GARYAN, Libya Reuters - Standing in the main square of the Libyan town of Garyan where his brother was killed by a sniper days before rebels arrived, Muammar al-Sharif vows he will not let Muammar Gaddafi's forces take the town back.

    South of Tripoli, town celebrates rebel arrival Reuters 2011

  • More doubt about al-Qaeda was planted in the Muslim world when Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, an important ideological influence on al-Qaeda, withdrew his support for the terrorist organization in a 2007 book written from his prison cell in Cairo.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Gadhafi made a rare, brief appearance on Libyan state television late Thursday, meeting with Mohammed al-Sharif, who had led the delegation to Moscow.

    Libya Offers Conditional Withdrawal Richard Boudreaux 2011

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