Sentence examples for bakr from inspiring English sources
He shows me Indian pashminas in bright colours and patterns; hand-crafted Egyptian jewellery boxes with mosaic patterns; lanterns, oil lamps and hand-made wall hangings of elephants from Burma; masks, purses and statues of camels from Vietnam.Like many Asian immigrants, Abu Bakr came to the Emirates to make money to send to his family, who still live in India.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of IS, has recognised pledges of allegiance from groups in Libya and Egypt's Sinai peninsula as well as Boko Haram in Nigeria.
"They swindled us," laments Abou Bakr Jamai, editor-in-chief of Morocco's most irreverent magazine, Le Journal Hebdomadaire: "Mohammed VI had enormous political capital when he began.
Mr Bakr vigorously denies claims that his followers carry out extortion, kidnapping and drug trafficking.
Foreign fighters flocked to Syria to join it.As ISIS's name suggests, the interests of the group and its current leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi go beyond Syria.
This includes the house of Khadijah, the wife of Muhammad, which was demolished to make way for public lavatories, and the house of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's companion, now the site of a Hilton hotel.Ms Alem's series of photographs, called "The Supreme Ka'aba of God", mourn the way Mecca's religious iconography has become dwarfed by a jungle of cranes and high-rise blocks.
He also drove a crane to the main roundabout to yank down the statue of Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam's predecessor as president, who had had his father, a leading imam, executed 30 years ago.His henchmen, taking charge of Topji's 15 schools and two colleges, have ripped the photos of Saddam from all textbooks, and banned a course called wataniya, literally patriotism, but better translated Saddamism.
In the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, Bashir al-Bakr lambasts Western hypocrisy in its dealings with the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes:Democracy: this magic word remains foreign in the Arab world, not because the Arab peoples are not mature enough to receive it, as Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman claimed, but because the West fundamentally does not want democracy for Arabs.
IN TOPJI, a poor area on the edge of Mansour, Baghdad's smartest suburb, a Shia cleric, Bakr Muhammad Basri, has taken control, filling the power vacuum.
By this time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had risen steadily through the group to become a trusted aide to its leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, and his deputy, the Egyptian jihadist Abu Ayub al-Masri.
One of Isis's stated aims is to remove the border between Iraq and Syria, which took shape after the fall of the Ottoman empire, and impose its hardline interpretation of Sunni Islam enforced by a new caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
