Sentence examples for mazen from inspiring English sources

"If Abu Mazen [Mr Abbas] agrees to anything without the right of return for all refugees, then there will be an intifada of the refugees," says Shami Shami, a Fatah member of parliament from the Jenin refugee camp.Talk of the "right of return" sets alarms ringing in Israel: if all the refugees returned, Israel would be swamped and Jews would no longer be a majority.

In Syria Mazen Darwish, who headed the Centre for Freedom of Expression, is just one of 12 journalists in Mr Assad's jails; others have their work stymied by rebel militias.

Family feud All still to play for Sheikh-up Pouring trouble on oily waters Reprints Related items Palestine: Primary concernsDec 1st 2005A lot of the blame can be put on the PA's president and Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).

Some people, such as Martin Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel, think it is trying to disrupt the ceasefire under the orders, and with the material backing, of Iran.Whatever the cause, the bombing has once more put the leadership of Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, and his Palestinian counterpart, President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), to the test.

But, he said, in a surprising show of bravado, "I don't care what Fatah or Abu Mazen says in this regard: if Hamas kills someone from Fatah, I will confront them".

Mr Arafat remains the Palestinians' increasingly nominal president, but in Abu Mazen the Palestinians have chosen a prime minister who has freely declared that the intifada of suicide bombings that followed Camp David was disastrous to their own cause.

Green, 59, who is understood to have spent several years recently in the far east, has said he is backed by a consortium of investors which includes Jude Allen, described as an Indonesian hotel designer, Mazen Houssami, a lawyer from the Middle East, "offshore trusts" and a Singapore family trust.

FOR "defaming and insulting the administrative bodies of the state", the president of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, Mazen Darwish, was recently sentenced to a salutary ten days in jail.

Whereas Mr Abbas wants to keep Salam Fayyad, a former IMF man admired by Western governments for revamping Palestinian finances during his four years in the job, Hamas suggests replacing him with Mazen Sinokrot, a Jerusalem businessman and wheeler-dealer.

Clashes non-stop in #Daih where kid killed – protesters try to march and police tear-gas #Bahrain http://t.co/AlXfnFvK — Mazen Mahdi (@MazenMahdi) 14 Feb 13 Video posted online by activists later on Thursday showed the street fighting between rock-throwing protesters and officers who fired tear gas, shotgun pellets and stun grenades.

Since the Palestinian uprising began 31 months ago, more than 2,000 Palestinians and over 700 Israelis have died.Mr Sharon said in a series of television interviews that he is willing to meet Mr Abbas (better known as Abu Mazen), whom he considered to be a "partner" in ending violence.