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hafiz

In Islam, a title for those who have memorized the whole of the Koran (or Qur'an). There are thousands of Muslims worldwide who have achieved this spiritual quest. The significance of such an achievement is heightened when it is realized that for many who are granted the title hafiz, Arabic, the language of the Koran, is not their first language. These people are regarded highly by the Muslim community and are awarded certain privileges. For example in Saudi Arabia, those called hafiz can have their sentence reduced if convicted of a crime.



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She now spends holidays "caught somewhere between Abdel Halim Hafez and Luis Miguel," she said, adding "Latino-Arab" to her already-hyphenated experience.
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Mitchell never misses a chance to testify her fearlessness, never more so than when she confronted the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad while in Damascus as part of the press corps covering Clinton's efforts to broker a peace deal between Syria and Israel.
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Hama Rules," the name he gave to the mind-set behind then-Syrian President Hafez al-Assad's February 1982 massacre of more than 10,000 Sunnis in the town of Hama, became his shorthand for all tribal displays of retributive authoritarian brutality, whether in Iraq, Lebanon, or Yemen.
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