sheik
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Al-Hela, a businessman and tribal sheik from Yemen, was first captured in Egypt in 2002 and held overseas before being brought to Guantánamo two years later.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023
The outlet noted that Ferguson has experienced some public hiccups, like the time she was caught promising a News of the World reporter disguised as a sheik access to Andrew in exchange for nearly $700,000.
From Fox News ● Jul. 26, 2021
Ron Kuby, who once represented a blind Egyptian sheik sentenced to life in prison after a 1990s Manhattan terrorism trial, said the lockup houses some of “the highest-security prisoners on earth.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2019
An heiress poses as a man, meets a sheik and faces danger in a 1920s cross-desert car race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
Anne’s sheik was wearing a black-and-orange-striped blazer, gray Oxford bags, a bow tie on an elastic band, and a brown triangular porkpie hat, pinched into a bowsprit at the front.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
By the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
The One and its myriad extravagances are reserved for sheiks and nobles, celebrities and CEOs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
No fewer than nine members of IOC itself are princes, princesses, dukes or sheiks — and that list doesn’t include the multitude of government officials involved in organizations that branch out of the IOC.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2020
No fewer than nine members of IOC itself are princes, princesses, dukes or sheiks - and that list doesn’t include the multitude of government officials involved in organizations that branch out of the IOC.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2020
The Arab sheiks prize falcons,” the librarian continues.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The Middle East and Central Asia - Introductory
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