<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Nora Boustany</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/columns/diplomaticdispatches?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><description>Nora Boustany</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Formerly Bitter Enemies Become Promoters of Peace]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8062-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8062-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  No formal truth commissions were set up in Lebanon to help Muslims and Christians overcome the religious phobias and feelings of vengeance that ripped the country apart for 17 years.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain Keeps a Vigilant Eye on Al Qaeda Threat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2944-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2944-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Although 75 members of al Qaeda have been arrested in Spain, the terrorist group's efforts to recruit followers among Muslim residents of that country remains a threat, Spanish Foreign Minister    Miguel Moratinos  told Washington Post reporters and editors last week.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the End of a Long, Turbulent Life, 'a Permanent Spring']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55057-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55057-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When history is harsh, it can break a man or build his character. But if he lives long enough, sometimes he is vindicated, and a subtle yet sublime victory is claimed.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking Stock of Mideast Opportunities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48199-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48199-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Former Israeli security chief    Ami Ayalon , visiting Washington this week, said  that he was heartened by the Bush administration's recent engagement in the Middle East and that he hoped to make Americans more aware that  support for a peace agreement was  building among Israelis as well as Palestinians.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine's U.S.-Born First Lady Shares Husband's Triumph]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35883-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35883-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wearing a suit adorned with a bright orange brooch, the color of the Ukrainian revolution, first lady    Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko  said Wednesday the protests that erupted in Kiev last fall could have turned into a bloodbath.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iranian Americans Celebrate Heritage and Humanity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17011-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17011-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Iranian American Technical Council, a group created last year to help preserve Persian culture and to celebrate the accomplishments of Iranian Americans, hosted its second annual spring gala in Washington last Friday on Nowruz, the Persian New Year.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Horrors of Prison, Constant Kisses and Hugs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11427-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11427-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the first days,    Rebiya Kadeer  could not get enough of her children. She woke them up to talk to them and hugged them to make up for lost time.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking Free]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64631-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64631-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Her poetry is her fuel.<br>It has carried her across boundaries assumed non-traversable: book signings and readings in mixed company at home in Saudi Arabia and abroad; the first publication in the United States of a collection of poems by a Saudi woman; uncontested exposure in the Saudi and...]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lesson for Mideast Pundits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58520-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58520-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   When a group of scholars, researchers and journalists met last December at a spot on the Dead Sea in Jordan to discuss the Middle East, they diagnosed why the region's many authoritarian governments faced so little popular resistance: deficient demand for democracy.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching Unity in Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45543-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45543-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Without intervention from its neighbors, Lebanon could thrive in peace as a united nation, said    Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir , the spiritual leader of Lebanon's Maronite Catholic community.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Elegant Evening May Signal a More Social Second Term]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38662-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38662-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When    Jim Nicholson  was ambassador to the Holy See last year, he had a memorable conversation with a Polish archbishop, introduced to him as "Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints." Intrigued, Nicholson asked: "So what do you do?"]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking Back on the Lessons of Crises]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18655-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18655-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sadako Ogata , a quiet scholar of diplomatic history and political science, found herself plunged into horrific humanitarian crises from the Balkans to Iraq to Somalia when she was plucked from academia in Tokyo in early 1991 to become the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Egyptian Activist's Long Struggle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5782-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5782-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   S   aad Eddin Ibrahim , one of Egypt's most prominent activists and human rights crusaders, acknowledges that the Bush administration has had an effect on the talk of democracy in Arab countries.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stumbling Blocks and a Move to Help Ethiopia's Young Democracy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64448-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64448-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  As democratic currents flow through the nearby Middle East, Ethiopia is trying to overcome its own hurdles as a nascent democracy.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political Killing In Bangladesh Spurs Daughter's Activism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51964-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51964-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Hundreds of people had gathered in an auditorium last month to hear Shah    A.M.S. Kibria , a member of Bangladesh's Parliament and a leading opposition political figure, speak at a rally in his home district of Habiganj.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons Learned From the Outside]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45333-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45333-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   After 4 1/2 years here, Canadian Ambassador    Michael Frederick Kergin  said his most illuminating lessons came on trips outside the Beltway.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lebanon's Sorrow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37114-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37114-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  From his first year as Lebanon's prime minister, Rafiq Hariri knew he was a hunted man.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Doctor Whose Mission Is Peace and Prizes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33679-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33679-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When    Ole Danbolt Mjoes , a professor of medicine who specializes in the heart, is not in a lecture auditorium or his lab, he devotes his time to the topic of peace, his "other interest," as he calls it.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annan's New Top Aide Defines His Ambitions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27675-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27675-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   M   ark Malloch Brown , former director of the U.N. Development Program, has taken over as chief of staff for Secretary General    Kofi Annan  at a moment of crisis.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Former Rebel's Search for Sudanese Identity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15683-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15683-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_world/columns/diplomaticdispatches</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The year was 1974, and a young Sudanese army officer from the southern part of the country and his superior, a major from the north, had come to the United States with hundreds of other people from around the world for military training at Fort Benning, Ga. .]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item></channel></rss>
