“... in Stokely Carmichael’s words, ‘a trick of the oppressor’ to keep down the black man. Hassan Jeru-Ahmed, a community activist and former heroin addict, criticised methadone programmes as ‘substituting one addiction for another’, and railed against drug dealers as ‘black-face traitors of our people who sell ...”

“... their share of the opening that ensued. In 1969, the then Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brothers, Hassan al-Hodeibi, while in prison published Du’ah, la Qudah (Missionaries, Not Judges), a text which dissociated the Brothers from the radical doctrines of Sayyid Qutb, in particular his condemnation of the Free ...”

“... himself, well, that’s what immigrants did in the New World. The Egyptian literary theorist Ihab Hassan had shed his Arab identity when he moved to the US, and had never looked back.But something in Said rebelled against the concealment and silence that the loss of Palestine had imposed, and that his father, William ...”

“... American and Nato objections and co-ordinating Syria policy with Putin and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, at a summit in Ankara to which Washington was not invited. Erdoğan has suggested that Turkey should consider joining the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation – a regional security bloc comprised of ...”

“... Gaddafi’s desperation is evident in the short-lived treaty he signed with Morocco’s King Hassan in 1984. It was his last attempt to fit in with fellow North African and Arab states. Instead, he looked to sub-Saharan Africa, where the Jamahiriyya could play the benevolent patron. All the states of North Africa have ...”

“... and together they urged Morocco to send in troops. An expedition, assembled at the double by King Hassan II, drove the rebels from Zaire. Carter committed $15 million in non-lethal aid to Mobutu and his human rights platform promptly sank without trace. Washington nonetheless had it on good evidence that Cuba played no part ...”