* Amin A Massey D and Thrift N ( 2000 ) Cities for All the People Not the Few.

* Amin A Massey D and Thrift N ( 2003 ) Decentring the Nation.

Between 27 and 30 September 1999, seven activists, including Keadilan leaders ; Vice-President Tian Chua, N. Gobalakrishnan, Youth leader Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor, Mohamed Azmin Ali, Fairus Izuddin and Dr Badrul Amin Baharun ; were arrested and as a result prevented from contesting in the elections.

More recently, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has written an opera about Rudel called L ' amour de loin, with a libretto by Amin Maalouf, which was given its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival in 2000 and its US premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 2002.

* The first of these bridges, connecting Tem on the Tajik side with Demogan on the Afghan side, was inaugurated by Tajikistan ’ s President Emomali Rahmonov, Afghanistan ’ s Vice-President Hedayat Amin Arsala and His Highness the Aga Khan in November, 2002.

* Mondialisation des Résistances ( with Samir Amin ), Paris, L ' Harmattan, 2002

* 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician ( d. 1979 )

* 1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist ( d. 1996 )

* 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

This decision was followed by a failed Parchamite coup, which in turn led Hafizullah Amin, a Khalqist, to initiate a purge against the Parchamites.

Karmal would remain in exile until December 1979, when the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan ( with the consent of the Afghan government ) to stabilise the situation in the country, they killed Amin, the leader of the PDPA and the Afghan government.

Amin Maalouf also alleges further cannibalism incidents on the march to Jerusalem, and to the efforts made to delete mention of these from western history.

In the 1970s the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was reputed to practice cannibalism.

The departure of Uganda's President Milton Obote to the 1971 CHOGM allowed Idi Amin to overthrow Obote's government.

* 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

* Mohammad Amin Al-Midani: La question des minorités et le statut des non-musulmans en Islam.

From 1947 until 1954, the East Bengal was an independent administrative unit which was governed by the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin.

During this time, the 1954 elections were held which saw the complete defeat of Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin by the nexus of Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party allying with the Awami League.

* 1966 – In Syria, Baath party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.

* 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

Uganda's Idi Amin was one of several who named themselves President for Life.

Islamic texts refer to several levels of heaven: Firdaus or Paradise, ' Adn, Na ' iim, Na ' wa, Darussalaam, Daarul Muaqaamah, Al-Muqqamul, Amin & Khuldi.

In 1967, the PDPA split into two major rival factions: the Khalq ( Masses ) was headed by Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin who were supported by elements within the military, and the Parcham ( Banner ) led by Babrak Karmal.

Nonetheless, Hafizullah Amin and a number of military wing officers of the PDPA's Khalq faction managed to remain at large and organize a military coup.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

In March 1979, Hafizullah Amin took over as prime minister, retaining the position of field marshal and becoming vice-president of the Supreme Defence Council.

On 14 September, Amin overthrew Taraki, who was killed.

Amin stated that " the Afghans recognize only crude force.

" Afghanistan expert Amin Saikal writes: " As his powers grew, so apparently did his gravings for personal dictatorship ... and his vision of the revolutionary process based on terror.

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; Thrift, N. ( 1980 ) Times, Spaces and Places – A Chronogeographic Perspective.

John N. Ballard, a Confederate cavalryman during the Civil War who lost a leg serving under John S. Mosby, ended up owning much of the Ox Hill battlefield in the 1870s after marrying the heiress ( Mary Reid Thrift ).

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* Kitchin R & Thrift N Co-editors of The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Oxford and Boston: Elsevier Publishing

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