Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs.

Greeks, Syrians, and Jews continued to live as they had before, subject to their own laws and courts, with their former Muslim overlords simply replaced by the crusaders ; Muslims now joined them at the lowest level of society.

Eventually the Syrians brought most of the nation under their control, as part of a power-struggle with Israel, which occupied areas of southern Lebanon in 1978.

They may have persuaded the Syrians that Israel didn't dare attack Soviet-protected Syria but could attack US-backed Jordan with impunity.

On 6 January 1920 Prince Faisal initialed an agreement with French Prime Minister Clemenceau which acknowledged " the right of the Syrians to unite to govern themselves as an independent nation ".

Besides Poles, the west side of the river was also settled with a sizable community of Italian immigrants as well as Czechoslovakians, Ukrainians, Syrians, and other mostly Eastern European nationalities.

The French insisted the Mandate was not ' inconsistent ' with Syrian self-government ; Syrians were eventually forced to accept the inevitability of the French Mandate, when King Faisal left the country under French pressure in July 1920 after Great Britain withdrew support for his rule in the face of French claims.

One, beautifully carved, showed Amenophis III in battle with Nubians and Syrians ; the other, of black granite, was over ten feet high, larger than any stela previously known ; the original text commemorated the building achievements of Amenophis and described the beauties and magnificence of the temple in which it had stood.

As the community grew and immigration by East Syrians increased, the connection with the Church of the East, centred in the Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, strengthened.

On 6 January 1920 Faisal initialed an agreement with Clemenceau which acknowledged ' the right of Syrians to unite to govern themselves as an independent nation '.

His was the only remaining tank force, equipped with 36 Israeli modified Centurion tanks to fight the Syrians for 3 continuous days, until enforcements and reserves were moved into positions.

At the outset of hostilities, the Israeli Navy set out to destroy the naval capabilities of the Syrians, who were equipped with Soviet Komar and Osa class missile boats.

The mother, who in the past sought the ministry's aid in finding her son yet was only accorded limited cooperation, requested that the government seriously broach the matter with the Syrians via an intermediary.

In the 3rd century, Syrians even reached for imperial power, with the Severan dynasty.

There had already been a less formally instituted cardinal committee concerned with propaganda fide since the time of Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 1585 ), who were especially charged with promoting the union with Rome of the long-established eastern Christian communities: Slavs, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, and Abyssinians.

Furthermore, Judas Machabeus, preparing for war with the Syrians, gathered his men " to Maspha, over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel ".

This came after the alliance between the Phalanges and most Christian groups with the Syrians had taken a twist.

Judas did not defer to his usual guerrilla tactics because he felt that his past success with them was cause for the Syrians to expect a non-traditional defense.

As a precursor to this, Alexander the Great had tried to " mingle " his Macedonians and other Greeks with the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

He also faced numerous internal conflicts with Egyptians, Wahabbis, Serbians, Albanians, Greeks and Syrians, and had administrative problems from rebellious pashas, who would fain have founded new kingdoms on the ruins of the House of Osman.

He tried to regain some of his influence in political circles, but by that time, the People ’ s Party had fallen from grace, and few Syrians advocated union with Iraq.

Aside from strikes and demonstrations in favor of the Palestinians, Syrians smuggled arms into Palestine and led several successful guerrilla groups.

He personally led demonstrations, and claimed that al-Quwatli, a landowner, was a corrupt and capitalistic politician, who was to blame for the Syrians army's defeat.

Since the commission had a very " maximalist " view of Syriawhat would today encompass Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and the Gaza Stripit pointed out that a majority of Syrians were against the formation of a Jewish state.

Nasser was not able to address problems in Syria completely, because they were new to him, and instead of appointing Syrians to run Syria, he assigned this position to Amer.

All three churches had common origins in terms of membership, where the majority of adherents was a mix of Greeks and Hellenized Jews and Syrians from Antioch and the rest of Syria who adopted the new faith.

Wellhausen denied both the historicity and the value of the narrative, although he thinks that the portion dealing with the period of Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV may be trustworthy, and he regards the suicide of Hyrcanus as probable, since the latter supported the Ptolemies against the new régime of the Syrians, and might consequently fear the revenge of Antiochus IV.

Bryza faced opposition in the Armenian-American community due to his unusually close ties to the Azerbaijan government, Ford was blocked by senators because of concerns that restoring an envoy to Damascus would be seen by Syrians as a reward for supporting terrorism and Eisen was seen as a longtime critic of Republicans.

Scarcely a year from the signing of the Convention of Kutaya the application by Ibrahim of Egyptian methods of government, notably of the monopolies and conscription, had driven Syrians, Druze and Arabs, who had welcomed him as a deliverer, into revolt.

1989 saw the Guardians once more fighting the Syrians alongside the Lebanese Army in support of the Lebanese government of General Michel Aoun.

State Department officials like the arrangement because it insulates the U. S. government from any torture the Syrians may be applying to Zammar.

His arrest was based on information sent to the Syrians by the Canadian government.

The Atassi forum was shut down after a member had read a statement from the banned Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist organization which had rebelled against the government of Hafiz al-Assad in the early 1980s by murdering thousands of government officials and civilians, which culminated in the Hama Massacre, a dark time in Syrians ' memories.

At first relations between the Seleucids and the Jews were cordial, but the attempt of Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( 174 – 163 ) to impose Hellenic culture sparked a national rebellion, which ended in the expulsion of the Syrians and the establishment of an independent Jewish kingdom under the Hasmonean dynasty.

The mainly Arab Syrians were marginalized by Iranian and Turkish forces who rose to power under the Abbasids, a movement which also expressed itself on a cultural level.

According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10, 000 foot dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4, 000 men were taken prisoner.

So he convened a Synod at Mavelikkara in 1836, in which the Synod declared that, “ We, the Jacobite Syrians are under the rule of the Patriarch of Antioch .” But it is historically untenable to assert that the Malankara Church had always been under the Patriarch of Antioch.

Lebanese Forces ‘ Commando ’ troops under the command of Bashir Gemayel and the Tigers Militia led by Dany Chamoun were drawn into the action against the Syrians.

His election as president is thought to be under pressure from the Syrians.

The verse occurs when Judah is under threat from the Syrians.

Civil war erupts between the Syrians and the Iberian Muslims, the latter being supported by a contingent of African Muslims under Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib.

* 771-Syrians under Abd al-Ghaffar rebel against Abd ar-Rahman I, but the latter defeats the Syrians on the river Bembezar in 774.

After the Syrian military withdrew from East Beirut in August 1982, the Palestine Liberation Army was dispatched to the Green Line under the command of the Syrians.