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• Who will captain the Palestinian ship?

  Published: July 17, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Palestine, Dr Salim Nazzal, Israel

  Dr Salim NazzalPerhaps never before in contemporary Palestinian history has the Palestinian ship been as badly captained as it is being at present and has been in recent times. This has led many Palestinians to believe that the real crisis in Palestine is primarily one of leadership.The inter-Palestinian conflict, however, is not new to

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• ‘Aaja Nachle’ Music Review

  Published: October 30, 2007, 4:19 am

  Tags: Bollywood Music, Aaja, Nachle, Rahat, Salim, Vocals, Melodic, Assortment, Piyush

  Music Director: Salim-Suleiman; Singers: Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Richa Sharma, Kailash Kher, Salim Merchant, Sonia Sehgal, Madhuri Dixit; Ratings: **1/2 Everyone is waiting for Madhuri Dixit’s comeback film “Aaja Nacle”. Starring in a movie where music and dance seem to be

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• Rethinking AIDS Strategy After a String of Failures

  Published: November 1, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Rethinking, Aids, Strategy, After, String, Failures, Merck Amp Co Inc, South Africa, Abdool Karim, Durban, Malcolm Potts, National Institutes Of Health, Berkeley, Francois Venter, Glenda Gray, Salim S Abdool, Sub Saharan Africa, Bill Amp Melinda Gates Foundation, Cent

  DURBAN, South Africa -- Few cases of AIDS have been as closely scrutinized as that of a former South African prostitute named Beauty. Scientists know when this 40-year-old woman became infected, how her body responded and what happened as her immune system collapsed.

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• Noted foreign personalities to speak at IAPC meeting in Bali

  Published: November 9, 2007, 2:27 am

  Tags: Denpasar, Malaysia, Agung, Anwar, Bali, Bambang, Conference, Consultants, Datuk, Emil, Fariz, Foreign, Hong Kong, House, Iapc, Indonesia, Laksono, Meeting, Mehdewi, Nusa, Political, Politics, Representatives, Salim, Seri, Speaker, Sulisto, Susilo, Yudhoyono

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• As Assassins Target Somali Journalists, Fear Is a Daily Event

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Assassins, Target, Somali, Journalists, Fear, Daily, Event, Somalia, Ahmed Salah Salim, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, Mogadishu, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Ali Iman Sharmarke, Mohamed Siad Barre, United States, Ak 47 Assault Rifle, Reuters Group Plc, Africa, London, Minneapolis, Nai

  NAIROBI -- Since two of his colleagues were assassinated in September, Said Tahlil has come to speak of his own violent death as a near certainty. Being a journalist in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, he has made his peace with God and locked himself up in his offices at Horn Afriq radio station,...

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• Yahoo Brickhouse exec in the doghouse [Silicon Valley Tool]

  Published: November 14, 2007, 3:36 pm

  Tags: Bradley Horowitz, Brickhouse, Feature, Salim Ismail, Silicon Valley Tool, Top, Yahoo

  has mastered the art like Salim Ismail, the desperately unpopular VP in charge of Yahoo Brickhouse, the San Francisco incubator charged with inventing the company's future. One Yahoo insider calls him "notoriously slimy," and points to Ismail's recent announcement of Fire Eagle as an example of how Valleywag's latest and lamest Silicon Valley

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• Silicon Valley Tool tries to cozy up to Valleywag [Salim Ismail]

  Published: November 15, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Confabb, Salim Ismail, Silicon Valley Tool, Wantrepreneur, Yahoo, Yahoo Brickhouse

  on Tuesday, I ran into Salim Ismail, the head of Yahoo Brickhouse and our newest Silicon Valley Tool, though he'd yet to get the prize for being one of the Bay Area's most annoying executives when we met. I noticed he had the name of his startup, Confabb, on his nametag instead of Yahoo. When asked why he wasn't representing Yahoo, he

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• Can Salim Ismail locate reality at Yahoo? [Brickhouse]

  Published: November 19, 2007, 6:48 pm

  Tags: Brickhouse, Salim Ismail, Yahoo

  last refuge of a scoundrel. Salim Ismail, the pushy head of Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator in San Francisco and newest Silicon Valley Tool, is still talking up Fire Eagle, an admittedly useful software tool for broadcasting one's location to websites. Never mind that Fire Eagle isn't actually ready, and that Ismail's still omitting any mention of

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• Take this Wikipedia and shove it [Party Report]

  Published: December 4, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Bradley Horowitz, Clips, Creative Commons, Elevation Partners, Feature, Jimmy Wales, Lawrence Lessig, Mark Bodnick, Party Report, Salim Ismail, Top, Wikipedia, Yahoo

  Yahoo Brickhouse head Salim Ismail, our latest Silicon Valley tool, and Yahoo VP Bradley Horowitz took the mike, breaking out "Don't You Want Me," a fitting anthem. (The answer: No.) Later on, I succumbed to the call of the spotlight, bleating out the Johnny Paycheck classic "Take This Job and Shove It," which given the events of last

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• Scott Gatz escapes Yahoo Brickhouse [Rumormonger]

  Published: December 10, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Bradley Horowitz, Brickhouse, Rumormonger, Salim Ismail, Scott Gatz, Top, Yahoo

  gotten sick of working withSalim Ismail, the publicity-hungry Silicon Valley Tool charged with Brickhouse, the sexier part of Horowitz's innovation empire. Either that, or Gatz is just eager to spend more time nerdspotting for Valleywag. Scott, we have an opening for a party correspondent, if you haven't heard.

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• Dickerson draws short straw, takes over for Gatz at Yahoo [Confirmed]

  Published: December 18, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Brickhouse, Chad Dickerson, Confirmed, David Sobeski, Salim Ismail, Scott Gatz, Yahoo

  conference attendee Salim Ismail. And that brings us to our career advice for Dickerson.Next time, throw paper. According to the World RPS society, it's got a 3.73 percent advantage over rock or scissors.

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• Due process at Guantánamo

  Published: December 19, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Boumediene V Bush, Salim Hamdan, Guantanamo, Keith Allred, Binyam Mohamed

  A ruling by the judge in Salim Hamdan’s military commission appears to require entirely new hearings for any prisoners who claim to be POWs. Hamdan had appealed for a POW status hearing under Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention. The ruling by Navy Captain Keith Allred went strongly in his favor. Allred rejects the Congressional

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• Data analysis indicates you should go out tonight [Valleywag Calendar]

  Published: January 16, 2008, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Jeff Hammerbacher, Macworld 2008, Salim Ismail, Valleywag Calendar, Yahoo

  ask Brickhouse manager Salim Ismail about his trouble with the taxman. If that doesn't exhaust you, there are six, count them, six Macworld parties to choose from tonight -- plus Pownce's pre-launch event, if you want to hoist a PBR with Kevin Rose.Got something to add to the calendar? Send it to calendar@valleywag.com.

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• The taxman cometh to Yahoo [Crime]

  Published: January 16, 2008, 9:00 am

  Tags: Brickhouse, Crime, Irs, Salim Ismail, Yahoo

  Salim Ismail's incompetence as a manager may have brought the wrath of the IRS down on Yahoo. One of his employees at Brickhouse, Yahoo's San Francisco incubator, has moved abroad while being classified, for tax purposes, as "working at home." There are a number of steps companies ought to take when employing a U.S. citizen living abroad, but

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• In Tense Kenya, Opposition Elects One of Its Own to Lead Parliament

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tense, Kenya, Opposition, Elects, One, Its, Own, Lead, Parliament, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Salim Lone, Kofi Annan, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenneth Marende, European Union, United Nations, United States

  NAIROBI, Jan. 15 -- Kenya's opposition party, which has accused President Mwai Kibaki of stealing a Dec. 27 election, scored a significant victory Tuesday when its candidate was elected speaker of parliament following a bitter and at times theatrical opening session.

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