Rosetta is the anglicised name for the city of Rashid, a port city on the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt, located 65 km east of Alexandria. With the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in the 16th century, Rosetta boomed, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival. During the 19th century it was a British tourist destination, known for its charming Ottoman mansions, citrus groves and cleanliness.
It is famous as the site where the Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers in 1799.
Rashid shows how religion, ethnic factionalism and outside meddling combined in Afghanistan to produce a brutal sequel to the anti-Soviet war of the 1980's, bringing to power in the process the backward-looking, anti-female,drug-trading,terrorism-supporting, massacre-prone Taliban. The broader story here is powerful.
Rashid calls "the rootless and the restless, the jobless and the economically deprived with little self-knowledge." Eight of the Taliban's cabinet-level officials are from a single such madrassa, Haqqania, a "sprawling collection of buildings on the main Islamabad-Peshawar highway." Its leader, Samiul Haq, Mr.
Rashid says, is close to the Taliban's reclusive top official, known as Mullah Omar. In 1997, after the Taliban was defeated in a campaign to seize the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Mr.
Rashid is six feet four inches tall, and he was dressed in the white suit that he often wears on public occasions.
Nonetheless, Rashid has designed more than eight hundred things since 1993, and he has fifty projects going at the moment, everything from cosmetics to an "absolutely fantastic" project he was working on for a Swiss company called Golay--a line of jewelry with cultured pearls, which would rescue the pearl from the neck of the dÈbutante.
Rashid's recent experience with Ronson, a once proud British manufacturer of premium lighters, is a good example of the kind of treatment product designers receive from their clients.
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