Word: ajami
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...Fouad Ajami. Director of Middle East studies, Johns Hopkins University...
Would Nur Yalman, professor of social anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, please explain his use of the word "pansy" in the April 24 Crimson news article, "Arab Scholar Ajami Negotiating Tenure"? The professor was quoted as saying, "He is a man of strong opinions. He is not a pansy on criticizing the Arabs...
...demise of the Pan-Arab dream evident in these surveys is hardly a recent phenomenon. According to Professor Fouad Ajami, the victory of the more "local" Ibn Saud over the "pan-Arab" Shariff Hussein half a century ago may be regarded as the first victory of the state over transnationalism. Dr. Ajami and other experts on the region have interpreted the chronic instability of Lebanon as yet another manifestation of the erosion of Pan-Arabism...
...response to emotions of anger and resentment," said Dwight Eisenhower, who regularly counseled the courage of patience. But if war begins, anger and resentment is what it will have come down to. "It is about power and commitment," says Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University. "On both sides, the greatest fear is being seen to be a wimp." The best analogy is perhaps literary. In "Shooting an Elephant," George Orwell's colonial functionary kills a rogue elephant because those watching him expect it. "It is the condition of ((the white man's)) rule," Orwell...
...calculate that "he will survive and will have won for having stood up to the U.S." -- a political victory like Nasser's in & 1967. This last, apparently quite real, possibility confirms a Bedouin proverb: "A jackal is a lion in his own neighborhood." It is "increasingly obvious," says Ajami, that "Saddam sees himself as the avenger of the Arab nation, history's instrument to redress the slights visited on Arabs for milleniums...