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...Arabian Night," by Betty Shamieh '96, is both bold and honorable in trying to address the ways in which Arab-American women must negotiate their sexuality within American and Arab-American society. While this difficult and upsetting story is ambitious, the production in the Adams Pool Theater this past weekend faltered because of flat acting, technical problems and heavy-handedness...
...play's plot is complex. Jane (Lucia Brawley '99) and Tarik (Aaron Mathes '98), a young Arab-American couple, return to the house where Jane grew up in order to pack up her remaining belongings before her move to New York, where she is going to be a professional dancer. As soon as Tarik leaves Jane's room, the ghost of Deedee (Melissa Gibson '99), Jane's best friend from high school who died seven years earlier, appears and demands that Jane paint a portrait...
...were required to be good Arab girls and how they also wanted to have fun like American girls. After watching the ways in which Jane's brother Samir (Santiago Tapia '97) and Deedee's boyfriend Nader (Andrew Pitcher '97) treat women, the audience is left with the impression that Arab-American men, with few exceptions, are evil: they only want sex from women and yet demand that all Arab women be virgins at marriage. The younger Tarik is seemingly virtuous, but his occasional sexist, over-bearing outbursts in both the past and present prove he should be guilty by association...
When it emerged that the first serious suspects in the bombing were not Arabs or Muslims, the threat of a backlash subsided. What did not change was the sudden momentum behind passage of an antiterrorism bill bitterly opposed by many Arab-American groups, as well as civil libertarians. On Capitol Hill, where the members of Congress are eager to show that they are doing something to prevent future outrages, the omnibus counterterrorism act of 1995 is now getting serious attention. Proposed by the Clinton Administration in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, it would, among its many provisions...
Senior House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers of Michigan joined Arab-American and civil rights group in attacking the Clinton Administration's tough anti-terrorism bill as unconstitutional.Acting CIA DirectorWilliam Studeman and other Administration officials countered that the legislation is necessary because Americans have become potential targets of international terrorism, such as the 1993World Trade Center bombing. The bill would expand wiretapping authority, ban fundraising by terrorist groups and speed deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism. "Are we going to allow the government to deport aliens convicted of no crime, based on secret information?" asked Conyers. Sponsor Charles Schumer...