Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas." In one year he tore up 15,000 rails, blew up 25 Turkish trains, 57 bridges and culverts. When the Arabs took their goal...
Elogio de Silves (A Eulogy of Silves), written by one Al-Motamid, an 11th Century Arab roue who lived in Seville. For Spaniards the piece parallels "Frankie & Johnnie." Further, Father Parsons learned that after the poem's recital the narrator sniggered coarsely, exclaimed: "But why go on? You know what happened...
...Antonius registers particularly three grievances. One concerns the denial of self-government institutions. As a matter of fact, country-wide elections for a Legislative Council were held by the administration as early as 1923, but the Arab population abstained from voting, demanding an open repudiation by Great Britain of its obligations concerning the Jewish national home. That far even the British administration, despite its anti-Zionist attitude, was not prepared...
...last grievance is to the effect that Jewish immigration has brought about poverty and unemployment among the Arabs. Coming from a man who had personal experience of Palestine, this grievance is hard to understand: it is, indeed, notorious that standard of life, wages, conditions of labor among the Palestinian Arabs have increased increased enormously owing to the Jewish influx and example, while they have remained almost stationary in the other countries of the Near East. Even unemployment among the Arabs (largely existing in the villages and antedating the Jewish immigration) has, if anything, shown a tendency to decrease...
...writer realizes that, being an Arab, Mr. Antonius may be expected to present that case for the Arab opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine with a certain amount of justifiable bias. He hopes however, that the enlightened public opinion of the world at large, which shows so much sympathy toward the efforts of the Arab people to organize its life in politically free communities in the enormous areas of Arabia, Egypt, Irak, and Syria, and to progress there economically and culturally, will show an equal sympathy toward the efforts of the Jewish people to attain an analogous development in Palestine...