Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boylston Hall last night, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Student Council (WCIASC), Harvard Hillel and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) came together to organize a panel discussion on the topic of "The End of War?: A Search for Lasting Middle-Eastern Peace...
Melissa W. Inouye '01, president of WCIASC, began the event with two videos that focused on the Arab-Israeli history...
Miriam B. Goldstein '99, another panelist, said she spent two years in an Arab village...
...argued that recent opposition to the bill comes from nothing but a vocal, tyrannical fringe group that refuses to compromise for the good of the "general public." Never mind that 15 student organizations (and more every day) ranging from ethnic groups like the Chinese Students Association and Society of Arab Students to organizations like the Radcliffe Union of Students and Education for Action have stepped forward urging rescission. Never mind that constituents, including cadets, have been writing their representatives in protest since the bill's passage. Never mind that the bill's sponsors never once consulted the BGLTSA...
This year Alon has joined forces with al Khateeb and a Palestinian conservation crew to put up birdhouses in the West Bank. Together they had the wonderful idea of enlisting the help of children--from both sides of the Middle East divide. In February, 50 Arab kids from Jericho and 30 Jewish kids from Jerusalem converged at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo to learn to make the birdhouses and get to know one another. Coexistence didn't come easily. A Jewish fifth-grader, tears of frustration flowing down her cheeks, rushed to her teacher. An Arab boy wouldn't give...