Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analysis of the 1973 Arab oil crisis, which he said would splinter off to affect demand for many other goods became a permanent part of the way countries and businesses all over the world accurately predicted and planned production, according to the Nobel committee...
President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students (SAS) Mohamad Al-Ississ '00 stressed that loyalty to the man who ruled for 47-years has been a rallying point for a nation which has been at other times divided...
...honoring him as an Arab head ofstate, what happens when other Arab head of statesdie?" he said. "If we're honoring him as a personand for his deeds, that's precisely why we'restepping out of our bounds...
...while his father struggles to overcome non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, pledged to Hussein to "follow in your footsteps." U.S. officials privately called him "a chip off the old block," and Israel reacted without alarm. Many analysts regard the leadership turmoil in Jordan as less worrisome than that in other Arab states, where aging Kings and Presidents may soon give way to unfamiliar new rulers. Jordan's transition, says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based Middle East scholar, is only "the first step in a long process that will be going on for the next decade and will affect peace, energy...
Jordan was rebuked throughout the Arab world for the excesses of his harsh campaign against the PLO in 1970. As a result, Yasser Arafat's organization became recognized as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinians -- challenging Jordan's stewardship over the West Bank...