Word: arabic
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Representatives of Arab student associations from Harvard and nearby schools joined members of Jewish campus organizations, graduate school students and interested residents in attending Ashrawi's address...
Among other groups, representatives from the Black Students Association (BSA), the Arab Students Alliance and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) agreed to participate in the reading, Kay said...
...point of Annual Action Week is to drawconnections between different issues," said E4Amember Katherine H. Gibson '99, who attended thestrawberry event. "We're drawing connectionsbetween peace in Ireland, farm workers andfeminism in the Arab world...
...Ataturk, the most daring of them, introduced Turkey, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, to Western-style secularism in order to toughen his society against Europe's imperial designs. In the 1950s, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, more intemperately, initiated a fierce campaign of Arab nationalism aimed at eradicating the vestiges of Western colonialism from the Arab world...
Abdul Koddus says he is confident his vision of Islam will prevail in Egypt and across the Arab world. Recent patterns seem to support his view: while secular governments have contained, if not eliminated, terrorist groups, they have enjoyed less success in holding back the tide of Islam as a political force. In Algeria and Turkey, for example, Islamic parties won stunning electoral victories. Though the triumphs were later reversed by military-backed crackdowns, that only confirmed the potency of their challenges...