Word: arabicize
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Hey, er, Friend, What's Happening? Warnings to American troops to be culturally sensitive may have gone a little too far. Newly arrived soldiers have been advised to avoid the phrase "Hey, dude" because "dude" sounds like the Arabic word for worm.
On the radio, cab drivers seem to favor Arabic rock, heavily synthesized and sounding like wailing Europop to the Western ear. AM frequencies that usually broadcast the Voice of America and BBC are jammed. The Arabic service of Radio Monte Carlo serves as a bridge to the outside world and...
Several days after Iraq invaded Kuwait, a clandestine radio station passed word that a satellite would pass over Kuwait City at midnight and snap photographs. The message instructed citizens to go to their roofs to demonstrate their opposition to Saddam Hussein. As improbable as that scenario might sound, thousands of...
The Palestinians living in Israel feel thrice removed. First in privilege and status come the European Jews, then come the Oriental Jews, then, a distant third, the Israeli Arabs. Many of their grievances sound like the complaints of American blacks, and sometimes Israel gives off something of the Old South...
From now on, they had better. Levy, 52, an immigrant from Morocco and former construction worker who has never earned a college degree, has become the strongest leader of Israel's increasingly numerous and powerful Sephardic (Oriental) Jews. Many Israelis, in fact, suggest that the derision he has encountered reflects...