Word: arabicize
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That began to change in the 1975 civil war. As other power-hungry factions oiled their guns, the Lebanese Shi'ite leader Imam Moussa Sadr formed the Amal (meaning hope in Arabic), originally intending it to be a political organization exerting pressure to better the lot of Shi'...
Outrageousness is clearly necessary to prevent this mistiness from reaching the boohoo stage-no one wants to wave a soggy handkerchief-and by tradition the two bands have been designated to provide the desired vulgarity. A month before the 1962 Game, held in Cambridge, Mass., members of the Harvard band...
Reaction in the Arabic press of East Jerusalem was unusually bitter. The moderate newspaper Al Quds declared that there was no difference between last year's massacre of some 700 Arabs by Lebanese Christian militiamen in the outskirts of Beirut and "the massacres now being perpetrated by Syria and...
July 3, 1972--Registering for summer school was an entirely new spatial experience for the students who stood in line next to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in town to study Arabic.
Haddad has run his territory like a personal fiefdom. His radio station, the Voice of Hope, financed largely by right-wing American Christians, broadcasts to a wide area in English, Arabic and even Russian. Usually wearing green fatigues and carrying a 9-mm Beretta pistol slung from his belt, Haddad...