Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite frenzied attempts by the Arab world to clog the machinery of the United Nations, the General Assembly voted last Saturday to partition Palestine and give the Jewish people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...
...Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke up an Egyptian cabinet, and Shaw now goes unread...
Meanwhile the U. N. Assembly's decision brought diverse reactions from Zionist and Arab students here...
...Arab Spokesman Bitter...
...Internal Jewish strife and Arab-Jewish warfare will massare millions of civilians, and Russia will gain the opportunity to spread Communism in the Near East," Kheiry added...