Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabs had once again shown that Arab solidarity was only lip deep. King Saud was privately furious at the Syrians. His mediation efforts increased his stature with other Arabs; Syria's refusal of them cost Syria sympathy...
...though its initial alarmist handling of the crisis had set off a hysterical rush for Arab "solidarity" with Syria, might yet emerge ahead. It had failed to halt Syria's sag toward Russia. But the Arabs had been plainly scared by the behavior of the nation they had invited into the Middle East. "Positive neutrality" did not look so attractive. Syria had provided a humiliating demonstration of the penalties of flirting with Russia. Distaste for Russia's performance made Arabs more sympathetic...
...Nigerian girl who has broken with tradition is 21-year-old Zeinab Wali, a slim, golden-skinned girl of Tripolitanian Arab stock. Zeinab married a young government official when she was 17. Normally, she would have gone into kulle, the Nigerian equivalent of purdah. Instead, she returned to school (something few if any Nigerian women in Kano had ever done before), took her teacher's certificate and now spends her time demonstrating her conviction that a woman can be a good Moslem without vegetating in purdah...
...consent, not by her submission." Aiming for that middle way, Aisha and her co-feminists are pushing adult education. "We fear the development of conflict between mother and daughter if the daughter faces West and the mother faces toward the old way of life," explains one, citing the Arab proverb: "Educate a man, and you educate a single individual. Educate a woman, and you educate a family...
...American refusal to make a ringing declaration defending Israel's right of transit through the Gulf of Aqaba, Israelis now recognized that the U.S.'s quiet insistence that the gulf was an international waterway until proved otherwise had achieved the same result and stirred far less Arab rancor. Israel had its port, was taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres...