Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have an unjustifiably large share of power. But Syria also wants to prevent a de facto partitioning of the country, which could happen if the Moslems carry on their offensive. A weak Maronite state, Syrians fear, might need foreign support-possibly Israeli-and might become a base for anti-Arab activity. The Syrians have infuriated the Moslem coalition by trying to cut off supplies to the National Movement and by seeming to prop up the failing Christian forces...
Athens, on the other hand, has everything. "The bouzouki music, the food," says an Arab. "You might almost say the Greeks are Arabs wearing pants." Even Athens' shops and hotels can compare with Beirut's. Airline, telephone and telex service is excellent, and there is still a sufficient amount of modern office space. True, prices are high; the rent for much desired villas with swimming pools in suburban Kifissia has doubled recently, to about $1,000 a month. Even so, points out one recent corporate settler, Edwin P. Hoffman, senior vice president of Citibank, "Athens has the schools...
...second condition for peace, according to Bishara, is an Arab guarantee of Israel's right to exist. This will not happen because the Arabs consider the Middle East to be their home and view the Israelis as intruders, Bishara said...
...response to a question, Bishara said he welcomes American blacks as a "natural ally" of the Arab world. He said black construction firms have been awarded contracts in the Middle East, and black leaders have been invited to tour Arab countries...
...those rare and many-selved creatures whose talents for action and introspection were almost balanced, and he has become a mirror to cast back the face of each inspector. Six decades have passed since his efforts to "restore to the East some self-respect, a goal, ideals" raised an Arab army against the occupying Turks in Syria, waged glamorously mobile guerrilla war in the midst of the clumsy formal movements of World War I, changed the history of the Middle East, and were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after 1918. He has been dead 40 years...