Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complex--a Jew steeped in ancient Greek philosophy who spent his life among Muslims and influenced Christian Europe. As Soviet Scholar Vitali Naumkin told the Paris meeting, "Maimonides is perhaps the only philosopher in the Middle Ages, perhaps even now, who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western...
...alarm fire broke out in the second-floor office of a Washington public relations firm, spreading upward through the five-story building and causing $500,000 worth of damage. Arab Americans quickly pointed to a disturbing coincidence: two floors above, the offices of the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee were also badly damaged, the latest in a series of violent actions affecting the organization. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the blaze. Commented one bureau spokesman: "Given the other attacks against the ADC and related Arab Americans, we are very concerned that it might have...
...than the JDL, although the former Senator says he has no firm idea who is behind the attacks. At the same time, his complaints about federal indifference have stirred further action: the Justice Department's civil rights division announced last week it would investigate the attacks on the American-Arab group. Abourezk is now satisfied that the Government has committed adequate resources to the probe. Said he: "We were feeling goddamned alone out here...
Israeli sources said last week that Eitan's secret spying unit had been disbanded on Peres' orders. But there may still be some reluctance in the Peres Cabinet to turn documents stolen by Pollard over to the U.S. Among them: information on Arab military operations, Soviet technology and weapons systems and, most troubling to Jerusalem, U.S. analyses of Israel's intelligence- gathering capabilities. Some Israeli officials do not want to see Pollard convicted and worry that information about covert activities, once returned, might be leaked...
...when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century European Reformation brought "a clean-shaven look" along with a new approach to eternal salvation, and in 1903 the first Gillette safety razor was introduced...