Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authoritarian standards of the Arabian peninsula. But for the past two weeks, armies from the conservative North and socialist South have waged bloody but inconclusive armor and artillery battles in bitter rivalry over the division of political power and the distribution of oil revenues. "Unity is dead," said an Arab League | official in Cairo, and so were hopes that political pluralism had taken root in traditionally monarchical Arabia...
...Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "had different social and political evolutions." While both were dominated for three centuries by the Ottoman Turks, the Southern capital of Aden was seized by the British in 1839. After achieving independence from Britain in 1967, the South became the first Arab Marxist state. The North threw off the Turks after World War I and has been ruled by conservative tribes ever since...
...attempt at reconciliation three months ago, brokered by Jordan, collapsed, and clashes quickly erupted between Northern and Southern army troops. Al-Beidh accused Saleh of siphoning off oil revenues from a newly opened field in a Southern province. While Yemen remains one of the Arab world's poorest and most populous states, the discovery of oil 10 years ago gave both North and South hope that their 14 million people would no longer be dependent on the largesse of their wealthy neighbors. Until the Gulf War, Yemen relied on money sent home by millions of Yemenis in the oil sheikdoms...
...troops might expose the departing soldiers to danger if the P.L.O. failed to maintain order. Such concerns were magnified by the P.L.O.'s imperfect management. A day after the Cairo ceremony, the first 1,500 of 9,000 Palestinian police were to arrive from P.L.O. bases around the Arab world. But only 19 police commanders turned up; the others were delayed by "technical hitches...
Hughes Hallett, who is widely respected for her pedagogical skill and will soon be lecturing in Switzerland, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, said she supports the idea of such an integrated course but is disheartened that she was not notified when it was first proposed...