Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Husseini, the mastermind of the Palestinian delegation. Israel had objected to Husseini because he comes from East Jerusalem, an area the country contends is its own. It agreed to include him in hopes of boosting his relatively moderate position. But days before the talks were to begin, the main Arab participants asked for a postponement. The request seemed related to Palestinian displeasure over both Israel's closure of the occupied territories and its refusal to repatriate nearly 400 Palestinians who remain in southern Lebanon since their deportation in December. But responding to U.S. dismay, the Arabs may yet rethink their...
...center or a Third World center, depending on the politically correct phrase of the week) would address several of the current and future needs of many minority student groups, as well as of the undergraduate population in general. Such a center would ideally have room for office space, where Arab, Asian, Black, Latino, Native American and other student groups could share resources. Equipment that might be financially impossible for a single group (say, a copy or tax machine) would be feasible when split several ways. Furthermore, having these offices in a center used by students of all back-grounds would...
...indefinite closure order was meant to prevent would-be Arab assailants from reaching their victims in Israel. But it was also aimed at protecting Palestinian workers from Jewish vigilantes, who have grown increasingly active in taking the law into their hands...
Could Egypt be going the way of Iran? That question will be on the mind of both Bill Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when the two men meet in Washington this week. Though fundamentalists are at odds with all the secular Arab governments of North Africa, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, Mubarak is a special target. His country has not only made a separate peace with the archenemy, Israel, but has also joined the Western alliance in the Gulf War and continues to work closely with...
...spite of the rising violence, Mubarak confidently asserts that he does not consider the Islamists a serious threat to his government. "The situation is not that unstable," he told TIME's Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer last week. Radical Muslims who oppose peace between Arabs and Israelis, Mubarak is convinced, are working to bring down his government. He is certain they are directed from Iran. "There is no doubt," he said. "The Iranians have said that if they could change the Egyptian regime, they would control the whole area." He says fundamentalists recruited from several Arab countries are being trained...