Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College-commissioned probe investigating a complaint by the Society of Arab Students that a Harvard Foundation student officer mishandled its grant application exonerated the student Tuesday, clearing him of charges of racial bias...
...investigators said they found no evidence that Kenneth A. Katz '93 had any racial biases when he presented the Society of Arab Students' (SAS) grant application to the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee last October. SAS officers charged that Katz, an editor of The Crimson, had demonstrated racial biases in his editorial columns...
...paints me to have to defend myself against accusations of racism. I am not racist or anti-Arab," Katz wrote. "False and unsubstantiated charges of racism--like those with which Ms. Sahyoun and [current SAS President] Ms. [Haneen M.] Rabie attacked me--are a source of racial and ethnic tension on this campus, not a solution...
Ghachem, whose parents are Tunisian, 'says he can reconcile the parts of his identity. "I'm proud to be American but I don't feel I have to choose between being American and being of Arab descent," he says...
Even though students like Masri and Ghachem say they are comfortable at Harvard, SAS leaders say the College administration must work harder to improve the atmosphere for Arab and Arab-American students on Campus...