Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rabie, who is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students, says the Lampoon's article perpetuates existing stereotypes of Arabs as violent, American-hating terrorists. Rabie also pointed to a recent cartoon in The Crimson which a mouse named "Ignatz" Celebrates the bombing of New York's World Trade Center, a crime for which two Arab youths have been charged...
...Many Arab and Arab-American students say stereotypes are the worst problem they face at Harvard. Though students interviewed last week said they had not encountered overt discrimination in their interpersonal relationships, they said the images perpetuated in publications recently have cast a racist pall over the campus...
These problems may arise out of ignorance instead of racism, according to Arab and Arab-American students interviewed last week. Non-Arab students have misperceptions about Arab culture and tend to generalize from the images presented by the national media, the students say. In reality, Arabs are a diverse group whose culture and views on political issues vary widely...
...main goals is to show what Arab culture is really like," says the society's former President Laila F. Sahyoun...
Through the coalition, the group hopes to promote the hiring of more Arab faculty, the expansion of an Arab studies curriculum and an increased recruitment of the number of Arabs in the student body, according to Rabie...