Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arab and Arab-American students on campus constitute a small but increasingly vocal community. In recent years, the Society of Arab Students has developed an increasingly strong presence on campus in an attempt to counteract insensitive jokes and stock images about Arabs perpetuated in student publications and by classmates. Arab students at Harvard complain that too often they find themselves...
...Foundation's grants process has been under scrutiny since Epps began an investigation of a Society of Arab Students complaint about their fall grant. "Dean Epps did indicate that the faculty would not just rubber stamp the decisions," says Nicholson...
...slight, dark-skinned man about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with close-cropped dark hair and beard, dressed in sneakers and a light gray sweat suit that billowed around him. Federal authorities in Washington later disclosed some basic information about the suspect. He is 25 years old, an Arab who was born on the West Bank but grew up in Jordan. He entered the U.S. in 1987 with a five-year visa and remained in the country illegally. New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly later said that Salameh was "not unknown" to his department, and an FBI official in Washington...
...obvious suspicion is that the Trade Center bombing was carried out by a group of Muslim fundamentalist fanatics who regard all moderate Arab leaders as traitors to Islam, and the U.S. as their prime support. Whether these somewhat nebulous suspicions can ever be pinned down, let alone proved, is another matter. Sheik Omar has denounced the Trade Center bombing and claims not even to know Salameh...
Soviety of Arab Students (SAS) leaders saw gaining an SAC seat as the "slow response" to their complaints about low funding last semester. Because SAS did not have a representative, its cultural events were not detailed at the committee meeting for grant distribution and the organization received a much smaller-grant than requested, an SAS official said...