Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder whether there was no one else in the Gulf War picture capable of doing anything right") and challenging his account on specific points. Among them: the prince says Schwarzkopf's claim to have "orchestrated the liberation of Kuwait City" is untrue; the prince and his Arab forces did it. The flap is not likely to disappear. The prince notes: "I will be addressing some of these issues in my own book in due course...
What makes it shine is that Ondaatje alchemizes these abstract spaces with a poet's fluent radiance. Scene after scene shimmers with the jeweled brilliance of Arab poetry. The Indian alone, in the course of his wanderings, walks through cities where corpses are strung from trees and sleeps beside angels in deserted churches. He sees the Virgin Mary emerging from the sea (until her batteries give out), and he finds himself one of 12 defusers alone in a city without lights. Woven through such flights are colorful threads of historical arcana: richly researched evocations of the "desert Englishmen...
...Arab states ranging from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Libya quickly pledged up to $180 million in aid, and Japan promised to donate $600,000. Although most of Cairo's more modern buildings came through the quake relatively unharmed, there were scenes of terrible devastation, particularly in the older neighborhoods. But Egypt's ancient monuments, including the Sphinx and the Pyramids, survived unscathed...
...Israeli official said, the eventual government would not be entirely independent, according to the current Israeli proposal. "We do not envisage another 21st Arab state at the end of this process," he said...
Democracy is so fragile in the Arab world that its appearance even in limited form is encouraging. In a Kuwaiti election last week, the vote was restricted to males 21 and older who were able to trace their ancestry in the emirate to 1920 -- only 13% of the population of 650,000. (Women might be allowed to vote in 1996.) Though small, the vote last week was free enough to enable a coalition opposed to the regime of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah to win 31 of 50 parliamentary seats. The government can expect sharp debate over its unpreparedness...