Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leila F. Sahyoun '94, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students, said that her organization will help Hegazy in his relief efforts...
...century products will use fewer and fewer of & them. Even the need for oil, now the most vital of interests in the West, will fall from the strategic agenda as it is replaced by solar power and controlled nuclear fusion. The end of the petroleum age will make the Arab states of the Middle East poorer and less stable but of declining interest to the West. The Islamic world, powerfully resistant to modernization, will tend to isolate itself...
...danger is clearest in northern Iraq. The population there is made up mostly of Kurds, members of a non-Arab minority that the Iraqis have persecuted for decades. During the Gulf War, the Kurds eagerly responded to George Bush's call for a popular uprising. They saw a chance to break free of Baghdad once...
...offensive. Rumors have circulated for years that Fischer had grown virulently anti-Semitic; his mother, from whom he has been estranged in the past, is Jewish. So up he pops while the world watches, defending himself against charges of anti-Semitism on a technicality ("I am definitely not anti-Arab, O.K.?") while castigating Zionism, berating the U.N. and accusing Karpov and Gary Kasparov, the current chess world champion, of fixing title matches during the 1980s...
...many ways. Perhaps the most dramatic was her visit last year to Eritrea, which had just won a 30-year war of independence from Ethiopia and had promptly shut down the airport and all other means of communication with the outside world. Michaels flew to neighboring Djibouti, chartered an Arab dhow to the Red Sea port of Mesewa and hitched a ride for the final 71 miles to the Eritrean capital, Asmara...