Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bravura performance in Madrid at the opening of the Arab-Israeli peace talks seven months ago that catapulted her to world attention surprised no one who knew her. "The person was formed," says Albert Agazerian, a colleague at Bir Zeit University. "It just required the moment to bring it on center stage." She says, "I know I can make a difference...
Such self-confidence. She is today the best known of the New Palestinians, the most prominent woman in the Arab world, and she is very comfortable with that. This is not a lady you can shake. Only the way she chain-smokes Salem Lights betrays the pressure she is under...
...last year. GIVE WAR A CHANCE (Atlantic Monthly Press; $20.95), a compendium of columns and random thoughts, has all the wise- guy wit we've come to expect from the fiercely traditional Rolling Stone columnist, but it feels old. O'Rourke's shots at American antiwar protesters, jabs at Arab sheiks and some predictable jokes about poorly stocked shelves in what was the Soviet Union give you the feeling you've read it all before. You have...
Arazi's other owner, United Arab Emirates Defense Minister Sheik Mohammed bin-Rashid al-Maktoum, whose family possesses more racehorses than anyone else in the world, has other ideas. He would like Arazi to shoot for an unprecedented transatlantic double by running in the Kentucky Derby and then going on in June to the $1 million Epsom Derby, Britain's premier flat race. Contesting Epsom as well as the full Triple Crown is impossible because the events are spaced too closely on the calendar...
Sheik Mohammed purchased his 50% share in Arazi from Paulson six months ago. Sheik Mohammed had tried several times before to buy the horse through intermediaries, but Paulson refused. Finally, during last year's $1.5 million Arc de Triomphe at Paris's Longchamps racecourse, the Arab prince pressed Paulson face to face, asking him to name his price. Trying to come up with a figure that would be too high to be taken seriously, Paulson proposed $9 million for half the horse; to his surprise, Sheik Mohammed immediately closed the deal on a handshake...