Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does there seem to be a much greater resistance to the idea of a civic culture with democratic political values in the Arab world than in, say, black Africa...
...Partly because of the strength of the Arab hereditary monarchies or the military regimes or one-party regimes that have replaced them, partly the extraordinary range of internal conflicts within the region, partly the tug of Islamic fundamentalism. But even in a country like Iran, you see a remarkable range of disagreement that has internalized pluralism. There are patterns emerging that create a kind of rough balance between more or less secular forces, even within the Islamic framework of the country. You are finding a similar evolution in Jordan...
That summer she returned to the house in Haifa that had at one time belonged to her family. She found a picturesque stone building in the hilltop city that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians who left another part of the country now live in the house, located in the Arab section of the city...
...return to Harvard, Abu-Ghaida joined the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) and sponsored meetings for concerned Arabs and Jews. The alliance was borne out of campus Arab-Jewish dialogue and continued because members of both groups were interested in bringing an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank...
...attempting to burn a Kuwaiti flag at the rally. Although he somewhat regrets his action now, Gallagher insists there was a point to it. He "couldn't ignore the character of the regimes we were bailing out... It was like the Americans were being the mercenaries for an Arab sheikdom...