Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take Ahmed. Ahmed was THE fishman at Supersol, the largest grocery store in West Jerusalem, where I did my shopping almost daily this summer. Despite the fact that Ahmed, an Arab-Israeli resident of the Old City of Jerusalem has never seen the ocean, he loves fish. Every day after we said our hellos, regardless of whether I was even purchasing dairy products, Ahmed insisted on describing the catch of the day, in detail, and the exact way to cook salmon or tuna to perfection...
...playing with kids half my age was a refreshing break from angst-ridden twenty-somethings. Outside the Old City in Jerusalem, I found a group of ten year-old Arab boys, who always played soccer in the late afternoon. I became a regular member of their pick up games, trying to ignore the stares of tourists and passers...
...First of all I did a lot of research, and I also got a lot of Arab advisors to help me. We had a mullah serve as an advisor during the whole project. We had a lot of people advising that were in Iraq at the time of the Gulf War, refugees that came to America, and most of the scenes in the movie of cruelty and murder, even some of the conversations, did actually come from real life. Also, I got a lot of inspiration from news accounts of the conflict. The LA Times had day-by-day book...
...majority of the Jordanian population, challenged the Hashemite throne ? in the "Black September" of 1970 ? the response was swift and brutal, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and the PLO in exile. "Hamas will maintain that its struggle is with Israel and it has no quarrel with any Arab state," says Hamad. So while the latest clampdown signals an end to friendly relations between Jordan and Hamas, it?s unlikely to start...
...Economic globalization appears to have made corporate America more sensitive than Washington?s political class to Arab political concerns. After all, Hillary Clinton doesn?t have to fear an Arab backlash at the ballot box when she stumps for New York votes by publicly urging her husband to recognize Jerusalem as Israel?s capital. But Disney stands to lose up to $150 million a year in an Arab boycott of its products. Despite Eisner?s assurances, Arab League officials are still demanding the right to inspect the "Millennium Village" before its opening to ensure that Islamic and Christian claims...