Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...persuade Assad to follow Hussein and reach a peace agreement with Israel. "Hussein's visit, his first since Yitzhak Rabin's funeral, is seen by the local commentators as sending a clear message to Assad to join in the increasing warming of Israel's relationships with its Arab neighbors," Dean Fischer reports from Jerusalem. The Syrian president may want in. With the demise of its former patron the Soviet Union, and Israel's ongoing rapprochement with neighboring Arab states, Syria finds itself increasingly isolated, and normalizing relations could prove a tremendous boost for the economy. As for the Israelis, Fischer...
...archaeologists revealed that several lumps of figured clay called bullae, bought from Arab dealers in 1975, had once been used to mark documents. Nahman Avigad of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem identified the impressions stamped into one piece of clay as coming from the seal of Baruch, son of Neriah, a scribe who recorded the doomsday proclamations of the prophet Jeremiah. Another bore the seal of Yerahme'el, son of King Jehoiakim's son, who the Book of Jeremiah says was sent on an unsuccessful mission to arrest both prophet and scribe - again confirming the existence of biblical characters...
...violence simply does not make sense except as the result of an underlying fragmentation of Israeli society. Religious rightists and secular leftists have grown incapable of recognizing each other's Jewishness, Israeli-ness, and humanity. It is imperative that Israel continue on its path of peace with its many Arab neighbors. It is even more crucial, perhaps, that the country address the disuniting of its own society...
...bizarre minutes of the play, it is revealed that Deedee died after a home abortion. Suddenly, back in the present, Jane begins to act like this is all a revelation to her (when it's not), and she seems to have some sort of an epiphany about being an Arab-American woman. What that epiphany is is not made clear...
...hand, Lucia Brawley's Jane was pleasant to watch. Well cast as a beautiful, sweet dancer, Brawley was the most able of the cast to hold the stage. Unfortunately she was forced to say some of the most ridiculous lines of the play, mostly concerning the plight of the Arab-American woman. Sometimes one wondered whether or not Shamieh was making fun of Jane: "I'm neither Arab nor American. I'm myself...