Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arabian Night," by Betty Shamieh '96, is both bold and honorable in trying to address the ways in which Arab-American women must negotiate their sexuality within American and Arab-American society. While this difficult and upsetting story is ambitious, the production in the Adams Pool Theater this past weekend faltered because of flat acting, technical problems and heavy-handedness...
...play's plot is complex. Jane (Lucia Brawley '99) and Tarik (Aaron Mathes '98), a young Arab-American couple, return to the house where Jane grew up in order to pack up her remaining belongings before her move to New York, where she is going to be a professional dancer. As soon as Tarik leaves Jane's room, the ghost of Deedee (Melissa Gibson '99), Jane's best friend from high school who died seven years earlier, appears and demands that Jane paint a portrait...
Suddenly, the action of play shifts to the past and we learn how Jane and Deedee were required to be good Arab girls and how they also wanted to have fun like American girls. After watching the ways in which Jane's brother Samir (Santiago Tapia '97) and Deedee's boyfriend Nader (Andrew Pitcher '97) treat women, the audience is left with the impression that Arab-American men, with few exceptions, are evil: they only want sex from women and yet demand that all Arab women be virgins at marriage. The younger Tarik is seemingly virtuous, but his occasional sexist...
...violence, similar rhetoric or even coolly calculated policies are equally responsible for neglecting and weakening the security of many Jews in Gaza and elsewhere. Despite Rabin's apparent sincerity in believing the Oslo accords to be Israel's long-awaited chance to establish a lasting peace with its Arab population and neighbors, we have seen not only the potential dangers of this position but also the actual losses of hundreds of lives as a result. If Rabin's passing is a true tragedy for the entire Jewish people, as indeed it is, so is the loss of every person killed...
...huge memorial gathering in Tel Aviv's main square, renamed for the slain Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin's widow Leah vowed that "the silent majority" who support the Arab-Israeli peace process "will no longer be silent." Meanwhile Israeli authorities arrested Arik Schwartz, a soldier on active duty, and Margalit Har-Sheffey, a 20-year-old female university student, for suspected complicity in the assassination...