Word: arabism
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...posh streets of Omdurman, across the river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur’s 7.4 million people displaced and an estimated 200,000 killed by the conflict since it began in 2003, aid agencies continue to report new bloodshed. Gopvernment-armed Arab Janjaweed militias are launching a fresh assault in Southern Darfur, while opposing Darfuri rebel groups are said to be re-arming in neighboring Chad. If fighting continues, already malnourished farmers won’t be able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month...
...Abbas does dismiss the Hamas government, it could trigger a deadly uprising in the Palestinian territories. Prime Minister Haniyeh will not slink off quietly, and his Hamas forces are more disciplined than Abbas's men and equally well armed. So far, Fatah and Hamas shrugged off pleas from Arab governments that the only victor in a fight between them would be their common foe, Israel. One miltia linked to Abbas, the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade, has vowed to start assassinating Hamas leaders in Palestine and abroad. Israelis military officials are also alarmed by the chaos in Gaza; they fear...
...Guerrouabi, 68, prolific musician who reinvigorated the traditional, lute-based chaabi music of Algeria's casbahs and cafés; in Algiers. Weaving themes from traditional love songs with mystical Sufi texts, Guerrouabi's shortened, jazzy renditions of classical chaabi tunes played to massive crowds in Europe and the Arab world. During Algeria's turbulent 1990s, he fled into exile in Paris, but homesickness and ill health drove him to return in 2004; weakened by diabetes, he played his final concert last summer in Algiers...
...Cairo's Spinner of Tales The Arab world's most prominent literary figure, Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, died last month at age 94. TIME profiled the author in 1988 after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world...