Word: arabism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That tolerant attitude, as much as anything else, is what the terrorists were targeting. Perhaps more than any other location in the Middle East, Dahab has been a meeting point between the West and the Arab world. There is no other place where Israelis and Arabs forget their animosities and party together so heartily. Dahab is also a magnet for skin divers and backpacking bohemians, who are variously drawn to its famous coral reefs, gorgeous desert moonscapes and hashish-induced laid-back vibe...
...making,” she concluded. “It’s been a long struggle for women,” she reflected, “and they deserve to be rewarded.” Deena S. Shakir ’08, president of the Harvard Society of Arab Students, the group that organized the event, said that she liked that the discussion focused on very important, yet often overlooked, topics. “Issues related to Iraq have been widely debated,” she explained, “but the issue of women and the future...
...other girls, Asmah, 14, and Shadah, 15, were taken all the way to the United Arab Emirates before they could escape their kidnappers and report them to a Dubai police station. The sisters were then sent back to Iraq but, like many other girls who have escaped their kidnappers and buyers, were sent to prison because they carried fake passports. There, they wait for the bureaucracy to sort out their innocence. What happened to the gang that took them? The sisters hear rumors that the men paid their way out of jail and are back on the streets...
NOMINATED. Jawad al-Maliki, 56, hard-line Shi'ite leader; to replace outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari after he agreed to abandon a bid to keep his post; in Baghdad. Al-Maliki was endorsed by Iraq's Kurdish President, Jalal Talabani, as well as other key Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders who said they would support him in the hope of ending a months-long political deadlock...
...line Shi'ite leader; to replace outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari; in Baghdad. Al-Maliki was nominated after al-Jaafari agreed to abandon a bid to keep his post. Though al-Maliki, who is in his mid-50s, was not the first choice of rival factions, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders said they would support him in the hope of ending a two-month political deadlock and moving the government forward...