Word: arabism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Security aside, a big risk of the Ports affair is that Middle Eastern firms will invest their petrodollars elsewhere. One worrying sign: trade talks that were supposed to start this week between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates were delayed. Both sides, it seems, need time to cool...
...designer emporium that also has stores in Kuwait, Qatar and Bombay. And Alanoud has taken me to the Village Mall, near her family home in the ritzy suburb Jumeirah, where the latest must-have accessory is a clutch bag made from a gutra, the checked head scarf worn by Arab...
...Alanoud would be like and whether it would be difficult to relate to someone from a culture so different from mine. That was before a dazzling girl in a savvy mix of Seven jeans, layered tops from the chain store Mango, and Cartier jewelry showed up looking like an Arab Beyonc?...
...March of 2004, after Harvard chose to hold on his gift, the president of the United Arab Emirates rescinded his $2.5 million offer to the University. Harvard Divinity School students had been critical of a think tank to which the president had ties—they claimed that the organization propagated anti-American and anti-Semitic sentiment...
...Here we think we know everything there is to know,” Deena S. Shakir ’08 says. “A lot of those misconceptions come out through intellectual or academic windows.”Shakir, the president of the Society for Arab students, says that Islamophobia—or, by extension, Arabophobia or Middle East-phobia—stems from misunderstandings, not simply lack of information. According to Shakir, Islamophobia is more often projected through intellectual avenues at Harvard.“It’s not going to be somebody insulting someone...