Word: arabism
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Back from its recruiting trip to the Middle East over intersession, the Society of Arab Students (SAS) says it laid the groundwork for a recruiting network in the region, and spoke to “well over 1,000” high school students about admission to Harvard...
...former president of the Harvard Society of Arab Students, Rami R. Sarafa ’07, said yesterday that student organizations should “stand united against the Salient’s decision to publish the cartoons...
...Palestinian territories, as well as the escalating confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Those developments have emboldened forces in the region who benefit from seeing the frustration felt by Muslims about their lives channeled into hostility toward the West, forces that range from radical clerics to secular Arab autocrats. In that sense, the cartoon uproar may have a lot less to do with religion or culture than with politics. "Arabs should have responded in a cooler way," says Mourad Gharib, 42, a journalist in Cairo. "But it's as though we're standing on a hot piece of metal...
...Western allies, that should serve as an admonishment. The Bush Administration's promotion of democracy in the Arab world since Sept. 11 has helped rouse stirrings of participatory democracy throughout the region; even a society as closed as Saudi Arabia's has held local elections for the first time. But for most Muslims, any credit owed to the U.S. for such advances is outweighed by simmering resentment over the war in Iraq and the lack of progress toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. As the triumph of Hamas in last month's Palestinian elections showed, holding free elections in such...
...discontent to grow more assertive, not less. "Before this, people believed that Muslims were sleeping and would never wake up," says Yusef Hamdan, 23, a radio engineer in the Gaza Strip. "But the cartoons prove you can provoke the Muslim nation." Having lit the fuse of liberty in the Arab world, the U.S. has little choice now but to watch it burn...