Word: arabism
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...Bush Administration's Arab democracy campaign is helping bring change to Egypt, if not quite the sort Washington is after. The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which strongly opposes U.S. intervention in Iraq and support for Israel, won 76 seats in the first two rounds of parliamentary elections and could gain a total of 100 once the final vote is completed this week. Says Abdel Monem Said of Cairo's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies: "Everyone is surprised, perhaps even the Brotherhood...
...honor of Haddock’s last name) and carry a giant yellow sign that took three days to make. Numerous student organizations have endorsed the Haddock-Riley ticket, including Fuerza Latina, the Harvard College Democrats, the Executive Board of the South Asian Association, and the Society of Arab Students. After interviewing all the candidates, “it was pretty clear that John Haddock and Annie Riley not only were the most qualified, but also had the clearest vision of what they wanted to do once they became president and vice president,” says Eric P. Lesser...
...reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been a bevy of nonsensical endorsements. Ethnic groups, who rely on the UC to fund Cinco de Mayo festivities and baba ghanoush feeds, seem to be particularly rapt with this game, but the implications of an ethnic endorsement are transparently ludicrous. Can campus Arabs hope to gain more from John S. Haddock ’07, the endorsed candidate of the Society of Arab Students, than the others? Why is John F. Voith ’07 the choice of the campus’ Caribbean students? I can understand why the Scandanavian Folk...
...Essay "What the Uprising Generation Wants," Charles Krauthammer wrote about the alienated young Arabs in France and their prospects for assimilation and success [Nov. 21]. I was startled by his assertion that France needs "the kind of self-reformation that America [had] in the 1960s, when it finally began welcoming African Americans into mainstream society." Is he forgetting the 1960s riots, led by unemployed and disenfranchised blacks, that engulfed the U.S.? I don't call that self-reformation. When black people took to American streets, they finally got a little respect. I suspect that the unemployed Arab and black youths...
Krauthammer says appeasement of the Arab world has not helped the French resolve the issues of its Arab citizens. How are the French appeasing the Arab world by enforcing a law that strictly bars young girls from wearing Muslim head scarves in public schools? That is not appeasement; that is self-interest. Like all other multicultural nations, France will have to effectively integrate minorities into society. The problem is an internal socioeconomic one, and it has nothing to do with Islam or the broader problems of the Middle East...