Word: arabism
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...Saddam may hope to follow the courtroom strategy of fellow apprehended dictator Slobodan Milosevic, but Judge Amein may not allow such theatrics, filibustering and hectoring of witnesses in his courtroom. Indeed, the refusal to recognize the court may be less a legal strategy than a political one, playing to Arab resentment toward the U.S. invasion both inside and outside Iraq. Izzat says that when he visits Aziz, who is being held in the same facility as Saddam, the bombs and gunshots of the insurgency are easily heard. By further stoking resentment among Iraqi Sunnis' nationalist and in the wider Arab...
...says, veering from the script, clutching a Kalashnikov rifle, "I saw some good water filters at Al Mokhtar ... buy them there next time." In a film packed with wrenching moments, this one remains one of the most shocking, even for the filmmaker who crafted it. Abu-Assad, 43, an Arab-Israeli who emigrated to Amsterdam in the early 1980s to be an airplane engineer, co-scripted and directed the film, based on years of research into the subject. He interviewed the relatives of dead Palestinian bombers and pored over the interrogation transcripts of would-be attackers in jail...
...MOUSSA, Arab League secretary-general, describing Iraq ahead of Saturday's referendum on the proposed constitution...
Garrett G. D. Nelson ’09 also said he is using Arabic as a tool to understand the Arab world...
...Like it or not, "Al Jazeera is the most influential Arab voice outside of mosques. It is the largest shaper of ideology," says Rushing. And if American voices are not heard in that venue, then they have no chance of having virtually any influence. "I've dedicated my adult life to the health and security of the United States and to representing the best of American ideas. I will maintain my credibility by continuing to do that." Rushing may discover that being a Marine might have been the easy part...