Word: arabism
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...speech: a call for dialogue and understanding that flows both ways, and which the Bush Administration, with its tin-eared visions of global transformation, sorely lacked. When Rice spoke in Egypt in 2005, she cast the democratic project as an American success story that would soon spread through the Arab world. "The day is coming when the promise of a fully free and democratic world, once thought impossible, will also seem inevitable," Rice promised the students...
When waves of Jewish immigrants arrived in the 1930s, escaping the rise of Nazism and persecution in Europe, Tel Aviv had to expand to accommodate them. Back then, it was the ancient Arab port of Jaffa, with a few Jewish settlements trying to take root in the nearby swamps and sand dunes. Most of the arriving immigrants were young, poor but fairly well educated and idealistic, and Tel Aviv's city planners sought an egalitarian architectural style in sync with the socialistic winds sweeping through Europe. They turned to Bauhaus. Founded in Weimar in 1919, the International or Bauhaus style...
...Although surrounded by Bauhaus beauties, the Montefiore is actually a renovated mansion from the earlier 1920s Eclectic period, festooned with a mishmash of European, Ottoman and Arab architectural motifs - from bijou Juliet balconies and an intricate filigreed façade to soaring Levantine arches and domes. Owners Mati and Ruthie Broudo have kept the rooms period-appropriate using antique 1930s furniture, including original pieces by German Bauhaus design firm Thonet. (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...
...Prince Sultan Air Base served as a command-and-control center for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Saudi Arabia has also championed a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, offering full normalization of relations with the Jewish state if it withdraws from Arab territory conquered in the war of 1967. And as the leader of the Sunni Arab world, it has joined with Washington in efforts to contain the growing regional influence of Shi'ite Iran. (Read "Jihad Waning in Osama's Homeland...
...Still, what Obama has been hoping to elicit from the Saudis and other moderate Arab regimes are some new gestures of outreach to the Israelis, in the hope that these could help persuade Israel to make concessions of its own. It was not immediately clear during Wednesday's talks whether Obama had managed to persuade King Abdullah to offer Israel new inducements towards negotiating a two-state solution...