Word: arabism
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...love, laughter and a common enemy solve - at least locally - the Arab-Israeli conflict? This movie seems to think so, though genial humanism may strike you as a pretty slender hope for so titanic an issue. And it's a big narrative lurch, too, which maybe we shouldn't dwell upon. Much better to focus on the purely comedic, beginning with Sandler's performance. It offers hilarious satire on James Bondian heroics. And Zohan's manic desire to provide "silky smooth" hair dressing represents good comic value, too. There's always been a sweet disconnectedness to Sandler's screen character...
...Cozzens gave a tour of his room, with walls covered in fun tack, posters, and drawings. On his desk was evidence of the Hoopes prize he recently won for his thesis on Arab rap music. He, like many other Co-opers, has taken time off during college: Cozzens traveled to Syria to study Arabic...
...Today, Mohammed is out of Borg al-Arab, the Egyptian equivalent of Guantanamo Bay, but still being held in a local prison on criminal charges under Emergency Law (the organizers of the protest we attended, by contrast, were recently released). What are the prospects for getting him out anytime soon? Journalists don’t have international licensing or unions, and information doesn’t come with the guarantee that “no journalists were harmed.” How many local fixers have sacrificed themselves for a story, while their employers were cruising home on 747s...
...price shock of the 1970s began in October 1973 when, in response to the Yom Kippur War, Arab oil producers imposed an embargo on exports. Before the embargo, in 1972, the price of imported oil was about $3.20 per barrel; by 1975, the average price was nearly $14 per barrel, more than four times greater. President Nixon had imposed economy-wide controls on wages and prices in 1971, including prices of petroleum products; in November 1973, in the wake of the embargo, the President placed additional controls on petroleum prices.2
...graduate this year with a Masters in Middle East studies, I look forward to taking on some of this responsibility. I hope to be part of rebuilding Iraq’s universities, which were once the pride of the Arab world. Their ruin in recent years not only means a decline in technical knowledge for Iraqis. It has also deeply undermined the story of their nation...