Word: arabism
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...decades - were quick to stake their claim to the shape country's future. They embraced the American promise of democracy and, ordered to vote by their most respected spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, they turned out in their millions at the polling booths to elect the Arab-world's first Shi'ite government. And that inspired Shi'ites across the region to clamor for more rights and influence, challenging centuries-old arrangements that had kept them on the margins...
...American foodie magazine Saveur, has dedicated himself to redressing this culinary oversight. In Cradle of Flavor-a delightful book that is part culinary anthropology, part travelogue-he draws on two decades of dining in Southeast Asian homes to serve up 100 recipes infused with the area's Arab, Chinese, Malay and European gastronomic influences. Central to them are the barks, seeds and roots now found in spice cabinets worldwide, as well as some that aren't (like candlenut or salam leaves). The result is a deliciously faithful sampling of cuisines that deserve a far greater international prominence. -By Hannah Beech
...come at a worse time for the Bush Administration. Vice President Cheney was in Riyadh just last weekend for talks with King Abdullah. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants to use the Saudi-founded Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), conceived as an economic body, as a vehicle for marshalling Sunni Arab support on regional security issues, particularly U.S. efforts to blunt Iranian ambitions. Rice has prevailed upon the original GCC members (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman) to add Jordan and Egypt to their security loop. According to a Rice aide, a working group of diplomats, including...
...hard to understand the attraction of Holocaust denial among many Arab intellectuals. After all, the Palestinians ultimately paid a heavy price as the international community sought to redress the unspeakable horrors inflicted on the Jews of Europe. The 1947 U.N. partition plan allocated 55% of Palestine to a Jewish state and 45% to an Arab state, with Jerusalem to be kept under international control. The Arabs of Palestine and its neighboring states rejected the plan, focusing on its implications for their own people rather than on the horrors visited on the Jews by Europeans, and they went...
...That view is still widespread in the Arab world today, but it's very different from denying the Holocaust. The idea that tens of thousands of Eastern European Jews would choose to move to the impossibly harsh environment of an increasingly violent Palestine in the two years after World War II out of anything but a perception of dire necessity reminds me of another myth - albeit a Zionist one - with which I was fed growing up: that Israel's Jewish majority was ensured when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs had "miraculously" chosen to up and leave their homes...