Word: arabism
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People like me--the descendants of immigrants, whether Arab, black or Asian--are turning to our roots and embracing our heritage, just the opposite of what our parents did when they arrived. My grandparents, for example, who came to France from Algeria to live, work and build a better life, accepted the role of guest. They did all they could not just to fit in but to become invisible. Calling attention to themselves usually meant trouble--endless ID and visa checks from police, racist remarks and insults--so they avoided that. They tried as much as possible to integrate...
...problems people had with us were due to our ethnicity, our skin color. Today, with many young people returning to religion as they start searching for their own identities, faith is becoming the difference that's most often pointed out. I'm not just a black guy or an Arab anymore; I'm a Muslim. And that's a code word for alien, someone who's determined...
...would pray there before he died. He realized that the only way to fulfill that dream was to work out a peace with Israel. The realities of the moment left him little choice: Arafat and his organization were in trouble. After losing his Soviet sponsors, he alienated his rich Arab patrons by siding with Iraq in the Gulf War. Strapped for cash, he had to cut back funding for Palestinian schools and hospitals, students' tuition and widows' pensions in the occupied territories, which hurt his popular support. The militant fundamentalists of Hamas were winning converts and beating his candidates...
...them. ARAFAT: For centuries we lived together with Jews. When Europe was in the dark ages, we lived together. We called them our cousins. It is a part of our tradition. RABIN: The historic breakthrough was not now. It was when President Sadat, the leader of the largest Arab country, came to Jerusalem and succeeded in bringing down all the walls of suspicion, hatred, prejudices vis-a-vis Egypt. Arafat is not in a position to do it because he is not in control of the people in the territories. His influence is limited to the members of his organization...
...editorial, was a parody designed to critique the Fulla doll’s proud endorsement of Muslim values. “The Salient’s back page is a parody premised on the seemingly absurd yet real attempt to turn licentious, Western Barbie into an equivalent befitting the Arab world, where a number of states are dominated by radical Islamic values,” he wrote...