Word: arabism
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...five centuries ago, postponing his wedding a day to attend this ceremony instead. There was Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law, now in Rome after resigning over his handling of the sex-abuse scandals, preparing to preside over one of this week's funeral Masses. There were representatives of the Arab League, the King of Jordan, the Palestinian Prime Minister, the President of Syria, come from lands where the memory of the Crusades still lives. Here was the President of the U.S., seated near the President of Iran, and all the heads of the world, friends and enemies laced together...
...MAHDI, 61, as Iraq's first democratically-elected President and Vice-Presidents in more than half a century; in Baghdad. Talabani, who spent years fighting the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, becomes the first Kurdish president of an Arab-dominated country; Yawar is a tribal leader of the Sunni Muslim minority. The announcements, along with the naming of Shi'ite politician Ibrahim Jaafari, 58, as Prime Minister, followed nine weeks of deadlock in Iraq's parliament since the country's landmark elections...
...settlers will be leaving, involuntarily, this summer. The Israeli government has decided to yank them. That is progress, but movement of any sort in the Israeli-Arab dispute has proved potentially disastrous in the past. Indeed, several prominent U.S. diplomats told me last week that Gaza disengagement is-for the moment, at least-causing them more concern than the pacification of Iraq. That is progress of a sort too. For one thing, it's an implicit sign that things are going better in Baghdad, where the new, democratic, Shi'ite-led government was installed last week. But it is also...
...feelings about the Israeli settlers who lived nearby: Why on earth were they doing this? There was a cockeyed rationale for the Jewish settlements in the West Bank: Judea and Samaria were the heart of ancient Israel, and a modern Jewish presence there was a defensive buffer against the Arab hordes...
...statement, he noted his interest in “the migration of ideas among communities,” adding that the Silk Road Project will bring the influences of instruments ranging from the Chinese erhu and Arab oud into Harvard classrooms...