Word: arabism
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...After spending most of World War II in a California internment camp, Robert Takasugi, 78, became one of the first Japanese Americans to serve as a federal judge, wielding his power to protect Arab communities from discrimination in the hostile aftermath of 9/11...
...Rifqa's frantic parents know the girl was with them. Then, a few days later, Rifqa dropped a bombshell to an Orlando television station: she had run away, she claimed, because her family, angry about her conversion to Christianity, had "threatened to kill me." (Read "What's Holding Back Arab Women...
...Some of the leading elements in Jund Ansar Allah were former Hamas members who broke with the movement over its decision to join in the political process of the Palestinian Authority by running for election in 2006. They were bolstered, according to Palestinian observers, by jihadist elements from other Arab countries, taking advantage of the widespread despair and frustration in Gaza brought on by the ongoing economic siege. While Hamas is currently enforcing the cease-fire it adopted seven months ago at the close of Israel's Gaza invasion, the economic siege remains largely in place - although if Egyptian-mediated...
...Appointed chief of security for Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), which has offices in Malta, where he traveled frequently. Also served as director of Libya's Center for Strategic Studies, a position the FBI later claimed was a cover for his actual role as a member of the Libyan Intelligence Services...
...study centers and the families of students and teachers. Against bitter opposition from Palestinian groups and left-wing Israeli organizations, Ateret Cohanim has established yeshiva study institutes in the Muslim and Christian quarters of Jerusalem's Old City and encouraged housing projects for nearly 1,000 Jews in Arab neighborhoods where Jewish residents were forced to leave more than 60 years ago because of wars and unrest. The group boasts of its activities in "hot areas" of East Jerusalem. Its plans to develop 20 new Israeli homes were denounced last month by the Obama Administration. Huckabee told TIME that...