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...interviewer how he imagined the U.S. military would avoid the sort of local hostility there that its presence in Saudi Arabia had generated. Wolfowitz replied: "First of all, the Iraqi population is completely different from the Saudi population. The Iraqis are among the most educated people in the Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shia which is different from the Wahabis of the peninsula, and they don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities of Islam being on their territory. We're seeing today how much the people of Poland and Central...
...This program is a threat to Islam. This is entertainment for animals." SHAHNAZ RABI'I, 34-year-old Bahraini teacher, criticizing an Arab version of Big Brother, which had six men and six women cohabiting in a house?with a coed lounge, a prayer room and segregated bedrooms?for a week before it was taken...
Hiller’s speech was sponsored by the Harvard Society of Arab Students, the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee and the Progressive Jewish Alliance...
...power, and as such reflects a hard-fought compromise on questions such as Kurdish autonomy, the rights of women and the role of Islam. Its democratic federal provisions, underpinned by a bill of rights guaranteeing freedoms familiar in the West, would make it something of a model constitution among Arab nations. But this is simply a set of guidelines for the period between the U.S. hand-over and the election of an Iraqi constitutional assembly - an interim of no more than six months to a year, as the draft constitution reportedly requires that elections be held...
...October 2003, The New York Times website added a section to its op-ed page featuring editorials from foreign newspapers, particularly those that that deal with American foreign policy. CNN now regularly runs translated clips from the Arab satellite channel al Jazeera. These quiet additions are, in fact, part of a fundamental shift in the way we get information. Thanks to the internet and satellite TV, mass media are no longer geographically limited. Propaganda is propagated beyond national borders on signals that don’t fade as the metropole fades into the distance. We’re all watching...