Word: arabism
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...published by Harvard University Press, observe that Peters’s book is “based on materials out of context, and on distorted evidence,” and, citing my own conclusion that the book “is the most spectacular fraud ever published on the Arab-Israeli conflict,” report that “similar evaluations were expressed by notable historians” in Israel and Europe...
...February, President Jacques Chirac laid out his policy with admirable clarity. France, he said, had no difference with the U.S. "over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." The point of distinction was simply that Chirac thought that war--which he believed would outrage Arab and Islamic public opinion and "create a large number of little bin Ladens"--should be a last resort...
...logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan as a forum where young Israeli and Arab musicians understood that before Beethoven we all stand as equals. I shall never forget his making a room full of young Arabs, Israelis and Germans understand that the devil exists in all of us, that Weimar, where that first Divan took place, represented both the best and the worst...
Said was awarded a number of prizes for his work, including Sultan Owais Prize (the premier literary prize of the Arab world), the Spinoza prize and the New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction for his 1999 memoir Out of Place. That same year, he was named president of the Modern Languages Association...
...prospect of a lengthy stay in Iraq is complicated by the risk that Americans will be viewed by Iraqis as occupiers, rather than as liberators. If this happens, U.S. dominion over Iraq threatens to become as much of a rallying point for militants and demagogues throughout the Arab world as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although U.S. leaderhip and financial commitment would no doubt continue to be a significant component of the reconstruction effort, internationalizing control of Iraq through the U.N. would mitigate the appearance of hegemony and allow the world community sufficient time to lay a solid foundation for democracy...