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Still, Emirates executives point out that Dubai--and the airline itself--is a tolerant, multicultural bastion, with English as the common language. "With more than 100 nationalities working here, and an open, self-critical way of doing business, we're not even an Arab airline," says executive vice president Gaith Al Gaith. And it's not as if Emirates shies away from its associations with the U.S.: it slapped a 20-story picture of the Statue of Liberty on a Dubai skyscraper last summer to advertise its New York flights...
...assure you, still live there. Yes, the city has a large number of immigrants, and that has led to a certain ethnic polarization. Still, it would have been wise to listen to others besides members of the right-wing extremist Vlaams Belang party or the radical Arab European League. The idea that an AEL candidate might be a main rival to Vlaams Belang in the 2012 municipal elections is plainly outrageous, since AEL's percentage of the vote in the last election was negligible. Dirk Lambrecht Brussels Your stories on discrimination against immigrants in Europe summed up my experience...
...diplomat. Foreign officials note that she likes to play solo, holding meetings without a phalanx of regional experts. Others report that she is unexpectedly generous with her time, even to countries that have been sharply critical of the U.S. At the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in February between Arab and Israeli leaders, Rice met with all the participants individually but steered clear of the summit to avoid the appearance of U.S. overreach. And an Israeli official notes that in private negotiating sessions, Rice has a clever way of pushing hard on an issue, even if only to elicit a vague...
...documentary seems superficial—he and co-director Timothy Schwamb interviewed people from Montreal named “Osama” about the effect of Sept. 11 on their lives—but serves as a vehicle for a more comprehensive discussion of the diversity of the Canadian Arab community and the modern state of pluralism in North America...
...truly unfortunate that Kaabour could not be present to more fully introduce his film, and his struggle is a blatant example of the injustice facing Arab immigrants. While the United States and Canadian governments continue to create policy unfairly biased against the entire Arab community, young directors like Kaabour need to continue documenting the true individuality of persons of diverse ethnic, religious and social backgrounds...