Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home. Bahrain still uses foreign labor, but the proportion of immigrants in the national work force is much lower than in other gulf states. (Less than 60% of the island's 140,000 workers are from other countries.) Bahrain, moreover, carefully screens out potential troublemakers. Unlike many other Arab states, it has granted work permits to only a few hundred Palestinians. The vast majority of foreign laborers are docile Filipinos, Indians and Pakistanis hired on two-year contracts...
...dominant group. His charge that Syrian President Hafez Assad fanned the rebellion prompted Syria to expel Arafat last month. Although thousands of his fighters remain in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Arafat has had to move his base of operations to Tunisia while trying to win support from Arab leaders and the Soviet Union. The P.L.O. leader could take little comfort in the news from Moscow last week. According to a TASS report, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested in effect that Arafat seek an accommodation with Assad. After touring P.L.O. camps in Tunisia last week, Arafat gave an interview...
...rift within Fatah. It is very, very serious. As I told my fighters today, it is a case of Arab interference. Our bases in the Bekaa Valley are surrounded. The Libyan role is clear. [Libyan Leader] Muammar [Gaddafi] and his mass media are declaring that they are taking part in the attacks against our forces. The Syrians are saying they are not involved, but their moves make their role clear also. Their tanks and troops are blockading our bases...
Even by the standards of Hollywood, the Third World and the CIA (and they all apply), Burt Nelson has real problems. Burt, who narrates this stingingly funny picaresque, is in Morocco to write the script of an Arab-backed movie biography of Muhammad, a "couscous Western," as the director calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook...
...with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid City and oil country. From Libya to Egypt to Iran his film makers go, struggling to shore up their collapsing finances, and everywhere they encounter nothing but fanaticism, ignorance, treachery and greed. Readers interested in a balanced view of the Arab world should look elsewhere. If life is not fair, in the words of a recent President none too esteemed by Grenier's narrator, satire is even less...