Word: arabized
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Iranian officials deny they are going after nuclear weapons and say the West is painting Iran as a menace only because it does not buy its arms from Western producers. Arab states do not accept that argument. "No one objects to Iran buying weapons to defend itself," says retired Egyptian Major General Ahmed Fakhr, who heads the National Center for Middle East Studies in Cairo, "but the type of weapons that Iran has been buying are destabilizing." One example: a delegation of 20 Iranian experts recently visited North Korea to discuss the purchase of new ballistic missiles with...
...level, the entire Arab-Israeli struggle can be seen as a biblical family tragedy: Abraham's rejection of his concubine Hagar and his first-born son Ishmael in favor of his lawful wife Sarah and their son Isaac. Muslims regard Ishmael (Ismail) as the father of the Arab peoples, while Jews honor Isaac as their progenitor. And both sides claim Abraham (Ibrahim) as their common ancestor...
Whether what amounts to a one-trick pony, musically speaking, can sustain a nearly three-hour opera, however, is another matter, and it is here that Korot's visual contribution is critical. What gives The Cave its real dramatic power is the raw material of Jewish, Arab and American perspectives on one of history's Ur-tragedies...
...week's Middle East peace talks on track. According to a Western diplomatic source, the Egyptians learned of Israeli Defense Force plans to enter Lebanon for a week-long siege on Hizballah bases. Egyptian officials believed that if the Israelis went through with such a plan, it would strengthen Arab opposition to the peace talks and derail negotiations. Late Wednesday night Osama El-Baz, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's troubleshooter and confidant, arrived in Israel with a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that the consequences of such an attack would be dire. By the end of the week...
Vernon Loucks, the CEO of Baxter International Inc., has come under attack recently after his company pleaded guilty to violating U.S. trade laws and giving economic information to the Arab League in 1985 in order to be removed from the league's list of companies to be boycotted...