Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would help minority students a lot if non-minority students who are interested in minority issues were at vigils or events," says Laila F. Sahyoun '94, former president of Harvard's Society of Arab Students...
THOUGH IT HAS BEEN AGAINST THE LAW SINCE 1977 for American firms to cooperate with the Arab boycott of Israel, the Clinton Administration has sent U.S. companies a strong reminder by levying the first criminal penalty in such a case. Baxter International, the world's largest hospital supplier, pleaded guilty to violating provisions of the law that forbids U.S. companies to provide the Arab League with information about their dealings with Israel. The U.S. government, which began investigating the matter three years ago, fined Baxter $500,000 in the case. Baxter will pay an additional $5,959,000 to < settle...
Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...
...pleased that Dean Epps Special Committee has concluded that I acted properly, and without racial bias, in presenting the Society of Arab Students (SAS) grant application to the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory Committee (SAC) last semester...
...pains me to have to defend myself against accusations of racism. I am not racist or anti-Arab. Rather, I am deeply committed to working for better race relations and intercultural harmony at Harvard. It was this commitment that prompted me to run for election to the SAS last year...