Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whenever there is a minority panel there are never any Arab students on the panel," she says...
...student who does not belong to the society says he feels comfortable being Arab on his own because of his strong Arab identify. "I cannot divorce myself from my Arabness," says the student, who asked not to be identified. "A lot of Arab-Americans come here at a young age. In my case, my first year here was ninth grade. We speak Arabic at home...
...Arab students who have grown up in the U.S. find themselves caught between two cultures, says Rabie. Consequently they feel like they don't quite fit in at Harvard or overseas...
...Here I'm never going to be in the mainstream--I'm an Arab. In an Arab country I look different because I've grown up in America," Rabie says. "I fit in with my friends who are split down the middle as well...
Leith M. Masri '93 says he doesn't mind feeling different from his non-Arab classmates. "A lot of us are kind of half-breeds. We speak Arabic, but not as well as if we had grown up there," he says. "I don't mind feeling Arab--it's an important heritage. I think it's nice to have some part of your background be different from the norm...