Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, the Society of Arab Students (SAS) was faced with a disturbing violation of its freedom of expression. Posters advertising an event sponsored by SAS were repeatedly torn down within hours of being put up. As a result, we felt compelled to announce the event in an advertisement in yesterday's Crimson...
Apparently, some members of the Harvard community do not believe in the freedom of expression for all. We hope that these narrow-minded individuals will reconsider their actions and that anyone who sees posters being torn down in the future will contact the Society of Arab Students. Laila Sahyoun '94 Leith Masri '94 Society of Arab Students...
...French," Le Pen has been drawing votes from an assortment of anachronistic cranks, former Nazi collaborators, die-hard repatriates from Algeria and disappointed Communists. Lately, they have been joined by a growing number of embittered citizens who are out of work or have to share their neighborhoods with Arab or African immigrants and who find the newcomers' skin color, religion, dress, music, food and customs all to be offensive...
...villainous stereotype may be an endangered species in Hollywood. African Americans have already made it quite clear that they are fed up with appearing in movies as muggers, pimps and other disreputable characters. Arab Americans say they are sick of being typecast as terrorists. And Native Americans have had it with being portrayed as brutish scalp-craving savages. Now gay activists are taking to the streets to decry the growing number of movies that, they say, are stereotyping them as psychopathic killers...
...seemed too good to be true and, sure enough, it was. As the United Nations Security Council prepared early last week to vote on sanctions against Libya, that country's ambassador announced that his government would hand over to the Arab League two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. The understanding was that the two would be passed on for trial in either the U.S. or Britain. But when an Arab League delegation called in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pronounced his ambassador "incorrect" and sent...