Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand, U.S. support for its encircled ally has aimed to even out the regional balance of power. Although most Arab nations remain committed to Israel's eventual destruction, they have hesitated before attacking an American-built military machine backed by American military guarantees...
Just one week after the United States began its aerial assault on Iraq, the City Council reacted to an allegedly racis at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School by denouncing a perceived rise in anti-Arab sentiment within the city...
Vice Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 moved the resolution, which denounces "the irrational targeting of persons of Arab descent and/or Muslims...
Hindy Al-Weqayan, a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, said she was harassed by another student and a substitute teacher at the school over her Arab heritage. Hindy's mother, Ellen Al-Weqayan, said that the classmate called Arabs "oppressors" and "dictators...
Giroux said no further incidents of discrimination had been reported to the school, adding that he did not know of any increase in anti-Arab sentiment among the students. "People get along pretty well. It'd be chaos if there wasn't an understanding of other people's cultures, "he said...