Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaves Jean-Marie Le Pen and his ilk in an awkward position. Their problem: France's soccer heroes are mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know that it would be disastrous to take a stand against the team when the whole nation has united behind it. So the irony is that...
SHEIK AHMED YASSIN, spiritual leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, was heartily received around most of the Arab world on a recent tour, his first after his release from an Israeli prison last October. But the welcome mat was held back in the place Yassin might have expected to find the warmest greeting. Jordan, whose KING HUSSEIN pressured Israel into freeing Yassin, twice refused him entry. According to a senior Jordanian official, Hussein, who has for years tolerated a high-profile Hamas office in Amman, is weary of the group, which has waged a series of deadly bomb attacks...
...Sudan has had to present a picture of himself, his religion and his country many times before, in speeches for Model UN and the International Club back in Andover, where he spent a post-high-school year, and subsequently in positions such as president of the Society of Arab Students and co-founder of the Woodbridge Society of International Students at Harvard. There have been very few students from the Muslim Middle East sharing his American education, much less from Sudan, and his background has been subject to many curious inquires...
...life, it seems, is a balancing act worthy of a diplomat. Constantly, he reconciles his family's cultural and religious traditions with his overseas experience and his Sudanese patriotism with the realities of his predominantly expatriate past. He is an individual but also a member of an Islamic Arab intelligentsia from a predominantly agrarian country where less than half the nation is literate and its ethnically and religiously diverse population speaks 132 different dialects...
...challenges he referred to are true, such as the pressure on one's beliefs, moral code and cultural perceptions. Yet, equally true was my belief in the ability to withstand those challenges without compromising what I stood for. My U.S. experience increased my awareness of my multiple identities--Sudanese, Arab, African, Muslim and international," he says, noting that his parents are now perfectly fine with his choice...