Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event was designed by its organizers, the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Society of Arab Students (SAS), to facilitate an open exchange of views on the contentious subject while avoiding heated debate...
Despite the tensions that have flared between Arab and Jewish communities, participants described the meeting as civil and constructive...
...family's wealth is estimated at $5 billion, and at 38, Osama bin Laden personally controls a fortune of perhaps $300 million. In the 1980s he became famous in Islamic circles for his heroic role fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan as one of the main leaders of the Arab volunteers. A few years after the war, he went into exile in Sudan, where he runs several businesses--a construction firm, a farm that produces sunflower seeds, a tannery that exports goat hides to Italy...
...first his work was political. He recruited thousands of Arab fighters in the Gulf, paid for their passage to Afghanistan and set up the main guerrilla camp to train them. Later he designed and constructed defensive tunnels and ditches along the Pakistani border, driving a bulldozer and exposing himself to strafing from Soviet helicopter gunships. Before long, he had taken up a Kalashnikov and was going into battle. In 1986 he and a few dozen Arab defenders fought off a Soviet onslaught in a town called Jaji, not far from the Pakistani border. To Arabs...
...same time, she defends Israel's wariness in dealing with its Arab neighbors. In recounting a goodwill trip to England, she repeats for our benefit the analogy she used with the British high-schoolers: "'Israel is as big as Wales,' I would say, 'but is has only half the population of London. So imagine half the Londoners spread across Wales and there you have Israel.... Now if you look at a map of the world, you'll see that all the Arab countries together cover an area the size of the United States. Then take Wales and compare...