Word: ashrawi
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...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman YASSER ARAFAT acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister HANAN MIKHAIL-ASHRAWI, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat's failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat?s failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
...Hanan Ashrawi, minister of education in the Palestinian Authority, delivered an impassioned and controversial address on Monday evening before a packed classroom in Sever Hall. Pointing to its settlement policies, she argued that the Israeli government had fostered extremism on both sides. She also blamed the Clinton administration for failing to remain neutral in the faltering peace process...
...next day's Crimson, Adam J. Levitin '98, was quoted questioning "why the Harvard Foundation sponsored Ms. Ashrawi." A Crimson editor, Levitin was also quoted saying, "She was hardly promoting ethnic understanding...
Events like the speech by Ashrawi have helped to dispel the perception that the Foundation primarily sponsors "feel-good," "warm-and-fuzzy" events. The Foundation is not here to advance simplistic ideas about the role played by "culture" and "race" in students' identities, but to provoke an active dialogue about what these terms mean and the complex role they play in social and political affairs...