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Society Co-Secretary Luma Al-Attar '95 says she is troubled not only by stock images of Arabs depicted in campus publications like the Lampoon, Peninsula and The Crimson but also by racist jokes made by students...
...With the recent war, [with] a lot of jokes people make about Arabs and Iraqis you don't know whether to laugh or to be offended," says Al-Attar, who is Iraqi. "You are often faced with the conflict--should I laugh or says something...
...Attar agrees. "What I like is being able to speak Arabic to may friends here," she says. "It feels good to be part of the group just to voice your opinions and your culture. All people know are the jokes...
...uncle was taken by the Iraqis on Thursday," Talal Attar, 29, an architectural engineer, said last week. "A lot of my friends and neighbors and cousins have disappeared." Enad al-Ban, a 24-year-old member of the resistance, said he was rounded up by the Iraqi security forces on Feb. 22 after he had finished Friday prayers at a mosque; he was one of hundreds of Kuwaitis taken almost at random by the security forces that day. "They were trying to catch any Kuwaiti they could," he said. "They put me in prison, and I was surprised...
FORTUNATELY for the squeamish reader, France is also the perfume capital of the world, and as Grenouille becomes an apprentice at a renonwned parfumerie, we are introduced to the more palattable scents of orange blossom, jasmine, clove, and attar of roses...