Word: easternism
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...mystery deepens because Israel is not unique. Its creation is rooted in the decay of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian empires at the end of the 19th century and in the desire of persecuted peoples for homelands. The Jews of Eastern Europe were not the only ones who dreamed such dreams; so did Serbs, Czechs, Poles, Croats and others. As the empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate...
...June 1963, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (from whose jurisdiction the magazine had been mailed) heard the government's case that, though the material in Eros may not have been obscene, its promotion tended to "pander to prurient interests." Here are some of the lines from the brochure that the judges viewed as pandering...
...Iranian officials have not said whether the Iranian-Canadian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Sorbonne-educated scholar who served as a fellow at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies in the 1998-1999 academic year, has been charged with any crime...
...Jahanbegloo is] not only intellectually outstanding but also a staunch advocate of non-violence and an able spokesperson for the great cultural wealth of the Iranian tradition,” said Mottahedeh, who is also a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...Lobsters won the match 24-18, bringing their record to 1-1. Since Sunday’s victory, they have gone on to lose their next two matches, bringing their record to 1-3 and earning them a spot in the basement of the league’s Eastern Conference...