Word: easternism
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Unilateralism looks little better. Without the legitimacy bestowed by international support a war in Iraq could lead to more extremism in Middle Eastern nations, many of which are already tinderboxes of bad governance and extremism. U.S. attempts to form a stable government in Iraq would be opposed by militants from all sides, making the country a pawn in the showdown between western liberalism and Islamic extremism—hardly a desirable fate for the Iraqi people...
...Sept. 11 thrust Middle Eastern Studies into the center of things, and we’ve never been there before,” says William E. Granara, director of undergraduate studies in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC...
Zahr, an Arab-American from New Jersey, started attending RUS meetings after studying gender, feminist and queer theories. He also devoted two summers to researching the politics of the body and Middle Eastern sexuality...
...clues abounded. Images of Columbia's demise were sent in by amateur videotapers, and reports of evidence were phoned in by freelance debris hunters. Part of the leading edge of one wing turned up near Fort Worth, Texas, while a rear wing section was examined in the eastern part of the state, near Nacogdoches. Researchers dug up old NASA memos warning of just the kind of accident that may have claimed Columbia. Experts sought to reassemble 32 seconds of vital, if patchy, data that sputtered down from Columbia after voice communications were lost. As NASA scrambled to manage events, officials...
...attempted assassination bombing three years ago, she's not taking any chances. In fact, there's little to fear. Nobody worries about bombs going off in Sri Lanka these days. You can travel just about anywhere on the island: to the northern peninsula of Jaffna or to the eastern beaches near Trincomalee, areas that were off limits for most of the past 19 years of civil war. The government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) signed a truce a year ago which, to everyone's amazement, has held...