Word: gacem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ASTONISHED by Hazem Ben-Gacem's vitriolic and patronizing personal attack on Bader El-Jeaan printed in The Crimson on 28 February. The piece very nearly violates the norms of appropriate and constructive public discourse so highly and rightly prized by academic communities...
Although I am a close personal friend of Mr. El-Jeaan, it is certainly not my place to respond to Mr. Ben-Gacem's outrageous and unsubstantiated charges against him. Rather, as a person actively engaged in campus activities related to the Middle East, I would like to attempt a rational critique of Mr. Ben-Gacem's emotional support of Pan-Arabism...
...first place, Mr. Ben-Gacem, I lived in Belgium for three years, hardly 12. Perhaps in the future, you would do well not to rely on false, ignorant hearsay the next time you wish to take weak, malignant jabs at a person...
...known, Mr. Ben-Gacem, that I have lived in both Kuwait and Tunisia--two Arab countries whose political and economic frameworks are diametrically opposed, and whose respectively peoples are far from united. How many Arab states have you lived...
Finally, Mr. Ben-Gacem, as a matter of common courtesy, I would appreciate your not addressing me by my first name, in such a familiar tone. Contrary to what you might believe, I am not your brother. I do not even know you, and you obviously know nothing about me. Bader A. El-Jeaan