Word: levanter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long a staple of the Middle East tourist trade and a basic component of wardrobes in the Levant, the kaffiyeh came to the U.S. via Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral...
Last fall, a diver on the Stanford women's team, Simone Levant, refused to sign the NCAA drug-testing consent form on the grounds that it violated her rights under the California constitution, said Liz Lempert of the Daily...
...Levant dropped the case after failing to reach the NCAA championship round, but a player on the women's soccer team reopened the case, Lempert said...
After its founding in Cairo in 1017, the enigmatic movement gradually spread to the Levant. Eventually it entrenched itself in particular in the heart of the Chouf, overlooking Beirut. During the 17th century an aristocratic Kurdish warrior clan, the Jumblatts (the name means heart of steel), joined the Druze and eventually became one of the group's two dominant families. At about the same time, the Druze formed an alliance with the Maronite Christians under the leadership of a Druze emir. In the 19th century, the aggressively ascendant Maronites sought to consolidate their power over Lebanon. Alarmed, the Druze...
...university is responsible for educating. And if tolerance, respect, and simple good comportment are no longer parts of education, then we should perhaps rethink the entire process. We, as Greek Orthodox, represent one-fifth of the world's some billion Christians, scattered as we are throughout Eastern Europe, the Levant, Greece, Western Europe, and the Americas (with a population of about four million in the latter). Would it not behoove a university to teach its students of our ancient traditions? And would not education help to create tolerance...