Word: masri
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...some, but the news there is also not encouraging. I returned home a week later and heard the Sept. 1 NPR "Talk of the Nation," which discussed the issue for an hour with Patrick Clawson, the director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Rania Masri, the coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition. "Discussed" might be a bit too euphemistic for the polite attempt to maintain any semblance of decorum that ensued. Exchanging charges of American obstinance and anti-Islamic biases with claims of Iraqi corruption and noncompliance, the guests agreed on very little except...
...Leith M. Masri '93 says he doesn't mind feeling different from his non-Arab classmates. "A lot of us are kind of half-breeds. We speak Arabic, but not as well as if we had grown up there," he says. "I don't mind feeling Arab--it's an important heritage. I think it's nice to have some part of your background be different from the norm...
Even though students like Masri and Ghachem say they are comfortable at Harvard, SAS leaders say the College administration must work harder to improve the atmosphere for Arab and Arab-American students on Campus...
Jordanian officials feel unfairly squeezed by Washington. Last year, when Baker urged Taher al-Masri, then Jordan's Prime Minister, to comply with the embargo, he responded, "If you want me to reduce trade with Iraq, then open the gulf states to trade with us." Jordan's economy has been badly hurt by the punishment meted out by the desert kingdoms for King Hussein's support of Saddam in the war. Echoing widespread sentiments in Amman, Minister of Information Mahmoud al-Sherif complains that the volume of smuggling from Turkey and Syria is much greater than that from Jordan...
...members of the Harvard community do not believe in the freedom of expression for all. We hope that these narrow-minded individuals will reconsider their actions and that anyone who sees posters being torn down in the future will contact the Society of Arab Students. Laila Sahyoun '94 Leith Masri '94 Society of Arab Students