Word: pan-arab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There had been Pan-Arab parleys aplenty but no action. Every race-proud Arab knew that the time was long overdue for telling the world that Pan-Arabia wanted to play a greater part in fashioning her own future. From the Tigris to the Nile the desert air was sultry with more than summer heat...
...Cairo last week for a conference on Pan-Arab problems came Premier Riad Solh of Lebanon. For the first time, he and his party represented an independent nation. The crisis over France's League of Nations mandate (TIME, Nov. 29) was settled. Syria and Lebanon had won their point: "all powers and capacities hitherto exercised by the French" had passed to their native governments...
...serious work shall be under taken; even officials may go late to work; schools will close at 2 p.m. Those officials who do not observe Ramadan, in Premier Mustapha El Nahas Pasha's words, "shall be dealt with." The Premier made an example: he called off his important Pan-Arab talks (TIME...
...Pan-Arab idea was started in the '90s to extend the authority of the Ottoman Empire, revived by Lawrence of Arabia in World War I to win the Arabs for the Allies, squelched by the postwar mandate system...
...fantastic to suppose that in the next few weeks great headway could be made with the Middle East's many national, racial and religious conflicts. It was not only a question of the pan-Arab dream. Turks feared Russians, and Iranians abhorred them. Syrians disliked French. Arabs and Jews were ancient enemies. Arabs loathed Turks. The Allied Middle Eastern command last week thought it would be lucky if it could keep the Middle East audience quiet while it battled Hitler on the stage...