Word: shamieh
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...other analysts and commentators suspect Syria is to blame, arguing that Eid's murder fits the pattern of past professionally conducted car bomb assassinations in which Syrian involvement was strongly suspected. Writing in the anti-Syrian Al-Mustaqbal newspaper last week, columnist Fadi Shamieh said that recent attacks in Lebanon suggest a convergence of interests between Syria and some Sunni jihadists operating in Lebanon. "Even if there are no ideological links between these two sides, both are diligently working to create trouble as soon as possible which would serve the interest of the extremists ... [and] the objectives of hostile intelligence...
...This place is an institution almost as much as Harvard," said Mabel M. Shamieh, a friend of Cahaly who was helping him with his final sale...
...Arabian Night," by Betty Shamieh '96, is both bold and honorable in trying to address the ways in which Arab-American women must negotiate their sexuality within American and Arab-American society. While this difficult and upsetting story is ambitious, the production in the Adams Pool Theater this past weekend faltered because of flat acting, technical problems and heavy-handedness...
...have been much maligned in recent years, and usually without recognizing that they are written by students. Rarely are these plays finished products, and they should not be considered as such. While this production was not a success. "One Arabian Night" has an enormous amount of potential. The themes Shamieh is trying to dramatize are powerful and engaging, and some of the dialogue is very well written. The problem was that it just did not gel into good theater. But this does not mean it can't in the future...
...Well cast as a beautiful, sweet dancer, Brawley was the most able of the cast to hold the stage. Unfortunately she was forced to say some of the most ridiculous lines of the play, mostly concerning the plight of the Arab-American woman. Sometimes one wondered whether or not Shamieh was making fun of Jane: "I'm neither Arab nor American. I'm myself...