Word: arabization
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...only a matter of time before the emotional repercussions of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab unity movement would sweep across the kingdom of Jordan. Last week Nasserite crowds swarmed through Jerusalem and towns on the West Bank of the Jordan River, shooting off rifles and tommy guns and demanding immediate merger with Nasser's projected federation. King Hussein called out desert troops and police reinforcements, clamped an emergency curfew on the Holy City. In the capital city of Amman, shouting students carrying Arab unity flags with a fourth star for Jordan were peacefully dispersed, but armored cars warily...
...wealth of the Arab world glitters in Beirut, but the citadel of Arab finance is an undistinguished grey-walled building in Amman on the edge of the Jordan desert. It is the Arab Bank, the first as well as the largest Arab-owned bank. Its bluff, barrel-chested founder and chairman is Abdul Hameed Shoman, 75, a onetime haberdashery peddler who ranged the U.S. before returning home to open a bank dedicated as much to helping Arabs as it is to making profits. Shoman excels at making helping pay. Last week, as the Arab Bank released its 1962 report, everything...
...products. "I only knew how to say 'cheap, cheap' and then make finger signs to show the price," he says. What he lacked in English he more than made up in hard work. He soon opened a dressmaking factory in Manhattan's garment district, where an Arab was bound to get a small hello. He was homesick. Seeing how U.S. banks helped small businesses to get on their feet, Shoman decided that what the Arabs needed was their own bank-an enterprise that no Moslem had so far undertaken because of the Koran's injunction against...
...important in other parts of the world. Many of the special problems of the Middle East are hardly mentioned in the Review. To be sure, A. J. Meyer's discussion of competition between Israel and Egypt in extending technical and economic aid to sub-Saharan Africa touches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, but it covers only a minor facet. The Review ignores Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the oil sheikdoms, and the Arab states of western North Africa, which are culturally, religiously, and politically--if not geographically--a part of the Middle East. No magazine could cover all of these...
These articles discuss doctrines of Arab Socialism as described in the Egyptian Constitution of 1956, describe in some detail the land reform programs in Iraq before and after Kassim's revolt, and list problems which the Second Turkish Republic has faced in attempting to remedy the abuses for which it executed Menderes. Each of these articles has some merit, but none of them is either well-written or particularly searching in its analysis...