Word: arabization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Regarding your Feb. 8 article, "Three Who Defied De Gaulle," you refer to Pierre Lagaillarde as regarding himself as "anti-Semitic." To an American this would probably be interpreted as being anti-Jewish, whereas in Lagaillarde's frame of reference this might be interpreted as an anti-Arab sentiment, since they too are a Semitic people. Please clarify...
After the British retreated from Suez, it looked as if they could not hold out much longer at Aden, their hot and ugly colonial outpost at the other end of the Red Sea. In his medieval stronghold to the north, the Imam of Yemen was leagued with Arab nationalism's Hero Nasser in the United Arab States and spreading lavish gifts of money and rifles to persuade the Arabs of the Aden hinterland to join in driving the British "invaders" right off the peninsula...
Last year, to make a better buffer around Aden, the British set up a new federation of the Arab states of Aden's Western Protectorate. But only half a dozen sheiks and emirs and sultans could be prodded or cajoled into joining. The former Sultan of Lahej, most considerable of the petty potentates, turned up in Cairo to make anti-British propaganda. Half his army of 300 men, dragging along their only field piece, had crossed over to Yemen. The rest of the chieftains obviously thought the British were a poor bet for the future...
When Sammy Davis swings into She'd Live in a Tent, Joey worriedly pretends to detect an Arab influence, announces: "Jewish people don't live in tents. We don't even smoke Camels." When Senator Jack Kennedy caught the show last week, Joey told him: "If you get in, Frank has to be Ambassador to Italy and Sammy to Israel. I don't want too much for myself-just don't let me get drafted again." Turning to the medical profession, he muses: "My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn...
...process, the corporation has become a political and social system as well as an economic one-a state within a state. "Imperial decisions are ratified in this regal atmosphere," says Earl Latham, professor of political science at Amherst College, "decisions to divide up the U.S., develop Venezuela, support an Arab oligarchy, lengthen cars so that they fit nobody's garage, approve treaties with other satrapies of economic power and influence...