Word: arabization
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...nearby hut, Miriam Awat, a Yemenite girl, spoke up for her giggling girl friends, all clad in Mother Hubbards, long tight Arab pants, and beaded headdresses fashioned like a crusader's mailed hood...
...American before him, he has fallen in love with the Old World. To his French and Arab friends, who look upon Americans as Roman-style imperialists come to organize and barbarize their cultivated Greek-style world, Childress is "the nice American," a surprisingly sensitive soul...
...other resolution, jointly sponsored by India and the eleven Asian and Arab nations, was plainly designed to sidetrack the U.S. measure and open the way for admission of Communist China to U.N. It called for an immediate conference with Peking, while the fighting in Korea continued. Purpose: to get "all necessary elucidations and amplifications" of Peking's latest message to the U.N. relayed by India. That message, which Warren Austin had bitingly called "not much more than a postal card," had in effect notified U.N. that Peking would agree to a cease-fire only on its own terms...
Iraq's Premier Nuri Al-Said urged that the Arab nations formally renounce neutrality, line up firmly with the West, and organize a joint Middle Eastern army, eventually to be put under NATO. There were reservations: Egypt, for instance, wants British troops to leave the Suez Canal Zone, put the canal's defense under an international authority. Syria favors a Middle Eastern regional organization...
Charles Habib Malik, Lebanon's delegate at U.N., is a Christian (Greek Orthodox) Arab and a onetime professor of philosophy at the American University in Beirut. His voice of clear faith often rises above U.N.'s shallow bickerings. The current issue of The Christian Century publishes a recent speech in which Philosopher Malik defines, better than most Western leaders, the urgent challenge and the tremendous opportunity which Communism presents to the West. Excerpts...