Word: arabize
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...about the aftermath of the massacre at the Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg talked with TIME movie critic Richard Schickel, who collaborated with him on the TV documentary Shooting War, about his reasons for taking on Munich, his anger at the International Olympic Committee and his modest plan for improving Arab-Israeli relations...
...brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek,” the prince said in his statement, according to CNN. Alwaleed’s donation follows the University’s return of a controversial $2.5 million gift from United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan in 2004. Harvard gave the money, which was originally earmarked for an endowed professorship at the Divinity School, back to the UAE after the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center came under fire for promoting an anti-Semitic agenda. In an interview with...
...terrorist group and kept building an image of himself as an "enlightened Islamist" who led interfaith projects in Florida, gave women leadership positions at his Tampa mosque--and in the 2000 presidential campaign, stumped for George W. Bush because he found Bush more attuned than Al Gore to Arab-American issues. By then the FBI had told U.S.F. administrators it had nothing to charge al-Arian with, and the next year he attended an Arab-American gathering at the White House...
...violence left 12 dead and hundreds injured. And the election raised the possibility that the Brotherhood, which ran a media-savvy campaign that appealed to its fundamentalist base as well as to Egyptians fed up with one-party rule, could eventually take power through the ballot box in the Arab world's most populous country. "We are in a transition period in the history of Egypt," el-Erian says. "We are the real representatives of the country...
...Brotherhood uses its clout may be determined by younger leaders like el-Erian, who heads the party's political department. A practicing physician, el-Erian, 51, joined the group after Israel's defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War helped spur a revival of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world. He was among thousands of activists rounded up at about the time a Muslim extremist assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After a year in prison, el-Erian won a seat in parliament in 1987, serving three years before being jailed again...