Word: arabize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Little red flags marked the remains of the car suspension, and other tags stood by pieces of human flesh that might have been the bombers'. Hotel workers and David Kalonzi, who sold souvenirs opposite the hotel entrance, talked of the men they saw in the Pajero: brown-skinned, thirtyish, Arab-looking. Kenyan police quickly detained 12 people of assorted nationalities for questioning, including an American woman who was soon released. An unknown group in Lebanon calling itself the Army of Palestine claimed responsibility, but nobody believed...
...TIME: You spoke of Turkey's eventual accession to the EU sending a powerful positive to message to the Arab and Muslim world. Can Turkey serve as a model to those countries...
...most compelling voices. THE ACTIVIST Dyab Abou Jahjah, 31, Belgium The Belgian government picked a fight with the wrong man. Lebanese-born political activist Dyab Abou Jahjah is charismatic, good-looking, articulate and brash - and he may have a point. Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt accused Abou Jahjah and his Arab European League of inciting the street riots in Antwerp that followed the murder last month of 27-year-old Moroccan schoolteacher Mohammed Achrak by a 66-year-old mentally ill Belgian man. But Abou Jahjah turned Verhofstadt's allegations into a trial of Belgian attitudes toward the country...
...fortunate." So Hizb ut-Tahrir members don't vote or run for office in secular elections, but have no plans for revolution. "This is a different system here, and our members respect that," he says. "The idea of a caliphate is only now beginning to take hold in the Arab world. Europe won't come around until our example is there to follow." The caliphate would operate under Shari'a law, the system of ethical and legal conduct derived from the Koran and the teachings of the Prophet. Assem says the economic principles of Shari'a would ensure a fairer...
...1990s, Iraq last week set a pattern of spontaneous assistance, unlocking doors, handing over documents. Saddam let photographers shoot images of fruitless inspections that gradually took on a somewhat silly air and made Bush's hasty criticism look unfair. Iraq's President scored p.r. points in the Arab world for his willingness to endure humiliating intrusions even into his palaces. Although the U.N. teams studiously refused to disclose any findings, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, in contrast to Bush, that "Iraq's cooperation seems to be good...