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...battlefield near modern Karbala on Oct. 10, 680, Hussein was killed and decapitated. But rather than nipping the Shi'ite movement in the bud, his death gave it a martyr. In Shi'ite eyes, Hussein is a just and humane figure who stood up to a mighty oppressor. The annual mourning of Hussein's death, known as Ashura, is the most poignant and spectacular of Shi'ite ceremonies: the faithful march in the streets, beating their chests and crying in sorrow. The extremely devout flagellate themselves with swords and whips...
...Gulf, there was widespread admiration for Saddam's willingness to stand against the U.S. and Israel. On the Arab street, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was therefore viewed as an imperialist Western assault on Arabs and Muslims rather than the war of liberation from an odious oppressor, as the Bush Administration had depicted...
...with Ibn Saud, the Saudi king, three years earlier, the U.S. president had asked for help in resettling Jewish survivors in Palestine. Ibn Saud countered that the survivors should be given choice land in Germany under the protection of the Allies. "Make the enemy and the oppressor pay; that is how we Arabs wage war. Amends should be made by the criminal, not by the innocent bystander. What injury have Arabs done to the Jews of Europe? It is the 'Christian' Germans who stole their homes and lives. Let the Germans...
...don’t come as an oppressor. We don’t come as an occupier. We’re not gaining any money by being there...
...passions, the actors all have outstanding performances. Alexandra C. Palma ’08 is particularly arresting as the matriarch, Bernarda Alba. She gives a nuanced portrayal of a tyrannical, yet vulnerable mother; Palma’s expressive face shows her internal conflicts well. Although Bernarda is the ostensible oppressor of the family, the suggestion that it is actually men who are the tyrants in this play is omnipresent, and so Palma’s increasing pathos lends her character greater credibility.Olga I. Zhulina ’09 shines as Adela, the beautiful youngest daughter of Bernarda whose recklessness leads...