to lay his life and mental health on the line evokes a sense of patriotism. Unfortunately‚ to Arab Americans and Arabs in general‚ this is just another story in which all Arabs are painted with the same terrorist brush. These aggressions towards Arabs perpetuates violence‚ racism and islamophobia in the real world; It also supports the idea of a just imperialistic takeover of Iraq. This insight on Arabs and their “morals” present a fragmented view (Saeed 2007) to the film viewers. Behind the heroism
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Standing Up During the Holocaust The term “Holocaust” was used in the past as a word to describe mass destruction caused by fire or nuclear war. Since World War II ended in 1945‚ this term has taken on a new and terrifying meaning: the stretch of time over several years in which the deaths of some six million Jews took place under the jurisdiction of the Nazi regime leader‚ Adolf Hitler. Although he was a very unsparing and austere leader‚ there were many who were courageous enough to take a stand
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phonological and morphological systems of Arabic; e.g.‚ تلفزيون and they are described as معربة. (linguistic dimension) 2) It could be used to mean translating from other languages into Arabic. In this sense‚ Arabization started in the Arab world approximately 1200 years ago when Arab scholars in the Umayyad and Abbasid eras were engaged in translating Greek‚ Roman and Persian books in different fields of knowledge such as medicine and philosophy. Their efforts in translation as well as their own achievements
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In this essay I will compare between the story of Zahra by hanan el shik and the wiles of men by salwa bakr . first of all both el shik and bakr are arab women. Hanan Al-Shaykh was born in 1945 in Beirut‚ Lebanon. Al-Shaykh began writing at a young age and by sixteen had essays published in the newspaper she would eventually work for‚ al-Nahar. She attended the American College for Girls in Cairo‚ Egypt from 1963 to 1966. After her graduation she worked in television in Beirut and as a journalist
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising first started in the April of 1943.The Jewish engaged in several unarmed tactics in order to resist from the Nazis. It was important for the Jews to resist in the time of the holocaust. In the holocaust‚ many German appointed Nazis carried out torture tactics and even executions directed to the Jews.During the Holocaust‚ Jews used armed and unarmed resistance in order to help them maintain their humanity. Most Jewish rebellions were unarmed. In fact‚ the author of Resistance:
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Origin of Arab-Israeli Conflict Jews for Justice has made this excellent resource available to people around the world. We have converted their booklet to a more easily copied format. Download it! As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East‚ the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that‚ even if both sides are at fault‚ the Palestinians are irrational "terrorists" who have no point of view worth listening
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that America is the land of care-free young adults who have nothing to worry about.Being Arab in America has never been easy. Being young Arab living in America is quite something. When I first laid eye on the book‚which was given to me by my great English Dr. Sameer Ismaeel‚ Al-Najah university‚I thought it was another book of how miserable Arabs are in the United States.These stories are fimiliar in the Arab world.People are divided into two categories‚those who glorify America and make it the
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The 13th Warrior In 922 AD‚ an Arab poet named Ahmed is exiled and sent to the north as an emissary as punishment for his interest in another man’s woman. During the journey‚ they encounter another group of people quite different from themselves—the Vikings. Shortly after‚ the Vikings embark on a journey to defeat a group known as the Eaters of the Dead and‚ according to the Viking oracle‚ the 13th warrior needed for the journey must not be a Northman. As a result‚ Ahmed ends up going on the
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Muslims and Arabs. Muslims and Arab Americans are different groups in the United States and although some Muslim Americans overlap with Arab ancestry‚ they are different from one another. Most Muslims are not of the Arab background. The Arabs are an ethnic group and the Muslims are a religious group. The name Arab Americans refers to the immigrants and their descendents from the countries that now comprise the Arab world. The Arabic language is the single most-unifying force among Arabs‚ although
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were worse in the concentration camps. In contrast to common belief‚ not all Jews accepted such unreasonable and unequal treatments of the Nazis. Consequently‚ Jews resisted in various forms. Resistance by the Jews could be as simple as planning uprisings and escapes. They disguised themselves as Aryans (non-Jewish people). They organized secret schools and religious services‚ hid Jewish books‚ and wrote diaries about life and death. The effort to preserve their traditions was a kind of spiritual
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