(n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(2) There is no difference between (Arab) blood and (Jewish) blood.
(3) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(4) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(5) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(6) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(7) Unfortunately it was the Arab spring that failed , and the rise of Islamic State was one of the results.
(8) Asked if his calls for more airstrikes , a ground coalition comprising mainly Sunni Arabs and the deployment of US and international special forces were effectively just a more aggressive re-voicing of current White House strategy, he said: “I don’t agree that’s part of their strategy.
(9) Statements by Kerry, Israeli president Shimon Peres and Arab League representatives on Wednesday and Thursday indicated that significant progress had been made.
(10) The Sunni side includes ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, JRTN, the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, and moderate Sunni Arab tribal members.
(11) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
(12) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(13) By the 1970s, groups of schools were collaborating to offer their children a varied history course which might take in the modern world, the Arab-Israeli conflict and medicine through time.
(14) Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is organising the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva in September, which brings Iranian business leaders and foreign investors – including France’s Alstom, the United Arab Emirate’s Aujan, and Italy’s SACE – together.
(15) The relationship of body fat distribution to glucose intolerance and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Arab women was studied in 102 obese non-diabetic and 40 obese women with diabetes.
(16) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(17) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
(18) The non-significance of one item was probably related to the way it was translated into Arabic.
(19) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(20) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
Nakba
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The group’s first meeting concerned the Nakba Day protests, and a majority opposed any participation.
(2) On the Israeli side, awareness of the Nakba has grown in recent years thanks to myth-busting historical research and to the work of an organisation called Zochrot , though that does not translate into Jewish support for the return of Palestinian refugees.
(3) And no one can stop me.” Like many Palestinians whose families were displaced during the Nakba, Hinn said he could not see Jaffa as “Israel” but still as “Palestine”.
(4) I want to build in a control so that if, for example, you listen to an oral testimony from a Nakba refugee, you won’t be able to continue until you’ve also listened to a Holocaust refugee.
(5) It was followed at once by the outbreak of the first stage of the war that in 1948 secured Israel's independence and caused the Palestinian Nakba – the "catastrophe" – whose human and political consequences persist, through half a dozen more wars, to this day.
(6) We heard much about the Nakba from our parents and grandparents, about their suffering when forced to leave their country, at having lost everything,” he wrote.
(7) In 2011, he explained, the Israeli parliament passed a piece of legislation called the Nakba Law.
(8) Supported by right-leaning NGOs, it authorised the government to penalise any state-funded institution for organising events connected to Nakba day , which Palestinians observe alongside Israel’s independence day, in mid-May, to commemorate their displacement at the founding of the state.
(9) "In our Nakba you can negotiate, you can walk out of the prison.
(10) If a budgeted entity spends part of its resources on commemorating the Nakba, then the minister of finance has the authority to deduct up to three times the amount on the said action,” El-Ad said.
(11) As we approach the 68th anniversary of our catastrophe or Nakba , our occupiers need to acknowledge the wrong they did to us, apologise and pursue a genuine reconciliation, which may necessitate a very different political arrangement in historic Palestine.
(12) In May 2011, during the preparations for Nakba Day , which commemorates the expulsion of Palestinian refugees during the creation of Israel in 1948, representatives of the Assad regime began to promote the idea of a demonstration at the Israeli border on the Golan Heights.
(13) For the Arabs, it was the year of the Nakba [disaster] that led to the loss of their homes and lands.
(14) I lived in a culture where the Holocaust was not viewed in depth and was used artificially, linking it to the Nakba.
(15) "I told her that that is one way of making a distinction between our Nakba and their Holocaust," Dajani said.
(16) But on the morning of Nakba Day the government supplied buses, which hundreds of people got on.
(17) But Shavit might be the first such voice from deep inside the Zionist mainstream to speak so directly of the events the Palestinians regard as the nakba , the catastrophe.
(18) If I’m the director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque,” he said, “and you suggest a film festival with documentaries of the Nakba, I have to think: it could cause me trouble.
(19) The tools speak of a previous era and of one moment in particular: the day in 1948 when Hinn’s father, a barber, fled the coastal city of Jaffa with the tools of his trade in the midst of the event Palestinians mark as the Nakba – “catastrophe” – that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel.
(20) In Hinn’s barbershop, evidence of the Nakba is still unusually present – even if his father did not like to talk to his children about his flight from Jaffa.