Sentences with phrase «of arab»

Many of the Jewish subjects were descended from ancestors who presumably originated in the Levant but dispersed throughout the world before returning to Israel in the past few generations; most of the Arab subjects could trace their ancestry to men who had lived in the region for centuries or longer.

Seventy percent of the Jewish men and half of the Arab men inherited their Y chromosomes from the same set of paternal ancestors who lived in the Middle East within the last few thousand years.

Scientist of the Arab Spring: At Caltech, Ahmed Zewail is a world - class chemist.

The event smacked of the Arab Spring, when authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and northern Africa fell to rebellions that were in part inspired by social media.

«A classifier that tries to flag every single person of Arab descent could identify 9 out of the 11 Paris attackers at the cost of falsely flagging 370 million out of the 450 million Arabs in the world,» he says.

We're facing a growing water crisis in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and in some of the Arab areas adjoining Israel.

In the wake of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia, voters had chosen Islamist - led governments.

It also enjoys increasing ties with some of its Arab neighbors — a sign not of love, but of common enemies.

«I am a Palestinian national,» Sarsour said, noting she serves as executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, a city - subsidized nonprofit.

«Our nation must be mindful that there are thousands of Arab Americans who live in New York City, who love their flag just as much as the three of us do, and we must be mindful that as we seek to win the war that we treat Arab Americans and Muslims with the respect they deserve,» the president said.

Dr. Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University, will moderate the panel, with Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York; Luna Ranjit, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Adhikaar; Joanne N. Smith Founder and Executive Director of Girls for Gender Equality; and Margarita Rosa, Executive Director of National Center for Law and Economic Justice participating in the discussion.

Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of the Arab American Association in New York, said that the gathering was a universal effort to raise awareness.

«It was a defining moment of the Arab Spring and the Libyan people can be immensely proud of the inspiration they have given others around the world, as we are of our role in supporting them,» David Cameron said.

Ordinary citizens, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, are caught between these extremes and left shocked by the sudden outpouring of violence, dousing for many what had been the hope of the Arab Spring.

A number of the Arab leaders will be arriving in New York at the United Nations and there will be continuing debate at the UN over the next couple of days.

Alternating vocal and instrumental numbers with solo and group dance numbers, Zikrayat's mission is to highlight the diversity of Arab culture for mainstream Western audiences in an authentic yet entertaining contemporary representation.

In the era of the Arab Revolutions, and with citizens asserting their rights and holding their governments accountable from Brazil to Turkey to Cambodia, the people power of cultural diplomacy is more important than ever.

It features testimonies in favor of the candidate by singer Harry Belafonte; Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed in a 2014 chokehold incident with the NYPD: preacher and civil rights activist Shaun King, and Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York.

It was unthinkable that creative voices might be silenced in Egypt, the beating heart of Arab culture.

The mainly ethnically Berber Rif region has long had a tense relationship with Morocco's central authorities, and was at the heart of Arab Spring - inspired protests in 2011.

British foreign secretary William Hague said that, a decade on, Al - Qaida was a spent force, overtaken by the momentum and idealism of the Arab Spring.

Operative paragraph 8 authorises Member States that have notified the UN Secretary - General and the Secretary - General of the League of Arab States, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements to take all necessary measures to enforce the ban on flights established by operative paragraph 6.

(Routledge Atlas of the Arab - Israeli Conflict)

«Don't underrate social media in this business, social media has driven revolutions in other countries, it is the cause of the Arab Spring, social media has been the basis of the Obama campaign.

The leaders of the Arab countries in the region made clear that they see Iran as a threat due to it's proxies.

French foreign minister Alain Juppé said: «We must not be afraid of the Arab Spring because it embodies universal values - dignity, freedom, respect for human rights, the right of people to choose their own leaders.»

It is in 2012 that the consequences of the Arab Spring for the future of the region will become clearer.

The demolition of Arab homes built without permits - which are difficult or often impossible to obtain - also breeds bitterness.

E.g. Does the alleged situation of arab disenfranchisement in Israel fit your narrative, with leftists supporting people who might then vote for socially conservative Islamist parties.

Archbishop Duncan - Williams also warned that if the vicious cycle is not ended anytime soon so that the private sector could be allowed to flourish to provide enough job opportunities for the hordes of students who come out of school at different levels, then an African version of the Arab Spring was imminent.

Among the national co-chairs are prominent Arab - American activist Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and founder and CEO of MPower Change, and activist Tamika Mallory, who served as the youngest executive director of Sharpton's NAN.

Baathist Iraq: Saddam Hussein was the one who made a lot of Arab villages connect to electricity for the first time.

Some will surely want to strengthen links with their friends in Qatar and other parts of the Arab world, relationships that were badly undermined by Gaddafi's antics.

Whether it is the Haiti earthquake, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the Iran uprising in 2009, or the videos posted on Facebook of the events of the Arab spring, social media are regularly beating the news industry at its core business of being first with the news.

Qatar immediately embraced the cause of the Arab revolt with all the instruments it possessed: Al Jazeera, the pay - check diplomacy and even deploying its air force in Libya.

Facing such conditions, citizens of these Arab countries are quickly losing faith in the whole democratic process.

It is no coincidence that the citizens of Arab countries with limited fossil fuel reserves have enjoyed greater freedom over the years than their oil - rich neighbours.

They are lone wolf attacks that enjoy some local support, fuelled by mutual hatred between the two sides of the conflict and that are unfortunately condoned in much of the Arab press worldwide.

At a meeting before Abbas's speech, foreign office minister Alistair Burt confirmed to a group of representatives of Arab organizations that Britain had not taken a position on this matter and would not do so until it had seen the actual text.

This is the very message of the Arab Muslims.

Although the Jewish majority's awareness of this discrimination is often quite low, it plays a central role in the sensibilities and attitudes of Arab citizens.

From today's perspective, it appears that rival inter-Middle Eastern politics and sectarian and interreligious tensions have been undermining (if not choking) the self - regulation and self - transformation of the political processes of the Arab Spring movement.

@StasM - since your URL gives me «Sevice Not Available», I will make up a conspiracy theory that it was indeed taken out by Anonymous and this proves me right:) Also, in all seriousness, Syria is a pretty poor example, since 100 % of Arab states aside from Iran oppos Al Assad at this point.

Caught between the dynamic of the Arab Springs and that of the destabilization of the Sahel, the Algerian trajectory remains uncertain.

This new elite is in contrast to the previous elite in that it is not rooted in the conventional political game of the Middle East and, as a consequence, it is not — taking the legitimization of the Arab Spring into consideration — dependent on the traditional regional core states (e.g., Iran, Saudi Arabia).

Since 2011, the shockwave of Arab Springs has rattled many countries and has reduced the Sahel zone to chaos.

Ba'athism is based on principles of Arab nationalism, pan-Arabism, Arab socialism, as well as social progress.

However, a comparison of the number of the major Spring - nations that have been affected during the first, second, and third waves of the Arab Spring, to the number represented in the Arab League, makes it apparent how modest the Arab Spring has been.

@Denis de Bernardy: because I've often heard the charge of corruption thrown at Arab states; and as I said it came to me as a «surprise» that so many in the Israel government has faced similar charges and been indicted; just goes to show what one can learn when reading around; look at whats happening at the US with the Potentate Trump and his First Family - who'd have thought the US would have gone the way of Arab nepotism?

As news of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and then Egypt spread to Yemen at the beginning of 2011, Hameed seized his opportunity, doing all he could to promote street protest in Sana'a.