Some of the hypocrisy in the Arab world is unspeakable.
This region includes some states that are not ethnically Arab, such as Morocco and Iran, and excludes Arab states in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
More than a few people in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, agree with Mohamed.
One Thousand and One Nights, a literary classic in the Arab heyday, is known to every Chinese household.
When the Germans began laying tracks in 1904, construction followed along the centuries-old caravan route cleared by Arab traders.
Hindu and Arab venturesomeness brought arithmetic and algebra to the fore once again and placed it almost on a par with geomety.
The only Arab country with a major, full-scale armed insurrection, it is not quite a stalemate as there is an ebb and flow dynamic to the conflict between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces.
"What Arab East Jerusalem?" asks a settler in an Arab area.
The Arab etymologies of "saffron", "crimson" and "sugar" speak of England's medieval trade with the Arab world.
Likewise, the ancient Chinese culture and technologies were introduced to Arab countries and via Arab countries, Chinese porcelain, silk, tea and papermaking technique were passed on to Europe.
And yet serious reform efforts are conspicuously hard to find in the Arab world.
The period of Arab rule lasted until 1090, when the islands were taken by the Sicilian Normans, restoring Christianity again.
In Middle Ages, Arabdom created its splendid Arab-Islamic culture byoverwhelmingly and open-mindedly absorbing the ancient civilization of the easternMediterranean as well as remote Asia.
The crackdown appears to have the sanction of the Saudi government, and has been greeted with relief by those who fear that Arab societies are growing more brittle and intolerant.
Formal colonization arrived late in much of the Arab world.
One in 10 of its inhabitants is of Arab or African origin.
Such laws are not easily enforced in the tobacco-loving Arab world. Packs can cost as little as 50 cents.
Most of the men are sleeping forward, for it is near midnight, but a stout, swarthy Arab, Mahomed by name, stands at the tiller.
Most Saudis are ethnically Arab.
Syria, unlike Libya, is a hub of the Arab world.
Palestinians went on strike in protest over Israel's plans to demolish 88 Arab homes in disputed East Jerusalem.
The State Department also plans to establish what it's calling two embassy "branch offices" in the north, in Kirkuk and Mosul, to deal with tensions there created by the Arab-Kurd contest for control.
An Arab was interviewed at a U.S checkpoint.
The takeover was engineered by the Arab Socialist Resurrection Party (Ba"ath Party).
The statement rocked credit markets around the world and prompted analysts to question whether Dubai, the most populous of the United Arab Emirates, will be able to meet its obligations.
It should be the Arabs' breadbasket and economic motor. It was the first Arab country to make peace with Israel and has been America's most stalwart Arab ally.
The demand, particularly concerning Arab-Israeli affairs, was for upbeat stories reporting good news about what the author calls the “virtual world” of the peace process.
The map below presents key indicators for each member of the Arab League.
Egypt is the most important Arab country and the touchstone for change in the Arab world.
But this is not Egypt or Tunisia, where the wave of political upheaval sweeping the Arab world crested last winter, toppling the regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
One who is favorably disposed toward Arab concerns and policies.
The world's youngest-and arguably most beautiful-queen, queen Rania is garnering increasing international acclaim for her modern approach to presiding over a traditional Arab nation.
The Middle East's mad dog: Qaddafi's militantly pro-Palestinian and pan-Arab ideology brought him into close contact with the anti-Western bloc of Arab nations during the 1970s and 1980s.
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