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As used in modern, mainly American, political discourse, the term Arabist generally refers to a non-Arab observer with experience or specialization in Arabic language and culture , who is perceived to be excessively sympathetic towards Arab political views ...
Usage examples of arabist.
Paul Devereaux handed his Middle East duties to a rising young Arabist he had taken under his wing and moved to Counter-Terrorism.
Only the legendary Arabist, Charles Whitaker, is always welcome in their camps.
Every major Arabist in Europe during the nineteenth century traced his intellectual authority back to him.
Meanwhile, a friend of mine, Zvi el-Peleg, an Israeli Arabist and former governor of the Gaza Strip, spots me from across the bar, walks over, and pulls up a chair next to me.
Before making his first tour of duty to the Near East he had read the works of the important Arabist, Wilfred Thesiger.
Elliott Wilkinson, the well-known Arabist and a vice-president of the Ryle Memorial Trust.
Many were old-school Arabists who abhorred the use of force against Iraq and generally disliked even the sanctions and inspections.
As can be imagined, there were serious debates among the Iraq hawks and the Arabists at lower levels of the government too.
Painstakingly, by mid-watch lantern light, when the manipulations of letters are most apt to produce other kinds of illumination, Tchitcherine transliterates the opening sura of the holy Koran into the proposed NTA, and causes it to be circulated among the Arabists at the session, over the name of Igor Blobadjian.
Blobadjian, accordingly, is pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists waving scimitars and grinning horribly.
Close behind, Arabists are ululating, shrill, merciless, among the red-orange stars over the crowds of derricks.
The legendary Arabists in the State Department warn of Arab plans to take over the world.
Fluent in Arabic and widely considered the most seasoned Middle East hand, Horan, 68, whose first foreign service assignment had been in Baghdad in the 1960s, was one of the first Arabists Bremer had recruited for the provisional authority.
So, it was no surprise that in the critical months of 2002 and 2003, while the Bush administration shunned deep thinking and banned State Department Arabists from its councils of power, Bernard Lewis was persona grata, delivering spine-stiffening lectures to Cheney over dinner in undisclosed locations.
Bulliet and other mainstream Arabists who had urged a softer, more nuanced view of Islam found themselves harassed into silence.