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Volume 13 , Issue 5
December   1980
National Council of Churches Adopts New Comprehensive Statement on Middle East by Allison Rock and Jay Vogelaar

When the 266-member governing board of a national organization, representing 32 Christian denominations with more than 40 million members, reaches unanimous agreement on a policy statement pertaining to the Middle East, that statement at once becomes noteworthy, as this issue points out.

Volume 13 , Issue 4
September -October  1980
Kuwait: Prosperity from a Sea of Oil by G. Alan Klaum

This is the sixth in our series on Middle East countries.

Volume 13 , Issue 3
July -August  1980
American Jews and the Middle East: Fears, Frustration and Hope by Allan Solomonow

Allan Solomonow has worked fulltime for the last ten years on the question of Middle East Peace, and was the first Program Director for the Jewish Peace Fellowship, a national inter-religious effort to bring together resources and programs to stimulate a national dialogue on peaceful alternatives for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, all of which he describes in this issue.

Volume 13 , Issue 2
April -May  1980
The Arab Stereotype on Television by Jack G. Shaheen

More than two decades have passed since Dr. Jack G. Shaheen wrote this description of Arab stereotyping on American television: “For two million Americans of Arab descent, the belligerent anti-Arab bias [in television programming] is an inescapable fact of daily life. Most minorities have come into their own on the television screen. Blacks have graduated from their janitorial and servant jobs to become doctors, lawyers and scientists. Latins are no longer seen as Frito Bandito or Chiquita Banana types. The American Indian does not massacre helpless whites. The Oriental no longer acts like the shuffling coolie or barbaric villain. Television, for the most part, has discontinued pejorative characterizations of women and other minorities. Only the Arab has been excluded from television cultural reorientation.

During a televised wrestling match, for example, the announcer emphasized the unsavory character of Akbar the wrestler. “Akbar likes to hear the cracking of bones, and when he makes faces, he is ugly, ugly.” Akbar, added the announcer, is from Saudi Arabia and is so rich that he wrestles not for money but for the pleasure he gains from inflicting pain on others.”

In truth, this scourge of the Middle East is a native Texan. Another “Arab” terror is Abdullah the Butcher, a dirty fighter with pointed shoes who shows no mercy to other wrestlers. Although Abdullah’s promoters claim he is an Arab from the Sudan, he is a black from the United States.

Volume 13 , Issue 1
January -February  1980
The Presidential Candidates: How They View the Middle East by Allan Kellum

A look at the men who would be president and what they say about the Middle East.

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