Battir is the Arab name for the ancient Jewish village Betar, the site of Bar- Kochba's last stand against the Roman Empire.

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Iraqis were tolerated by Syria, which opened its doors in the name of Arab brotherhood.

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Meanwhile, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit accused Iran by name of "manipulating Arab states and entities to increase its influence".

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The rooms, which open to the public on November 1st, bear the official and unwieldy name the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.

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As to the West, which accommodated the authoritarian regimes of the Arab countries, it should not now accommodate religious obscurantism in the name of a new form of pragmatism.

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As the name suggested, much of the show's work focused on stories of selves and families throughout the Arab world and beyond.

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