Yet senior officials acknowledge the potential for an Arab backlash in a region long allergic to any hint of foreign intervention.
Even now, prices are not much higher than in early 1997.In this section Oil's pleasant surprise Storm over globalisation Toxic taxes Bolstering Basle's cushion Islam's Arab backlash Russia's self-isolation ReprintsMoreover, in most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.
Although regulators remain wary few companies outside America are rated they thought this the least bad alternative.In this section Oil's pleasant surprise Storm over globalisation Toxic taxes Bolstering Basle's cushion Islam's Arab backlash Russia's self-isolation Reprints Related items Bank rules in disarrayNov 25th 1999Really?
Visits by Americans have plunged, while more Arabs are trading Egypt for the United States, where they fear harassment because of an anti-Arab backlash.
Their friend, Sarah Mohamed, 10, a classmate of Afsha's and every bit as much a product of American pop culture, said she experienced some anti-Arab backlash the day of the attack.
Since the early days following the attacks of 9/11/2001, I've been consumed with concern for innocent people -- Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Arab, including Arab Christian, South Asian and others -- being stereotyped, teased, bullied, harassed, assaulted, and murdered in irrational backlash.
Dorit Rabinyan's Gader Haya, known in English as Borderlife, was left off courses last week to avoid encouraging relationships between Jews and Arabs, sparking a backlash by Israeli cultural figures and a buying frenzy.
Paradoxically, while Arab governments fear political backlash if they don't subsidize energy costs, the billions spent on energy subsidies could be re-allocated to address pressing social issues such as education reform, job creation, health, and housing.
All of the most respected polls taken recently indicate that bin Laden and al Qaeda had become a much resented burden on the Arab psyche as the backlash against the Muslim-on-Muslim terrorism could no longer be dismissed as merely collateral damage to al Qaeda's Western targets.
Although more than half the respondents said they did not think Arab-Americans were any more sympathetic toward terrorists than other Americans, the public is expecting a backlash against Arab-Americans, Muslims and immigrants from the Middle East.
Nonetheless, the recent backlash against Arabs and Muslims hovers over their household like a specter.
