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Article: Festival to bring cultural distinctions of Arab life to light: Community seeks to counter negative images.(Culture, Et Cetera)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Few cultures are as foreign to the Western mindset as that of the Arab, a factor that will be addressed this week at a colorful festival in downtown Washington.
Starting Thursday and ending Sunday, the Ana Alarabi Festival will flood the atrium of the Ronald Reagan building with exhibits, speakers, dancers, paintings and information booths on what some say is America's most misunderstood ethnicity.
Tensions between ethnic Arabs and Hollywood rose to a flash point recently with the release of the movie "The Siege," which depicts Arab terrorists trying to blow up New York.
Thanks to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which was ...