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bint [bɪnt] n
Slang a derogatory term for girl, woman [from Arabic, literally: daughter] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When Lebanese villagers returned to Bint Jbail in late August after the Israelis left, they not only found their homes and shops destroyed, and the town hospital leveled, but a scrawled message saying "We will come back. Clearly it was easier to blockade Yasser Arafat and his few untrained bodyguards in the Mukata'ah compound in Ramallah than to conquer Bint Jbeil over and over again. Evelyn Shakir in Bint Arab devotes a chapter to "Reconnecting," the Arab Americans' return experience, which she describes as "turning an old garment inside out, exposing the unfaded but long forgotten colors of the past" (96). |
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