Example sentences for: ajami

How can you use “ajami” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pride of place goes to Columbia University's Edward Said, who is no fan of Ajami's.

  • Ajami complains that many Arab writers and pundits prefer simply not to deal with the cruel realities of the Middle East today: the gap between petrodollar wealth in the Gulf and uninspiring economic growth elsewhere; the persistence of autocracy and the failure to develop accountable governments; the debilitating enmity with Israel; the legacy of foreign rule; the influence of Western political ideas and the sheer power of the United States.

  • They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls "the logic of brute, irreversible facts."

  • Some of Said's admirers refer to Ajami by the ugly term "Uncle Abu"--a play on Uncle Tom meaning, in this case, an Arab Orientalist.

  • Ajami is invoking Lawrence knowingly, to underscore what he views as the central Arab quandary.


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