Salame
- proper noun
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Salame
- This debate since the Gulf War has become more focused, and with the end of the Cold War, as Ghassan Salame observes, "many Western strategists have identified a new enemy of the West: Islam."
- Ghassan Salame
Examples
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As Salame suggests, "these gangs are also the instruments of survival of groups marginalized by the states." (n30)
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Ghassan Salame writes that "the West should encourage the present Muslim regimes to gradually associate moderate Islamist forces with their governments."
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Miami, I said Johnny Salami, what do I do?
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Linda Salame
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Quoted from Ghassan Salame, ed., Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World (London: I.B. Tauris, 1994) p. 14.
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Though one could contest this usage of legitimacy, clearly state authority can be enhanced through purchasing such valuables as the loyalty of military officers (Salame 1987).
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The recent growth of Islamic-based opposition forces is a reflection of both the failures of the ruling elites and, as Ghassan Salame observes, the "weakness of the nonreligious opposition."
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With reference to Arab politics, Salame notes that "the modern state has thus generally been constructed on a series of exclusions and ostracisms, the combined effect of which was to multiply the number of political orphans and orphans of politics, for politics henceforth was the state and nothing but the state." 62
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Linda Salame is hosting a family reunion this summer.
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The famous musician, Ghassan Salame, will perform at the annual festival.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Salame often comes from the Arabic word salam meaning 'peace', and it is related to the common greeting 'salaam'. So when you see the surname Salame, you can remember it as a family name that carries the idea of 'peace'.
