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  • Khalid Majid, 39, said he took his 6-year-old daughter out of school, because she suffered constant harassment from classmates who called her "abd" - the Arabic word for slave - and other derogatory names.

    USATODAY.com News - Top Stories 2009

  • Khalid Majid, 39, said he took his 6-year-old daughter out of school, because she suffered constant harassment from classmates who called her "abd" - the Arabic word for slave - and other derogatory names.

    USATODAY.com News - Top Stories 2009

  • It didn't look abd from the back, if a touch dated, but whatever.

    Archive 2009-05-01 kittenpie 2009

  • It didn't look abd from the back, if a touch dated, but whatever.

    It's Getting Draft-y In Here... kittenpie 2009

  • But on the packed dirt streets of Zubayr, Iraq's scaled-down version of Harlem, African-Iraqis talk of discrimination so steeped in Iraqi culture that they are commonly referred to as "abd" - slave in Arabic - prohibited from interracial marriage and denied even menial jobs.

    BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 2009

  • African-Iraqis talk of discrimination so steeped in Iraqi culture that they are commonly referred to as "abd" -- slave in Arabic -- prohibited from interracial marriage and denied even menial jobs.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

  • But on the packed dirt streets of Zubayr, Iraq's scaled-down version of Harlem, African-Iraqis talk of discrimination so steeped in Iraqi culture that they are commonly referred to as "abd" - slave in Arabic - prohibited from interracial marriage and denied even menial jobs.

    BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 2009

  • But on the packed dirt streets of Zubayr, Iraq's scaled-down version of Harlem, African-Iraqis talk of discrimination so steeped in Iraqi culture that they are commonly referred to as "abd" - slave in Arabic - prohibited from interracial marriage and denied even menial jobs.

    BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 2009

  • I was expecting us three to engage in some wars of word abd abusive language.

    no idea for a title freakymandy 2004

  • 'abd' slave of Allah and at the same time to have in him pride or arrogance, is a contradiction and the cause of great loss.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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