Zubin Kottoor Prof. Nahla Hamda PCS2000 2 December‚ 2014 Arab-Israeli Conflict The Arab-Israeli conflict has spawned over sixty years. For over sixty years‚ two sides have argued about their right to land through violent protests. Over time‚ there had been many talks of peace yet nothing ever came to fruition. Although the Arab-Israeli conflict has lasted over sixty years‚ the bad blood between the Arabs and the Israelites date back far earlier than that. It almost seems as if the conflict between
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ARAB ISRAEL WAR (06 Oct -– 24 Oct 73) General 1. The war between the Arabs and the Israel which broke out in the Middle East on 6 Oct‚ 1973 is known to the Arabs as the War of Ramadan to the Israelis as the Yom Kippur War and generally to the others in the West as the Oct war. The Arabs tried to regain their territories lost in the earlier wars against Israel. After the defeat of 1956 war Egypt was helped by the Soviet Union and began to rebuild her armed forces from the grd up. Conti for six
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Assignment 06 – Africa February 6‚ 2013 Africa’s Apartheid Policy South Africa has suffered a great amount throughout the last few centuries. One of South Africa’s most devastating events was the Apartheid Policy. It was initiated and passed in an unfair manner. The Apartheid policy was very damaging to the economy‚ citizens and environment of South Africa. South Africa is a region located in the continent of Africa. In most textbooks‚ South Africa is defined as the region of Africa South of the
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from around the world. People from Europe‚ Africa‚ Asia‚ America have immigrated to the united States. That is probably why the United States is a melting pot today with different cultures‚ languages‚ and religions. Among those immigrants‚ we can cite the Arabic group. The Arab American Institute states that Arab Americans constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from the Arabic-speaking countries of southwestern Asia and North Africa that have settled
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Middle East? According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ the Middle East is the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea‚ extending from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran and sometimes beyond. Geography There is no single definition of what constitutes the Middle East. The CIA website states that the Middle East includes these countries. Egypt is also included in many lists of countries in the Middle East. The borders of countries in the Middle East and
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centuries‚ Arab regimes have expropriated‚ abused and taken advantage of power and wealth from their people; it was only a matter of time before things turned around. The year 2010 will be remembered in history as the year that witnessed the uprising of the Arab Spring‚ the term "Arab Spring" denotes the Revolutions of 1848; a series of political turmoil swept through Europe in 1848. Moreover‚ in the aftermath of the Iraq War the term ‘Arab Spring’ was used by analysts who foresaw a major Arab movement
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Arab Spring ARAB SPRING The term Arab Spring as used to denote these events may have started with an article by Marc Lynch published in the political journal Foreign Policy. The Arab Spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations‚ protests‚ and wars occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 and have continued since. To date‚ rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia‚ Egypt‚ Libya‚ and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out
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The Impacts of the Arab Revolution: The 2011 Arab revolutions are best described as uprisings for democracy and dignity. They are democratic in the sense that they are driven by a deep-rooted hunger for political empowerment on a mass level‚ specifically the replacement of elite rule with popular sovereignty. They are also about dignity in that the protesters are rejecting the humiliation and degradation that has accompanied decades of authoritarian rule. The indignity brought on by massive corruption
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Women’s rights in the Arab world Critical reflection Back in the day women were not considered human. They weren’t allowed to vote‚ work or have a say whatsoever in the community. A Women’s one and only job was to be a house wife‚ raise the children and make food to please her husband. One would think that this has changed‚ that 21st century women are much more involved in society‚ business and politics. All the up heat and recognition women’s rights movements and feminist actions are getting
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SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY Counseling Arab Americans Jay C Coleman Amridge University Abstract The belief‚ common among non-Arab Americans‚ that Arabic families are oppressive and dominated by violent fathers who mistreat their wives and children‚ has been documented in numerous sources (e.g. Suleiman‚ 1988‚ Al-Mughni‚ 1993). This is probably not unexpected given the struggle to fit traditional Islam with expanding women’s rights throughout the Muslim world (Al-Mughni‚ 1993). Despite
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