travel to Marrakech‚ Morocco because Mr. Fernea receives a scholarship grant to study anthropology in Morocco. From the start of the book‚ it is easy to admire Fernea because she is ambitious‚ “We would all learn the dialect of Moroccan Arabic‚ so different from the Egyptian and Iraqi dialects we had spoken a long time ago. Hopefully we would learn something about Morocco and North Africa.” As the story progressed‚ I realized how difficult these tasks would be to achieve. Through her narratives she demonstrates
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historical tales‚ love‚ crimes‚ poetries‚ music and literature. These stories were derived from the west and south Asia where a lot of translators and scholars collected the work over many centuries. The tales themselves are affected back to the ancient Arabic‚ Persian‚ and Indian traditions and cultures. The frame story was originally narrated by Shahrazâd who was the wife of the Persian king Shahriyâr. She used the stories to save her life from death. The king at that time used to kill the women he married
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Browns and Levinson’s politeness theory and will recognize how universal this theory is and weather it can be applied on Japanese language taking into account the difference in cultures. Brown and Levinson’s theory of Politeness and how it applies in Arabic: Brown and Levinson`s theory is mainly based on three principle notions: face‚ face threatening act (FTA)‚ and politeness strategies (Bowe & Martin 2009‚ p. 27). Brown and Levinson’s concept of face was derived from Goffman (1972 p.5): “The term
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Middle East The middle east is characterized by several features that makes it a unique part of the world. The middle east is considered as the ancient world where the ancient Egyptians lived and built their magnificent pyramids.in addition‚ The Middle Eastern region‚ like every other‚ is socially constructed based on race‚ language and religion. The region‚ which by most accounts spans from Morocco to Iran‚ is called
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Arab world’s and the Arabic language’s portion from the internet uses‚ in terms of the number of users‚ and the bulk of the Arab content on this network‚ accompanied with the acquaintance of the mechanisms and the ways adopted by the international society‚ the Arab world‚ and Egypt in chasing the e-crime and confronting it. This paper aims to discuss the extent of spread of the internet using in Egypt and the Arab world‚ besides the extent of the e-crimes ’diffusion in the Egyptian society‚ and ways
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help him‚ and that’s where he learned about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. He recognized that arithmetic with Hindu-Arabic numerals is simpler and more efficient that with Roman numerals and so he traveled throughout the Mediterranean world to study under the leading Arab mathematicians of the time. Leonardo returned from his travels around 1200 and in 1202‚ age 32‚ he published Liber Abaci. Through the Liber Abaci he introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe. Liber Abaci is a book that Leonardo
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Examining a Moche Stirrup Jar At the Polk Museum exhibit I was struck by a Moche ceramic artifact titled “Stirrup Jar with Fanged Deity Effigy‚ Early Intermediate Period‚ 400-600 CE”. The base of the jar was molded into a sphere (with a flat bottom surface) which acts as the “body”‚ sporting painted arms and items held within each hand. The deity also appears to be wearing some kind of cloak‚ most notably indicated by the bow that is tied at the base of its neck. The head of the creature is
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In this weeks reading‚ the artwork that resonated with me most were the Etruscan tombs. As an anthropology student‚ I am drawn to artwork that is unclear in its meaning‚ and I am especially drawn to burials. I find it extremely fascinating that we as humans have always placed importance on an afterlife‚ whether one believes in reincarnation‚ heaven‚ or any other type of eternal place of rest. There were three Etruscan tombs described in this chapter: the Tomb of the Reliefs‚ the Tomb of the Triclinium
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While visiting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art I was struck by a piece by the title of Fragment of a Painted Assyrian Relief. This piece‚ made by the Akkadian culture during the Mesopotamia Era‚ is approximately 10 3/8 x 5. 1 ¾ inch in size. This fine‚ yet very ancient‚ work is crafted out of limestone. Fine‚ durable‚ brown stone and red pigment‚ it is especially found in Northern Iraq. Having a short written record‚ this relief sculpture once formed part of a much larger composition‚ and it
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Christine El Mahdy believes that those who first expressed fear of mummies were the Arabs‚ who conquered Egypt in A.D. 641. Arab writers warned people not to tamper with mummies or their tombs‚ they knew that Egyptians practiced magic during funerals. And the paintings on the walls of Egyptian tombs seemed to suggest that mummies could return to life and seek revenge. Many authors started to think and imagine that mummies had magic powers after the first ghost story about a cursed mummy was published
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