In "States" the author‚ Edward Said‚ discloses the story of his people‚ the Palestinians‚ in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire‚ the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.
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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/ Syria-uprising-007.jpg The Syrian Uprising President John F. Kennedy once said in a speech that “Those who make peaceful protest impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Nowhere is this more applicable than in the recent Syrian uprising‚ as what began as a people’s movement to bring a more democratically inclined government to Syria has escalated into a full scale violent uprising against the dictatorial government of President Bashar
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Academic research essay: How have the Arab revolutions influenced politics in North Africa‚ Middle East and the world? Student: Aigerim Oryngaziyeva E15 The revolutions that swept the Arab world over the past two years have revealed the extreme fragility of the major Arab states. “Arab Spring” shakes the Middle East for half years. Many people believe that the key driving the force behind the revolutions are new technologies of social media
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Examine the impact of Soviet policy during the Cold War on the Middle East. The Middle East played an influential role during the Cold War as the Soviet Union attempted to incorporate it into its sphere of influence through implementing an expansionist foreign policy. These policies towards the Middle East were not homogenous‚ rather changing with events of the Cold War and the leadership changes within the Soviet Union. These policies have seen an array of positive and negative outcomes take
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Struggle for democracy in Syria By Ribal Al-Assad CAIRO - As the violence in Syria mounts‚ the international community’s paralysis has become increasingly jarring. But the role of external regional forces is almost as important in fueling the domestic bloodshed as what is happening internally. If Syria could break free of the negative influences of regional politics‚ genuine change without continued violence might become possible. Syria needs to manage its diverse ethnic and religious composition
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Arab Business Etiquette vs. American Business Etiquette Business etiquette is very important‚ wherever you are in the world. It can make a huge difference to the success of your business and it can make or break a deal. Most businesspeople are familiar with the correct business etiquette when they are working in their own country‚ with someone who shares the same customs‚ language and culture‚ but cross-cultural business etiquette can be a big challenge. The differences between the ways in which
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Essay 1 WHAT ISRAEL MEANS TO ME "Where did Avraham almost sacrifice his son Yitzchok? Where did Dovid Hamelech fight Goliath? Where did Yaakov dream of the angels going up and down the ladder? Where did Lotes wife turn into a pillar of salt? Where was Moshe Rabenu leading the children of Israel to‚ the place they called the land of milk and honey?" Israel. Israel is much more than a tiny piece of land in the Middle East. Its living proof that the Jewish people have survived‚ against
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Question 1) The Arab culture: The Arab communication is unspoken and interwoven in the context of the conversations. Basically‚ it can be hard from someone from another culture to interpret the Arab culture since meanings and opinions are not outspoken and rather interweaved in the context. Arabs are usually warm people with a lot of emotions and they can quickly explode over things they feel strongly about. Their language of communication allows for exaggerations and loaded words to emphasize
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Assignment #4 Observation Report A: Describe one on-the-job problem of issue encountered and how it was resolved. I first encountered this problem two weeks into my internship with Raffles Hotel Marketing Communications. After my orientation week‚ it was finally time for me to take on projects on my own and start communicating with some of the clients and media the department would follow up from time to time. One of the projects that I was tasked was to prepare the Arabic version of Raffles
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COWC 1001 National Identity and Globalization Spring 2013 Ariel Rapps Palestinian National Identity The vertical ethnie model of understanding nationalism that was posed by Anthony D. Smith maintains that “the clerisies of a given ethnic group construct a new self-definition for the hitherto politically passive community” (Foster 5). There are five processes that are involved in this evolution. These processes are: engaging in active political assertion; embracing the homeland; moving the
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