Essays on Arab Culture

CHAPTER THREE: MAN AND ARAB MASCULINITY

As Carabí and Armengol (2014) show in their study, Arab masculinity is a hybrid concept entailing adherence to traditional patriarchal values held for centuries in the Arabic world and supported by the religious component of Islam; however, it also “allows liberal values” which might contradict this traditional patterns. Cultural and societal representation of Arab masculinity is thereby rather complex and might emerge in a variety of contexts including family and society on the larger scale. In these representations, stereotypical images of man in traditional Arab context might enclose controversies and correlations between liberal-secular masculinity and conservative masculinity image entrenched ...

Academic Critique: Intergenerational Conflict in Arab Families: Salient Issues and Sale

In Rasmi and Daly article “Intergenerational Conflict in Arab Families: Salient Issues and scale development” (2015) the two authors explore various types of conflicts that affect most Arab families. Sarah Rasmi is a professor at the American University in Dubai, UAE. Over the past years, she has been involved in culture conflict research focusing on the neglected Arab world by other researchers. Together with her co-author Timothy Daly, who is a professor at the United Arab Emirates University, they have published various articles about Intergenerational Conflicts, Conflict Management and Perceived Parental Rejection and Adjustment. In my opinion, the clear ...

I am a Muslim based in the Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is the heart of the Muslim culture. Most of the citizens in the country believe in the sharia laws. In the country, there are many Muslims with the Arab culture in their bases. I am a student based from the Arabian culture with the Muslim believes. I finished high school in the year 2012. By then I had many ambitions to study further in the process of pursuing my career. I have explored several careers and finally landed on the chemical engineering major. This career is involved with the ...