Essays on Arab World

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The insatiable appetite for new technology presents an ever-growing demand for technological products in line to meet the ever-changing consumer needs, preferences, and choice (Saif & Aimin, 2015). The Huawei smartphone provides a technologically advanced mobile phone that is set to take over the mobile phone market as well as meets consumer needs. The product’s appearance, operational simplicity, size and weight, operating system, screen size, mobile hotspot, and battery life outline some of the unique qualities of the Huawei phone (Saif & Aimin, 2015). The price of the smartphone is moderate to entice the customers since a significant proportion of ...

In the research, the broader question that will be the foundation of the study is “Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003?” However, the narrower question that was derived from the broad topic concerns the role of geopolitics in the Iraq invasion. For this reason, the question that the research topic will seek to answer regards geopolitics in the U.S. and how this political concept contributed to the attack. The research question will first define geopolitics. Collin described geopolitics as the concepts of space, scale, network, territory, region, and place that influence international politics (17). Also, the author ...

Introduction

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid has been praised for his flawless and effective leadership techniques. As a leader in the country that is suffering from economic as well as environmental struggles, he managed to build a modern city that has impeccable infrastructure (Langton, 2016). Not only millions of tourists are now flooding the City of Dubai, but its own population has expanded significantly as well. While Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid is proud of his achievements, he remains modest about his leadership style. Therefore, the current paper will discuss the leadership style of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid based on the article ...

The United States foreign policy during the Cold War was as much dependent on diplomatic efforts as much as it was related to both direct and indirect military conflict. The Cold War was a time when American practitioners of international relations thought deeply about what was the best and most effective way to deal with the existential threat of communist expansion.  Most notably the United States relied on an overall approach to foreign policy which relied on containment of communist expansion by supporting regimes which were friendly to the American cause of fighting the Soviet Union.  During the Vietnam ...

The Middle East history has a high number of full-scale, inter-state wars, such as the wars due to Arab-Israeli conflicts, Yemen war, and Iran-Iraq war. The Arab-Israel conflict has two elements to it, which are the Israeli-Palestinian element and the Israeli-Arab element. At the end of the 1800s, the Promised Land was set up so that the Jewish people can overcome the anti-Semitism and persecution and the migration of Jews to the Promised Land created issues. During WWI, the British convinced the Arab Leaders to revolt against Ottoman Empire as they support Germany, in return for which the British ...

29.07.2016

1) 1. French Hip-Hop genre is famous for several names of people, who have made a large contribution to the development of hip-hop culture in France: Dee Nasty, Phil Barney, Bernard Zekri, Jean Karaks, and Sidney. Dee Nasty is a DJ Radio Nova’s producer and a pioneer of Hip-Hop genre in France. He has produced the first Hip Hop record in France in 1980s and soon became world-known. He took part in many DMC World DJ Championships. Dee Nasty is also known for the distribution and development of graffiti, break dance, and funk music in French culture. ...

There is a keen interest in the influence of the Internet in the recent years in the Arab World. A particular interest is the impact of Social Media and communication technologies in the Arab World leading to the conflict that began in 2011. However, this paper will focus not on political uses of the Internet, but on the potential economic growth, and how the Internet affects the culture and changes habits of communication, shopping and ways of doing businesses.

The Internet in the Arab World

The whole world has been transformed over the past 15 years by the technology-led transformation. The Internet affected communication and ...

IMAGE OF MASCULINITY WITHIN THE SPACE OF SAUDI ARABIAN AND ALGERIAN CULTURE

Introduction The space in the literature is the physically existing environment in which the characters live and plot the action takes place. An aspect of the space is needed for the reader to further clarification. The space in the written description helps to highlight significant plot developments, specific places in which the characters live and act. Space refers to the story through both actions and thoughts of heroes. Aspect space consists of all spatial frameworks and places mentioned in the text, which cannot be a place of real events. The world in a literary work in the space-time sense ...

Throughout the course of modern history, numerous events have revolved around the Middle East, affecting the cultural perspectives of the people living there. For instance, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent political maneuvering by Western/Arab nations spawned decades of bloodshed in the region, destroying both an entire generation of people and the viability of a nation. The creation of Israel in 1948 created a massive power shift in the region, as the Arab nations attempted to retake the territory but were soundly defeated, and again in 1967. The Second World War engulfed the North African Muslim countries, ...

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In the modern global world, an evident blur of cultural limits results in a diverse patchwork of human interests, concerns, likes and dislikes. Media represents cultural concerns, social issues or even historical facts in a different way. Thus, there can be many differences between factual representations of one nations in the context of others. As a rule, modern movie industry represents perverted images of ethnic minorities. Moviemakers intend to make money and gain huge profits. They do not think about cultural distortions or racial conflicts, which may occur in the result of their movies, which represent only one side ...

For many years, animation has been one of the most effective and interesting media formats. More recently, the growth of the Internet around the world has made animated media available to everyone. Animation provides artists and filmmakers with a very creative tool. This tool can provide a range of different content to children, young people, and adults. Moreover, animation can send a variety of messages in very creative and unusual ways. This technique has been used in many fields, such as multimedia, TV ads, web design, teaching programs and some other media products. Statistics demonstrate that Japan and America ...

The animation cinema is one of the popular cinemas among children and adult audiences as well and Arabs have always inspired the world by their unique and amazing fairytales and stories that include the Aladdin, Sinbad and much more. The animation is being used in many fields like multimedia, TV ads, web design, etc. But there is a true lack of the representation of the Arab culture and various stories as well. The view of animation in the Middle East is quite different from the other countries all across the world. The first animated scene was created around 5, ...

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It seems difficult to analyze democratic transition from the standpoint of international dimension both theoretically and practically because not so much literatures that discuss about what the external environment actually is and how it might contribute to domestic change (Cavatorta 2005). However, it does not mean that international context will be ignored in the analysis process because international factors might have impacts on the transition process through their connections with domestic actors particularly in terms of distribution of power and resources, which in turn have effect on how they will act (Cavatorta 2005). One thing to remember is a ...

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MTV (Music Television) is one of the world’s most popular cable music TV channels. The network of MTV sister channels embraces a broad range of music styles, ranging from heavy metal and rap music to country and jazz. Over the period from its launching in 1981 to the mid-1990s the MTV has continuously evolved as a highly successful music, entertainment and cultural project. Expanding to Arab market was a strategically important step for MTV due to the size of the market (22 countries), its demographics (considerable number of young people), as well as the lack of ‘windows’ to ...

The emergence of social media has been critical to the political world through aiding of participation. It is important that every party and stakeholder is involved in the political process. The essential nature of politics makes it necessary for certain groups of people to participate. The value of asserting political influence surpasses the imaginary benefits that people often lay against it. In the contemporary world, the use of social media as a tool for engaging on political matters has increased tremendously. Over the recent years, many groups have continued to assert their influence in politics by engaging the political ...

American nationalism is the kind that is concerned with asserting America on the international scene as a nation as well as promoting its culture and unity of purpose. This would imply the direct actions of the American government aimed at advancing the position and role of America on the international scene. It also entails the actions of multinationals whose mother country is America, movements, and non-profit organizations advancing their ideals, and the elements of American culture that inform their charters and terms of services on the international scene. Orientalism is an outlook that emphasizes, projects, imagines, misrepresents and exaggerates ...

Internship at Mullenlowe Group

Internship at Mullenlowe Group

Introduction

Mullenlowe Group, an integrated marketing communications company headquartered in London with offices operating in over 65 markets ("About Us," n.d.), is an innovative company I have interned in for six weeks between 10 February and 22 March at a number of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia offices. The company adopts innovation in each and every aspect of business management and client servicing activities. Offering integrated digital marketing solutions across different geographies and markets, Mullenlowe Group covers a broad range of social entrepreneurship, public advocacy, business branding, corporate communication, leisure and spirituality. Notable projects include, for example, "Redraw ...

Notably, the Arab World consists of around 385 million people living in 22 countries stretching from the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the Arabian Sea (“Data; Arab World”). Ninety percent of the population in the Arab world belong to Islamic religion, while the remaining ten percent belong to other religions, for example, Christian and Jewish religions. The idea of unifying the Arab nations started with the formation of the Arab League in 1945. Most Arab states gained their independence from British and French colonialists in this era. The Arab League allowed the independent states to maintain their sovereignty as ...

Overview of Sufism

Sufism, simply put, is Islamic mysticism. Sufism is also popular by the name Tasawwuf in the Arab world. It is essentially a movement of the followers of Islam in pursuit of discovering celestial veracity and love by way of the direct encounters that they seek to have with God. Sufism evolved out of Islam, precisely between the 8th and 9th centuries C.E., in the form of a frugal movement. This ascetic movement was given the name Sufism due to the coarse wool garments that denotes their denunciation of worldly pleasures. Conventionally, the Sufis were also known to have taken ...

The Greater Middle East Initiative is a questionable characterized set of monetary and political activity and arrangements. At the center of the Initiative is a progression of bi-horizontal organized commerce assertions and a project for the improvement of "civil society" in the Muslim World alluded to as the Middle East Partnership Initiative. Casual parts of the Initiative incorporate generously expanded subsidizing for the Middle East through such associations as the National Endowment for Democracy. Hawthorne in her article demonstrates that Iraq is clearly the mind-boggling center of the Bush organization's arrangement of endeavoring to change the Middle East into ...