The need for a guide to arabic culture designed specifically for health care providers grew from my own work and personal experience. Media misrepresentations of middle eastern cultures afnan qutub. What was the middle east like when europe was still going through its dark ages. The term middle east is generally recognized today to refer to a region that stretches from the atlantic ocean in the west to afghanistan in the east, a distance of approximately 5,600 kilometers. Introduction to the middle east africa middle east.
Israel is an innovator in desalination transforming salt water to drinking water. Reality by lisa adeli, university of arizona center for middle eastern studies. Basic background about arab culture, islam, and the middle. Maybe there was some deep subtlety to arab culture that i was missing. Comparison between western and middle eastern cultures.
Bergey slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Food unifies families and friends to gather together for a meal and recipes are passed down from generation to generation. This education pack is designed to help mainstream primary teachers introduce aspects of both arabic language and arab culture to their pupils. Research on why american expatriates struggle in the middle east. Organisations in general are aiming at reaching as much markets as possible, which means interacting with different cultures and environments.
Somewhere in the general area of the grazing steppe. If you do intend to use business cards whilst in the middle east, ensure that the information is printed in both english and arabic. About the project cities across the middle east are under enormous stress in the face of conflict. Those who left the middle east for europe may have actually traveled first through central asia and then throughout the world to other parts of asia, russia, the americas, and europe wells, 2002. Pdf on jan 1, 2016, charles harb and others published the arab region. These issues are related to business culture and communication quite and how history, former colonialism, religion, social and vicinity, political developments, etc. For more information on pdf forms, click the appropriate link above. As a speaker on middle east matters, he has participated as a trainer, keynote, panelist and conference chair, at events in dubai, doha, istanbul, london and springfield, virginia.
This document explains how to collect and manage pdf form data. Although this excludes somalia, djibouti, and the comoros islands which are part of the arab world. Due to political instability in north africa and throughout the mediterranean, palestinians, israelis, lebanese, moroccan, and iraqi families moved to the united states in hopes of starting a. A postcolonial outlook find, read and cite all the research you need on. Behind the smoke and horror that westerners watch and read about the middle east every day, profound societal change is occurring. The problem is that so much of what is known is wrong. The defining aspect of arab culture is the language arabic and common traditions from the geographic regions in northern africa and southwest asia commonly called the middle east.
Today, the islamic world spreads from the corners of the philippines to the. Parts of this steppebelt can be swallowed up temporarily or more permanently by either the desert or the sown, yielding to prolonged droughts, abundant rains, or population pressures. The middle east is one of the most interesting regions to travel to, due to the diversity of the people and a fascinating ancient history. Fun facts about the middle east middle eastern studies. Turkeys future role in the middle east is likely to expand, but it will remain limited for a number of reasons.
Most peopleespecially in the westknow very little about the middle east and the people that live there. Middle east students britannica kids homework help. Law and women in the middle east cultural survival. This assessment of arab culture is intended as a guide to mod and other government personnel who may visit arab countries. Candidate, new england law boston child marriage remains a widely ignored violation of the health and development rights. The middle east s geographical and strategic uniqueness has made every great power in history to seek to advance its interests in the region. Fun facts about the middle east the english words for algebra, admiral, and other words came from arabic. Middle school lesson plan downloads for middle east. Download peoples and cultures of the middle east, daniel g.
Lesson plans for middle school social studies by sarah degnan moje teaching middle school. Life after death experience nde with steve gardipee, vietnam war story one of the best ndes duration. Arabic culture and society examines the important role religion plays in the middle east and how it shapes peoples personalities in the arab. The second section questions what middle eastern womens culture is like and do. Culture and conflict in the middle east defines the patterns intrinsic to arab culture and shows how they shape behavior in ordinary daily interactions in the region as well as in broadbased political confrontations. Describes the family life, food, literature, social life, and customs of the peoples of the middle east middle east drug and chemical diversion control conference. Carter and graham philip papers from the ubaid expansion. The sections on health and healing in the arab middle east and on islamic socioreligious behavior are designed. Pdf on jan 2, 2014, elizabeth iskander monier and others published popular culture in the middle east and north africa. When the middle east was at the height of its power, it controlled parts of these two continents. The last great empire in the middle east was that of the ottomans, who captured constantinople from the byzantines in. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Pdf popular culture in the middle east and north africa.
The task of learning about the arab world begins, therefore, not so much with. Major urban centers like aleppo, mosul, homs, and raqqa have undergone destruction and changes in demographic composition and char. Middle east the arab world consists of about 20 countries stretching from mauritania in the west to oman in the east. Tunisian lawyers gather as they demonstrate against the governments proposed new taxes, near the courthouse, in. Further, 4,000 spanish words and lots of place names came from arabic, making arabic the 2nd most important influence after latin on the spanish language. Middle school lesson plan downloads for middle east culture studies. These youth, who make up roughly 30 percent of the regions total population, have struggled with social and economic exclusion, facing poor outcomes and institutional.
Religion, while an integral part of culture, is not always the defining aspect of culture. Middle eastern countries are taking the initiative in dealing with the global water crisis. Groups should use the graphic organizer on the next page to sort. Family is extremely important to middle eastern cultures and usually extends to aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
For example, many countries in the middle east still have arranged marriages and require that women cover their head andor face to. The region of the middle east and its inhabitants have always been a wonder to the europeans, dating back to the years before the advent of islam and the years following the arab conquest. While there is much debate about the rights of women in the middle east or rather, the lack of them and the rights of gay and lesbian people. Culture in westernarab relations clingendael institute. It incorporates a desire to achieve world peace and the development of the automobile manufacturing industry. Thinking about culture and the middle east council on. The region was subject to frequent attacks by the mongols during this period, however. Strong religion beliefs often govern family life and their way of life. This lucidly written study should be on the reading list.
As director of the access arab community center for economic and social services community health center in dearborn, michigan, i have heard the concerns of numerous arab clients about their experiences with the. Turkeys role in the middle east united states institute. When you distribute a form, acrobat automatically creates a pdf portfolio for collecting the data submitted by users. Cultural meaning, identity and the leadup to urbanism international workshop held at grey college, university of durham, 2022 april 2006 studies in. Ed 363 532 so 023 302 author michalak, laurence title.
This lack of knowledge hurts our ability to understand, and engage in intelligent discussion about, current events. For example, frighteningly few know the difference between sunni and shia muslims, and most think the words arab. From then until 1517 much of the middle east fell under the control of the mamluk dynasty, which had been founded by armies of muslim slaves. Middle east specialists sometimes deplore american ignorance about the arab worldits people, culture, politics and history. Morocco also does groundbreaking work in fog harvesting getting potable water from coastal fog. This paper examines the relations among gender, culture, and islam, and draws attention to the tensions that exist between concepts of cultural heritage and concepts of cultural freedoms in the arab region and elsewhere in the middle east. Yet, the region constitutes the greatest single reserve of oil in the world, which has made it a regular source of foreign interference in the postworld war ii era. Within the middle east and north africa, no development issue is perhaps more pressing than that of finding opportunities for inclusion of the regions large youth population.
Although there are certainly differences across this. Transgender issues in the middle east 2 to a national survey, and 18% would consider being physically or verbally abusive if they encountered a man in the street dressed in womens clothes. The middle east, as defined above, encompasses four distinct culture areas. And have not the peoples of the middle east usually followed the lead of the west. Cut the paper into individual strips there should be 15 strips per group.
The workshop particularly focused on emergent global forms of hip hop culture that provide unique points of access into contemporary sociocultural currents in the middle east region. The sum of classical greek literature pinned arab identity. It can also be defined as those countries where arabic is the dominant language. The middle east as a culture area 3 euphrates, a semidesert or grazingsteppe belt of varying width.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Early marriages in middle east and north africa initiative on violence against women, carr center for human rights policy harvard kennedy school of government hayat bearat, j. The arab, turkish, and iranian cultures are heirs to great islamic empires that had their centers in the region and represent three distinct variations within the global islamic civilization. Middle east food plays an important role in middle eastern culture. Arab countries are religiously and ethnically diverse with islam being the dominant religion in most countries. About the authors amanda lam is a senior studying public relations and journalism at the university of oregon. Each country has its own special recipes and ingredients that make each dish unique.
Within that area is a diverse group of people bound together primarily by language and religion. Customary laws, islamic laws, imported european laws, and reformed versions of islamic laws affect women in varying degrees in the different middle eastern legal systems, and the status of women does not seem to have been settled in any of them. A word about religion we often think of religion as. Delve into the middle east, long before israel was created. Arab american experiences in education a new wave of american immigration began in the 1960s. These include turkeys differing political culture and geographic marginality, as well as the fact that other regionssuch as the balkans, cyprus, and the states of. Arab, turkish, iranian, and the newly evolved israeli culture. Middle east culture power point and worksheet are below. Culture, a shared set of traditions, belief systems, and behaviors, is shaped by history, religion, ethnic identity, language, and nationality, among other. Business cards are common, but not essential to the middle east business culture.
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