against an armed enemy and attempting to organize a government with the local population. When it comes to the case of the United Arab Emirates, we are supporting their fight in the armed conflicts in neighboring countries. Yet, there still remains a question as to why we are in their country supporting them. Why might America have an interest in what is going on in the United Arab Emirates? The U.A.E. has several operational variables that help us understand why the U.A.E. is important on a…
United Arab Emirates is a country full of promise and constant growth. There are always new projects and technologies popping up, and a lot of these projects aim to be “the biggest ______ in the world”. One of the issues faced by United Arab Emirates is the fact that oil will eventually run out. Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has spent the past two years working to turn his city into one that doesn’t revolve around petrodollars, UAE’s form of currency (Jennings). He wants…
The western media have made the word Arab spring one of the most popular word; but what is the actual meaning of the word. According to middle east.com Arab spring means the series of anti-government protests, uprising and armed rebellion that spread across the Middle East in the early 2011.Moreover, the main reason of the revaluation was the dissatisfaction with their governments and to improve their living stander. Unfortunately, the outcomes of this revolution have created a horrible…
nations, some of the countries that share Arabic language are recognized as the Arab world, where the continuous conflicts between neighboring countries, terrorism, tyranny, poverty, and unstable governmental system consistently recur. Behind all of the economical transactions of oil extraction and weapons trading, wars play a significant role in defining the future for Middle Eastern countries. These wars are productions of Arab world’s own failures to sustain its states and governmental…
typically Americans think all arabs practice muslim culture when most of them actually practice christianity.…
The people getting stereotyped the most today are Arab Muslims, as in many countries, they are known as “terrorists”. Other countries have affected us Arabs in good and bad ways. Most Arabs suffer depression due to living a different way than the rest of the world. For instance, when other parts of the world call us “terrorists”, it makes us Arabs feel weak. Why do most non-Arab countries see us as “terrorists”? We need to try to change the way people think of us, so people can stop agreeing…
to the Arab upraise. For example the announcement of Whitney Hudson death was announced on twitter 55min before AP confirmed the story. News media like Facebook and twitter or other media makes it easier for Arab American new media to connect with audience, and also became a threat to smaller outlets, also in addition to keeping up with presence of bigger news organization, creating content that is rapidly available to audience has become a daunting task for Arab American. During the Arab spring…
enhanced our influence in the world. However, Americans have responded to their arrival with violence and hate towards them. In the late 19th century, the Arab world was under the Ottoman Empire. The United States chose to classify this certain group as Arab…
jumping off point but was inadequate. While her comparison of Bahrain and Sweden using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (Steers, 2013) and her study of the structure of Arab extended families and the role this family structure plays in the decision-making process was a good start, she failed to study up on the changing business landscape in Arab nations. In private business, the traditional paradigms of the extended family structure are eschewed in favor of a meritocracy (Steers, 2013), where…
territories which the Arab armies began in the seventh century. These conquests were due in large part to the martial ability of the Arabic army. Later, tying administrative power to Arab culture, religious unity, and even Islam’s similarities to Christianity aided in the retention and Arabization of the captured territory. In all but one of these cases, the Arabic states followed models created by the Roman, and later, the Byzantine Empire. To begin, the military capability of the Arabs aided…