Culture of Egypt

Leaders or officials are people who are responsible to help their society and people. Society knows that fidelity at work is something that the person has to do. Therefore, he has to be punished if the he is not going it in the right way. All officials are getting paid for helping people. Moreover, he is getting more features rather than money. Officials have to come on time. This is a part of their responsibilities. For example, one day, I went to get my transcript from the ministry of…

The Six-Day War, a short conflict pitting Israel against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, was a decisive Israeli victory that stretched from the 5th through the 10th of June, 1967. Despite the short duration of the war, Israel greatly improved their military reputation worldwide, as well as gained significant territory within the region. While controversial in that Israel launched a preemptive strike against nations that had yet to engage, the Israeli tactics highlighted the importance of quick,…

Proposed Functional Concept for Sittwe City, Rakhine State, Myanmar Abstract: Sittwe city, estuarial island, capital of Rakhine State, Western part of Myanmar, is located on the confluence of Kaladan River and Bay of Bengal. It is also the main trading center of the Rakhine state as this city is a port city. And there are many historical places to conserve and several places of attraction. Nowadays, port of Sittwe city has been promoted as Kaladan Multi-modal Transport Project which would…

On the one hand, Naguib Mahfouz chose Alexandria as a setting for Miramar. He wrote about it after the Nasser's revolution when only few traces of the cosmopolitan still there. However, it seems from the comparison he made between Cairo and Alexandria that Alexandria is drastically affected by the departure of the Alexandrians with foreign origins and foreigners. Alexandria in the novel is not only a setting or environment, but also a state of mind, symbol or a philosophy. Each character has…

From 1956 to his death in 1970, President Gamal Abdel Nasser controlled the Egyptian country with a strict regime, full of censorship, bribery, and paranoia. Citizens were forced to follow the powerful Arab Socialist Union that Nassar oversaw, with required conformity under the guise of protecting citizens’ rights. One group that received much governmental restriction was theatre artists, as Nasser changed many of Egypt’s private theaters into state-owned. Limitations were being placed on what…

independent Arab nation,” and led Hussein to believe the Arab people would claim nearly, “the entire Arab Peninsula, stretching east to the frontier with Persia, north to the Anatolian heartland of Turkey, and west to the Mediterranean Sea and the border of Egypt.” For the Sherif of Mecca the deal proposed to encompass Arab desires of unified, independent nation. Only to be entrenched in his belief by McMahon’s declaration of, “Great Britain is prepared to recognize and support the independence…

The United States must continue to work with other democracies to promote democracy in the Middle East recognizing that quick change is a dream. The United States’ democracy promotion policy must be implemented consistently over the long term, which will last well beyond the end of President Bush’s second term on January 20, 2009. Our goals must be initially modest, and the commitment to change long term. The core elements of a democracy oriented policy are not hard to identify: sustained,…

began when Syria and Egypt both launched attacks against Israel on October 6, 1973 (Ryan 71). The October War showed that Israel was not invincible and that “Arab capabilities had to be respected” (Licklider “Political” 213). In the October War, the Arabs were able to inflict some damage on Israel, so Sadat, the president of Egypt, declared that the war was “‘the first Arab victory in 500 years’” (“The Middle East”168). In addition to the military contributions from Syria and Egypt, the other…

Allegory of Geometry” by Laurent de La Hyre, which was made in oil on canvas 1649. The painting is signed by La Hyre on the lower center part of the painting along with the date created. La Hyre is a French painter who was “born in Feb. 27, 1606, in Paris, France”(1) and later “died in Dec. 28, 1656, in Paris”(1). La Hyre is famous painter who is known for painting in the French Baroque style and for painting in the Classicism style. La Hyre’s “paintings reflects the influence of Vouet,…

Middle Eastern Arab states are currently engulfed in complete chaos and violence. Political turmoil and sectarian violence swept the Arab world after the Arab Spring in 2011. There are civil wars, riots and protest, religious conflict and the ongoing genocide in Arab countries. Many people who follow current events are aware of the civil wars in Syria and Yemen or have a general idea of what’s going on, as it is all over TV and internet. When people grew tired of their failing dictators they…