Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia

Zeinab Saleh Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 Subject: Business in Saudi Arabia Part I. “Cultural Aspects of doing Business in Saudi Arabia” In doing my research on what potential countries we may do business with, I came across the country of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia being well known and rich for its natural resources of Petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold and copper, I would think that undergoing business in Saudi Arabia can be a highly-beneficial venture for us if we can handle the…

The first effect of your children’s behavior is your actions. To begin with, the new generation in this time has many ways from this life to impact their behavior in good and bad ways. Following that, children have role models in their life. They could be their parents or people who live around them. Family, friends, and school influence behavior in the KSA, USA, and China. The family in KSA influences behavior. First, we know the children acquire their behavior from their parents because…

Operation Desert Storm was created to liberate Kuwait as compared to Operation Desert Shield which protected Saudi Arabia from Iraqi attack. On January 17 at 3am (Iraqi time) Operation Desert would start with a massive air and missile attack on targets within Iraq and Kuwait. Colonel David Deptula (who is in charge of target planning for the army) said “Imagine Iraq like a human body. What happens if you take away somebody ability to think or communicate with the rest of the body? What happens…

time to control these things, but this is due to I believe that the women should share the man to manage all family responsibilities. In fact, this idea of sharing the responsibility for husband and his wife, currently, starts to be applied to many Saudi families, and it is spread over the society these days, however, it is spread in “silent mode”, i.e. it is known but the people did not like to recognize it.…

The final country that will be discussed is Saudi Arabia, which has a relatively straightforward legal tradition in comparison to South Korea. According to the Basic Regulation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the nation cites its source of law as the Qur’an, and it legal tradition as Islamic shari’ah law (Vogel 3). Reichel explains that the Islamic legal tradition has two sources of law—the primary sources being the Quran and Sunnah (prophetic traditions) and a secondary sources being ijma…

According to German film theorist Siegfried Kracauer “films are the mirror of the prevailing society.” Through films viewers can understand the culture and sentiments of the people during the time of the film’s creation. Film directors study popular trends in their society and have those trends reflected back in their films to gain viewers and economic profit by providing something the audience can relate to. The preservation and study of films allow for the observation of the political…

Over 2/3rds of women in Saudi Arabia have been beaten or violated in some type of way by a male family member. The mistreatment of women is clear all over the world and is a problem all over in many societies no matter where you live, but in Saudi Arabia it is a part of daily life. Over 60% of the women in Saudi Arabia are being mistreated by their guardians, which in most cases is their husbands. In Saudi Arabia, a women cannot do anything outside of the house without the permission of her…

his artistic talents, he is not immune to propagating these stereotypical views of the Middle East. In his January 16, 2015 comic entitled “Blogger in Saudi Arabia Sentenced to 1000 Lashes,” Danziger perpetuates the negative views of violence and backwards laws that supposedly contradict American values and freedoms. In this cartoon, three Saudi Arabian men are dressed in the ghutra or shumagh with facial hair. The man to the left is holding a book of sharia law, which is the Islamic legal…

As previously mentioned, the Saudi Arabian nation are toughing this economic ordeal out and show no sign of trying to prop up prices as they have in the past. This nation has built up a reserve of foreign currency that will help them finance their deficits and push the country forward. Interestingly enough, if low oil prices persist, Saudi Arabia may have to cut back on some of the social programs it had instituted after the Arab Spring…

Importance of the United States Involvement in the Middle East “Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.” Jimmy Carter, state of the union address, January 23rd, 1980. (Jones) Any major world news today is likely to cover the tumultuous affairs of the…