North Africa

individually. While the stream of Western and Asian voyagers stayed underneath ordinary, Arab visitor arrivals expanded. This was additionally attributable to the worldwide economic crisis, the same number of Arab families who normally traveled in Europe or North America were compelled to pick less costly destinations, inside of the region. This increase in intra-territorial tourism has incompletely balanced the decrease in universal tourism for some Middle Eastern destinations; however at the…

factors such as the rise of Vandals in Tunisia and Africa, and the loss of land from the empire due to the Barbarians. The Pirenne thesis was first introduced…

Speech to Inform: Implementing Information System will bring competitiveness to businesses The Middle East region contains the Arabic peninsula, Cyprus, the states on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Iran in the north-east, and Egypt in the south-west. It really is a densely populated region that concentrates enormous material and human resources. Surfing from Internet site to Internet site I have found that Internetworking in the Middle East region has a well-established system which…

Morocco- The Country that Makes the Soul Grow In the 7th and 8th century, the Arab invasion of Africa prompted the first predominant Muslim dynasty which triggered a domino effect that resulted in Morocco. In 1884, Spain officially started protecting the lands that would soon be known as Morocco. When France became the protectorate of Morocco through the Treaty of Fez in 1912, there was a rebellion shortly after and lead by the Istiqual. Eventually in 1956, the French were removed as the…

death sentence of 22- year old Zainab Sekaavand, who was accused of murdering her husband, who she said had repeatedly abused her. “This is an extremely disturbing case,” said Phillip Luther, research and advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.“Not only was Zeinab Sekaanvand under 18 years of age at the time of the crime, she was also denied access to a lawyer and says she was tortured after her arrest by male police officers through beatings all over her…

Legitimacy is the belief in someone’s right to rule or right to exercise power. Without legitimacy, other powers would have to be deployed (persuasion or coercion) in order to get others to obey you. According to Max Weber, there are three main types of legitimacy: rational-legal, traditional, and charismatic. Performance legitimacy is a way to keep legitimacy. To lose legitimacy, however, is the notion that somehow implicitly, any leader has to do things for the reasons indented (at least…

The series of revolts, protests, violent clashes and revolutions that occurred in the North Africa & Middle East (MENA) region between 2010 and 2012, which was later tagged the ‘Arab Spring’, received abundant media coverage within its region and on a global scale. On a regional level; according to Noura Alalawi, a 24-hour, round-the-clock coverage of the civil unrest and protests was made available by Al Jazeera, a Qatari state-funded broadcaster (Alalawi, 2015). By the same token, according to…

For the second part of this project, I will be designing a process tracing research design for the theory regarding resilient Monarchs as stated by Menaldo (Menaldo, 2012). The theory states that countries in the Middle East and North African region (MENA) that are monarchies will have a higher level of political stability, when compared to the MENA republics. My research question will therefore be ‘How are Mena monarchies able to remain politically relatively stable, when compared to the…

Imagine being a woman in the Middle East. Getting married before you even hit puberty, having to wear a veil, being severely punished for little things, and being a slave to your home. The mistreatment of women in the Middle East has been going on for a very long time in countries all over the Middle East. From the Jirga and the ba’ad to the misuse of the veil, middle eastern women have constantly been oppressed by the patriarchal government in place in many countries in the Middle East. As the…

Since the early 20th century, there have been three key time periods of potential foreign influence in the Middle East. The first of these periods was between 1914 to 1945. During this time period, the Middle East moved from Ottoman rule to British and French mandates. The second of these time periods came at the end of World War II, when the post-colonial ride of Muslim-Arab nations was prominent in the Middle East. Furthermore, the founding of the Jewish states of Israel and the pressures of…