Predynastic Egypt

Poverty remains one of Egypt’s key issues. Today’s poor in Egypt feel their poverty intensely because Egyptian and Western ideas of what is vital to live a ‘fulfilled life’ is changing, largely due to an increase in mass media that encourages consumption. Unemployment rates are around 20 %, with higher rates for…

Eve Orbach 10H1 Social Studies China, Japan, the Middle East, and Africa were regions in which the influence of the Europeans was eventually greatly felt. All of these regions were at first reluctant to join with the European ways in matters such as culture and trade, but eventually succumbed to the pressure to join the Europeans due to various reasons such as military pressure from the Europeans or the pressure to succeed and evolve by modernizing as a country. The Europeans always succeed in…

Introduction: Today 's infrastructure enables an easy access to people and places all around the world along with products, services and technologies that can move easily across national borders. Companies today have increased opportunities to enter foreign markets and it is common that they operate in international environments (Albaum and Duerr, 2008). This environment is also called ‘globalization’ that has become an interesting topic in the academic world. The meaning of globalization…

medium-altitude I-Hawk SAMs acquired from the United States (Air Defense Force). A British firm helped modernize 400 older Soviet-made SA-2 SAMs and about 240 SA-3s, which provided short-range defense against low-flying targets. Based on the SA-2, Egypt began production of the Tayir as Sabah (Morning Flight) along with its introduction of Amun (Sky guard) a gun-missile-radar system (Air Defense Force). The ADF mounted sixty Soviet SA-6 SAMs on track vehicles as tactical launcher, sixteen…

Dora Friedman Grant V Spring Research Paper Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Voice of the Arabs, The Champion of Egypt In 1952 Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a coup d’etat and abolished the Monarchy of King Farouk in Egypt. He came into power with a challenge: Egypt did not yet have full independence from Britain. In order to rally the people behind him and achieve his goal, Nasser unified Egyptians through Pan Arabism, a type of Arab Nationalism. In addition, Nasser spread his ideologies through…

Ibn Battuta: The Man Who Walked Across the World (Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, India, China) 2015, 180 min. In English with English subtitles. Producer: Tim Mackintosh – Smith, BBC. Distributor: BBC. Ibn Battuta: The Man Who Walked Across the World is a pilgrimage to the old Islamic World, where Mackintosh – Smith follows the steps of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller and Islamic law scholar who travelled across Africa, Mecca, Middle East, Turkey, India and China in a journey of 75 thousand miles…

nationalization was that he required funds for the building for the Aswan dam. Though in reality it was an act of revenge against the French, British and Americans because they had recently refused to fund the building of Aswan Dam and he wanted to establish Egypt as the leader of middle-east by embarking an end to the British and French dominance in Africa and Middle-east. In my research essay I analyze this issue which is known as the Suez Canal Crisis through prospect theory. According to…

The Rendille Tribe is a community which primarily herds camels and sheep. They occupy the region in Northern Kenya south of the Chalbi Desert. They number about 64,000 in Kenya. In this dry climate and harsh environment, life expectancy is only 40 years. There are nine primary clans within the Rendille tribe, each having several family sub-divisions. When there is an issue to be addressed, the leaders of each clan come together to form a committee. However, there is no official leader over the…

which ultimately doomed the British Empire. This sent Britain, France, Egypt, and the US into military conflict for weeks, provoking the start of a crisis. The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 ended Britain’s colonialist Empire because of the tension between Egyptian citizens and British authorities, the political uprising of Al Nasser, and the intervention of the United States. Tension was already…

When millions of people appear in one place protesting for change, changes are bound to come fast; in a democratic society. For instance the large protest in Cairo, Egypt, against the Mubarak regime. According to the documentary The Square, Citizens of Egypt revolted for days against the Mubarak regime. After several days had passed, Egyptians heard a message from the government announcing Mubarak’s resignation from political power. This form of appearance by…