Arab Worlds Beyond The Middle East And North Africa

Author : Mariam F. Alkazemi,Claudia E. Youakim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793617675

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Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa by Mariam F. Alkazemi,Claudia E. Youakim Pdf

Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to various nations around the world. A number of ‘push’ factors account for why groups have left their homeland and ‘pulled’ to another nation to settle. The history and patterns of Arab migration out of the MENA illustrates the wide array of reasons for these patterns, primarily illustrating that mass emigration and settlement are highly linked to a number of factors, including social, political, economic, familial climates of each nation-state and its policies. If it is one takeaway that this edited volume brings to light, it is that the Arab MENA does not only include a diverse population within each nation-state it also illustrates the ways in which their settlement in new nations have contributed to their own identity development patterns, their communities, and that of their new nation-state. This book celebrates the achievements and acknowledges the challenges of the new communities that Arabs have built around the world. It shows examples of societies that have embraced the Arab diaspora as well as examples of sidelining these communities. These examples come from a number of subject areas, from music to international affairs. The examples are both contemporary and historical, authored by individuals with a diverse set of disciplinary lenses and professional training. This book is meant to fill a gap in the literature as it expands on the understanding of Arab communities to inform and inspire a more nuanced, inclusive approach to the study of the Arab diaspora. It does so by revealing untold stories that challenge stereotypes to push for more inclusive media representation of Arab identity and its development in various regions of the world.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780889369306

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Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Mustapha Rouis,Steven R. Tabor
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821397299

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Regional Economic Integration in the Middle East and North Africa by Mustapha Rouis,Steven R. Tabor Pdf

This book summarizes the constraints to and opportunities for deepening economic integration within the MENA region and beyond. Trade and investment reform are discussed together with physical connectivity, cross-border trade facilitation, infrastructure networks, and the vital role of logistics.

Author : Daniel Křížek,Jan Záhořík
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498547246

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Beyond the Arab Spring in North Africa by Daniel Křížek,Jan Záhořík Pdf

This book explores specific problems related to the phenomenon of the Arab Spring in North Africa. These topics include sexual minorities, youth, and gender issues, as well as broader themes covering the ideological, social, political, and religious backgrounds of the Arab Spring.

Author : Rita Stephan,Mounira M. Charrad
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479801046

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Women Rising by Rita Stephan,Mounira M. Charrad Pdf

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.

Author : Hisham Sharabi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:433463415

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Nationalism and Revolution in the Arab World by Hisham Sharabi Pdf

Author : Michael G. Menosian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : IND:30000120418540

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The People of the Middle East and North Africa by Michael G. Menosian Pdf

Author : David Lamb
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307797933

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The Arabs by David Lamb Pdf

The Arabs is widely considered one of the essential books for understanding the Middle East and the peoples who live there. David Lamb, who spent years as a correspondent in Cairo, explores the Arabs’ religious, political, and cultural views, noting the differences and key similarities between the many segments of the Arab world. He explains Arab attitudes and actions toward the West, including the growth of terrorism, and situates current events in a larger historical backdrop that goes back more than a thousand years. Now thoroughly revised and updated, The Arabs takes the story up to 2001. Lamb analyzes the developments that led to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and helps the reader to understand how things got to that point. A veteran journalist, Lamb combines his extensive experience in covering international politics with his deeply informed insider’s knowledge to provide an intimate portrait of the Arab world today.

Author : Ahmed Galal
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9774160509

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Industrial Policy in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahmed Galal Pdf

Most governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region use trade policy to protect certain industries, provide tax incentives to promote a particular type of investment, and make subsidized credit available to firms of a certain size. Such government intervention, known as industrial policy, is the topic of this book. The aim is to assess whether state intervention leads to net benefits to society, why policymakers intervene, and how to bring about a healthier balance between states and markets. Answers to these questions are given in six chapters based on research papers that were presented at a conference held in Cairo in November 2005, and include case studies on Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, and Jordan. Contributors: Hasan Ersel, Ahmed Galal, Najib Harabi, Nihal El Megharbel, Mustapha Nabli, and Marcus Noland. An Egyptian Center for Economic Studies / World Bank Publication

Author : S. M. Imamuddin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : UOM:39015039429074

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A Modern History of the Middle East and North Africa by S. M. Imamuddin Pdf

Author : David Ottaway,Marina Ottaway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190061715

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A Tale of Four Worlds by David Ottaway,Marina Ottaway Pdf

About the separate trajectories of the Levant, the Gulf, Egypt and the Maghreb after the Arab Spring uprisings

Author : Mustapha Rouis,Steven R. Tabor
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821397265

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Regional Economic Integration in the Middle East and North Africa by Mustapha Rouis,Steven R. Tabor Pdf

MENA is one of the least globally and regionally integrated regions in the world. Though home to 5.5 percent of the world’s population and 3.9 percent of the world’s GDP, the region’s share of nonoil world trade is only 1.8 percent. Deep economic integration could help policy makers address the critical development challenges that have been brought to the forefront by the Arab Spring by boosting growth, fostering diversification, and stimulating employment. The level of tariff protection vis-à-vis the rest of the world remains high by international standards, particularly in North Africa. Nontariff measures have become the most important barriers to trade in goods in the Arab world. Trade in services is extremely limited. To boost services trade, reforms will be required to ease entry and licensing restrictions, promote competition, harmonize and strengthen regulatory practices and arrangements, and lower restrictions on the mobility of foreign workers residing in the region. Continued public ownership in some services sectors also represents a hurdle to service flows. Backbone services such as telecommunications, financial services, transport, and power are crucial to boosting productivity and international competitiveness. Building strategic infrastructure networks while opening infrastructure services to competition and trade could help reduce production costs, increase foreign direct investment, promote knowledge spillovers, and expand markets. Logistics performance, which varies substantially across countries, has generally been constrained by slow and ineffective introduction of risk management, little effort to monitor customs performance at the border, and insufficiently improved facilities at border crossings. Priority should be accorded to measures that improve the efficiency of border crossing points, including through the harmonization of customs procedures. The proliferation of PTAs, with their different sector and product coverage, rules of origin, and implementation requirements, poses a formidable challenge for capacity-constrained MENA institutions. If an Arab Customs Union is to be established by 2015 and an Arab Common Market by 2020, then efforts will need to be made to strengthen the rules and discipline applicable to PAFTA and other regional trade agreements. Mechanisms for tracking and enforcing commitments to regional economic integration also need to be strengthened.

Author : Nasser Weddady,Sohrab Ahmari
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230393707

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Arab Spring Dreams by Nasser Weddady,Sohrab Ahmari Pdf

From a gay man secretly mourning his lover's suicide in Morocco to a young woman denied schooling because of religious discrimination in Iran, Arab Spring Dreams spotlights some of the Middle East's most outspoken young dissidents. The essayists cover a wide range of experiences, including premarital sex, the lack of educational opportunities, teenage marriage, and the fight for political freedom. They also highlight how repressive laws and cultural mores snuff out liberty and stifle growth and consider how previous movements - particularly the American civil rights struggle - might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East.

Author : Asef Bayat,Linda Herrera
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520295353

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Global Middle East by Asef Bayat,Linda Herrera Pdf

Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both “global-in” and “global-out.” It delves into the region’s scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.

Author : Marc Lynch
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610392983

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The Arab Uprising by Marc Lynch Pdf

Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the “Arab Spring” are yet to come. An insider to both American policy and the world of the Arab public, Marc Lynch shows that the fall of particular leaders is but the least of the changes that will emerge from months of unrest. The far-ranging implications of the rise of an interconnected and newly-empowered Arab populace have only begun to be felt. Young, frustrated Arabs now know that protest can work and that change is possible. They have lost their fear—meanwhile their leaders, desperate to survive, have heard the unprecedented message that killing their own people will no longer keep them in power. Even so, as Lynch reminds us, the last wave of region-wide protest in the 1950s and 1960s resulted not in democracy, but in brutal autocracy. Will the Arab world’s struggle for change succeed in building open societies? Will authoritarian regimes regain their grip, or will Islamist movements seize the initiative to impose a new kind of rule? The Arab Uprising follows these struggles from Tunisia and Egypt to the harsh battles of Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and Libya and to the cautious reforms of the region’s monarchies. It examines the real meaning of the rise of Islamist movements in the emerging democracies, and the longterm hopes of a generation of activists confronted with the limits of their power. It points toward a striking change in the hierarchy of influence, as the old heavyweights—Iran, Al Qaeda, even Israel—have been all but left out while oil-rich powers like Saudi Arabia and “swing states” like Turkey and Qatar find new opportunities to spread their influence. And it reveals how America must adjust to the new realities. Deeply informed by inside access to the Obama administration’s decision-making process and first-hand interviews with protestors, politicians, diplomats, and journalists, The Arab Uprising highlights the new fault lines that are forming between forces of revolution and counter-revolution, and shows what it all means for the future of American policy. The result is an indispensible guide to the changing lay of the land in the Middle East and North Africa.