Arab Culture

Conceptual Models of Nursing familiarizes students with a broad range of nursing models and their roles in global nursing practiceA detailed overview of nursing theory development familiarizes new students and reorients graduate students to the field.The focus on all major nurse theorists provides students with an accessible all-in-one reference book.Demonstrations of how models and theories can be applied to nursing practice helpstudents understand the development and evaluation of the theoretical base for advanced nursing practice.NEW: Chapters written by nurse scholars from several countries provide a perspective of how nursing is conceptualized in other countries and give voice to a community of scholars that extends beyond the borders of the United States. Thirteen countries are represented to help future nurse scholars everywhere in their quest for scientific excellence.NEW:A holistic presentation of models encourages nurses to think conceptually. Several holistic models described in the text are strength-based nursing, personhood, health as harmony, and interpersonal caring.¿ NEW: Culture is emphasized as a major influence on the understandings that guide nurses both in knowledge development and professional practice. Some chapters present unique models that are specifically derived from the history and culture of nursing in that country, while others have described the application of existing models that were developed in the United States.Consistent analysis of each model allows students to compare models for usefulness in research, education, and practice - See more at: https://www.pearsonhighered.com/pearsonhigheredus/educator/product/products_detail.page?isbn=9780133805758&forced_logout=forced_logged_out#sthash.GUlKaXmy.dpuf

يبحث هذا الكتاب في الآراء الفلسفية لأحد متكلمي مدرسة البصرة الاعتزالية الكبار معمّر بن عباد السُلَمي. فإلى جانب عرض و تحليل وافيين للنصوص التي وصلتنا من كتب المقالات، قمنا بنقد موضوعي لنظريات المستشرقين الشهيرة التي تعيد فكر معمّر الإسلامي الأصيل إلى جذور هيلينيستية

The Nahda (“awakening”) designates the project of Arab cultural and political modernity from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Arab models of nationalism and secularism, as well as Islamic revival, spring from Nahda thought and its attendant developments, such as linguistic reform; translation; the emergence of new literary genres, such as the novel; the creation of periodicals, journalism, and a new publishing industry; professional associations and salons; a new education system; and an overall Enlightenment ideal of knowledge. The Nahda ushered in innovative modes of reading and writing along with new social practices of knowledge transmission, transnational connections, and new political ideas. Collected in this anthology are texts by intellectuals, writers, members of the clergy, and political figures. The authors discuss authority, social norms, conventions and practices both secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology. Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, the texts will be of interest to students of the Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.

Th is paper focuses on the ever-growing popularity of scenes depicting and referring to hashish and marijuana use in Egyptian cinema. It argues that a shift in attitude and in the overall depiction of these substances has emerged in more recent fi lms, those produced in the 1990s and after. It suggests that whereas in older cinema these substances were always associated with social and political ills, almost all negative connotations and associations have disappeared in favor of an acceptable and playful depiction. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the carnivalesque developed by Bakhtin, and the work of other scholars such as Gilles Deleuze and Walter Benjamin, this paper suggests that the depictions of smoking hashish and marijuana are subversive moments that ultimately aim at escaping rigid social structures and power hierarchies while providing commentaries on repressive social and political realities.

The paper discusses the literary osmosis between Arab culture and English
literature, more precisely it subtracts the issue of influencing and being
influenced between the writers in the two cultures. As it shows the influencing
on the Iraqi poet Badr Shaker Alsayab by the British poet T. S. Eliot, it also
shows the influencing on Lord Alfred Tennyson by the Arabian poet Imru al-
Qays. Many of Arab influences in the English literature are raised in this paper,
in poetry also it discusses the influencing on the father of English poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer by the Arabian Nights tales. In the novel, it discusses the
influencing on Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe by the novel of Ibn
Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan. In drama it discusses the influencing of the famous
story in the Arab culture of the hero and beau Antar Bin Shadad on the great
poet and playwright William Shakespeare especially in his play Othello, more
comparisons are discussed in this paper. At the end of the study, we conclude
that the modern Arabic literature influenced by English literature, the English
literature is also influenced by the Arab literature in the middle ages. The
Arabian Nights was influential on many writers in the English literature. The
mainspring of the influence on English writers caused a renewal and
development of English literature. The translation movement helped to make the
Arab culture influential on the civilizations around, including the influencing on
the English literature. The Orientalists contributed to transfer the Arab Culture
to Europe via translation of the Arab literature to their languages, and more
.other results are mentioned in the conclusion of the paper based on the literature

This research discusses how Arabic Poetry can be reenacted through the medium of Poetry films. It gives an account of the different movements of Arabic Poetry, and how the role they played in the Arab and Egyptian culture has changed over time. The research also discusses the new approach of animated Poetry films that visualize poems in various techniques, and attempts to see how these techniques can be incorporated to create an Animated Poetry Film that visualizes an Arabic poem.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2020.1862271
Special Issue: Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel


Abstract:
Excessive redevelopment and gentrification in Jaffa produced liminal extra-territories which serve as fertile grounds for the emergence of unruly urban agencies. Drawing on seven years of ethnographic observations, interviews, and social media analysis of Anna Loulou bar, we outline the contours of a new social type – the political hipster. Unlike the archetypical hipster that could flourish in any urban setting, this specific agent is the product of the particular blend of centre and periphery, characteristic of Jaffa and the Anna Loulou bar in particular. On the seam line between “Palestinian” Jaffa and “Jewish” Tel Aviv, Anna Loulou offers the wild nightlife of the centre, complemented by the rugged authenticity of the binational periphery. The bar serves as a unique intersection between two opposing fields – the cultural and the political. This allows the political hipster to juggle between the fields – commodifying identity and erotizing politics: dancing with tears in her eyes.

"While the Israeli Arab population includes a plurality of cultures, all Arabs share a very traditional, conservative view of sexuality. Family Life and Sex Education has only recently been considered possible within the Arab school system. This paper describes an
approach that has been developed for the design of teacher training courses and that is grounded in an understanding of and respect for the Arab cultural environment as distinct
from the Jewish majority culture."

Disgusted with ISIS, some Kurds turned away from Islam following the fall of Mosul in 2014. Many became atheists, while others sought comfort in Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism, according to converts, was the “original” religion of the Kurds before they embraced Islam. In 2015, two Zoroastrian centers opened in Sulaimani, both of which are recognized by the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq. Notably, neither has tried to recreate Zoroastrianism the way it is currently and has been historically practiced in Iran and South Asia. Instead, they have created their own versions of Zoroastrianism, which is nationalist, postmodern, and liberal. Kurdish Zoroastrians argue that the reason Kurds are “backward” is Islam. They seek to rectify the present situation through a Kurdish “authenticated” and “original” form of Zoroastrianism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at these two centers, the present article examines this new religious movement in Sulaimani, an important city in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. It analyses the rise and distinctiveness of Kurdish Zoroastrianism looking at how Zoroastrian Kurds articulate their views on Islam, women’s rights, human rights, and Kurdish independence.

The results of a groundbreaking research project into the Gulf Arab Management Style. This research report contains important insight into using the Gulf Region’s unique attributes and capabilities to deliver sustainable competitive advantage. Whereas existing leadership methods, training and coaching use Western approaches, OSC’s unique research identified Management and Leadership methods that Gulf-based organizations can develop and replicate to deliver significant benefits.

While the Arab world struggles with current issues in Iraq, the Gulf, Syria, and the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian relations; the recent murders of an Egyptian University student and of a Jordanian University student, illustrate what Arab women still face in society.

Purpose: This study describes perceived stress and coping strategies as they occur within a
college-aged population from an Arab background. Variables were compared between psychology
students and their peers from other faculties.
Design and Methods: A cross-sectional, correlational design was used for this study. A total of 114 students completed the Brief COPE questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale, and a measure of our own design to assess sources of psychosocial support.
Findings: The complete sample engaged in help-seeking behavior, though distinct differences
between groupswere evident. Perceived stress was pervasive. Students employed a range of coping
strategies but showed a clear preference for emotion-focused strategies.
Practice Implications: Training institutions carry the responsibility for developing supportive
interventions to promote students’ throughput, and ensure the graduation of competent and ethically
sound clinicians.
KEYWORDS
Arab, coping, counseling, Islam, Muslim, stress

هذه المقالة هي محاولة لدراسة القضية الفلسطينية من خلال دراسة الإنسان العربي
والثقافة العربية - الإسلامية، بمعنى أنني سوف أحاول أن أجيب عن الأسئلة التالية: لماذا
فشل العرب في إنقاذ فلسطين من براثن الحركة الصهيونية ومشروعها الاستيطاني كامتداد
للاستعمار الغربي في الشرق الأوسط، ما أدى إلى ضياع فلسطين وتشتُّت أهلها وخضوع
العالم العربي لهيمنة النفوذ الصهيوني - الأمريكي - الغربي؟ ولماذا فشل العرب على
مدى أكثر من ستة عقود في استرداد فلسطين و/أو تحقيق حق العودة لملايين اللاجئين
الفلسطينيين المشتتين في الأقطار العربية ومختلف بقاع الأرض؟ ولماذا استسلم العرب كلياً
لواقع العجز ونفضوا أيديهم من قضية تحرير فلسطين؟

During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male force of destruction. The images of women fighting Islamist male aggressors aroused outrage, admiration, and pity among observers. But had all Kurdish fighters been male or had women fought for ISIS, viewers might have reacted differently. To examine some of the most widely disseminated gendered pictures and videos of the Syrian uprising in the media, this article draws on Mohja Kahf’s three categories, which typify how Muslim women, Arab women, or both are perceived by the Anglophone reading and viewing public: the first is victims; the second, escapees; and the third, pawns of patriarchy and male power. While this typology helps in examining gendered images of the Syrian uprising, it also obscures the socioeconomic realities on the ground.

The evolution of the Afroeurasian world-system which in the 'long 16 th century' was transformed into the global World System comprised both economic and political components, some of which are discussed in the present article. Earlier research has identified four major zones of instability which can be designated as the Central Asian (including Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Middle East, North Africa, and the Sahel region. We suggest considering these four zones as a single Afrasian macrozone of instability. We show that this zone correlates rather closely with the zone of traditional prevalence of the parallel cousin marriage, as well as with the zone of very low female labor force participation rate, and the territory of the Umayyad Califate. The article demonstrates that this correlation is not coincidental and also discusses the factors and mechanisms that have produced it.

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ABSTRACT
Indo Arab ties are age old reality which can be
traced back to even pre-Islamic era. In the present
situation in general, and COVID-19‟s adverse
effect on global society in particular, Indo Arab ties
have become more significant for economy and
other developments. Culture and education become
the focal points in all sorts of ties, therefore the role
of India Arab cultural centre, Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi is doing extraordinarily great work
towards building up, maintaining and further
developing healthy Indo Arab cultural bonds

This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of the cultures of the Arabic-speaking peoples of Southwest Asia and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present. Readings include historical, religious, literary, and cultural texts from both the premodern and modern eras. Course taught in English.

This study investigates the meaning of 'culture' and the various implications of this concept in the context of Arabian culture. A special attention has been paid to the religious and heritage features of Arabian culture and their implications for managers of organizations in the Arabian world. To achieve this objective, a theoretical review has been carried out to earlier literature. Reviewing relevant literature provides good evidence that the 'culture' and its implications have noteworthy effects on how employees behave, deal and interact with management according to different managerial practices. Given its popularity in culture related research, Hofstede's model has been adopted in order to explain cultural variations among nations and to help better understand the influential national cultural features of some Arabian communities. The analytical review also shows that the characteristics of Arabian culture differ from those of Western communities, and thus different managerial theories and practices need to be applied in Arabian organizations albeit these organizations’ continuing tendency to adopt pure Western theories and practices. This
study also addresses the managerial problems of Arabian organizations and recommends that managers of Arab organizations need to be aware of own cultural aspects and the
vitality of employing their awareness to avoid negative consequences on the performance of their organizations.

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity, and agency of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It demonstrates the extent to which religion orders society but also the extent to which the economic and political conditions influence the religious discourse and the ideology of enslavement. The interpretation and application of Islam did not guarantee the freedom and integration of black Moroccan ex-slaves into society. It starts with the Islamic legal discourse and racial stereotypes that existed in Moroccan society leading up to the era of Mawlay Isma'il (r. 1672-1727), with a special emphasis on the black army during and after his reign. The first part of the book provides a narrative relating the legal discourse on race, concubinage and slavery as well as historical events and developments that are not well known in printed scholarship and western contexts.  The second part of the book is conceptually ambitious; it provides the reader with a deeper sense of the historical and sociological implications of the story being told across a long period of time, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.  Though the strongest element of theses chapters concerns the "black army," an important component of the discussion is the role of female slaves.  One of the problems the historian faces with this kind of analysis is that it must rest on a limited "evidentiary base." This book has broadened this base and clarified the importance of female slaves in relation to the army and Moroccan society at large.

Black Morocco redefines the terms of the scholarly debate about the historical nature of Moroccan slavery and proposes an original analysis of issues concerning race, concubinage and gender, with a special focus on their theoretical aspects.  The Moroccan system of racial definition was clearly "racialist" and was in fact a curious inversion of the Western racist model.  Whereas in the western model "one drop" of black blood identifies one as black, in the Moroccan model, "one drop" of white blood identifies one as Arab (i.e., privileged).  This process helped create a"nationalist" Moroccan Arab majority and at the same time subjugated black ancestry (i.e., those without the "one drop" of Arab blood), seen as having more bearing on the historical antecedents of slavery. Black Morocco offers a new paradigm for the study of race in the region that will transform the way we approach and understand ethnicity and racial identities in North Africa and most crucially it helps eliminate the culture of silence -- the refusal to engage in discussions about slavery, racial attitudes, and gender issues.

The author collects and organizes under a critical point of view the widest range possible of sources available in Arabic and Neo-persian language regarding the Iranian festival of Sada. A subsequent reading and accurate review of said materials reveals a theme characteristic to the festival in exam, i.e. the archetipical relation of Fire and Water in the form of a productive clash between opposites. As a second result it recognizes a strong link between the Sada festival and the early forms of Christmas celebrations. This study provides also whole set of new conclusions about the winter cycle of Iranian festivals, setting itself in the current of most recent hypothesis regarding the long debated question of the Iranian calendar. This book was awarded with the 2005 "Mario Nola" national price by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

L'autore raccoglie qui per la prima volta il maggior numero di notizie riguardanti la festa iranica del sada reperibili nelle letterature araba e neo-persiana e, attraverso un'attenta lettura del materiale mitico-rituale relativo alla celebrazione, rileva, anzitutto, la presenza nel sada di un tema caratteristico riconducibile alla fenomenologia universale nella forma archetipica dell'incontro/scontro Acqua-Fuoco. L'autore mette poi in luce una serie di nessi tipologici con il Natale cristiano delle origini (6 gennaio). I risultati del presente lavoro permettono di rileggere l'intero ciclo delle festività invernali iraniche e rafforzano le ultime ipotesi espresse intorno alla vexata quaestio del calendario iranico. L'opera è stata insignita del premio "Mario di Nola" per l'anno 2005 da parte dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei"

میلاد نور. جشن سده بین بغداد و بخارا از قرن سوم تا قرن هفتم هجری قمری
میلان /ایتالیا /۲۰۰۲ م -  ۱۳۸۱ ش
انتشارات میمسیس /۳۷۹ ص

ناك مثل شامي قديم يقول: ”أول الرقص حنجلة“... يقدم كتاب يوميات شامية قراءة لحالة تاريخية لمجتمع مدينة دمشق ينطبق عليها هذا المثل الشعبي هي القرن الثامن عشر. فقد بيّنت الدراسات الجديدة للمجتمعات العثمانية في المراكز العمرانية الرئيسية، كاستانبول ودمشق والقاهرة وحلب، أنه ظهرت في تلك الفترة حالة من ”الحنجلة الاجتماعية،“ تمثلت ببدايات الانفتاح الاجتماعي، وانصهار الفوارق الطبقية، وتحدٍ غير مسبوق للتقاليد والعادات والقيم الاجتماعية، والحضور البارز والجريء للمرأة في المدينة، وبروز الطبقة الوسطى، وظهور نماذج جديدة من الفن والأدب، وتوسع مجال الحريات الفردية والجماعية، وتفعيل للفضاء العام، وانحسار القيود الدينية على الممارسات الاجتماعية في الفضاءات العامة للمدينة... والسؤال الذي يطرحه المثل الشامي: ما هي حالة ”الرقص“ التي يُفترض أن تؤول إليها حالة الحنجلة الاجتماعية تلك؟ الجواب هو أن حالة ”الرقص“ تلك هي مرحلة ”الحداثة،“ في حين أن ”الحنجلة“ تشير إلى مرحلة ”الحداثة المبكرة.“ والمقاربة هنا بين المثل الشعبي والحالة التاريخية تهدف للإشارة إلى انتقال المجتمعات العربية تدريجياً من حالة قديمة إلى حالة حديثة، وأن المراحل الأولى لهذا الإنتقال، عندما بدأت الممارسات الاجتماعية بالخروج عن المألوف، هو ما يمكن أن ينطبق عليها حالة ”الحنجلة“ على كافة المستويات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والسياسية والدينية والعمرانية. تساهم هذه الدراسة الجديدة في تقصي ملامح هذه ”الحنجلة الاجتماعية“ في مدينة دمشق تحديداً، من خلال قراءة جديدة لشريحة من الكتابات التاريخية التي عنيت بتفاصيل الحياة اليومية، كيوميات ابن كنان والبديري وميخائيل بريك، وغيرهم من كتّاب تلك الفترة.

Course Description: This course examines the categories of gender, sexuality, and culture in the modern Middle East. Through weekly readings in history, sociology, literature, and other disciplines, in-class discussion, film viewings, and written and oral assignments, students will learn about how gender has been constructed across the Near and Middle East and North Africa, in the Arab world and Iran. Over the course of the semester, students will learn how to critically approach gender in the modern Middle East by writing weekly discussion board posts (online) about the weekly readings, completing a midterm exam, giving an in-class presentation about a book or film not included in the required readings, developing a final project, and writing a final exam. The final project may be submitted in a variety of forms, including but not limited to: a 10-minute film that addresses themes from the course, an interactive website, a short play, a lengthy piece of creative writing, or a more traditional 3,000 – 4,000-word research paper. Students must submit a final project proposal following the midterm, and rubrics for evaluating different project types will be distributed the week after submission of the proposal. Students may change their proposal after receiving the rubric, but only in consultation with the professor and no later than two weeks after the initial proposal. Students will engage with their colleagues and the broader digital public through their discussion board posts and on Twitter.

The Arab Spring struck the Middle East to the core as popular uprisings landed in Tunisia then Egypt, Libya followed suit after Yemen, yet the course of events was doomed when the process was held up in Syria, bringing the issue of democracy in the Arab region to the fore. Enthusiasm towards fully-fledged democracy has been mounting and demonstrators calling for freedom, human rights and democracy have never stopped, although the revolts succeeded in toppling a number of autocratic regimes and "fair" elections were held. The parties, who failed in the elections, and their supporters, accuse the winners of cheating, fraud and falsifying the results. This is not an attribute unique to elections in the Arab region as many democratized societies behave the same way in similar circumstances (the latest case was in Bulgaria). Nevertheless, the opposition sparked a new spate of demonstrations aiming to topple, obstruct or thwart the rule of the newly elected elites. On the other hand, the winners were accused of wrongdoings and practices that are deemed to enhance and consolidate their own rule. In an attempt to keep readers abreast, this article will try to explain the term democracy in the Arab world, tackling both historical and practical contours. The first part will review the status of democracy in the Arab region from a historical perspective; while the second part will discuss its viability as pertains to the current state of affairs.