...University MCJ 6453 Professor David Milen Aug 30, 2012 Hezbollah “The Party of God” Who Are They We are not fighting so that the enemy may offer us something. We are fighting to wipe out the enemy ( Hussein Mussawi, Former Hezbollah Leader). Who are the Hezbollah? This little statement from their former leader sums it up what they are and what they stand for. Hezbollah is an Islamic Shi’ite group that has its origins in Iran and they also have a branch in Lebanon. Their name in Arabic means “Party of God”, it is derived from the Surra 5, verse 56 of the Quran: Lo! The Party of God, they are victorious, this group is not only a political party but a terrorist organization (Encyclopedia of the Middle East). The flag for the Hezbollah is yellow with a green AK 47 and green rocket truck with the entire globe in the background. The early history and foundation of Hezbollah, Hezbollah came around long before the Iranian revolution of 1979, they have strong ties with the religious scholars from Iran and Lebanon, These scholars or Shi’ite ulema studied theology in the academies in Iraq. During the 1950’s and 1960’s these academies were very active bringing together an Islamic response to nationalism and secularism (Encyclopedia of the Middle East). At this point we need to briefly discus the difference between Sunni and Shiite Musliams, the origin of Islam began back in 610 A.D. Sunnis accept that the first four Caliphs, to include Ali are the rightful followers of Muhammad...
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...Table of Contents | Executive Summary………………………………………………………iv | Introduction……………………………………………………………….1 Problem and Scope……………………………..1 Procedures………………….………………….2 Findings……………………………………………………………………3 Violence against women in Lebanon………….3 Education Statistics in Lebanon…………..…...4 Research Analysis…………………………………………………………6 Intervention…………………………………..12 Personal Beliefs……………………...……….12 Executive Summary The purpose of this report was to raise awareness about abused women in Lebanon and try to promote their rights. Research for this report included true based stories from reality shows and social media, furthermore, literature on web-based tuitions and interview with a professional social worker who deals with abused women. This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the current and prospective of women abuse concentrating in South of Lebanon. Other calculations include rates of numbers of women being abused including statistics of women educated in Lebanon. We also found two reality shows where men clarify why women are allowed to be abused and that it is the right thing to do in certain situations. Furthermore, we inserted KAFAA’s point of view on this matter including what type of situations they dealt with. Also, we have a valid report on the behaviors of the victim and the abuser by a Dr. from psychology department. The interview reveals reasons to why women are abused and how should they react to it. The report finds...
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...Lebanon The Israel Hamas Hezbollah Conflict The United States and the Israel-Hezbollah War Prof. Jeremy Pressman Although American soldiers were not involved in the fighting in Lebanon and Israel this past summer, the United States was nonetheless a central player in the war. U.S. policy was defined by staunch American support for Israel and repeated calls by U.S. officials to use the crisis as a means to get at the root causes of violence in the region. What were the American objectives in this war? Does a preliminary assessment suggest that Washington took steps toward achieving them? How does U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict look moving forward? American Objectives in the Israel-Hezbollah War Two global foreign policy commitments informed the United States view of the Israel-Hezbollah confrontation this past summer; the war on terror and the democratization of the Middle East. Since September 11, 2001, the American war on terror has been defined to include several different international actors. In his speech of September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush stated that the war would “not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated,” and that “any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.” In addition, he warned, terrorists could not be accommodated but instead must be met by force. This approach has most directly been applied to al-Qaeda and its satellites...
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...include Palestinian refugees and foreign workers, mainly Syrian. History : In conquering Lebanon, the Muslims fought the Christian armies of Byzantium, whom they called the Roumis. The Byzantines were defeated, and retreated further north. Lebanon was made part of the Sham territory of the Islamic Empire. Islam became the Law and official religion of the land. Christians and Jews were allowed to worship as long as they paid taxes to the Muslims, and obeyed their laws. Arabic became the official language of the region The privileging of Christians in governmental positions was one of the main reasons for the civil war, when the population percentage shifted in favor of the Muslims The first Arab-Israeli war broke out, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes as Israeli troops advanced on them. About 150,000 Palestinians became refugees in Lebanon. The Palestinians come to play an important, if indirect, part in Lebanese politics. Outgoing President Amine Gemayel appoints an interim military government under Maronite Commander-in-Chief Michel Aoun in East Beirut when presidential elections fail to produce a successor. Prime Minister Selim el-Hoss forms a mainly Muslim rival administration in West Beirut. Politics : Hizbo lah The United States has declared that Hezbollah (Party of God) is a major terrorist organization, but public officials in Lebanon, where the group is based, and it’s a Shiite group . Hezbollah has grown to an organization...
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...Does culture represents an important part of an individual identity? During her speech “Don't kill your language (TED talk)” Suzanne talhouk talks about her experience of being discriminated in her country because of using her own language. She explains the importance of preserving language and how it can prevent the death of a nation's soul and identity. She also explains how language is a very important part of culture and how culture is a very important part of your identity. Therefore, culture is seen as the main designer of identity. How we act, react, and see the world depends on the culture we came from. People might see things differently according to their culture. If culture does not give us our first principles what would? As Talhouk states, “Language represents specific stages in our lives, and terminology that is linked to our emotions”(Talhouk 3). Culture is the same. Every time we smell, see or listen to something, it might bring memories that only people from the same culture can remember. These memories shape the way we perceive things in a sense that what could be normal for a group of people, can be disturbing or weird for others from different cultures. According to Talhouk, “The Arabic language doesn’t satisfy today's needs… it definitely isn’t a language we use at the airport. If we did so, they’d strip us of our clothes” (Talhouk 1-2). She believes that she can not use Arabic in the airport because she knows that the Arabic language will bring memories...
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...The Syrian army has launched an operation to secure a key road that is used for supplying foreign backed militants with weapons. The army has deployed it’s units along the road that goes from Damascus, the country’s capital, to Masnaa Border Crossing which is in Lebanon. The area is quite rural and there are many places to hide, so in turn it has become a hot spot for militants to smuggle weapons into Syria. Many Syrians who are trying to escape the country’s civil war conflict have used these roads and border crossings but the Syrian army or the SAA are putting a stop to it. The reason for this is because there is many illegal smuggling in the area and an increased amount of FSA casualties seeking for medical attention in other countries. Setting ambushes and a frequent changing of positions are among the tactics used by the Syrian army to prevent militants and arms smugglers from infiltrating into the country. Heavy weaponry is being used to help keep security in the area such as tanks and rocket-propelled grenades. A few days ago on Sunday, Lebanese soldiers killed a member of al-Nusra Front and injured two others at a checkpoint in the border town of Arsal as the Takfiri militants attempted to cross into Lebanon from neighboring Syrian. Syria has been through 2 years of civil war unrest and according to the Western powers and regional allies, especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are supporting the militants operating inside Syria. Bad news for President Al Bashar...
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...Rinal Chaaban Mobile No: E-mail: +971 5 5249 2157 / +974 7734228 rinalchaaban@gmail.com Career Objective My objective is to enhance my working capacities, professional skills, business efficiencies and to serve my organization in best possible way with complete determination and commitment. Qualifications Summary 7 years experience in exhibitions, conferences, and events. 5 years of experience in production & photography field. Familiar with new technology releases. Possess extensive Internet search skills. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Very good organizational skills. Good written and verbal communication skills. Professional Experience fischerAppelt, qatar August 2011 till October 2014 Senior Project Manager / Project Lead / Exhibition Manager for the following projects: • Innovate Qatar (Creator / Idea and Implementation / Exhibition Manager) • QITCOM Conference and Exhibition 2014 Tasks for the above projects include but are not limited to: o Leading, managing, supervising and leading the exhibition and conference. o Managing, recruiting and supervising the team of 20 employees for the conference and exhibition. o Preparing, managing and controlling the financial overview of the project. o Prepared the project concept, milestones and master-plan. o Setting the agency’s performance objectives and monitoring the progress towards achieving them. o Supervising, leading and monitoring Sales / Media and Marketing / Operations / Accounting departments...
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...In March 2011 Syria’s government, led by Pres. Bashar al-Assad, faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority when pro-democracy protests erupted throughout the country. Protesters demanded an end to the authoritarian practices of the Assad regime, in place since Assad’s father, Ḥafiz al-Assad, became president in 1971. The Syrian government used violence to suppress demonstrations, making extensive use of police, military, and paramilitary forces. Amateur footage and eyewitness accounts, the primary sources of information in a country largely closed to foreign journalists, showed the Syrian security forces beating and killing protesters and firing indiscriminately into crowds. Opposition militias began to form in 2011, and by 2012 the conflict had expanded into a full-fledged civil war. In mid-January 2012 the credibility of the monitoring mission seemed to decline further when a delegation member who had resigned from the group called the mission “a farce,” claiming that Syrian government forces had presented the monitors with orchestrated scenes and restricted their movements. After several Arab countries withdrew their monitors over concerns for their safety, the Arab League formally suspended the monitoring mission on January 28, citing an increase in violence as the reason. Violence seemed to accelerate after the failure of the Arab League monitoring mission. In early February 2012 the Syrian army began a sustained assault on Homs, bombarding opposition-held neighborhoods...
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... Compare/ Contrast Essay It might seem like “Everything Will Be OK” and “ Raymond's Run” are very different kinds of stories. One is a story about a boy who is soft, sensitive and the other is about a girl who is tough and confident. When you dig a little deeper, you will see that both stories actually share a common theme. In both stories , “Raymond's Run” and “ Everything Will Be OK” the authors teach us that it is important to have courage to be an individual. In “Everything Will Be OK” the author shows us that it is vital to have courage to be yourself . In the beginning of the story James shows little courage to be himself . For example, when James says he can feel tears welling up. This evidence shows that, James is really sad about the kitten, maybe being too sick to keep but he won’t show it because he’s afraid of what is brother’s will think if he cries. This shows very little courage. Another example is, when James says “ I want to go because I want my father to like me, but I don’t want to kill animals” This evidence suggests , that he has to courage to just say he doesn't want to because he is so busy trying to impress his dad. I the middle of the story James is still struggling with his courage. For instance, when James says “ I won’t let them out I won’t let Paul see” This evidence shows that, James is afraid to cry because he want to impress his big brother Paul and not being true to himself...
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...Mrs. Hutchinson craned her neck to see through the crowd and found her husband and children standing near the front. She tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a farewell and began to make her way through the crowd. The people separated good-humoredly to let her through: two or three people said, in voices just loud enough to be heard across the crowd, “Here comes your, Missus, Hutchinson,” and “Bill, she made it after all. ” Mrs. Hutchinson reached her husband, and Mr. Summers, who had been waiting, said cheerfully, “Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie. ” Mrs. Hutchinson said, grinning, “Wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you, Joe?” and soft laughter ran through the crowd as the people stirred back into position after Mrs. Hutchinson’s arrival. Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Lots--mostly characters Only 2--loud and soft Lots--different kinds Only 2--good-humoredly and cheerfully effect on tone, readers, and/or meaning of story The claim/thesis that I have picked is that Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many of those role models in her life are in a trapped abusive life. They come from a poor family and are not the cleanest people in the town. But they have something all in common and that is that they all want a change. Some want their change in a different way than the others, some want someone else to change their life, and the others want to change their lives themselves. For Esperanza she comes...
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... “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph W. Emerson once said this quote. This quote some what describes Chris McCandless, because in the book Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, McCandless goes on an adventure. This young man goes on this adventure, so he can see what he is able to do and also to find himself. McCandless was determent to live his live to the fullest even from a very young age. He went with his dad on several adventures and always explored new things when he was younger. As he grew up he never lost the feeling that he got every time he went to explore new things. He was different from most of the people, because he does not mind being an individual person and going his own way. Chris McCandless lives life to the fullest, that is why he gives his money to charity. Also because he does not want to do the things his parents want him to do, he just wants to live his own life. He also leaves behind all of his belongings that he thinks he will don't need, and at the end he never regretted a single thing that he ever did in live. To begin , the reader finds out, that McCandless got 24000 Dollars from a family friend. His parents thought that he would use the money for his education. But it turned out otherwise. “The final two years of his college education had been paid for with a forty-thousand-dollar bequest left by a friend of the family’s more that twenty-four thousand...
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...Annotated Bibliography Spyer, Jonathan. "The Battle for Aleppo; A report from the front lines of the Syrian civil war." The Weekly Standard 8 Oct. 2012. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2016 Article Link: Click here for page Summary Annotation: In the old city of Aleppo with a history of religion and the Dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. A reporter named Jonathan Spyer went along with a group called Free Syrian Army (FSA) to the center of Aleppo and what Spyer says “ There is a sharp change in atmosphere as one enters Aleppo city from the surrounding countryside.” The city changes into a rubble streeted place with craters all over from the bombs that struck that spot. As they got deeper into the neighborhood, they people who lived there still go about with their daily lives like nothing happened; cafes and small shops are open. Reflective Annotation: The reporter does a good job on explaining what going on and getting first hand experience with the war. Spyer states in the article that people are going about their lives but also has that chance of destruction of outside forces coming and destroying on what is left. Spyer also makes this a great topic because people in the world does not know how or why this dictator of the Syrian city is not stepping down. "Battle For Aleppo Carries High Stakes For Syria." YaleGlobal Online 12 Aug. 2016. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2016. Article Link: Click here for page...
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...experiences we shared together, have played a role in shaping who I am today. My eldest brother had several handicaps. He was born deaf and with poor eye sight which in turn affected his speech and development. Throughout my eldest brother’s life, our mother was his caretaker, his support and the only one who fought so hard for his well being and happiness. She had managed in the late seventies to enrol him in a special school in Lebanon where he started to develop and learn sign language through which we all communicate with him now. I was too young at the time, but my older siblings told me of the stories when during the civil war in Lebanon, my mother would risk it all to go see him and bring him home for Christmas as his school was on the other side of the line separating Beirut into two warring camps at the time. Around the mid-eighties, the war had become much worse, and Palestinians were being targeted in Lebanon, at which point my parents decided to bring my eldest brother back to Saudi Arabia. By the time the war had ended in Lebanon, it was too late for my brother to go back to school, as he was too old. In Saudi Arabia, my parents tried to get my brother enrolled in several special schools in the Middle East, but there were always obstacles. As Palestinians we could not travel to Jordan or Egypt where similar schools were available. To complicate matters, Saudi Arabia had little to offer in terms of schools suitable for my eldest brother. Since my mother’s...
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...Contents Editorial New century, old story! Race, religion, bureaucrats, and the Australian Lebanese story Anne Monsour The Transnational Imagination: XXth century networks and institutions of the Mashreqi migration to Mexico Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos Balad Niswen – Hukum Niswen: The Perception of Gender Inversions Between Lebanon and Australia Nelia Hyndman-Rizik Diaspora and e-Commerce: The Globalization of Lebanese Baklava Guita Hourani Lebanese-Americans’ Identity, Citizenship and Political Behavior Rita Stephan Pathways to Social Mobility Lebanese Immigrants in Detroit and Small Business Enterprise Sawsan Abdulrahim 3 7 31 73 105 139 163 Pal. Jour., 2009, 11,3:5 Copyright © 2009 by Palma Journal, All Rights Reserved Editorial Palma Journal’s special issue on migration aims at contributing to this area of study in a unique manner. By providing a forum for non-veteran scholars in the field to share their current research findings with a broader public, Palma has joined hands with the Lebanese Emigration Research Center in celebrating LERC’s sixth anniversary serving international and interdisciplinary scholarly discourse between Lebanon and the rest of the world. The migration special issue owes its inception to a conversation between Beirut und Buenos Aires, in which Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, an AustrianAmerican researcher at LERC, and the eminent Argentinean migration scholar, Ignacio Klich, developed the idea for a special migration issue and presented...
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...Shakir Hussain Instructor: Dr. Hossain Al Mamun Reg # 2009236059 ENG 416 – Literature in Translation 4th Year 1st Semester Department of English September 2, 2013. Metaphor and Meaning: A Re-reading of The Prophet Abstract: The purpose of this study has been to investigate the metaphors and meaning in Kahlil Gibran’s (1883-1931) literary work The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran speaks in metaphors; perhaps that is the only way to speak about the truth. Through metaphor he gives indirect glimpses and spreads his philosophy of life. Every word in this book is a metaphor. Metaphors are used in this text to accelerate and enhance the meaning. The Prophet through its metaphors provides timeless spiritual wisdom on a range of subjects, including giving, eating and drinking, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, teaching, time, pleasure, religion, death, beauty and friendship. Corresponding to each chapter are evocative drawings by Gibran himself. Key Words: Metaphors, Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, and Philosophy of Life. Kahlil Gibran is said to be the ‘People’s Philosophy’. Gibran’s The Prophet is a metaphor for the mystery of life. The author seeks the help of metaphoric language in order to present the confluence of philosophy and religion, experience and expectation, desire and duality of human life. The combination of poetic and prosaic style of this book is beautified by the use of many figures of speech. The passages of this book speak to soul....
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