base and targeting strategy of this product as used by McDonald's. Introduction: Falafel (or Tamiaa) is a fried ball or patty made from spiced fava beans and/or chickpeas. It is a popular form of fast food in the Middle East in general and in Egypt in particular. Falafel is usually served in a pita-like bread called Arabic bread, either inside the bread, which acts as a pocket, or wrapped in a flat bread. In many countries falafel is a popular street food or fast food. The falafel balls, whole
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TranscUlturAl, vol.1, 1(2008), 14-24 http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/TC 14 Literary Translation and (or as?) Conflict between the Arab World and the West Mustapha Ettobi McGill University Introduction In 1990, Edward Said wrote an article entitled “Embargoed Literature” which was published in The Nation. In it, he argues that Arabic literature is “embargoed” in the West even if one of its most prominent figures, the Egyptian novelist and short story writer Naguib Mahfouz, was
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Hedi Bouhlel, EN130 English Composition Assignment 01 * Democracy in the digital age * * Dictatorships who ruled their countries with an arm fist for decades, had no match for the digital age, and didn’t expect defeat either. * * Hunger for Democracy spun a revolution and caused a domino effect across the Arab world; it all started with a spark, and hit send type action, thanks to digital technology. * * The digital world revolutionized our existence
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Week 6 Written Assignment - What’s So Funny? Contemporary World Literature Tawfiq al-Hakim utilized different types of comedy with varying techniques throughout his play The Sultans Dilemma to lighten the seriousness of the mood. However, al-Hakim’s comedic style is more of a witty “philosophical-esc” type humor. I believe that he used this device as effective means to communicate a moral dilemma of what is right. The seriousness of the storyline as the Sultan confronts his own fate as
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The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan Robert Irwin on an eloquent history of Arab hopes and disappointments * Share17 * * * * * ------------------------------------------------- Email * ------------------------------------------------- Robert Irwin * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- The Guardian, Saturday 31 October 2009 An American Army helicopter flies past a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq
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DAVID DAMIETE DOKUBO 0-7682090 THE REASON FOR THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA, AND WHY THE AFRICANS COULDNT STOP COLIONIALISM. During the scramble for Africa, the Europeans basically had a lot to prove to each other. It is very easy to understand that at the time (1800-1900) European countries still struggled in crude ways to show dominance. This fact however couldn’t have single handedly driven the Europeans to Africa. There were also very rational reasons why. In this essay, those reasons will be
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I imagine things would be substantially different for me if I lived in 2000 B.C., Egypt. As a 43 year old male, I suspect it would be a miracle I survived at all. Surely, disease warfare or my birth had a high probability of ending my life by now. I would be living in a culture that values art and beauty and eternity. The Egyptians had a mind to build things that lasted. I believe I would have observed in awe, the building of the pyramids. The Egyptians were accomplished metal workers, judging
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Making things worse in the Middle East Over the past few months, the Middle East has become an even more violent place than usual. Iraq is now once again home to one of the most bloody civil wars in the world, after Syria of course, which is the worst. Watching these horrors unfold, many in the United States are convinced that this is Washington’s fault or that, at the very least, the Obama administration’s “passive” approach toward the region has allowed instability to build. In fact, the last
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15435768 Abstract People often comment on the impact that technology has on people's social skills. Frequently, this lens is used to analyze the limits of social media . However, this paper moves away from simple social skills in seeks out the effects that social media has in generating a greater kind of change, social change. This paper analyzes the impact that social media can have on revolutions in the twenty-first century. I use the Arab Spring as a means
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region. Conversely, many people are opposed to getting involved to a certain extent. According to a poll on FoxNews.com, 58.7 percent of the people surveyed believed the U.S. should get involved only a little in the Egypt crisis, “getting involved is likely to backfire, so let Egypt work it out” was the
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