Book Review: The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution Written By: Marwan Bishara Lilia Gomez INTL 5000 (Fall Semester) The book that I am reviewing is titled The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution. It is written by a well-known political analyst named Marwan Bishara. Mr. Bishara works for the Al Jeezera (the primary
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Egyptian Uprising of 2011 Things will never be the same in Egypt due to the Egyptian revolution that has been ongoing since January of 2011. The uprising began in Cairo and many other cities followed, eventually causing the president to resign from office. I am going to tell a little bit about the revolution and what it has meant to me. The Egyptian revolution began in early January 2011 by activist revolting against the president of Egypt calling for the end of poverty, unemployment, government
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STRATEGIC PLANNING Critically Assess the Theory and Practice of Strategic Planning in Tourism. Area of focus: Egypt Presented to the University of Sunderland Degree: International Tourism and Hospitality Management Student registration number: TABLE OF CONTENT Cover page......................................................................................Page 1 Table of Content......................................................................
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Executive Summary The aim of the research was to answer the main research question: ‘What caused the Arab Spring’ In order to tackle this question; desk research, case studies and an interview with Mr Farrid Benkaddour have been conducted. Farrid Benkaddour is a Moroccan sociologist, he started his career in Morocco after obtaining his baccalaureate in 1984. Since then he has been a teacher in Morocco, afterwards he went to the Netherlands to teach Dutch people about Moroccan culture. He currently
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Mohamed Sarhan 900050146 The British Occupation of Egypt in “1882” European countries have always tried to strengthen themselves by occupying less powerful countries in different places all over the world, so as to ensure that none of these countries would reach a stage of economic and political stability that might be in someway threatening to these European
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Entrepreneurship is the ability to develop , manage and organize a business under any risks to make a profit , starting a new business is the obvious example to entrepreneurship ,entrepreneurship in egypt expose to pressure or a risk due to the change in social or economic fields , the employers who want to improve competitiveness and efficiency should be aware about the culture of the society , so the egyptian society is differ from the american society and also the society from the point of money
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My reaction to this article on the Syrian conflict and how the Asad regime will survive until 2013 is a mixed one. On one hand I believe that the regime will eventually be kicked out of power. On the other I believe that the regime could stay in power. The reason behind my thought on how the regime could stay in power is that Asad has a military stronger than the rebels within the country. But connecting to what's happening in Syria now the regime could be thrown out of power if the United Nations
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Women in the Middle East 1. Introduction 2. Before Islam 3. After Islam 4. Marriage 5. Education 6. Modern Day -Examples from different Arab countries -Arab Spring 7. What’s next? 8. Citations 1. Introduction Over the course of history, women in the Middle East, not so much different than around the world, haven’t been attaining all their full rights and haven’t been quite satisfied with the status of gender equality that the world continues to lack
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and foreigners living in Egypt but seldom to that of the Egyptians. In the award-winning book “Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?” by Dr. Galal Amin the reader is provided with a good overview of the societal changes that have occurred in Egypt during the last 50 years. Dr. Amin focuses on the massive changes that occurred in the Egyptian society such as westernization, the position of women, migration, and the Arabic language since the 1952 military coup or July Revolution up until the year 2000
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Robert F. Obeji April 26, 2014 EC: 462 Prof. Rush Policy and History of the Arab Spring in Syria As the Arab Spring developed throughout the Middle East in early 2010, countries such as Tunisia and Egypt adopted peaceful solutions to transition from authoritative governments to democratic inspired political systems. In Syria, the situation was different, the country unraveled into chaos as groups sought to gain power over each other in an attempt to oust Bashar Al Assad’s 70 year old regime
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