Arab Essay

you feel if you saw your house crumble to pieces in front of you? What would your reaction be during that millisecond where the bomb went off, burning your family to ashes? Young and old children of Palestine see these things every day. The Israeli-Arab conflict affects the children growing up in these countries, during the modern day, in a negative way because first of all, it puts high risk to their physical health, possibly disabling them for life. Secondly it crumbles their mental/emotional health

Today, as in most of human history, the world is always in war, extinct wars like World War II, apparently succeeding wars like Iraq and the United States and more hard as the war of Israel and Palestine. The last war mentioned, the Arab-Israeli conflict, has attracted the attention of the world for various issues such as the failed attempt at peace, or the history of both nations, but what is striking is the daily life of both sides, more specific daily terror of the Palestine for suicide bombings

leadership by subverting the Ottomans through altering the strategic direction of the Arab Revolt and by depleting the Turkish defenses at Aqaba, therefore bolstering the Allied Powers. With his revolutionary approach to command, Lawrence bolstered the Allied Powers during the attack on Aqaba as he altered the strategy for the port. “In the early stages of the Revolt, British and French military advisers urged the Arabs to capture the Turkish stronghold at Medina and to cut definitively the [Hejaz] Railway

ethnic influence was negligible. The people of Arabia and Mesopotamia left their influence on what we see today. Even though the Turks, Greeks, and Romans influenced the political and economic structures of Syria, they could not change in the dominant Arab character of the Syrian people. Ninety percent of the population speaks the official language, which is Arabic. There three other languages that are spoken in the country and they include Kurdish, Armenian, and Circassian. Some ancient languages are

Background on the Arab Spring and The Control of Mainstream Media by the Governments The Arab World has undergone various changes that have characterised its history in the past century. One of these changes have been rapid economic development where many of these countries have discovered mineral deposits, especially oil, making them some of the major distributors of this rare form of energy (Moussa 56). The economic development of these countries was slowed down by their immature democracies that

bureaucracy forming the present day system of patronage that typifies the Syrian political economy. The most powerful of these new businessmen was the so-called “troika”: ‘Uthman ‘A’idi, Sa’ib Nahhas, and Rami Makhlouf. ‘A’idi was the CEO of the company the Arab Syrian Company for Touristic Establishments (ASCTE), which was a holding company dedicated to the cultivation of Syria’s tourist sector that was opened in the late 1970’s (Pölling 1994: 14-5; Hopfinger and Boeckler 1996: 185). His company owns the

The political cataclysms in the Arab world during 2011 have once and for all transformed the Middle East. Arab societies and polities do indeed have tight interconnections and share at least some important Characteristics. The longstanding structural problems and turbulence in Arab world is due to the lack of strong leadership and irresponsible, incompetent and irrational leaders. Furthermore, people took on the streets and protest due to the vast increases in the level of Poverty, persistently high

that consisted on achieving peace, including Israel withdrawing from the territory acquired in the war, of course this didn't happen. After the war, the Israeli-Arab conflict turned into a more specific Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the late 1980s the Palestinians launched the first Intifada, which started with the refusal of paying arab taxes, protest and later turned to violence. This intifada was the founding of Hamas, which launched the first suicide bombing against Israel in 1993. Hamas gained

The Arab world today is shrouded in controversy. Political instability and armed conflicts are portrayed as the norm throughout the Middle East. According to the pseudo regional specialists, the causes behind all the conflicts faced are obvious, religion and radicalism. Yet this fails to answer the question, “why”, which opens the door to better understand the foundation of the present day Arab states. This questions the origins to why the Arabs chose to leave the Ottoman Empire and take support

part of the non-white “Other”. As seen through the downward mobility of Arab, Muslim, and Middle-Eastern Americans- who had originally been granted access to the privileges of whiteness- after being identified collectively as a threat to the expansion and success of the US empire, Arab, Muslim, and Middle-Eastern Americans began to be racialized as part of the non-white “Other” even before 9/11. Media representations of Arab, Muslim, and Middle Eastern communities outside the borders of the United