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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Arab Culture"”.
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The influence of Arab culture on Arab military effectiveness
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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The Effect of a Study Abroad on Acquiring Pragmatics
Pragmatics in Arabic needs to be studied for two main reasons: first, the large cultural difference between American and Middle Eastern society; and second, the recent surge in demand for Arabic speakers in the US. Especially in regard to refusals, what is acceptable in America is rarely acceptable …
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Using the Arabic Language as a Tool For Cultural Understanding in the U.S. in the Post 9/11 World
… by U.S. American students who are studying the Arabic language. A specific goal was to examine the students' perceived changes in knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards the Arab culture as a result of being in the Arabic language courses. Due to the misconceptions about the Arabs in the post …
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Proposing a research methodology to evaluate the relation between training needs assessment and employee performance
… neither properly understood nor implemented in Arab culture. It is felt that organizations in countries like Bahrain have tremendous potential to enhance their efficiency and contribute more positively to the economic growth at the national level. Therefore, an effort is being made to propose a …
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An existential exploration of the experience of British-Iraqi mothers during the first 40 days of motherhood
… the experience of support, the impact of culture, the importance of ‘mama’, emotional response, thrownness of motherhood, interwoven identities, religious and cultural beliefs and establishing values. The themes portray each mother’s unique experiences and they also found numerous common …
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The Relationship Between Culture, Manager’s Leadership Styles, and Employees’ Motivation Level in a Bahraini Service Organisation Environment
… leadership styles, employee motivation, and culture among Bahraini employees and managers in Victory Training Development Institute (VTDI) - a vocational training organization located in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Using a pragmatic case study design, the study employed a mixed method approach to …
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Acculturative Stress, Depression, & Anxiety Among Arab Americans
Arab Americans, those who themselves or their ancestors have immigrated fromthe Middle East or North Africa to the United States, experience a lot of stress as a result of balancing varying cultures, known as acculturative stress. Due to the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of Arabs in …
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Graphic Politics: A visual history of activism and resistance in the Arab world from the middle to late twentieth century
… design and political engagement in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (the Arab world), with a specific focus on revolutionary uprisings from the end of the Second World War until the early 1980s. The research provides an alternative view, facilitating a deeper understanding of Arab …
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Introducing conventional human resources practices as part of civil service reform in Qatar 2006-2016
Qatar in the Arabian Gulf is one of many states worldwide trying to improve governance. In 2008, Qatar introduced various ‘human resources management (HRM) practices to improve management of employees. However, there is a growing belief that importing undiluted systems based on other cultures may …
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Community Response to Malaria: Muheza District, Tanzania, 1983-1984. A Study in Cultural Adaptation (Compliance, Prophylaxis, Women)
… including their early contact with outside cultures. Their closeness to the Indian Ocean made it possible for them to develop early contact with Islamic Arab culture and others that followed later. Missionary contact came early as well and was followed by other Europeans who started the …
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Cultural influences on human resource management practices; Implications for Arab subsidiaries of multinational enterprises
… and literature review examined how managers of Arab subsidiaries adapted human resource practices to the Arab environment, and how the influence of the culture affected adaptation. Culture was defined as the values that guide members’ behaviors in society and that translate into work-related …
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Disharmony of empire: Race and the making of modern musicology in colonial North Africa
… Contentious musicological debates around Arab, Berber, and Black music and identity in North Africa were not only a lens into broader colonialist and nationalist processes, they also revealed the ongoing formulation of racialized sound worlds that impacted the political and social realms. …
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era
… concerns about translation into and out of Arabic, this paper examines the cultural implications of claims to translatability and untranslatability. The ʿAbbāsid era presents a particularly useful comparison to the present because rather than being marginal, Arabic was the language of an …
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Putting culture to work in counseling practice: Intersections of mental health and representations of Arab and Muslim women in Egypt
… as likely to suffer from mental illness due to ‘Arab culture’ (Al-Krenawi, 2005; Charara et al., 2017). This dissertation examines the assumptions underlying this explanation of mental illness through a qualitative study of how representations of ‘culture’ shape the work of counseling …
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Conflict management approaches in Palestinian Baptist intra-church conflict in Israel between 1990 and 2016, in dialogue with Miroslav Volf’s theology of reconciliation: an analysis and critical evaluation
… interpretation of Christian theology and Arab culture. It identifies four conflict management practices that are implemented by Palestinian Baptists in Israeli and holds that the main reason that the conflicts have not been resolved effectively is the clash between contenders' …
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A critical Moroccan chronology: the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan since 1946
… myths of Andalusian nationalism, Hispano-Arab culture, and Hispano-Moroccan brotherhood. The role of arts and culture in Spain’s imperialist project is a lens for understanding how the colonial encounter and its afterlife affected Moroccan artists of the mid-twentieth century. My second …
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The politics of ahl as-sunnah : adapting tharīqah ‘alawiyyah in Indonesian politics
… factor to this adaptation is the way Arab culture has acculturated with Indonesian culture. Habib Luthfi also successfully built a hierarchical relationship between the mursyid (spiritual guide) and the murid (spiritual disciple), placing him in a prestigious position within Indonesian …
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From text to context: Literacy practices of native speakers of Arabic in Arabic and English
… at the written product of native speakers of Arabic in their second language (L2), English, have identified traces of Arabic rhetoric (L1), mainly Classical Arabic, in their writing (e.g., Atari, 1983; Kaplan, 1966; Ostler, 1987). These studies focused primarily on the L2-written texts, where …
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Changing childhood in Saudi Arabia : a historical comparative study of three female generations
… factors:1) Debates about the need to introduce Arabic heritage to children in contemporary Arab societies, including literature. 2) Discussions regarding the need to improve the quality of contemporary Arabic children's literature. 3) My interest in children's literature and my previous …
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E-Business assimilation in the context of Saudi Arabia : utilising Habermas' lifeworld and system theory
E-business assimilation in Saudi Arabia becomes critical due to the overarching social issues that the stakeholders encounter. Grounded in Habermas‘ Critical Social Theory (CST), this study applies the theory of lifeworld and system to understand the relevance of the Islamic faith as well as the …
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