scholarly journals Medical and socio-cultural aspects of infertility in the Middle East

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.I. Serour
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Aspects

scholarly journals Revisiting Doing Business in the Middle East

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
David Desplaces ◽  
Nancy K. McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Management ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
A Company

This case engages students on a number of issues common to doing business in other countries, specifically in the Middle East. It is intended to be a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of the situation. The case seeks to integrate issues of international management and cross-cultural conflict and negotiation. Students are challenged to diagnose a cross-culturally sensitive situation and develop solutions in a team environment under limiting time restraints. This case is also designed to help students understand the cultural aspects of a situation and how different solutions could have major consequences on the bottom line of a company.

Archaeology, Material Worlds, and the Arab Revolt

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
World War ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Conflict Archaeology ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Many ◽  
First World

This chapter looks at how the timely development of an interdisciplinary archaeology (modern conflict archaeology) of the First World War from the late 1990s offered a comprehensive and nuanced way of investigating the many interlocking military and cultural aspects of the Arab Revolt and its aftermath. Ephemeral archaeological traces in the sands of southern Jordan, it was hoped, would speak to the origins of modern guerrilla warfare which itself contributed to the shaping of the Middle East after 1918. The new approach showed the power of objects to create and transmit impressions and evaluations of the Revolt and its personalities—not least by the catalysing effects of finding similar items during excavations of the original landscapes whence all such objects derived their historical significance. The desert, so apparently empty of information and insight, would prove to be full of both. The key to deciphering its archaeological message lay in understanding the landscape, its layers and its objects—a quest which began with the largest artefact of all, the Hejaz Railway.

scholarly journals Mental disorders against the background of different strategies of government regulation to counter the spread of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
M.A. Odintsova
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Children

The article includes a literary review of scientific works devoted to the study of specific features of the motivational and personal sphere of mothers with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), published in a number of countries in Africa and the Middle East. The author describes the difficulties faced by mothers in the process of education and treatment of their autistic children in these regions of the world; provides statistics on the extension of autism among the child population in South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The article presents studies assessing the degree of influence of religious and cultural aspects on the parents’ perception of their "special" children in Israel and Somalia.

scholarly journals Influence of cultural and religious aspects on the perception of autism in children by parents in Africa and the Middle East

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
A.A. Kukanov
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Children ◽  
Religious Aspects

The article includes a literary review of scientific works devoted to the study of specific features of the motivational and personal sphere of mothers with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), published in a number of countries in Africa and the Middle East. The author describes the difficulties faced by mothers in the process of education and treatment of their autistic children in these regions of the world; provides statistics on the extension of autism among the child population in South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The article presents studies assessing the degree of influence of religious and cultural aspects on the parents’ perception of their "special" children in Israel and Somalia.

scholarly journals Embaixador Sérgio Tutikian: um pioneiro no Oriente Médio | Ambassador Sérgio Tutikian: a pioneer in the Middle East

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
Monique Sochaczewski Goldfeld
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Historia De Vida ◽  
The One ◽  
Oral History Interview

Sérgio Tutikian é um pioneiro por dois motivos: por um lado é dos primeiros diplomatas de origem armênia nos quadros do Ministério das Relações Exteriores e por outro é o primeiro a de fato ter servido nos postos-chave do Oriente Médio, dominando muitas de suas línguas, aspectos culturais e sensibilidades políticas. O depoimento em questão é uma entrevista de História Oral, do tipo história de vida, em que o entrevistado conta sobre a história da chegada da sua família ao Brasil, no contexto das perseguições porque os armênios passaram no Império Otomano em sua fase final, perpassa o estabelecimento da mesma no Rio Grande do Sul, sua escolha não óbvia pela carreira diplomática, e centra-se então em seus testemunhos sobre passagens no Irã, Iraque e Kuwait, entre outras localidades médio-orientais. ABSTRACTSérgio Tutikian is a pioneer for two reasons: on the one hand, he is one of the first diplomats of Armenian origins in the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and on the other hand he is the first one to have served in the key posts of the Middle East, mastering many local languages, cultural aspects and political sensitivities. The testimony here is an Oral History interview, in which the deponent shares the story of the arrival of his family in Brazil -  in the context of persecutions the Armenians suffered in the last phase of the Ottoman Empire -, their settlement in Rio Grande do Sul, his non obvious choice for the diplomatic career, and then focuses his testimony on events he witnessed in Iran, Iraq and Kuwait, among other Middle Eastern places.Palavras-chave: Diplomacia; Armênios; Diáspora; Oriente Médio.keywords: Diplomacy; Armenians; Diaspora; Middle East.Recebido em 09 de Novembro de 2017 | Aceito em 11 de Novembro de 2017Received on November 9, 20017 | Accepted on November 11, 2017DOI: 10.12957/rmi.2016.31421 

scholarly journals Ecosystems, Pollution, and Use of Resources in Textbooks of 14 Countries: An Ecocentric Emphasis

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Rosa Branca Tracana ◽  
Graça S. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
European Project ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Aesthetic

Two views of Human-Nature relation can be found: anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. In order to understand how school textbooks refer to the human’s position in nature we analysed how “Human as guest versus Humans as owners of nature” is present in the three topics of environmental education—Ecosystems, Pollution, and Use of Resource—in textbooks of 14 countries from Europe, Africa, and Middle East. A specific grid of analysis, which was constructed in the context of the European Project BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, was used in this study. Results show that this axis of analysis is present in the majority of textbooks addressing the above three topics but not in the “Biodiversity” topic. Textbooks for 12–15-year old pupils were the ones having more occurrences than those for 6–11- or 16–18-year olds. The textbooks present mainly an ecocentric position, whereas the aesthetic, ethical, and cultural aspects are limited and inadequate, limiting the full perspective of education for sustainable development.

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