Body Image in the Middle East: Cultural Aspects and Health Consequences for Women in the Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atika Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
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 Could COVID-19 improve psychiatric awareness at the heart of the Middle East? – A personal reflection on Bahrain’s response

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
H. M. Negm
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Personal Insight ◽  
Insight Into

This perspective offers a personal insight into COVID-19 in Bahrain along with the response to this unprecented pandemic. In a country where a robust health care system and economic prosperity have allowed it to cope with the medical sequelae, the mental health consequences may have been less anticipated but more problematic. An unforeseen positive emerging from the pandemic might be the nation’s recognition of the importance of mental health well-being and a new openness to discussing it.

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