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Culcasi, Karen. "Cartographic constructions of the Middle East." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Mahmoud, Khalid Salah el-Dien Taha. "Agricultural foreign trade among Arab countries /." Berlin : Köster, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013306609&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Bison, Linda <1987>. "Challenging the US. Arab Countries and the Arab Spring. The Bahrain Case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2774.
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Il lavoro di tesi prende spunto dall'attuale declino del soft power che gli USA stanno subendo nell'area mediorientale, alla luce dei mutati equilibri con gli alleati tradizionali nell'area dovuto in gran parte dai nuovi assetti di potere venutisi a creare in seguito agli eventi della primavera Araba. Nella prima parte e nella seconda parte si presenteranno i mutati equilibri degli USA con quei tradizionali alleati in Medio Oriente (Arabia Saudita, Qatar, Iran ed Israele) che non essendo stati direttamente toccati dalla recente ondata di proteste popolari che hanno portato al crollo di numerosi regimi dell'area si propongono di riempire i vuoti di potere che essa ha causato, implicando la necessità di rivedere la natura dei vincoli che tradizionalmente legano questi Paesi a Washington mettendo in dubbio la leadership statunitense sulla regione; si concluderà presentando il caso particolare del Bahrain quale esempio di come tali potenze stiano cercando sempre più di ritagliarsi il loro spazio nella leadership regionale in maniera sempre più indipendente e spesso in contrasto con la linea seguita dagli USA per quanto riguarda la loro politica estera.
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Hadili, Abduraawf Moftah. "Trade liberalisation and Arab Maghreb Union countries." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695683.
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The effect of trade liberalisation on the balance of trade and balance of payments in developing countries is still ambiguous. Free trade advocates believe that adopting free trade policy and specializing in production will enhance economic growth in both exports and imports, which in turn will have a positive impact on the balance of trade and the balance of payments. In the real world, not all countries that have adopted trade liberalisation have achieved economic growth. Some of them suffered deterioration in the balance of trade because imports grew more than exports did, adding more deficits to the balance of payments. In this case, trade liberalisation will be considered as a constraint on growth. This thesis was designed to explore the impact of trade liberalisation on the economies of Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) countries for fifteen years (1995-2009) in terms of export growth, import growth, the balance of trade, and the balance of payments. H The empirical evidence has revealed some major findings that can be considered strong evidence based on four different estimation techniques: ordinary least square, panel data, panel data with first difference, and Arellano-Bond test. The results show that trade liberalisation did not enhance export growth in AMU countries during the given period (1995 to 2009). In contrast, it had a significant positive impact on import growth during the same period. Moreover, trade liberalisation worsened the balance of trade and the balance of payments during the studied period. Therefore, it seems that trade liberalisation alone has not been enough to promote economic growth. A suitable domestic business environment, well-run government institutions, and supportive government policies are important in order for trade liberalisation to achieve its goals in developing countries.
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Alawin, Mohammad. "Real exchange rate behavior in Arab countries /." Search for this dissertation online, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Haseeb, Dina Khair El-din. "Intra-Arab labor movement 1973-1985." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9915.
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Al-Olimat, Muhamad S. (Muhamad Salim). "The State of Democracy in the Arab World." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279024/.
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This comparative study assesses the state of democracy and examines the process of democratization in the Arab World between the years 1980-1993. It addresses shortcomings in the mainstream democracy literature that excluded the Arab World from the global democratic revolution on political cultural grounds. To fulfil the objectives of this study, I employ both the qualitative and quantitative research approaches to test a number of hypothesized relationships. I hypothesize that transition to democracy is negatively associated with economic development, militarism, U.S. foreign policy, the political economy of oil, and dependency. I contend that emerging civil society institutions so far have had no significant effect on democratization in the Arab World. Finally, I hypothesize that the level of democracy in the Arab World is influenced greatly by the issue of civil rights. In order to investigate the hypothesized relationships, the following data sets have been used: Gastil's Freedom House Data set, "Repression and Freedom in the 1980s" data set, and Vanhanen's 1990 data set. The findings of this study support the aforementioned hypothesized relationships. I find that Arab countries, in general have made modest progress toward democracy, making the Arab World part of the global revolution.
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Musallam, Sāmī. "Ṣūrat al-ʻArab fī ṣiḥāfat Almānyā al-ittiḥādīyah." Bayrūt : Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/66906654.html.
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Elafif, Mohamed. "An examination of the extent of and the potential for Arab economic integration." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38052.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008."A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree Doctor of Philosophy, School of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Western Sydney." Includes bibliographies.
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Eraikat, Abdul K. "Education in the Arab-Islamic world." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/243.
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Education in the Arab countries is discussed in the light of ongoing international educational reform. It is argued that education in the Arab/Muslim world faces serious problems. Educational reform cannot be achieved in isolation; it has to be part of a full scale reform that tackles social, economic and cultural issues. It is contended that cultural values, economic, social and political factors in the Arab/Muslim societies have contributed a great deal to the backwardness of education within Arab/Muslim societies. Questions such as whether Arabs/ Muslims could cope with the new trends in education, and whether they would be able to respond to the new ICT revolution and globalisation are addressed. It is also argued that Arabs/Muslims respond to globalisation and ICT in different ways each according to their perspective. This paper explores in detail the factors that shape education in the Arab world. It also attempts to shed light on relations between Arabs/Muslims and the West, considering how they have understood or misunderstood each other throughout the course of history. It is argued here that globalisation has been understood as Westernisation in the Arab/Islamic world due to a long history of mistrust and misunderstanding between the two. However, before undertaking this exploration, a brief summary of the historical background of Arabs I Muslims is provided.
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Maalouf, Anthony A. "The influence of Al-Jazeera in the Arab world & the response of Arab governments." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1500103091&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sless, Jonathan Philip. "Britain's policy towards Israel 1949-1951 : from recognition to the fall of the Labour Government." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313293.
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Elafif, Mohamed. "An examination of the extent of and the potential for Arab economic integration." Thesis, View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38359.
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The main objective of this thesis is to examine the extent of and the potential for Arab economic integration. It adds to the growing literature on the issue of economic integration by throwing the spotlight on several issues hitherto little considered in the existing literature. The thesis especially blends various aspects of economic integration with models of spatial competition, economic geography, regionalisation and globalisation to explain the problems of and prospects for economic integration for the Arab countries. It is important to realise that economic integration has become an important aim for almost all countries in the world; in particular, less developed countries, which need more economic efforts to be able to deal with the current international milieu and the gale of globalisation. The Arab countries have engaged in a number of initiatives to advance economic integration, however despite this the degree of economic integration among them is still relatively insignificant. The thesis also attempts to offer theoretical models to explain the obstacles preventing economic integration in the Arab world. This thesis is, to the best of the author’s knowledge and belief, the first rigorous study of the extent of and the potential for Arab economic integration through three vital economic perspectives: trade, investment and labour flows. In the first perspective, this study investigates the nature of intra-Arab trade and which particular countries/sub-group of countries may potentially become an integrated regional production system, or hub. This investigation is done within the scope of gravity models, which assume that intra-trade is a function of the GDPs of the involved countries and the distance between them. The thesis extends the literature by introducing spatial models and models of new economic geography to explain how economic integration evolves in the current international milieu concomitantly driven by globalisation and regionalisation. In the second perspective, this study investigates intra-Arab FDI and capital mobility. The postulated model assumes that intra-Arab FDI is a function of a number of economic variables, such as GDP, GDP per capita, inflation and purchasing power parity. The thesis offers a comprehensive theoretical model to explain how successful economic integration can be carried out by FDI flows. In the third perspective, the study investigates intra-Arab labour flows. The proposed model utilises remittances as an indicator of labour flows. It assumes that remittances are a function of some economic variables, such as GDP per capita, the real price of oil, and the oil production of Saudi Arabia, which represents the main Arab host country of Arab labour flows. The proposed theoretical model offers insights into the dynamics of labour flows and oil price movements. The econometric study in the thesis applies panel data for the period 1985-2005, and employs Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) fixed effects regression. The most important empirical finding of the study is that Arab economic integration has been significantly affected by intra-trade, intra-FDI and intra-labour flows among sub-unions of Arab countries.
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Al-Jaber, Khalid Jamal M. H. "Audiences' perceptions of news media services in three Arab countries." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27680.
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Since their launch, Arabic news satellite TV channels have been recognized as a milestone in the history of Arab media, and their operation has affected – or infected - the Arab audience like no other medium has ever done. This study investigates Arab audiences‘ perceptions of news media services. Moreover, it is a study of news consumption profiles and how these are related to new and old news service provision as well as to viewers‘ motivations for watching news, and their perceptions of different news services in terms of their credibility. It also attempts to understand the evolution of mass media services in the Arab world in the last decade and the interaction between the news media and their audiences. The study takes place in the Arab Gulf States region (GCC countries), “The Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf”. Research data were obtained using a self-completion survey from three countries Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, where 1,752 participants of Arab descent answered the questionnaire. The findings indicate that news consumers‘ demographic profiles did not differ greatly between the three countries. In gender, the major participants of the study were reported to be more male than female. The majority of the audiences were young, under thirty years old, better educated, had bachelor degrees, were employed, and earned up to 25,000 (USD) per year. Politically they did not display extreme or polarised political orientations. Moreover, the study found that Arabic news TV services have emerged as the leading news resource and source of information for participants in the three Arab Gulf States. Furthermore, Al-Jazeera and BBC (Arabic) TV were rated as highly credible sources. Finally, the results of the study suggest that Arab audiences seek information from media they deem to be reliable and credible to gratify their need for news information.
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Abdul-Malik, Ahmed J. "Towards a television news exchange - via ARABSAT - among Arab countries." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259184.
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Eltkhtash, Salem. "Internet financial reporting in Arab MENA countries : an institutional perspective." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/f1c06033-a96c-4f85-adb8-db5536ec2bfe.
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The advent of the internet has provided a new possibility for companies to communicate with their stakeholders and this thesis uses a new institutional sociology perspective to investigate the adoption of Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) in Arab MENA countries (Middle East and North Africa) to: i) evaluate the extent of IFR; and ii) identify the factors that influence Arab MENA listed companies to voluntarily adopt IFR. The study examines the extent of IFR in Arab MENA countries in 2010 using a sample of 1,456 listed companies from the 16 Arab MENA countries that have a stock exchange. To determine the factors that affect listed companies to adopt IFR, 961 listed companies were investigated from ten Arab MENA countries from two regions. Seven factors are investigated; five of which (company size; profitability; leverage; type of auditor; and industrial sector) have been investigated in prior studies; the other two factors, country and region, are also investigated as the effect of a country has been investigated in very few studies; the regional factor has not been investigated at all in prior studies; and hence contributes to our knowledge. The main findings of this thesis indicate that IFR in Arab MENA countries is growing; but listed companies in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have the most extensive practice of IFR; North African listed companies are next whereas listed companies located in the Middle East excluding GCC countries have a lower level of IFR than the other two groups. Moreover, the findings reveal that communities of practice have been formed by large profitable companies as well as those audited by the Big-4 audit firms. Further, financial sector companies and companies from the GCC region also appear to have similar practices with more extensive IFR than other listed companies. These communities of practice may be due to coercive, mimetic and normative isomorphism. From a mimetic pressure, arguably, listed companies imitate each other, as for instance, managers of large profitable companies, or financial companies may network and meet together and discuss issues relating to their businesses. Companies within the same country may also be exhibit homogeneous IFR practice for the same reason. Furthermore, companies from one region may be similar to each other because they have similar country characteristics such as political and economic factors. From a normative isomorphic perspective, the Big-4 audit firms may influence companies to adopt IFR across the globe. Further, banks in many countries have separate requirements bringing a coercive influence to bear on their practices.
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Mounla, Najwa. "Developmental Stages of Preschool Teachers in Selected Arab Gulf Countries." DigitalCommons@USU, 1996. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2395.
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The current study focused on examining the developmental stages of preschool teachers in the Arab Gulf region. Specifically, the needs and concerns of teachers were investigated using a pretest/posttest (12-month interval) design. Participants included two greoups of preschool teachers, trained (n= 35) and untrained (n=122)
Contrary to expectations, the sequential nature of development stages of teachers did not emerge. Instead, the results showed that teachers become less concerned about teaching as they progress in their careers.
When data from the present study were factor-analyzed they yielded only two areas of concerns that seemed applicable cross-cultrally. When data were subjected to analysis of variance, results revealed that training had a significant main effect on teaching concerns while teaching experience did not. Further exploration of the category experience showed that, for Factor II, the trained group of teachers had a larger drop in their level of teaching concerns than the untrained group. This was especially evident with two subgroups, low (1 to 3) years of teaching experience and high (8 to 16) years of teaching experience. The trained group with medium (4 to 7) years of teaching experience maintained a consistently low score on both pretest and posttest. Teaching experience for Factor II appears to have a main effect in reducing the level of concerns of teachers over their teaching. This was especially evident between pretest and posttest for the low-and high-experience trained teachers.
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El, Baker Lina. "L'Institut du monde arabe : une institution culturelle au carrefour des récits." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28267.
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This thesis is a case study of a cultural institution located in Paris, France, namely the Arab World Institute. It strives to identify the various political and ideological discourses that manifest themselves throughout the Institute's history. The Institute's mission is to bridge the two cultures, Arab and European. It is a particularly interesting case study because of its problematic status which lies somewhere between the imperatives of local policies and those inherent to the international arena.The first chapter is a presentation of the institute, its history and its mission. It also dwells upon the local French political scene and the relations between France and the Arab world. It also offers a brief overview of the political and social realities of the Arab world.
Chapter two is an introduction to the particularities of the French cultural landscape. It looks at the historical and social movement towards the democratization of culture, specifically through the transformation of the museum and of cultural institutions as a whole.
Chapter three aims at identifying the repercussions of the French cultural policies on the Institute's functioning. The perceived failure of these policies is confronted with the official discourse surrounding the Institute.
Chapter four is a mapping of the different discourses that manifest themselves through the Institute. The multiplicity of the discourses and the discrepancies of their proclaimed objectives are understood to be at the source of the malfunctioning of the Institute.
This thesis does not attempt at finding solutions to the many problems of the Arab World Institute. It is rather an excavation work that aims at bringing forth some of the issues that could be explored while attempting at finding a resolution to the ailments of the Institute.
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Benruwin, Mohammed (Mohammed A. ). "The Political Leadership Crisis and Violation of Human Rights in the Arab World: A Study of the Rulership of the Arab Countries, 1970-1990." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278872/.
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This dissertation analyzes the political leadership crisis and the violations of human rights in the Arab countries during the period 1970 to 1990. The main purposes of this study could be briefly summarized as follows: (1) to explore scientifically whether there is a political leadership crisis in the Arab World; (2) to explore the concept of political leadership, i.e., what constitutes political leadership, what are its necessary requirements, and what differentiates it from dictatorship; and (3) to examine the effects of political leadership in the Arab countries upon the violation of human rights.
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Al-Saadon, Hezab T. "The role of ARABSAT in television program exchange in the Arab world /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148768375612722.
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Blanaru, Ana-Maria. "The impact of constitutional design on democratization in the Arab region." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609166.
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Souiden, Nizar. "Marketing to Arab Countries : The Potentiality of Applying Standardized Marketing Stratedies." Kyoto University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/150632.
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ʻAwn, Fuʼād. "Qūwāt al-radʻ al-ʻArabīyah fī Lubnān al-waḍʻ al-qānūnī wa-al-siyāsī wa-al-ʻaskarī /." Bayrūt : F. ʻAwn, 1989. http://books.google.com/books?id=cKELAAAAIAAJ.
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Thesis (duktūrāh dawlah)--al-Jāmiʻah al-Lubnānīyah, Beirut, 1986.Title on added t.p.: La force de dissuasion arabe au Liban. Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-419).
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Alghamdi, Saleh Abdulqader. "Key factors influencing the adoption and utilisation of E-Government systems and services in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/68231/.
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Electronic Government (E-Government) has become very important in recent years. It can be described as a system of digital interaction between a government and other parties, such as citizens, companies, employees, ministries and other government organisations. One of the most important elements of implementing E-Government systems is the interaction between users and E-Government systems, specifically the adoption and utilisation by those users, who are the main target of such systems. However, e-Government systems are still in the early stages in most developing countries including Saudi Arabia, and face many issues related to adoption, implementation and utilisation. Moreover, there is a lack of studies that investigate and analyse users' adoption and utilisation from different perspectives and also a lack of comprehensive frameworks specifically developed for such analysis. Thus, this research aims to investigate, analyse and understand the key factors that influence users' adoption and utilisation of e-Government systems and services in Saudi Arabia with a holistic approach. This could be used to enhance the current acceptance and use level and also would contribute to providing a user-centred path for designing and implementing new e-Services and government electronic systems. This study also aims to fill the knowledge gap in current e-Government literature about what might constitute a comprehensive framework on which to base such investigations. In order to achieve the research objectives, a comprehensive conceptual framework, namely, E-Government Adoption and Utilisation Model (EGAUM), was developed from a critical evaluation of several common models and theories related to technology acceptance and usage, in conjunction with a review of e-Government adoption literature. The developed model was then utilised to investigate and understand the influential factors on the adoption and utilisation of different types of users; namely, citizens, government employees and users from the business sector. A multiple method was employed in this research which includes a quantitative approach (as a main method) and a qualitative approach (as a supportive method). Several analysis procedures were employed, including descriptive and statistical analysis to validate the research model and to determine the significant influential factors. The results revealed that the user's Education Level, Perceived Benefits and implementing Regulations and Policies related to the e-Usage are common significant factors for the adoption and utilisation by all types of users. Moreover, the Functional Quality of Service/System, Perceived Simplicity and Socio-Cultural factors were found to be significant for the adoption and use of government employees and citizens. It was also found that Awareness plays a significant role in enhancing the adoption and use of public employees and users from the business sector. As a result of these findings, the research developed number of recommendations that can serve as guidelines for successful implementation of e-Government systems and services based on users' perceptions, attitude, beliefs, needs and choices.
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Ruocco, Monica. "L'intellettuale arabo tra impegno e dissenso analisi della rivista libanese al-Ādāb (1953-1994) /." Roma : Jouvence, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38876812z.
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Fatah, Chahida. "The Arab satellite and the television news and program exchange between Arab countries : a study on the role of the Arab satellite in improving the situation of the TV exchange between the Arab countries, and the obstacles preventing it from fulfilling this role." Thesis, City University London, 1989. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7529/.
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This thesis examines the role of the Arab satellite as a new means of technology, in the exchange of TV production in the Arab region. The study points out the situation of the Arab TV production and examines its problems. Arab TV production had been facing a lack of quantity and quality which led to a high average of importation in order to fulfill the needs of the national Arab TV programmings importation is based on western programs mainly American including serials, detectives, long feature films, documentaries, cartoons, etc. However, even with the importation, Arab countries face, on the international production market, many problems related to the type and the cost of the programs, imposed by the American and the big production companies. The study includes a TV survey on the Algerian TV programming taken as an example of the TV programming structure in the region, and where the high average of importation is pointed out. The study examines the TV exchange traffic in the region between the three regional areas: Maghreb, Mashrek and the Gulf, and within each one, before and after the launch of the Arab satellite. The TV exchange which had been limited for years, was expected to flourish after the launch of the satellite with its big capacities in solving some of the major communication problems in the area like the lack of TV exchange. However, political problems such as conflicts, different political view, systems etc, which are strong in the region, stand as obstacles for the satellite, preventing it from fulfilling its role properly. The life time of the Arab satellite cannot be saved and its capacities cannot be fully used unless the Arab governments become really and deeply aware of the effects of the political problems and differences on the relations between them in general and on the situation of TV exchange in the region in particular.
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Al, Mihyawi Sabah Noori Abbas [Verfasser]. "Assessment of Investment Attractiveness in Arab Countries / Sabah Noori Abbas Al Mihyawi." München : GRIN Verlag, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1152324640/34.
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Twati, Jamal Mohamed. "Societal and Organisational Culture and the Adoption of Management Information Systems in Arab Countries." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366806.
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Information Systems (IS) have become a vital component of successful business firms and other organisations. Over the last three decades, there has been a dramatic growth globally in the acquisition of Management Information Systems (MIS). Research, however, indicates that there has been an increase in reported MIS failures, and the adoption issues are not just technical, but encompass wider societal, organisational, and economical factors. Whilst research has shown the effect of such factors, the relationship of specific cultural factors to adoption remains poorly understood. The influence of both societal and organisational culture was studied in large organisations that have either adopted or have not yet adopted MIS in two different regions in the Arabic cluster. Such regional distinctions have been otherwise neglected or conflated in MIS adoption studies. In particular, this research examines how MIS adoption is constrained or facilitated by societal and organisational cultures, and seeks to detect relevant regional variations in societal and organisational culture.
This research identifies cultural norms and beliefs within key national or multi-national organisations. Samples from the oil and gas and the banking sectors of the top organisations spanning five countries of the Arab regions (Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates) were used. The countries were divided into two regions, North Africa (Libya) and the Arab Gulf region (Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates), because of differences in their history, culture and geography. The study compares economically similar regions which differ markedly in MIS adoption. Libya was chosen as representative of the North Africa region because Libya has not been covered in MIS literature to date. In addition, although Libya is one of the wealthiest countries in North Africa, it has not yet widely adopted MIS. Comparable countries were chosen in order to link cultural factors to MIS adoption. National level variables, such as social class, GNP (or GDP) per capita, and political systems, were controlled for by choosing countries comparable on these variables.
A multi-method design (combining survey and case study methods) was used to provide a rounded perspective on the phenomena studied. For each region, a survey aimed firstly to validate the framework empirically, and also to refine the protocols required by the subsequent detailed case study. The qualitative study analysis confirmed the theoretical findings and adds richness to our understanding of the influences of societal and organisational culture on the process of MIS adoption.
The study revealed that the two regions are not as homogeneous as is indicated in the literature. In addition, the study showed that age, gender, and education levels are among the factors contributing to the success of MIS adoption in the two regions. The results from the current study also showed that the societal culture of the Arab Gulf region is now different from Hofstede's (1980) index, while Libya still has the same societal culture as Hofstede predicted for the two regions four decades ago. Furthermore, the study showed differences in organisational cultures that impacted upon MIS adoption in both regions. While the Arab Gulf region was dominated by an adhocracy culture that values the adoption of MIS, the North Africa region was dominated by the hierarchy culture type that favours a centralised management style, which impacts negatively on MIS adoption. Additionally, this research pointed out the role of technology acceptance in mediating adoption in both regions. Whereas the Arab Gulf region did not show any significant effect of technology acceptance variables, in the North Africa region, technology acceptance played a vital role in MIS adoption. The findings from this study provide scholars, consultants, managers, and MIS vendors with valuable information. This research thesis contributes to MIS adoption and diffusion theory, along with societal and organisational culture theory, and is the first of its kind to establish a regional distinction between the North Africa and Arab Gulf regions. It is also one of the first empirical studies to compare societal and organisational culture with the adoption of MIS worldwide and in the two identified regions. The implications from this study for further research are also discussed.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Griffith Business School
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Idrīs, Samāḥ. "Raʼīf Khūrī wa-turāth al-ʻArab." Bayrūt : Dār al-Ādāb, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21938200.html.
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Gimenez, Amoros Luis. "Haul Music : transnationalism and musical performance in the Saharaui refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002302.
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The thesis presents ethnographic data and musical analysis (in the form of transcriptions) of Haul music which is the music style performed by Bedouin societies in Trab el Bidan region (Mauritania, Western Sahara, northern Mali, southern Algeria and northern Morocco). It is based on field research undertaken in Algeria in 2004-05 in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria, where Saharaui people (a Bedouin society)live in exile. This research is unique and original as Haul has not, until now, been explored in depth by any scholar. My research on Haul reveals that the changes in Saharaui music in the refugee camps of Tindouf reflect changes in the musical traditions of Bedouin societies as whole; changes that can be traced to the revolution which occurred in Western Sahara in 1975, and changes that are a result of the migrations and life in exile that followed. I argue that these changes occurred due to the transnational experiences undergone by Saharaui people in their forced exile (caused by the Moroccan state) from their homeland in Western Sahara to Algeria. Further, I assert that the invocation of memory in Bedouin musical styles is evidence of past musical practices being retained in contemporary Haul performance, although other musical changes are similarly in progress.
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Kassab, Muhammad Ali. "The Other in the nineteenth century prosaic Arabic discourse." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/463430982/viewonline.
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Alami, Randa. "The political economy of official external debt formation in Arab countries 1975-1990." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321902.
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Kamla, Rania. "Social accounting in a selection of Arab countries : critical and post-colonial perspectives." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1133.
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Sohns, Olivia Louise. "Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Arab-Israeli conflict." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283940.
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De, Roy van Zuydewijn Edwin Karel Willem. "The arms transfer policy of the Federal Republic of Germany towards the Middle East, 1949-1982." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321547.
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Abood, Paula School of English UNSW. "The Arab as spectacle: race, gender and representation in Australian popular culture." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/29501.
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This thesis, The Arab as Spectacle, is about representation. It is about the limits and the contradictions of representation. It is about the burden and the violence of representation. It is about the persistence of Orientalism and how the hierarchies of race and gender intersect with discourses on sexuality to inform and inflect the representation of Arabs in contemporary literary and media spheres of Australian popular culture. This thesis comprises two sections. Part One is a research dissertation that explores the strategies, devices and parameters of the representation of Arabic culture and identities through close readings of specific texts. This theoretical project inaugurates the second part of my study which takes up the question of the contradictions of representation through a collection of ficto-critical writings. Through these satirical narratives, I seek to expose and disrupt the hegemony of Orientalist representations that proliferate in English language literature and news media by bringing into focus the inherent paradox of representation, working within and against Orientalist representational traditions. In so doing, it is not my aim to 'correct' the Orientalist logic and imagery that I theorise in the first part of this thesis, but rather to undermine the spurious truth-value of Orientalist representations by deploying the literary weapons of satire, parody and irony. In this way, my fiction works to engage creatively and critically with the very tropes that I theorise in my research dissertation.
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Hill, Peter. "Utopia and civilisation in the Arab Nahda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9f6e0ac9-04c9-4f50-b4da-8a933b0c069f.
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This doctoral thesis explores the contexts of utopian writing and thinking in the Nahda, the Arab 'Awakening' of the long nineteenth century. Utopian forms of social imagination were responses to fundamental changes in the societies of the Arab-Ottoman world brought about by integration into a capitalist world economy and a European-dominated political system. Much Nahda writing was permeated by a sense of a 'New Age' opening and of wide horizons for future change - and this was not simply illusory, but a direct response to actual and massive changes being wrought in the writers' social world. My study focusses on Egypt and Bilad al-Sham in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, from the early 1830s to the mid-1870s. An initial chapter offers a definition of the social classes and groups which contributed to the Nahda in these years - such as the Beiruti bourgeoisie and the Egyptian-Ottoman official class - drawing on the work of Arab Marxists such as Mahdi 'Amil and social historians such as Bruce Masters. The following chapters deal in detail with writings produced by three distinct cultural formations within the Nahda movement, and with different aspects of their social imagination. Chapter 2 examines the discourse of civilisation (tamaddun) through the work of the Beiruti writers Khalil al-Khuri and Butrus al-Bustani in the 1850s and 1860s. Chapter 3 deals with Nahda writers' sense of their place within the European-dominated world, mainly through translations of geography books made by Rifa'a al-Tahtawi in Mehmed Ali's Egypt in the 1830s and 1840s. Chapter 4 examines the utopian aspirations of the Nahda, through a close study of the major utopian literary work of the period, Fransis Marrash's Ghabat al-Haqq (The Forest of Justice, 1865). Finally, a conclusion places my study in relation to other recent work in the field of 'Nahda studies'.
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Alkhatib, Nader Zayed. "The Impact of Globalisation on Human Rights in the Arab World." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365241.
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This thesis examines whether globalisation has any effect on a state’s respect for human rights. Using the Arab world as a sample, this thesis has nominated three components of globalisation that might influence an Arab government’s level of respect for security rights and its ability to provide for subsistence rights: economic, political, and social globalisation. Each of these components among other local and international factors can be theoretically related to human rights. Thus, the thesis employed a mixed multimethod approach that combines qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
techniques in sequential phases; the first stage established hypothesised relationships between constructs to be tested statistically for significance, the findings of stage one guided the execution of stage two, which involved thorough investigation of four case studies.
Using pooled, cross-sectional time-series analysis to empirically test the hypothesised relationships between globalisation and basic human rights in the Arab world from 1976 to 2011, the findings were mixed. Among the three indicators used to represent level of economic globalisation in a country, participation in Bretton Woods institutions positively increases a state’s level of respect for security rights, but deteriorates its ability to provide for basic needs. The other two indicators, foreign direct investment
and trade openness proved to have no influence on both types of rights. As for political globalisation, the statistical analysis indicates that participation in international human rights treaties does not guarantee observance of security rights in a country but has a substantive and strong positive impact on subsistence rights. Social globalisation represented by the use of the internet in a country exhibits no significant impact on both dependent variables. Furthermore, the quantitative analysis concludes that while the level of economic development has a great positive impact on both types of rights, the
positive relationship between democracy and human rights as concluded by the majority of research on human rights, does not find any support in the Arab world.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
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Ṣāliḥ, Sanīyah ʻAbd al-Wahhāb. "Hijrat al-kafāʼāt al-ʻilmīyah min Miṣr." [Cairo] : al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23089670.html.
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Chabar, Hmida H. "Contribution à l'étude des relations entre pays en voie de développement: cas de la coopération afro-arabe." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213303.
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Kirdar, Serra. "Education, gender and cross-cultural experience with reference to elite Arab women." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:db8d8e68-d8df-4cad-97d3-81fd3f4e939c.
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The core of the thesis investigates the role of education in the engendering of cultural change and leadership among a select group of a powerful 'first generation' of Arab women; specifically, the role of dual educational/cultural experiences, both Arab and Western. The broader aim of the study is to analyze the merging of cultural traditionalism and modernity and how dual education has enhanced the ability of women, especially Arab women, to become leaders in their professional careers, and within their respective communities, whilst still maintaining strong ties to their culture, religion and traditions, albeit to varying degrees. The writer has chosen to investigate the association between cultural identity and educational experience of elite educated Arab women, through a small sample, who have had exposure to both Western and Arab educational systems at different points in their lives. The researcher's heritage has led to a fundamental ideological interest in the coexistence of traditionalism and modernisation and whether the two can complement one another. There are now a significant number of Arab women who have had the privilege of education and exposure to the two types of systems. Yet, gender constraints and predefined gender roles still very much dictate the socio-cultural contexts in which such women have to operate. The patriarchal 'system' is omnipresent in the West as well as in the Arab world. The challenges the writer has faced even as a 'Western' Arab to reconcile tradition and intellectual and educational exposure has served as a greater impetus for this investigation. The investigation and the intent of this thesis as described above, is to test the preliminary hypothesis that, in the context of elite Arab women, their exposure to both West and Arab educational cultures is germane to their potential for influencing female professional development. How their educational experiences have influenced their own identities and their ability to adhere to the gender roles prescribed is of significant interest. What influence has such education had on these women's prospects for instituting and pioneering change in their respective societies and professions? Is the synergy of certain aspects of modernity and tradition possible? The general conclusion is that it is.
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Kadri, Youcef. "Educational aims and policies of three Arab countries with socialist political options : a problem solving approach." Thesis, Durham University, 1986. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7097/.
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The topic of this research is an enquiry into the field of values and the policies related to them, in the context of Arab education. The objective is to contribute to ALESCO's research in the field of philosophy of Arab education and the practical problems related to it. The approach is the Holmesian "problem solving". The study focuses on some "Socialist" Arab countries. Structurally, the study is comprised of seven chapters. The first five chapters deal with the "problem" as an object of analysis in its multidimensionality. The first chapter is an identification of a "confusion" within the context of Arab education. The second chapter is an attempt to define, "technically", the problem. The third chapter consists of the historical background; a further clarification of the problem. The fourth chapter is a "rational construct", a sociological tool intended to approach the "national character" of the three countries selected for study. The fifth chapter is a focussing of the scope of the research, for practical and methodological reasons, on the "Socialist Arab States". The sixth chapter consists of an analysis, in the light of a Socialist theory of social change, of the present educational policies in Algeria, Libya and Syria. As hypotheses these policies are exposed to refutation in the light of a specific national and international context. Predictions are made and an alternative “Islamic” theory of social change is suggested. The seventh chapter is a set of alternative policy proposals. The conclusion is a summing up of the findings of the different chapters.
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Alsaidi, Abdullah Mohammed. "Petroleum arbitration : applicable law and appropriate arbitral forum (a study of petroleum disputes in Arab countries)." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2004. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1844.
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Petroleum maintains a primary role in the world energy market as well as in the daily life and livelihood of Arab petroleum countries, since these countries are highly dependent upon revenues from the exploitation and export of this resource. Therefore, the petroleum industry is fraught with conflicts of interests, primarily between developing petroleum exporting countries and petroleum companies sustained by their home states, most of which are developed countries. The majority of disputes have been settled by arbitration, most of which have been controversial. The question of the applicable law to the merits of a dispute is intimately related to the controversies surrounding arbitral tribunals. The prevailing perspective of western scholars during the 20`h century, and still to an extent today, was that host state law was inadequate, and host state courts were partial. Therefore, these scholars held any dispute arising between a host state and a petroleum company should be dealt with as an international dispute and should be settled far away from the host state's court and governed by laws or rules other than that of the host state. This thesis examines the past and present of petroleum arbitration, the perceptions and the practice, and aims to suggest a modified method of determining the applicable law to petroleum disputes. It argues that contrary to the previous allegations, the legal infrastructure of host states has developed over the years and today offers an adequate law to govern the merits of petroleum disputes. It further suggests a semi-localisation approach. The thesis focuses only on arbitration as a method of resolving such disputes, and limits itself to Arab petroleum countries. The thesis argues that petroleum contracts have their own characteristics and therefore should not automatically be subject to the ICSID Convention or to other principles of investment arbitration. The time is ripe for the establishment of a specialised institution to undertake the settlement of disputes arising out of petroleum transactions.
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Awwad, Julian M. "Al-Jazeera's discourse of 'Arabness' : an examination of the discursive construction of identity in talk show programming." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100315.
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Al-Jazeera asserted itself in the global media scene shortly after the attacks of September 11th, 2001 in the United States. The station's regional prominence had already been entrenched in the new Arab media environment before it was overshadowed by the station's newfound global fame. Subsequently, al-Jazeera was considered an Arab media ambassador and the "voice of the Arab world." This dissertation provides an analysis of al-Jazeera's programming in Arabic that is lacking in the burgeoning English language academic literature. The dissertation furthermore highlights the way treatment of global current affairs informs a sense of Arab identification on a regional level. Moreover, it argues that, apart from competitive broadcast journalists, al-Jazeera offers an oppositional discourse of identification that does not necessarily challenge the hegemony of Western media discourses. By employing an oppositional stance expressed in typical anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist terms, it constructs an overarching notion of "Arabness" that is predominately discursive.The dissertation analyzes three live talk shows: al-Ittijah al-Mu'akis (The Opposite Direction), Bila Hudoud (Without Boundaries), and Li-Nisa' Faqat (For Women Only). These talk shows are ideal sites for examining this oppositional discourse because they constitute important forums in which perceptions of identity are cultivated in the discussion of current affairs. In my analysis, each episode is treated as a media "text" that contributes to the formation of a discourse of "Arabness." The objective of the analysis is to identify the recurrent discursive patterns and strategies in providing the basis for this discursive category of identification across Arab state borders. In constructing an oppositional discourse, the United States and Israel are employed as necessary rhetorical references; Islam is infused into "Arabness" as a homogenizing constituent in identity formation; and finally, a culturally-threatened "Arabness" converges upon a context in which the world is marked by globalization. The dissertation concludes by indicating that al-Jazeera offers merely a representation of "Arabness" that, despite its power to influence, remains one way of perceiving Arab identity.
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O'Sullivan, Kathy. "The role of motivational factors in the apparent lack of success in English language learning in Arab-speaking countries, particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613432.
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This thesis examines the degree to which motivational factors influence the successful acquisition of English as a foreign language in female Emirati and Omani learners. The research participants were female third-level students taking foundation English and English for Specific Purposes courses in a university in the United Arab Emirates and a teacher-training college in Oman, both of which are based on an American model. Problems frequently occur when learners similar to those described in this study go through higher education, particularly when the institutions in question are based on a Western model. Such problems may include reluctance to assume responsibility for their learning (Ali, 2003) and a perceived lack of successful language acquisition. Undoubtedly, high school education with its traditional emphasis on rote learning and memorising exam questions plays a role (Canning & Bornstein, 200 I), as does the sociocultural context, which means that students have almost no opportunity to socialise outside their family environment. However, in the wider context, Western culture is having an enonnous impact on the entire region, primarily due to the media's reporting of regional and political affairs. Such reporting has also resulted in heightened tension in the region, which have been the subject of demonstrations on university campuses and anxiety in some language classrooms where English language teachers are for the most part native speakers of English. It is against such a background that changes are taking place in the educational systems across the region, with English assuming more significance as a language of instruction. Arabic is being phased out as the primary language of instruction in many instances. This has an impact on the learners' motivation to study the English language. Studies have suggested that motivation to learn a foreign language may be affected by attitudes towards the target language community and fears of loss of identity (Lambert, 1979; Pool, 1979; Williams, 1994; Costelloe, 2001; Kharbat, 2002), thus indicating that the macro-context may be one of the motivational factors involved in successful language acquisition. Some recent studies have also focused on the role of power in language learning, arguing that it is one of the factors that affect motivation (MacIntyre & Gardner, 1991; Lightbrown & Spada, 1993; Norton, 2000). In English language education, studies have been conducted on linguistic imperialism (Philippson, 1992) and resistance to such imperialism (Canagarajah, 1999) which refer to the impact that underlying political, religious and socio-economic issues may have on motivation to achieve a higher level in the English language. The results of the study I have undertaken similarly show that participants' acquisition of the English language was affected by a number of motivational factors, including the macro-context of power relations and culture, as well as the micro-context of the classroom, where the teacher, curriculum and materials all had a role to play. Many of the participants appear to have a clear grasp of how both the macro and micro contexts influence their motivation to study English and achieve a high level in the language. These findings suggest that in order for learners to achieve a higher level in the English language, language planners and policy makers need to be aware of how both the macro and micro contexts influence language acquisition. The research emphasizes a necessity for both administration and for instructors in higher education institutions in Oman and the UAE to conduct needs analysis amongst the learners so that their needs, as well as those of other stakeholders, can be catered to. Such measures should support the learners as they strive to achieve a measure of success in English language acquisition. The findings of this research propose that a greater understanding of the role of motivational factors may conceivably have a valuable part to play in raising standards of English language acquisition in Arabic-speaking countries.
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Al-Shammari, Bader A. "Compliance with international accounting standards by listed companies in the Gulf Co-operation Council member states : an empirical study." UWA Business School, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0019.
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The aim of this study was to investigate empirically the extent of mandatory compliance with international accounting standards (IASs) by companies in the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) member states - namely, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - between 1996 and 2002, and to explain why some companies comply more than others. Official personnel in the relevant enforcement bodies were interviewed to obtain information about their monitoring and enforcement activities. An index of compliance was devised to quantify the level of compliance. This was applied to the financial statements of 137 listed companies. Multivariate regression analysis was employed to explore the relationships between the level of compliance and particular attributes of the companies and year-by-year dummy variables. This was done to discover if the level of compliance with IASs was influenced only by company attributes or whether there were time trends as well. The attributes were country of origin, size, leverage, liquidity, profitability, auditor, industry, internationality, ownership diffusion and the company’s age. The average level of compliance for all companies and all years was 75% of the items in the index. No company within the examined time period fully complied with all requirements. The average level of compliance increased over time, though, from 68% in 1996 to 82% in 2002. There was significant variation in the level of compliance across the six GCC member states as well, but the level of compliance increased in all states over the sample period. The highest average level of compliance was in Saudi Arabia, where it reached 88% in the last year of the study. The degree of non-compliance with IASs across the GCC member states was partially attributable to limited monitoring and enforcement by the bodies responsible for overseeing financial reporting, and to the limited comprehensiveness of audits by external auditors. In addition to the role of the enforcement bodies and external auditors, several company attributes helped explain the level of compliance with IASs. Compliance variation increased with a company’s size, leverage and internationality. The level of compliance varied by industry too; however, company profitability, liquidity, ownership diffusion and whether the audit was conducted by a major international audit firm were found not to be significant factors.
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Al-Shammari, Bader A. "Compliance with international accounting standards by listed companies in the Gulf Co-operation Council member states : an empirical study /." Connect to this title, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0019.
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Bevens, Walter Bascom. "Al-Yaman and the Hadramawt: Translations from medieval Arabic geographers and analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184338.
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This dissertation is the result of an interest in the description of al-Yaman and the Hadramawt found in medieval Arabic texts. These texts have never been translated into English to any important degree, and this research represents therefore a pioneer effort. The dissertation begins with an overview, a summary of how medieval Arabic geography began and developed through the influences of Greek, Indian, and Iranian thought to the classical period of Arabic geography and subsequently declined into an age of compilation. This is followed up by a section on the life and works of each author, how the work here translated fits into his career, and how each work relates to the knowledge and information available to that author in his contemporary learned society. The main part of the dissertation deals with the translations themselves. Selections of the important texts are presented to reveal the context of the major geographical themes described. The last major section focuses upon the major themes in the translations. The significance of what information emerges from the texts is analyzed and those elements appearing in each author's work that give it unique importance are discussed.
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Turkistani, Abdullah Qurban. "An analysis of foreign debt by the Arab countries with special reference to Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30138.
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In this study the demand for foreign debt was disaggregated into government demand and private sector demand. Hence, two demand models have been specified. Where, the government maximises an expected quadratic preference function, and the private sector maximises the expected returns from its financial portfolio. The two models are then empirically tested on data from the three Arab countries. Furthermore, the two models are then combined and empirically tested and compared to the disaggregated model. The general framework of this study is that the governments of the Arab countries under study pursue internal and external acceptance in an effort to remain in power, which is empirically supported here. Increasing government expenditure, which implies higher budget deficit, reflects the government's efforts to gain internal acceptance. On the other hand, opening up the domestic economy to the world indicates the government's efforts to gain international acceptance. This study concludes that the Arab countries under study have been undergoing imprudent economic policies that mainly accommodating the government's credit requirements. It has shown that the countries had accepted irresistible foreign loans contracts possibly to finance the current account deficits. Further, the IMF stabilisation program requirement to devalue the national currency, in order to increase foreign exchange inflows and hence reduce foreign debt, founds not to be working for the three Arab countries under study.
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Alajlani, Mohannad. "Issues facing the application of telemedicine in developing countries : Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Syrian Arab Republic." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5177.
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Telemedicine delivers healthcare between geographically separated locations using medical expertise supported by communication technology. Physicians and specialists from one site can provide diagnosis, treatment and consultation to patients at a remote site. This makes the use of telemedicine particularly affective in rural and remote areas that have limited access to healthcare services. This study identifies the factors that affect the use and adoption of telemedicine in developing countries and rural areas in general, taking the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic as cases studies. We have developed two guideline frameworks to be applied to telemedicine projects at the pre- implementation phase. The main purpose of the guideline frameworks is to assess the readiness of the Jordanian and Syrian health care system to use telemedicine and to assist any healthcare provider who is considering implementing a telemedicine project in either of these two countries. The guideline framework can be transferred and applied to any other country for which similar circumstances apply. Our guideline frameworks are based on interviews with key stakeholders including doctors, technicians, engineers, and decision makers, and administering questionnaires to further key stakeholders including patients, ensuring that we gain opinion from people from different backgrounds and with different roles in the healthcare system. Our research has identified specific key issues which inhibit the use of telemedicine: poor technology infrastructure; lack of funding; lack of IT education; insufficient training for clinicians; doctors’ resistance; patients’ resistance; and lack of knowledge about healthcare and technology. This work provides a clear idea of the current readiness in both countries and proposes two guideline frameworks that will aid the use of telemedicine. Their dissemination will create awareness and spread knowledge, which will help the decision makers to appreciate the potential role of telemedicine and help them to facilitate the process of introduction and so spread telemedicine in both Jordan and Syria.