Towards New Directions for Public Spaces in the Globalising Middle East

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Simona Azzali ◽  
Silvia Mazzetto ◽  
Attilio Petruccioli
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
New Directions

scholarly journals Leading urban change with people powered public spaces. The history, and new directions, of the Placemaking movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Ethan Kent
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Public Market ◽  
The People ◽  
New Directions

Successful urban development is usually anchored by vital public spaces where people naturally want to gather: a crossroads or a main street, third place business, public market, waterfront wharf, library, railway station, campus, agora, piazza, or civic square. These spaces become truly magnetic places when they provide purpose and meaning for the broad groups of people they serve. Public places are most dynamic—and most enduring—when they showcase and boost a community’s unique public life, economy, and culture. This is especially true when the people using them are involved in their creation, continual re-creation, management, and governance. This is the essence of placemaking. Great public spaces happen through community-driven placemaking and place-led governance. These great places are the foundation of great communities, which in turn are the building blocks of a prosperous, equitable, and resilient society.

New Directions for Family Practitioner Training in the Middle East

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona M. Amer ◽  
Laurie L. Charles ◽  
Hani Henry ◽  
Anne Justus ◽  
Sami Abuhamdeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Family Practitioner ◽  
Practitioner Training ◽  
New Directions

In the Presence of Power

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Vitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
New Directions ◽  
And Performance

Rulers’ courts of the pre-modern Middle East have long been a staple of Western fantasies about the East. Yet in spite of the importance of the court as a symbol of the absolutist power of the “Orient,” relatively few scholars have explored the cultural production of the courts of the pre-modern Middle East. In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East, edited by Maurice A. Pomerantz (New York University Abu Dhabi) and Evelyn Birge Vitz (New York University), offers twelve chapters that present a complex and nuanced image of rulers’ courts as vital spaces of performance. Building on previous studies that have examined the court as an important sociopolitical space but moving in new directions, this volume explores literary works produced about and for performance in courts from the eighth to the sixteenth century. Contributions address topics such as delight, persuasion, and entertainment in Byzantine and Abbasid rulers’ courts.

Priorities in Middle East Studies

1972 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Education ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Program Directors ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Regional Study ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Middle East Studies

A number of events, including the Lambert Report on Language and Area Studies, legislation on National Defense Education, and various other bills on international education, provide an important opportunity for reevaluating priorities in the study of foreign regions. We believe that Middle East Studies, as a regional study needs support and that this support is threatened by a shifting attention to domestic needs and by impending reductions in funds for education. But we also believe that what is needed is more than a simple blanket appeal for funding. Clear priorities and new directions are required to give meaning to the call for support and to channel that support into important directions. This matter has been the subject of much discussion within the Middle East studies community and specifically within the Middle East Studies Association. The latest discussions took place at the meeting of Middle East center and program directors, at the Fifth Annual Meeting of MESA in November, 1971.

THINKING IN FOUR DIMENSIONS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah El-Kazaz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
New Directions

The study of the Middle East is experiencing an explosion in the dimensions through which scholars study space. The five new books reviewed in this essay stand out for pushing the boundaries of how we conceptualize the production of space and mobilize it as a methodological intervention. Through remarkably sensitive ethnography, creative use of sources, and an array of vibrant theoretical and methodological tools, they expand upon an earlier pioneering literature that centered spatial analysis in the study of the Middle East. In this essay, I focus on three dimensions they have opened up: analyzing space intime; drawingconnectivitiesacross spaces; and reframing theagencyof spatial tactics and the nonhuman.

scholarly journals Controversies on the Use of Ultraviolet Rays for Disinfection During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Chii Chii Chew ◽  
Philip Rajan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Human Skin ◽  
Human Tissue ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Ultraviolet Rays ◽  
Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation ◽  
Sole Agent ◽  
Uv Rays

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the use of ultraviolet (UV) rays to disinfect skin areas, clothes and other objects at the entry/exit points of public spaces has been widely discussed by stakeholders. While ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) has been shown to effectively inactivate coronaviruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-1 and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), no specific evidence proves that it effectively inactivates the new SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Because UV rays damage human tissue, UVGI should be used with caution and not directly on human skin. Various guidelines recommend that UVGI should not be used as a sole agent for disinfecting surfaces or objects but as an adjunct to the latest standard disinfecting procedures.

Current Developments and Future Directions in Middle Eastern Studies

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip S. Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Middle Eastern Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Middle East Studies

What are some of the new directions that specialists are beginning to chart for Middle Eastern studies? Middle East specialists are finding ways of linking their basic research on these questions and others to policy formation, and, in so doing, they are becoming more closely connected than ever before to international agencies and organizations focused on global change. The charting of these new directions could in time enable the Middle East studies field not only to make new substantive contributions to knowledge but also to convince the social sciences to recognize and incorporate this new knowledge.

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