Social Values of Public Spaces for Heritage Restoration in the Middle East

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
Silvia Mazzetto
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Public Spaces

scholarly journals Mirrors and Windows

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-107
Author(s):  
Ismail Serageldin
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
Shared Social Values ◽  
The Mind

On BoundariesFmntiets are an invention of the mind. We set boundaries for ourselvesand others by what we choose to see as reality and by what wechoose to value. But men and women are social creatures, and individualbehavior is subjected to the control of widely shared social values. Theseboundaries that define the limits of acceptable behavior also tend toreflect and reinforce limits on acceptable thinking.How are such social values developed? How do they change overtime? The intelligentsiaartists and intellectuals-create mirrors throughwhich we see outselves and windows through which we perceive reality.It is these mims and windows that define the boundaries of the mind.The intelligentsia's roleboth as makets of a cultual outlook and productof the milieu-is central to my view of what is happening in the worldgenerally and in the Muslim societies of the Middle East particularly.These important questions will appear throughout this essay like a leitmotif.The intelligentsia needs a space offreedom in which it can performits dual tole and shape the boundaries by which we define ourselves.Are such boundaries important? They cettainly are. Shared values reflectedin predictable behavior not only are the basis of all social organizationbut are at the core of "cultural identity"a hackneyed expressionthat nevertheless remains essential to anyone who lives in a group.' Yetindividuals within a group are not clones, interchangeable units within acollectivity. Each petson interacts with others in an expanding series ofcircles starting with high intensity vis-his the immediate family circleand with decreasing intensity to the limit of the group(s) with which theindividual identifies ...

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.

scholarly journals The abstract space and the alienation of political public space in the Middle East

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-497
Author(s):  
Farzad Zamani ◽  
Asma Mehan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Abstract Space ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Protests ◽  
The City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how abstract space of the State – universally and specifically within the context of Middle Eastern cities – aims to homogenise the city and eliminate any anomaly that threatens its power structure. Design/methodology/approach Through a historical and discourse analysis of these policies and processes in the two case studies, this paper presents a contextualised reading of Lefebvre’s concept of abstract space and process of abstraction in relation to the alienation of political public spaces. Findings The paper proposes that regardless of these homogenising strategies being applied universally, they fail to respond to contextual particularities and therefore they – in a contradictory manner – may themselves produce a space of resistance and difference. Originality/value This paper focusses on Iran, the case of Tehran and Turkey, the case of Taksim Square and Gezi Park in Istanbul. Recent policies and strategies have been proposed and implemented to reduce, alienate and possibly neutralise the impacts of urban and political protests in these cities and socio-political contexts.

Media Studies, the Spatial Turn, and the Middle East

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-48
Author(s):  
Hatim El-Hibri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Arab Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

What questions do the ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities and the social sciences pose for the study of the media and culture of the Middle East? And how might attending to the spaces and spatiality of media in the Middle East help us to better understand the historical present? This article puts Middle East and Arab media and cultural studies into dialogue with an interdisciplinary literature that considers media as spatial and geographic phenomena. I examine how the question of space has arisen or might contribute to the study of media and culture in the Middle East by examining three areas of research in which that question has emerged: the place of media in domestic and public spaces and mobilities, the representation of place and space, and the geography of media industries and media infrastructure.

scholarly journals FROM ANCIENT NATURAL AND SOCIAL VALUES TO THE STATE-LEGAL CIVILIZATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-155
Author(s):  
А.А. Юнусов ◽  
М.А. Юнусов ◽  
А.Г. Ахвердян
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Values ◽  
The State ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Qualitative State ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
The Law

Аннотация. Право и государственные институты существовали не все- гда. Чтобы прийти к такому цивилизационному состоянию данные ценности развивались несколько тысячелетий. Примерно семь тысяч лет тому назад возникли первые государственные формирования на Ближнем Востоке. Право приобретало свое современное качественное состояние, опираясь на обычаи, традиции, морально-этические нормы, естественно-нравственные источни- ки общества. Позже они стали координироваться и возводиться в ранг рели- гиозных канонов. После длительного эволюционного развития социочеловече- ские нормы выражались в праве, законодательстве и других нормативных правовых актах государства. Таким образом, на смену древних социально- цивилизационных ценностей пришли современные государственно-правовые институты. Annotation. Law and state institutions did not always exist. To reach such a civilizational state, these values have evolved for several millennia. About seven thousand years ago, the first state formations arose in the Middle East. The law acquired its modern qualitative state, relying on customs, traditions, moral and ethical norms, natural and moral sources of society. Later they began to be coordinated and elevated to the rank of religious canons. After a long evolutionary development, socio-human norms were expressed in law, legislation and other regulatory legal acts of the state. So, modern state and legal institutions have replaced the ancient social and civilizational values.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL FOREWORD

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Sara Pursley ◽  
Beth Baron
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Editorial Foreword

Interest in the study of space was already increasing in Middle East studies, as in other areas of scholarship, before the 2011 Arab uprisings and the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey—combined with the Occupy movement in the United States and similar phenomena elsewhere—turned worldwide attention to the politics of public spaces in the era of globalization and neoliberalism. This issue of IJMES reflects both the ongoing “spatial turn” in the scholarship and the more immediate and contingent attempts, sparked by recent events, to (re-)theorize public space in particular.

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