scholarly journals KINSHIP AND HISTORY: TRIBES, GENEALOGIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE BEDOUIN OF THE EASTERN ARAB WORLD

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William C Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Arab World

scholarly journals Governance of Higher Education in the Arab World and the Case of Tunisia

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Adnan El Amine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Dominant Model ◽  
Progressive Reform ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Arab Spring

Public universities in the Arab world have suffered from what might be called a political model of governance. This model involves the subordination of universities to political influence, from top to bottom as well as horizontally. It leads to the closing of minds, the undermining of knowledge production, and limiting the ability of universities to bring about social change. The exception to this dominant model in the Arab world is Tunisia, which, not coincidentally, has also been the only exception to the failure of the “Arab Spring,” continuing on the path of democracy and progressive reform despite some setbacks.

Community, dialect and urbanization in the Arabic-speaking Middle East

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Holes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Everyday Communication

The purpose of this paper is to explain how changes in the social structure of the countries of the Arabic-speaking Middle East are being reflected in new patterns of dialect use. The last 30 years have seen an enormously increased interest in Arabic as a living mode of everyday communication, reflected in many dialectological, typological and sociolinguistic studies. As a result, we now have a much clearer overall picture of the dialect geography of the eastern Arab world, and the beginnings of an understanding of the dynamics of language change. Inevitably, the focus of many studies has been geographically specific, so that the area-wide nexus between social change and linguistic change has not always been seen in a sufficiently broad context. By examining three case studies documented in the literature, I aim to point up similarities in the dynamics of change which are often obscured by distracting local particularities.

scholarly journals Cultural Values and Population Action Programs in Turkey

1970 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Dr. Cigdem Kagistcibasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Striking Similarity

Readers will not:ce a striking similarity between Turkey and the Arab World regarding cultural values and problems of social change generally faced by Eastern countries nowadays. It is this similarity which has induced us to condense this valuable report in the following pages.

scholarly journals Pay Equity in Jordan

1970 ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Condition Of Women

In line with its mission to enhance networking and communication by extending ties with international organizations working on gender issues, Al-Raida will be reprinting policy and issue briefs prepared by the International Labour Organization in its upcoming issues. The purpose of this joint venture is to promote research on the condition of women in the Arab world, especially with respect to social change and development, and to reach out to women and empower them through consciousness-raising. This brief below is reprinted with permission from the International Labour Organization Regional Office for Arab States published by ILO, 2010.

Some Final Reflections

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Marina ◽  
David Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
The Rich ◽  
To Come ◽  
Common Destiny

The Arab uprisings in2011 did not satisfy the demands voiced by protesters, but they left the countries where they occurred changedon a fundamental level –although not always for the better. Tunisia and Morocco have become more open, while Egypt has reverted to stifling military authoritarianism. Iraq and Syria have seen the further undermining of their chronically troubled states with dim prospects for improvement. The rich oil monarchies have embarked on a risky course betting that they can join the modern world economically without undermining their ruling families politically even as they cling to tribal traditions of abygone era. Whatever the outcome, they are now headlong into a radically new and different era, onein which the myth of one Arab world with a common destiny and interests has been shattered forever.Key issues that emerged as a result of the 2011 uprisings will loom large over that splintered world for years to come: the hostility between secularists and Islamists in Egypt, the fragility of the state in Iraq and Syria, and the tension between rapid economic and social change and political stagnation—“the King’s dilemma”—in the Gulf monarchies. The importance of strategic leadershipwill be crucial everywhere, but so will decisions taken by foreign powers, whichtoday have greater involvement in shaping the region than they had a century ago.

scholarly journals Islam, Gender, and Social Change

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
Anne Sofie Roald
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
Market State ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Feminist Movements

The anthology, Islam, Gender and Social Change, starts with an introductionby Professor John Esposito, one of the coeditors, and it continues with an overarchingchapter "Islam and Gender: Dilemmas in the Changing Arab World" by the other coeditor, Professor Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. The introductiongives a short survey of gender issues in Islamic history and it points out thatreforms in women’s issues have more often than not been a State rather than agrassroots concern. The strength of the introduction is that in contrast to manyof the other articles in this volume, it takes into account not only the feministpoint of view on gender but deals with the various views that exist in Muslimsociety.Haddad’s chapter introduces the first part of the anthology titled “Islam,Gender, and Social Change: A Reconstituted Tradition,” which gives the readera short survey of the modem challenges facing Arab society. She sees themain factors of change in the Arab world as the economic fluctuations of the1970s and 1980s: labor migration, women’s entrance into the labor market,State ideology and politics, the Islamic movement’s role in society, UnitedNations’ recommendations, and input from Western feminist movements. Sofar, so good; however, in her following comments, Haddad has a tendency tovictimize Arab Muslim women, particularly the religious-oriented- viewpointwhich, as a researcher on the Muslim world, I cannot always agree with.This victimization is partly a result of how Muslim women are often describedfrom an outsider’s perspective, either from a Western or a secular Muslim pointof view. Victimization of Muslim women is not only a feature in Haddad’s articlebut also in many of the other articles in this book. Interestingly, even thefew Muslim contributors do not have a particular Islamic outlook; rather, theyare part of a Western research paradigm. The fact that Islamic-oriented Muslimwomen are generally defined within a frame of Western research traditionsreinforces, on the one hand, attitudes of “we” and “them” and, on the other, thenotion that these women are victims rather than women responsible for theirown lives ...

A Tale of Four Worlds

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ottaway ◽  
Marina Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
World War I ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
World War ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
The Past

First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and ’60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalism and socialism. The Arab world’s third great political cataclysm of the past 100 years—the 2011 uprisings—has also brought permanent changes, but not as its activists had hoped.Their consequences have differed greatly from area to area, splintering the Arab region into four different worlds. The Levant states have disintegrated, possibly irreversibly. The Gulf monarchies have embarked on far-reaching plans of economic and social change to stave off discontent. Egypt has retreated into military authoritarianism and a war on Islamists, threatening its future stability. Only the Maghreb countries, which have started integrating Islamists into their political systems, offer some hope for progress toward democracy. Marina and David Ottaway have brought together fifty years of experience observing the Arab world, and a wealth of first-hand information gathered from living and travelling extensively in the region. A Tale of Four Worlds is an indispensable analysis of the profound upheavals that have shaken—and continue to transform—Arab and global politics.

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