Product Description Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such “civil society” initiatives fatally flawed? Focusing on the Palestinian West Bank and the Arab world, Barriers to […]
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A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present
Product DescriptionEgypt occupies a central position in the Arab world. Its borders between sand and sea have existed for millennia and yet, until 1952, the country was ruled by foreigners. Afaf al-Sayyid Marsot explores the paradoxes of Egypt’s history in a new edition of her successful A Short History of Modern Egypt. Charting the years […]
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence
ISBN13: 9780143112365 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma ‘s Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance […]
Salama, ADEC launch summer challenge in fight against epidemic of road death
collaboration with Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and with the support of Yas Marina Circuit, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE, has urged hundreds of high school students to accept responsibility for helping to make the UAE’s roads safer. Sulayem is supporting Salama Summer Challenge 2010, an interactive […]
China’s outbound tourism may top 100 mn journeys in 5-10 years : WTTC
BEIJING, 29th June 2010 — China’s outbound tourists may reach or top 100 million holiday journeys in the next five to ten years, predicted the 10th World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), recently held in Beijing. The WTTC also said that China’s domestic tourists will reach 2.8 billion journeys in five to ten years and […]
Living Under the Crescent Moon: Domestic Culture in the Arab World
Product Description“living under the crescent moon” demonstrates the diversity of domestic lifestyles to be found from morocco to syria and on the arab peninsula: from the nomadic tents of the tuareg or bedouins to the moroccan casabas: from the grand courtyards in cities such as marrakesh damascus or cairo to the buildings by twentieth-century architects […]
HIMSS Announces 2010 Conferences in Gulf Region
Dubai, June 27th, 2010 – UAE will host three impactful events in one venue gathering the best minds in Healthcare IT Leadership, Management, and Insurance in the Middle East. The 2010 HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit, HIT Management Conference and Health Insurers Innovation Forum, are scheduled for 8-10 November 2010. This is the […]
Dubai to host 3 events next Nov.
DUABI, June 27th, 2010: Dubai will host three impactful events in one venue gathering the best minds in Healthcare IT Leadership, Management, and Insurance in the Middle East. The 2010 HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit, HIT Management Conference and Health Insurers Innovation Forum, are scheduled for 8-10 November 2010. The Healthcare Information and […]
FNC to debate the possibility of a single national shopping festival
Abu Dhabi, Jun 27th, 2010 -The Federal National Council (FNC) is set to discuss the possibility of holding a single shopping festival in the UAE to run concurrently with the celebrations marking the National Day of UAE. The FNC will hold its concluding session in the current legislative season on Tuesday. The session to be […]
SCTDA wins ‘Most Outstanding Booth’ Award at Beijing International Tourism Expo 2010
Sharjah, June 28th, 2010 — The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) has won the award for Most Outstanding Booth at the Beijing International Tourism Expo 2010 (BITE), which held in Beijing from 25 to 27 June 2010. The SCTDA’s stand was chosen as the winner of the prestigious award from among 800 stands […]
Abu Dhabi Hotel guests numbers on rise May-To-May Comparison Up 14 per cent
Abu Dhabi, June 28th, 2010 — Abu Dhabi emirate recorded a 14 per cent increase on guest numbers across its 116 licensed hotels and hotel apartments last month compared to May 2009, says Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority. The newly released figures of the authority show that rising to 161,004, the May performance took the overall […]
DEWA signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai Courts
Dubai, 27 June 2010 – Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai Courts in line with Dubai Government’s vision to establish the city as a premier knowledge, finance, economy, and tourism hub. The MOU aims to disseminate the environmental awareness and the culture of conservation in the electricity and […]
Abu Dhabi to host World Green Tourism Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, 27th June 2010 – World Green Tourism Abu Dhabi, the international conference and exhibition being held in the UAE capital this November, has won the patronage of Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority. Sheikh Sultan, a noted promoter of sustainability practices, will also deliver the opening address […]
UAEU, ZU, HCT students to fly to UK to join Summer Internship Program at Oxford University
Abu Dhabi, 27th June 2010 : Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) has organized an orientation session for 12-summer internship program students who are studying Biology and Economics disciplines at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Zayed University (ZU) and Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT). The orientation session, aimed at introducing students to the training program and […]