Saudi Arabia’s International Organization
The league of Arab States, or commonly called the Arab League is a local organization of Arab nations from North Africa to South Asia. Formed and established on March 22, 1945 with only six country members: Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, the Arab League currently has 22 members, with the ultimate goal to, “draw closer relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration between them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries.”
Becoming a founding organization in March 1945, the Arab League is steered towards the center of establishing the economy, settling disputes, and correlating political focus. The Arab League assists the progress of economic, cultural, political, social, and scientific programs to demonstrate the interests of the Arab Nations. Such institutions as the Cultural and Scientific Organization, Arab League for Educational Relations, and Arab League Council of Arab Economic Unity are among the few facilitations that help promote and serve as a forum for the member states to coordinate their policy positions, to deliberate on matters of common concern, and to settle a few Arab disputes. The Arab League plays an important role in advancing the role of women in Arabic societies, shaping the school curriculum, promoting child welfare and fostering cultural exchanges between the member states. The League has also served as a platform for the drafting and conclusion of many landmark documents promoting economic integration. For example, the Joint Arab Economic Action Charter, which sets out principles for economic activities region.
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...e Muslims, Christians, or Jews 90 percent of citizen members in the Arab League are Muslim populated, while only about 6 percent of citizens are Christians. Arabic is the official language of the Arab League although other languages, such as Kurdish in Iraq and in Syria, and Somali in Horn of Africa, are used among some of the Arab League citizens.
The Arab League has been in efforts to promote and increase literacy among their member states. According to the Arab League, there are more than 70 million illiterate people with a 35 percent illiteracy rate. Nearly 68 percent of the total is the 48 million illiterates occurring in Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, and Morocco. The Arab League continues to push forth efforts to promote welfare of children, encouragement of youth, academic, and sports programs and most importantly to increase literacy exchanges between member states.
Literacy programs should be an integral component of every community. Not only do these programs serve adults and foreigners, but they also serve those that live with the problems of poverty throughout their daily lives. In 2000-2001, 15.7% of students missed 21 or more days during the school year. Students who miss many days of school because of illnesses beyond their control often fall behind in their studies. Many literacy programs help these students excel in what otherwise would have been a deficiency in their learning.
How does one region have a prolonged battle for authority, and conflict with the opposing force for eternity? After the Ottoman Empire sided the Central Powers during World War I, they didn’t foresee that they would lose their empire based off of this decision. European countries that won the war came in and partitioned the Middle Eastern region. Soon after the Sykes-Picot Agreement was established, and the Arabs felt betrayed because they weren't granted their deserved independence. The new borders set caused continuous conflict because of the artificial blending of different ethnic and religious groups. International conflicts have contributed to regional conflict in Southwest Asia by forming borders without regards to the different ethnic and religious groups, creation of the state Israel in 1948, and the U.S. being involved in the matters of the Middle
In James Joyce’s short story, Araby, the author utilizes a first-person narrative to accurately relay the narrator’s sense of isolation in his society. The story begins with this theme already heavily hinted, as the narrator describes his house as “detached from its neighbours in a square ground” (Joyce). The street the narrator returns home to is described as blind, void of children playing or the friendly eyes of neighbors. Even the surrounding houses take on the personas of their inhabitants, “[gazing] at one another with brown imperturbable faces” (Joyce).
Ajami argues that universalism of Pan-Arabism derived from the universalism of the Ottoman Empire had disappeared after 6 decades. There is no longer a collective Arab crisis and nation states have alternate nationalistic goals. A case in point to support his argument would be the example of Egypt. The country has pertinent political and economic issues to concern itself with. Many face unemployment and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy....
The Middle East has historically rebuked Western influence during their process of establishing independence. When Britain and France left the Middle East after World War II, the region saw an unprecedented opportunity to establish independent and self-sufficient states free from the Western influence they had felt for hundreds of years. In an attempt to promote nationalistic independence, the states of the region immediately formed the League of Arab States in 1945. The League recognized and promoted the autonomy of its members and collaborated in regional opposition against the West until 1948 when Israel declared independence. Israel represented then and now an intrusive Western presence in the Arab world. The ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict typifies this cultural antagonism. The Cold War refocused attention to the Middle East as a site of economic and strategic importance for both sides, yet the two hegemons of the Cold War now needed to recognize the sovereignty of the Middle Eastern states. With their statehood and power cemented, the Middle Easte...
The League of Nations has been seen as a seriously flawed international organisation and its failure to prevent World War Two has been well documented. Provide something of an alternative perspective by identifying and highlighting important policy-areas in which the League made valuable progress.
The Arab world consists of twenty-two countries encompassing all of North Africa and much of the Middle East. The Arab people number over 360 million and while they share a common language, there is a surprising degree of diversity among them, whether in terms of nationality, culture, religion, economics, or politics. (McCaffrey, 3) Most inhabitants of the Ar...
It is painful to love and not be loved back, and it’s agonizing to lock your self in an imaginary palace where, only there, your love had fallen for you. In this story, Araby by James Joyce, the narrator portrays his one-sided love story as a young boy, or rather his feelings throughout it, and it was not a happy story. As I sat to write this post, the warning I heard from a narrator of some romantic movie echoed in my ears, and here I am doing my part and telling you that “you should know upfront, this is not a love story” (Tuchinsky & Webb, 2009). I chose this story because of its name, as I, myself, am Araby. I thought it would talk about some eastern culture the narrator is fond of, and it turned out to be the complete opposite; he didn’t have the slightest interest in the Arabic culture.
Fahad Alzahrani William Wenaus English 100 Aug 8th , 2017 James Joyce's Short Story "Araby" The story Araby has numerous statements that are both puzzling and astonishing to the reader. Such statements invoke multiple questions on the mind of a person as he or she tries to find the reason behind them. Nevertheless, the narrator’s concluding expression appears to give much insight into his mind and resolutions. The statement "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger (Joyce 21)" prompts the reader to see the narrator from a different perspective.
In James Joyce's short story, "Araby", the speaker's youthful idealism and naïve fantasies are left shattered when a trip to the bazaar awakens him to the dark realities of his life. The narrator, a nameless adolescent Catholic schoolboy, is living in an oppressive and joyless environment, yet he is able to detach from the frustrating grimness of the surroundings by immersing himself in a confused infatuation for a neighborhood girl. With unrestrained enthusiasm, the boy allows himself to be consumed with foolish lust and adoration for a girl whom he "did not know if ›he would ever speak to" (Araby 112). In truth the girl, sister to the boy's friend Mangan, is a virtual stranger, but in his mind the boy has transformed the girl into an
Arabs primarily speak Arabic with “variations in the dialects, words, and meanings in different Arab countries” (Lipson & Dubble, 2007, p. 43). Despite the different variations, most Arabs understand each other. All Muslims are required to read the Koran that is written in Arabic. While they all read this, not all speak Arabic fluently, or at all in some cases. There are some ethnic minorities that speak their own language, and are not understood by most of the surrounding populations. In the United States, nearly 600,000 people speak Arabic in their own homes; professionals and business p...
Throughout the lives we all live; there will be our highs and our lows. Depending on the way you look at life, there may be more highs than lows or lows than highs. One thing is for certain, during our lives there defiantly will be disappointments. Some of these disappointments will be small, while others will be large, life changing, disappointments. The person you are today decides how you will be able to take these disappointments. Disappointments aren’t always a bad thing; sometimes they can be life changing, life learning incidents that change our lives in the future. This is how the author James Joyce wrote the short story, “Araby”. He took a normal event or incident and broke that any normal person would read and understand the story plot, but looking at the deeper end of things, there can be seen a life learning event that happens in this boy’s mind. In James Joyce’s short story, ”Araby” the small boy at the end of the story learns about the fate of his future, the hard poor life he will live and his ability to control his anger and anguish.
The Oil continues being the most important regional and global issue. Some estimates show that by 2050 80% of Middle Eastern oil will be distributed to the U.S creating control of pipelines through Afghanistan or turkey increasing the importance of the Middle East to the United States. The globalization effects many different parts of the Middle east in Different ways, Economically the Arab countries also Iran, apart from the international oil markets and their side effects, have come across many difficulties then turkey and Israel in integrating into the global economy. In 1948 after a difficult start of state establishment Israel’s economy has become the economy’s rising star for the Middle
A. Starting in 1948, right in the middle of the Arab-Israeli war, the initiation of the Arab League boycott of Israel was a coherent effort by Arab League member states, whose intention was to isolate Israel financially and economically (Perez). The League ventured effortlessly to prevent Arab states and disincentivize non-Arabs from providing support to Israel or adding to Israel's economic stability. The boycott was also designed to deter Jewish immigration to the region (Consequences of the War). There was a total of 22 Middle Eastern and African countries that supported the boycott and its effort to prevent any and all economic growth in Israel. Throughout the period of this ongoing boycott, many trade barriers have been put in place, limiting trade between Israel and other countries (Slavicek 65).
Birth and death in the Arab culture has being one of the most interesting topics that is being discussed more frequently. When people talk or hear about the Arab culture they tend to think about different things about them like they are being considered as terrorist, they oppress their women and many things like that. But we tend to forget that this people, the Arabs are also human beings that they have normal day-to-day activities like people in the other part of the so-called westernized world.