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faced by MTV while launching MTV Arabia was the prevalent culture in the Arab world. Discuss the Arab culture. How is it expected to pose a challenge to MTV? First of all, it is impossible to talk about groups of people without generalizing. At this point it must be emphasized that there is not just “one” Arab culture or society. The Arab world is full of rich and diverse communities, groups and cultures. Each of the Arab countries has different perspectives. That’s why differences exist not only

10). This quotation shows that people are careless about important issues around them and that they got used to see people dying around them, so they didn’t react that much when the man died. This shows how Wannous is expressing the reality of the Arab world. Not paying attention to such important eventful situations doesn’t only mean that people are only running away from reality, but it also means that they are busy with useless things that are not productive and waste their time. In The King’s Elephant

to her because I too have had these significant moments in my life that made me evolve and change into the person that I am right now. I too have memories and “ adventures” of some kind that shaped the way my mind functions, and the way I see the world and think about what’s currently happening in it. I guess the first major life changing moment was leaving Egypt after my parents got divorced. I don’t exactly remember what happened between my parents but i know it didn’t end well. My sisters

260465022 POLI 227 TA: Sherif Fouad The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East Marc Lynch defines the 2011 Arab uprisings as “an exceptionally rapid, intense, and nearly simultaneous explosions of popular protest across an Arab world united by shared transnational media and bound by a common identity” (Lynch, 9). In his book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East, he sets out to put the events of the Arab uprising into perspective and to create

According to the data from the Arab Social Media Report 2011 by Mourtada and Salem, the amount social media usage increased immensely during the Arab Spring period from January 1 to March 30. The number of Facebook users in the Arab nations had almost doubled, up from 14,791,972 (as of April 2010) to 27,711,503 (as of April 2011) (Mourtada and Salem 9). Similarly, in the first three months of 2011, the number of tweets increased from 55 million to 155 million a day (Mourtada and Salem 15). This increase

dispersion of video content in the world (Safranek,2012:1). Watching videos by viewers makes them to harbor similar feelings with the afflicted parties. In the Egypt unrest, morally absorbing phenomenon could be a motivation behind why individuals were stimulated joins the protest (Rashid, 2012:75) Weblogs The last apparatus of online networking in this paper is weblog, briefly characterized, weblogs, as "a simple-to-utilize

They experience a state of confusion between their local and the global culture. He used the term delocalization to explain that young people who grow up in a globalizing world tend to decrease their loyalty or attachment to their local culture. This might be due to Media that seduced the world into a global form and way of life. Moreover, young people might think that their local traditions are outdated. He used Berry’s terms to explain the different conditions of young people who

for Social Change. Today, the world is connected together like never before thanks to the advancement of the internet and the social media websites. As a consequence, users from all over the world are exposed to plethora of cultures and traditions that are different from theirs. So, they experience socio-cultural constraints because what is appropriate in one society may not be appropriate in another. For the purpose of this paper, the focus will be on the Arab users and how they deal with the

Student Led Assisment Impacts of the Arab Spring on tourism in the Arab wolrd and specifically Egypt Ali Ali 000606259 Contents Page Introduction 4 What is the Arab Spring? 4 What Countries did it affect? 4 Tourism in Egypt 5 Revolution impacts on Egypt’s tourism 6 Post Revolution 7 Conclusion 7 References 8 Introduction This report will briefly raise awareness of what the Arab Spring therefore to be able to have

The Arab Spring is a new term tossed in December 2010, and it covers all kinds of riots, demonstrations and civil wars recently going on in the Arab world. The Arab Spring has established; the power social media can have when applied in social and political scenario. In just a short period of three years, there were changed regimes in four Arab countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen). There were protests and demonstrations in other Arab countries like Bahrain, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Jordon, Kuwait