... dunes. Last June 21, 2014, my college and the Desert Camels Adventures Tours organized a trip to make the summer semester extra special-a trip to the Al Jabal Al Akdhar. The college's administrative staff, lecturers, technicians along with their families and friends signed up for an adventure going to one of Oman's top tourist ... higher ground and the elevation rose as we went up to our destination. Both the landscape and the atmosphere changed as we went up to Al Jabal Al Akdhar. We cruised the lands and felt awe with what we saw. There were magnificent rock formations on both sides of...

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... -language satellite TV station, nicknamed the Arab CNN whose reputation was built on its fearless coverage of the United States. The station plans to quadruple its size within the year. Al-Jazeera wants to assign correspondents to events at the White House, Pentagon and State Department. Although the ties to Bin Laden worry the security the Bush administration invited ... Al-Jazeera staffers to a Ramadan banquet at the White House. Seeing the power of the Arabic TV the Pentagon included Al-Jazeera camera teams in the hundreds of journalists permitted to accompany United States forces if ...

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... through hereditary means. Another large part of government in Jordan is the Legislative Branch which is known as the bicameral National Assembly or Majlis al "Umma and consists of the Senate, also called the House of Notables (Majlis al-Aayan) (40 seats; members appointed by the monarch from designated categories of public figures; members serve 4 year terms.) and the House of Representatives ... popular vote on the basis of proportional representation to serve 4-year terms.) The political parties and their leaders are Al-Umma (Nation) Party [Ahmad al-HANANDEH, secretary general], Arab ...

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During class last week, we watched three video clips concerning practices in other countries that most Americans find atrocious. The subjects of the videos were: the Untouchables and the caste system in India, honor killings, and suicide bombers. All three practices are, on the most part, accepted as tradition and occur frequently within the ... countries in which they originated. Immediately after watching the videos, the first thoughts that came to my mind, having never seen such horrifying practices, were "How could people allow such tyranny to take place in their own country?", " How did ...

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... way to another attack when it abruptly crashed in a field in Pennsylvania and killed all passengers and terrorists on board.9/11 attacks were orchestrated by Al Qaeda in a move to disrupt the Western economies and to strike fear in our country and the world. It was a form of both economic ... well including Morocco, Bali, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Spain. By hurting the Western economies these attacks were a huge success for Al Qaeda. "A strategy of Al Qaeda is to hurt the Western world by attacking economic nodes and avenues of commerce. Osama Bin Laden has pegged the cost of ...

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Four characteristics of Sufism, or Islamic Mysticism, reveal the Sufi's legacy on the Islamic community. Al-Basri, al-Adawiyyah and others like them attracted followers who shared their ideas and came to learn from them. These individuals, in turn, ... or early student. (Islam: World Religions; Islam: Faith, Culture, History) One of the earliest of the Sufi orders was the Qadiriyah, named after Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (d. 1166). Of Iranian descent, Abd had been a legal scholar in Baghdad for many years. Only late in life did he begin to teach his ... Faith, Culture, History) Other orders were...

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... be near impossible. Reardon has attempted a less definite definition of positive peace calling it the assurance of human rights. (Reardon in Smoker et al,1990) This of course also raises the question of who defines human rights. Despite these problems Gultung and Reardon's definitions are not an absoloute ... cooperation to form new and creative ideas so that both sides may work to win-win situation. (Sanson and Bretherton in Christe et al. 2001) This is in direct contrast to traditional resolutions that involved assertion of power or rights to end conflict. Fisher has also pointed ... ...

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... be near impossible. Reardon has attempted a less definite definition of positive peace calling it the assurance of human rights. (Reardon in Smoker et al,1990) This of course also raises the question of who defines human rights. Despite these problems Gultung and Reardon's definitions are not an absoloute ... cooperation to form new and creative ideas so that both sides may work to win-win situation. (Sanson and Bretherton in Christe et al. 2001) This is in direct contrast to traditional resolutions that involved assertion of power or rights to end conflict. Fisher has also pointed ... ...

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... launched Dubai Bank and EMRILL, a joint venture with UK-based Company Carillion plc, which serves as the company's major contractor besides Arabtech. The company is headed by Mr. Mohammed Ali Al Abbar together with 5 boards of directors. Its activities include providing housing and developing real estate at prime areas throughout the UAE. The company is founded in 1997 after it acquired ... as one of the prime developers in the country. Supliers Suppliers make is also one of the major stakeholders in the company. The major of suppliers of the company includes: Al Futtaim Trading- which ...

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... ) numerals and the Hindu-Arabic decimal system to a Europe still muddling with Roman numerals. The word 'algebra' is Arabic, from the book "Hisab al-jabr w'al muqabala", written around 830 by the renowned astronomer and mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi. When translated into Latin, it caused a sensation in Europe - 310 years later. Where would Newton have been without the Arabs? On what ... ...

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... Center represented the United States" financial strength. There were nineteen men who were all terrorists from Middle Eastern nations. The nineteen men belonged to an international terrorist organization known as al Qaeda which was led by Osama bin Laden. "He is a well-known terrorist who began a violent campaign against the United States in the early 1990s in an effort to drive ... is the most powerful nation on Earth. A month after the deadly attacks on 9/11, U.S. warplanes were launching missiles at Afghanistan. The U.S. targeted the country's Taliban leadership and Osama bin Laden's...

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... abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, and having sex from sunrise to sunset. Muslim should participate in two annual feast. Eid al- Fitr the day in which the fasting ends, this day you should spend time with family and friends. Eid al- Adha is the feast of sacrifice in the month of pilgrimage, after the Hajj ritual. The month of the Muharram is ... ...

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... and knowledge. It was discussed in lecture that the Abbasid Caliphate, the most developed cosmopolitan society from 750 through 1258, held all of its books of knowledge in the Dar al-Hikma. As this society began interacting with the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean regions they collected texts from Greece and Africa. They brought these texts back to the Dar ... al-Hikma, or House of Knowledge, and started to incorporate these newfound sciences into their own practices. This is wonderful example of how the texts of Greece and the African regions ... ...

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... impressed by western military techniques, technology and prowess and sought to emulate them. Along with military and industrial improvements, Ali brought the printing press into the Muslim world. He established al-Waqai al-Misriyyah, the first newspaper published in Arabic. With this new communication tool, many western ideas and ideals began to creep into a very different Arabian mindset. Ali was not Egyptian ... ...

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As an American male it is difficult for me to understand certain traditions and laws in Arab countries, especially those concerning women. "The Women of Sand and Myrrh" by Hannan al-Shaylh, deals with many different stuggles of Arab people, mainly women. The story focuses on four women Suha, Tamr, Nur, and Suzanne, living in an unknown Arab country. In this ... imagination, but I could at least find one good quality in their personality, but with Suzanne I couldn't. As an American her personality disturbed me. Was this a true character or just Hanan al-Shaykh sterotypical portrayl of Americ...

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... , the US government can not deny the vulnerability it has against terrorist attacks. Because of this, this government has the right to prevent such an event from happening again. If Al-Qaeda's terror network would have been stopped on time, and Afghanistan had been liberated, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York might have never happened. Based on ... weaknesses since September 11th left more than three thousand civilian casualties that could have been spared whether diplomatic or military actions would have taken place by the US government against Al-Qaida's state sponsored ...

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... Strip has been a raging war for decades. US foreign policies take part in the motivation behind the acts of terrorism on 9/11. In the holy war, terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, use US publicity to spread the teachings of Osama Bin Laden. Pre-meditated bombings, assainations, and full frontal wars, are methods the ... Al-Qaeda forces use to spread terrorism throughout the world. However, international terrorism does not only include the Middle East, for there are many countries that have been plagued with terrorism. ... ...

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... that financially and ideologically support these terrorist groups. The very last words pronounced by President Bush during his address to the U.S. Congress were: 'Our war on terror begins with Al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated' (George W. Bush, September 20, 2001). WEAPONS ... ...

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... the Qu'ran is largely viewed as one of the main causes of why the global war on terrorism began in the Middle East, ever since Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda rose to power. Today's actions alone aren't all there were on the topic of religious warfare. During the Middle Ages, there was a period of a handful of crusades. This time ... ...

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... powerful country in the world. I hope to evoke some sort of though about your set of American values and your views towards this country. I am not asking you to join Al-Qaeda or anything drastic like that, just simply think about our country. Imagine for a second seeing an alien ship pull into port somewhere in America. A race of beings that none ... ...

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... solving a problem. Moreover, according to the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, Islam has a strict belief that one who commits suicide is one who God, or Allah, shall never forgive (Al-Ikhlas, 86). Therefore, the terrorist organizations who use the Islamic religion as a means for justifying their acts are wrong and countries like the United States believe their perverted belief as ... ...

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... Israel. Which in terms is the major reason Americans and Jews are hated and despised by a majority of Palestinians. There is even an extreme an Afghanistan terrorist group called the Al Qaeda which whom Osama Bin Laden is believed to be in leadership of. The extreme terrorist group has training camps to teach kids as young as 14 years old how ... ...

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... the leading Arab political and military power and as the dominant power in the Middle East Gulf region. The Ira qi leadership also retains its territorial desire of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Kuwait. UN Security Council Resolution 687 calls for Iraq to eliminate all of its weapons and missiles of mass destruction and forbids it from developing, producing or ... ...

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... Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, are now fighting more than ever before. Judaism's holiest site and Islam's third holiest site are on the same rock in Jerusalem. Arafat wants possession of al Aqsa mosque that lies in the same place as the Temple Mount, a Jewish holy sight. Various solutions have been proposed but there seems to be no easy way to divide ... ...

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... community refuses this kind of act, therefore, when committed it's not revealed which also shows an inevitable hypocrisy in Muslim societies. In 1993, an Egyptian physician affiliated with Cairo's Qasr al Aini Hospital informed Dunne that Aids and venereal diseases were not problems in Egypt because neither prostitution nor homosexuality exist in an Islamic country (Dunne, 9). In examining the literature of ... ...

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