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With the rare researches that focus on the cross-cultural aspects, this book tends to investigate how Arab immigrants construct and use landscape and public space in Berlin as a host city. The approach of social constructivist landscape research is chosen to highlight the effects of past and present in their experiences, including the effect of home and childhood period, social and cultural background, previous and current migration experiences including the level of integration and patterns of settlements, the importance of networking including the sense of community and groups and shared interests, as well as place attachment, and hybridization. Biographical semi-structured interviews with 72 Arab immigrants in Berlin were conducted, in addition to both participant and site observation. About the author Mohammed Al-Khanbashi is a scientific assistant at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Institute of Geography, Urban and Regional Development (Active in research and teaching).His scientific focus is on social constructivist landscape research, migration and landscape.

Emigration and immigration. --- Social sciences. --- Critical criminology. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Migration. --- Social Sciences, general. --- Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Radical criminology --- Criminology --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Public spaces --- Immigrants --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. --- Sociology. --- Race. --- Ethnology—Middle East. --- Culture. --- Sociology of Migration. --- Public Sociology. --- Race and Ethnicity Studies. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Popular culture --- Physical anthropology --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Social aspects --- Berlin (Germany) --- Germany

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"An electrifying, cubist portrait of a classic film’s place in the world. Youssef Rakha says that Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy embodies 'a twilight zone of Egyptian modernity.' By writing about patriotism, grief, visual beauty, political entropy, colonialism, and sexuality, he brilliantly takes us into that modernity, that zone. Few people write about cinema with such zigzagging bravura or impertinent seriousness; not often do we get such a three-dimensional context for a film. This book will be as valuable to creative writers as it is to devotees of cinema or Egypt." --Mark Cousins, film critic and director of The Story of Film: An Odyssey "Youssef Rakha magnificently takes us on an intellectually stimulating and highly entertaining cultural journey through the frustrations and joys of modern Egypt using Shadi Abdel Salam’s masterpiece The Mummy as a tombstone touchstone. As acerbic, exciting, and politically astute as listening to The Last Poets with Godard-esque jump cuts, this stylish text makes traditional critical analysis feel like tales from the crypt." --Kaleem Aftab, author of Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking To It "An anecdotal and ultimately engaging meander through the imagined pasts and disjointed legacies of Egyptian history, setting out from and repeatedly returning to Shadi Abdel Salam's masterpiece.” --Tim Power, archaeologist and historian, author of The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate “Egyptian novelist Youssef Rakha captures the personal relationship with art that lies beneath all scholarly endeavor, but which too often gets lost in academic analysis.” --Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University, USA Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy (1969), tracing the many meanings of Egypt’s postcolonial modernity and touching on Arab, Muslim, and ancient Egyptian identities through watching the film. Youssef Rakha is a novelist, poet, and essayist who writes in both Arabic and English. His work is widely anthologized and translated into many languages.

Ethnology—Middle East . --- Motion pictures. --- Africa. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- African Cinema and TV. --- Film History. --- Film/TV Industry. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures

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This book traces “water” back to the most primitive animistic notions that are still lingering on in the shape of such rituals as qanat marriage or rain-making. Water, in the Iranian philosophy, is used in an attempt to find an explanation for the genesis of the universe, as described in Zoroastrian Akhshij philosophy, according to which water is one of the four fundamental elements of the creation. The concept of time began to germinate in the Iranian mind, when they had to count the passage of time in order to divide their scarce water resources. Water became so omnipresent in Iranian culture that it reached even the most mysterious seclusion of the Sufi monks. In Iran’s local communities, water culture is a thread that runs through different types of production systems. This book goes beyond indigenous water knowledge and traditional irrigation techniques, and conceptualizes water as a pivotal element of Iran’s social identity, cultural dynamics and belief systems, where it examines the role of intermittent droughts in engendering and diffusing intangible cultural elements across the Iranian plateau. This book delves into Iran’s political organizations most of which were ensnared in a water-dependent lifecycle constituting a historical pattern described in this book as “hydraulic collapse” .

Ethnology. --- Water. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Anthropology. --- Human geography. --- Social Anthropology. --- Water, general. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Human Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Human beings --- Hydrology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Qanats --- Water-supply --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Aflaj --- Fakkaras --- Foggaras --- Kanât --- Karez --- Käris --- Kariz --- Khattaras --- Mambas (Water supply) --- Qanat --- Rhettaras --- Irrigation engineering --- Water-supply engineering --- History. --- Social aspects

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This book is the first major account of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab higher-education sector. It provides an update of the current situation and advances reasons for the under-performance of Arab universities in international ranking tables and the weaknesses of Arab economies. Specific proposals are made for upgrading curricula and assessment procedures as well as providing an environment that fosters innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour. The roles of university-based technology and business parks are examined, with examples of successful business partnerships in the Arab region, Europe, and North America. Opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship have never been greater with the wealth of rapidly developing transformative technologies that are driving the international knowledge economy. This book pubs forward proposals for the management and exploitation of intellectual property, and for establishing businesses. .

Education, Higher --- Higher education. --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Management—Study and teaching. --- Lifelong learning. --- Adult education. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Higher Education. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Management Education. --- Lifelong Learning/Adult Education. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Adults, Education of --- Education of adults --- Education --- Continuing education --- Open learning --- Lifelong education --- Lifelong learning --- Permanent education --- Recurrent education --- Adult education --- Ethnology --- Study and teaching.

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“A landmark study showing how empirical work, through the methodology of the social sciences, can come into contact with political philosophy and disability studies so as to make a meaningful contribution to policy. Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda’s work will be read for decades, as a foundation for future research on the application of the capabilities approach to social justice.” — Anand Jayaprakash Vaidya, Professor of Philosophy San Jose State University, California, USA This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place. Second, access and inclusion forms a key part of both local and global planning issues. Third, a 21st century planning education should take access and inclusion into consideration by applying a disability lens to the empirical, methodological, and theoretical advances of the field. By bridging theory and practice, this book provides new insights on inclusive city planning and comparative urban theory. This book should be read as part of a larger struggle to define and assert access; it’s a story of how equity and justice are central themes in building the cities of the future and of today.

Cultural studies --- Sociology --- Politics & government --- Public administration --- Sociology, Urban. --- People with disabilities. --- Public policy. --- Social justice. --- Human rights. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Disability Studies. --- Public Policy. --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Equality --- Justice --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Law and legislation --- Urban Studies/Sociology --- Disability Studies --- Public Policy --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights --- Middle Eastern Culture --- Urban Sociology --- Biotechnology --- Human Rights --- Urban Studies --- Urban Affairs --- Urban Planning --- Urban Governance --- Middle East --- Dubai --- City States --- Urbanization --- Public Administration --- Development Studies --- Gulf Studies --- Urban communities