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This digital document is an article from Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1250 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides comprehensive coverage of the foods and recipes of approximately 75 cultural groups from more than 60 countries. Entries provide 10-15 recipes for each group and include data on the agriculture and dietary habits of each group as well as an overview of each group's nutrition and health. ... Read more

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This is an anthropological account of the rise and fall of a small tribal dynasty, that of Ibn Rashid, in central Arabia in the later part of the 19th century. It is concerned with the process by which nomadic, pastoral societies develop stable political institutions. The book deals with the emergence of the dynasty in the oasis and market town of Hail, its relations with tribal leaders, and the way it was drawn into the struggle for influence between the Ottoman government, the rival Saudi dynasty, and the British in the Gulf. The book also contains material on marriage rites and on the oral poetry which records the deeds of the dynasty. ... Read more

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    Despite the tragic reality of the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict and deep-rooted beliefs that the chasm between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs is unbridgeable, this book affirms the bonds between the two communities. Rachel Feldhay Brenner demonstrates that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy the ideologies that have obstructed dialogue between the two peoples.
    Brenner argues that literary critics have ignored the variety and the dissent in the novels of both Arab and Jewish writers in Israel, giving them interpretations that embrace the politics of exclusion and conform with Zionist ideology. Brenner offers insightful new readings that compare fiction by Jewish writers Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, and others with fiction written in Hebrew by such Arab-Israeli writers as Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas. This parallel analysis highlights the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by both the Jewish victors and the Arab vanquished, and Brenner suggests that the hope for release from the historical trauma lies—on both sides—in reaching an understanding with and of the adversary.
    Drawing upon the theories of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Emanuel Levinas, and others, Inextricably Bonded is an innovative and illuminating examination of literary dissent from dominant ideology.

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Deeply thought-provoking literary analysis of the literature of identity
One of the most striking aspects of "Inextricably Bonded's" many worthy accomplishments is Brenner's persuasive dismissal of the notion that the internal post-Zionist critique of Israel's writers and historians is truly a new ideological or even "subversive" development. She achieves this by paying close heed to many early articulations of disapproval of institutional Zionism's varied roles in dispossessing the indigenous Arabs of land and society (among them Yosef Eliahu Chelouche, a founder of Tel Aviv, and the philosophers Ahad Ha'Am and Martin Buber). In light of increasingly shrill debates over this term (Zionists of the right predictably label the 1990s generation of "post-Zionist" historians and cultural critics as Jewish self-haters or worse), Brenner sensibly declares that the Zionist movement always encompassed a tradition of intense self-interrogation and moral argument. She also masterfully analyzes the receptions of canonical works by generations of Israeli scholars as well as the wider public. But what really stands as most innovative in her approach are her elegant comparative studies of the fiction of three Arab-Israeli writers, Emile Habiby ("The Pessoptimist"), Atallah Mansour ("In a New Light"), and Anton Shammas ("Arabesques") all of whom have written in Hebrew or published their works for Israeli readers in translation, alongside canonical works of several Israeli Jewish writers, including David Grossman, Amos Oz, and A.B. Yehoshua-all familiar writers in Europe and North America.

Throughout, Brenner produces highly original readings, masterfully demonstrating the peculiarly entwined nature of the realms of psychology and politics in the Israeli forum of art and politics. Subsequently, the author understands Israeli identity as having defined itself against a repressed Jewish Other, or history, as well as through its discriminatory practices vis-à-vis external and internal Arabs. As counter-narrative, Brenner cogently argues, the cumulative impact of the writings of Arabs and Jews in Israel, in spite of their disparate sociopolitical perspectives, effectively "restores the visibility of the Arabs in the `empty' land and calls into question the unequivocal Zionist claim to the land...by contrast, the story of the suffering that the triumphant Jews inflicted on the defenseless, defeated Arab population invokes the history of Jewish persecution and victimization in the Diaspora. Against the doctrine of exclusion, the literary representations reassert in the Israeli consciousness the denied histories of the Palestinian Arab and the Diaspora Jew."

Though Brenner always adds unprecedented insight to the broad ethical and political questions raised by the presence of the Other, a fascinating secondary issue, that of the peculiar nature of canon-formation often surfaces as a crucial dynamic. For instance, many readers (aware that Rushdie, Kundera, Solzhenitsyn, and others achieved their international fame as dissident writers at the cost of total repudiation at home), will be struck by the fact that Yehoshua, Oz, and Grossman, while deviating sharply from accepted political lines and cultural myths, nevertheless "gained canonical legitimacy from the cultural establishment that was founded upon the ideological orientation they defied." Without straying from her primary focus, Brenner skillfully addresses the ways that writers themselves (as well as their most sympathetic critics) often employ rhetorical strategies of a shared national identity to mitigate the effects of their radical writings in otherwise undermining the most precious myths of the Zionist revolution. Brenner raises uncomfortable questions about whether the literary work's dissenting messages about justice and displacement, once its author achieves canonical status, is ultimately neutered of its political potency.

Her answers are at times partial and at best uneasy but always thought-provoking. A further reason that this study will prove so eminently useful for scholars and teachers alike is that nearly all of the works discussed are readily available in English translation. "Inextricably Bonded" strongly warrants our appreciation and attention as one of the most innovative studies of modern Hebrew literary criticism, especially for its forceful demonstration that the identity politics of both Israeli Arab and Israeli Jewish writers together produce a dynamically "bi-ethnic" rather than a narrowly "national" body of literature. What Brenner so brilliantly reveals throughout this adroit analysis is that over the years the fraught realm of Arab and Israeli identity politics has provided art with a highly charged source of imaginative inspiration. Most importantly, literature clearly does matter in the "real world," for as she comes to affirm, however fragile the hope: "The readiness to tell one's story and to listen to the story of the other signifies mutual recognition, which alleviates fear. Attention to the story of the other signals the ability to transform the knot of violence into a dialogic interaction." To Brenner's lasting credit, the intertwined identities and destinies eloquently addressed in "Inextricably Bonded" go a very long way toward powerfully affirming the moral urgency of that claim.
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Chapters: Lgbt in the Middle East, Lgbt Rights in Saudi Arabia, Lgbt Rights in Lebanon, Lgbt Rights in Jordan, Lgbt Rights in Bahrain, Lgbt Rights in United Arab Emirates, Lgbt Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Lgbt Rights in Syria, Lgbt Rights in Yemen, Bisexuality in the Arab World, Lgbt Rights in Qatar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia are not recognized. Homosexuality and cross-dressing are widely seen as immoral acts, and are treated as serious crimes. In recent decades there have been reports of an underground LGBT community. While the kingdom has faced criticism from human rights organizations, it insists that it is always acting in accordance with Islamic morality. Traditionally, Saudi Arabia's criminal code was not codified as much as it was the product of royal decrees and the legal opinions of Sunni judges and clerics. Much of the subsequent written law has focused primarily on the areas of economics and foreign relations. Reformists have often called for codified laws, and there does appear to be a trend within the country to codify, publish, and even translate some Saudi criminal and civil laws . In 1928, the Saudi judicial board advised Muslim judges to look for guidance in two books by the Hanbalite jurist Mar'I ibn Yusuf al-Karmi al Maqdisi (d.1033/1624). Liwat (sodomy) is to be "treated like fornication, and must be punished in the same way. If muhsan (married, or within a legal concubinage) and free, one must be stoned to death, while a free bachelor must be whipped 100 lashes and banished for a year." Sodomy is thus proven either by the perpetrator confessing four times or by the testimony of four trustworthy Muslim men. If there are fewer than four witnesses, or if one of them is not upstandi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2467635 ... Read more

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As the world's largest exporter of petroleum and oil, one of the richest countries in the world, and the supreme fountainhead of Islam, Saudi Arabia is without doubt a most powerful, fascinating and complex place.This book is the comprehensive reference work on Saudi ARabia, providing an overarching view to encompass the history, culture, religion, economy, government, and future development of the country.Enlivened throughout with high quality photographs, charts and maps this book is at once authoritative and accessible. ... Read more

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An imaginary journey to Saudi
An excellent description about the country, unaccessible for non-muslim tourists. Includes detailled information about geology, geography, history, religion, tradition, architecture, regions of the today country and the leading dynastie. Good fotos, nice print. ... Read more

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Saudi Arabia has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Both parties in this cross-cultural marriage between an American, Sonia Gorski, and a Saudi, Aziz Shubaily, suffer.After the initial intoxication of East meets West, when the couple fall in love at a Midwestern college, marry and live for five years in the United States, they leave for Riyadh with their two children.Sonia lives as an Arab woman, donning the veil and struggling with the disparities between the Islamic culture she finds increasingly stifling and the husband whose personality grows inscrutable.Her association with three other cross-cultural couples brightens the tedium of her existence.In contrast to her marriage with the taciturn Aziz, the three other American women have made successful marriages with Saudi men, quite different from her own. Ultimately, she cannot endure the growing rift with her husband and plots her escape to the United States.

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Attempts to undermine the stereotypes that persist about Saudi Arabia and its peoples. The text looks at Saudi culture and beliefs, in particular the country's importance to the world's Muslim community, and offers comparative critiques of other political and economic systems. ... Read more

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To be a Saudi
Being a Saudi and having read the book, I found it to be excessivily utopic and somewhat out of touch. The truth of the matter is that our country has serious issues that require long-term solutions. Identifying the core issues relating to education, society, politics, religion and economy is the begining of a long hard journy to reinvent ourselves. For us to survive in the "global" world of today, we need to be a proactive member of the global community. Saudi Arabia will need to develop a strategy based on a vision that will ultimatly benefit the people not a vision that suits only a few members of society - We Need Leadership. We are no longer able to maintain the current pace of change, time is no longer on our side....Change is not only important it is essential.

An essential start for learning about the Saudis.
`To Be A Saudi', by Yamani is a book I have enjoyed reading. The book correctly identifies the three main principles of the being of Saudi Arabia: Islam, Al-Saud (the royal family), and oil. In addition, Yamani studied the past, with its ups and downs, and see a more brighter future for the Saudis. The book is indeed a very essential start for the Saudis who love their country, but don't knew why. It also contains many good suggestions that, the author believed- and I agree with some of them- would lead the country to be one of the best, not only in the area but also in the world. I really think that the book is a necessary reading for all the Saudis. You would not agree with everything, but would certainly read it at least twice.

an eye opener for all the saudis
its an eye opener for all the arab world in general and the saudis in particular . a must read book for all. ... Read more

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The lives of Arab women today are complex, diverse and far more multi-faceted than those of the one-dimensional creatures of veiled passivity who inhabit the imaginations of so many Western "experts."In most Arab countries, women face constricting laws and social customs that hold them back from full participation in their societies. Some, as a result, lead lives of passive submission. But others rage against those institutional obstacles, organize other women to challenge male domination of their public and private lives, and seize every opening, large or small, to move the rights of women at least that one next step.

Arab women labor in dangerous factories and unmechanized fields, they keep families intact and care for their children without access to modern technology; sometimes even without electricity or clean water. But they also fill medical and engineering schools in universities throughout the Arab world; they are creating some of the greatest art and literature of their rich cultures; they serve bravely in overwhelmingly male parliaments; and they organize and fight-with or without men's consent-for incremental democratic gains, and sometimes for their own rights as women.

This collection brings together a distinguished cast of Arab women writers and other experts and analyzes the lives, the diverse roles and the means of overcoming the challenges that confront women in today's Arab societies. Essays examine feminism, women's education and daily lives, women's views of Islam and women Islamists, and women's roles in war and literature. It also includes interviews with women political leaders such as Palestine's Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi and Jordan's Leila Sharaf.

Contributors include: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Samira Harfoush-Strickland, Bouthaina Sha'aban, Abla Amawi, Taghreed Alqudsi-Ghabra, Sheila Carapico, Hadia Higab, Judith Tucker, Ramla Khalidi, Fatima Mernissi, Fadwa El Guindi, Sarah Graham-Brown, Richard H. Curtiss, Nagat el-Sanabary, Hala Maksoud, Julinda Abu Nassr, Suha Sabbagh, Rita Giacaman, Jane Smith, Samer M. Reno, Mounira Charrad, Mervat F. Hatem, Suad Joseph, Joe Stork, Susan Slyomovics, Eileen Kuttab and Jean Makdisi. ... Read more

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Understanding Our differences
I found this book helpful in understanding the stereotypes and misunderstandings Arab and Western women have of each other.

The broad mix of women represented takes the reader well beyond the stereotypes.

Highly recommended.

A must-read to really know who arab women are
I was amazed by this excellent book, that reveals what is usually hidden, or completely caricatured and falsely represented in the western media on arab women. The main discovery I have made was that far from being dominated and deshumanized, arab women (at least in Palestine and other arab countries) can undertake huge resonsabilities, organize their life and be far more independant as we would assume from a western point of view.The other very interesting point made by Suha Sabbagh is that the crtiticism and downlooking from western feminist over the "poor dominated" muslim women lacks complete understanding of a muslim society: these women actually benefits from an enlarged family solidarity network, and enjoy support and help from their relatives and neighbours - a situation that they are not ready to abandon for a freedom that would isolate them without any support. Because the state, in these country, does not provide all the help we -in our western countries- may ask for.

So, a very enlightening book, written by arab women themselves, that you should read to understand really who are these arab women and what do they think... and throw away all your prejudices!!

loved it! so much info from another culture.amazing, scary
I knew the cultures were different, just never knew they were this different.I am anxious to read another book.Not because I love it, but because I am amazed at who can survive it. ... Read more

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An entertaining introduction to the history and culture of Saudi Arabia, including its kings, Arabic proverbs, Islamic shrines, falconry, traditional costumes, folk dances, Saudi cuisine, and more. With photographs and a selection of useful Arabic phrases for visitors. ... Read more

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Prickly Predicaments is the first of a series of three books for children, aimed at a ten to eleven year old audience.

The main characters are two desert hedgehogs that live in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
The action in Prickly Predicaments covers two nights and a day in the lives of Henrietta and Harry as they become separated from one another.
Two boys, one Saudi and one American, come into possession of the animals.
The story concerns the adventures of the hedgehogs within the two households and how they come to be reunited. All of Harry and Henrietta's actions reflect the natural behavior of hedgehogs and details of Arabic language, ambience and culture are based on my experience as a long time resident of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The boys have in common: their love of animals, trouble communicating with their fathers and their sense that boys live in a secret world apart, not accessible to adults. The hedgehogs display no interest in the humans. It is their indifference to anything but their own condition which establishes their credibility as dignified creatures with a right to be free. The Middle Eastern motif is topical and presents the Arab culture realistically but non-judgmentally. In the course of the story some cultural differences between Americans and Saudis are overcome by mutual human concerns and the friendship of the two boys.
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