[PDF] Using The Arabic Language As A Tool For Cultural Understanding In The Us In The Post 9 11 World eBook

Author : Moulay Abdelkarim Moukrime
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Arabic language
ISBN :

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The goal of this study was to explore the linguistic and cultural challenges faced by U.S. American students who are studying the Arabic language. A specific goal was to examine the students' perceived changes in knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards the Arab culture as a result of being in the Arabic language courses. Due to the misconceptions about the Arabs in the post 9-11 world, the researcher interviewed U.S. American students to find out if U.S. American society holds any prejudice towards the students of Arabic. A constant comparative analysis of the participants' answers allowed for the emergence of six themes: the linguistic challenges, the cultural challenges, the perceived changes in attitudes, the perceived changes in knowledge, the perceived changes in skills, and the willingness to learn the language and its culture. Intercultural communication competence theory was applied to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships among culture, language, and communication. Data indicated that not all U.S. American families and friends are against studying Arabic. Some families and friends encourage the students to study the Arabic language to be more aware of the Arab culture. Most of the students had positive attitudes before and after taking Arabic. The results confirmed that Arabic is seen as an essential language to learn for cultural understanding in the U.S. This study is a first step in a long-term research program discovering how both language and culture play an important role in minimizing misunderstandings between Arabs and the U.S. American people.

Author : Nabila Hammami
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 076186248X

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This book analyzes how Arabic teachers develop the cultural awareness of their high school students. Featuring face-to-face conversations with educators about integrating Arabic culture into the language classroom, this study highlights the complexities that characterize Arabic cultural awareness in a post-9/11 world. This book proves that increasing cultural awareness in the classroom facilitates the Arab language learning process.

Author : Mary Coons
Publisher : Beavers Pond Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781592982394

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Culturally Speaking: Promoting Cross-Cultural Awareness in a Post - 9/11 World addresses, through a conversational tone, the significant differences in religion, culture, and politics between Bahraini Arabs or the Middle East Gulf region and American. Its powerful message of overcoming ignorance is key, as readers gain crucial insights into generalizations and misconceptions that American and Bahraini Arab Muslims have of each others' cultures.

Author : Fathiya Al Rashdi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1000613054

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Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world. Spanning Indonesia to the United States, the Arab world is here imagined as a continually changing one, with the Arab diaspora asserting its linguistic identity across the world. Crucial questions on transforming linguistic landscapes, the role and implications of migration, and the impact of technology on language use are explored by established and emerging scholars in the field of applied and socio-linguistics. The book asks such crucial questions as how language contact affects or transforms identity, how language reflects changing identities among migrant communities, and how language choices contribute to identity construction in social media. As well as appreciating the breadth and scope of the Arab world, this anthology focuses on the transformative role of language within indigenous and migrant communities as they negotiate between their heritage languages and those spoken by the wider society. Investigating the ways in which identity continues to be imagined and re-constructed in and among Arab communities, this book is indispensable to students, teachers, and anyone who is interested in language contact, linguistic landscapes, and minority language retention as well as the intersections of language and technology.

Author : Jameel Al Ghaberi
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3668522715

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Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 9.2, University of Hyderabad (school of humanities,centre for comparative literature), course: MA, language: English, abstract: This book is about Arab Anglophone fiction produced after 9/11 in the United States. It attempts to analyze how the writers of such a period portray the life of Arab Americans in a post-9/11 America. It shows how Arab Americans dealt with the consequences of 9/11. It reflects several aspects that characterize Arab American writing as a diasporic narrative, such as memory and home, racialization, anti-Arab sentiment and urgency of expression, and how Arab Americans responded to the terrorist attack of 9/11. The study also investigates the role of Anglophone Arab fiction in paving the way for more intercultural understanding and attempting to de-orientalize the Arab. What I found is that some writers often try to negotiate with the American culture in order to arrive at an identity that incorporates multiple elements from both the culture of origin and the host culture. Hybrid and cosmopolitan in their approach, such writers also attempt to be cultural mediators, and they show much concern about subverting the normative judgment and stereotypical image that has fixed the Arab American. Works of fiction produced by Anglophone Arab writers, such as Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land, Rabih Alameddine’s The Hakawati, and Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter represented how Arab Americans faced difficulties after 9/11 in terms of identity construction, cultural identification, and the conflicting sense of belonging and non-belonging. These works genuinely depict the life of Arab Americans and give a better understanding of who Arabs are. They also interlink both the Arab culture and American culture, celebrating both cultural identities.

Author : Shukri B. Abed
Publisher : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9948009134

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As with any other tongue, the Arabic language influences the way Arabic speakers see, judge and relate to the world. It affects the very nature of their perceptions and judgments, and hence constitutes an integral part of a person’s character and identity as an individual and, more importantly, as a member of a group and a society. Languages reflect, indeed measure, the strengths and weaknesses of civilizations as they embody the progress, the innovations and the coherence of these civilizations. The Islamic world’s encounters with other civilizations, particularly the Greek civilization, presented major challenges to the intellectual evolution of Islam at the very early stages of its development as a culture. In the current era of globalization, as in the past, the Arabic language and culture have been deluged by a tremendous influx of new terminology and concepts. As cross-cultural encounters have increased globally due to astonishing developments in information technology and the fast pace with which information and knowledge are transferred to the rest of the world, the need for linguistic adjustments in Arabic is still on the rise in order to convey scientific discoveries, as well as economic and social ideas promulgated by non-Arab nations. The Arabic term for ‘globalization’ (al-cawlama) was coined about two decades ago specifically to describe the impact of the new wave of socio-political and economic ideas, as well as revolutionary developments in the field of telecommunications and electronics. The crushing defeat of the Arab armies by Israel in 1967 and the occupation of Arab lands as a result of this war; the defeat of the Iraqi army by the coalition forces in 1991; US reactions to the 9/11 attacks; the US-led war on Afghanistan; the more recent occupation of Iraq; and perhaps above all the continued occupation of Palestinian lands by Israel, have contributed to fears and concerns among Arabs. Indeed, faced with unprecedented political, economic, military and cultural reverses, the Arab and Islamic worlds find themselves forced into ever deeper levels of introspection about their society and culture. It is hardly surprising that the Arab world seeks to reject globalization based on geopolitical and cultural domination and continues to insist upon an alternative approach based on mutual respect, two-way exchange (tathāquf, rather than cawlama) and the right to selectively adopt innovation. The West would do well to recognize that their best chance of gaining support for globalization from the Arabs (and likely from the rest of the Third World) lies in seeking true partners in the endeavor, respecting the uniqueness of their partners’ cultures and societies, and ensuring that a mutual exchange with Western culture and society is perceived as something worth embarking upon, rather than as something to fear.

Author : Amaney Jamal
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815631774

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Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of U.S. racial and ethnic studies. The articles collected here highlight emergent discourses on the distinct ways that race matters to the study of Arab American histories and experiences and asks essential questions. What is the relationship between U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the United States? In what ways have the axes of nation, religion, class, and gender intersected with Arab American racial formations? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? Transcending multiculturalist discourses that have simply added on the category “Arab-American” to the landscape of U.S. racial and ethnic studies after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than as a beginning, in Arab Americans’

Author : Mona M. Amer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135019193

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The Handbook of Arab American Psychology is the first major publication to comprehensively discuss the Arab American ethnic group from a lens that is primarily psychological. This edited book contains a comprehensive review of the cutting-edge research related to Arab Americans and offers a critical analysis regarding the methodologies and applications of the scholarly literature. It is a landmark text for both multicultural psychology as well as for Arab American scholarship. Considering the post 9/11 socio-political context in which Arab Americans are under ongoing scrutiny and attention, as well as numerous misunderstandings and biases against this group, this text is timely and essential. Chapters in the Handbook of Arab American Psychology highlight the most substantial areas of psychological research with this population, relevant to diverse sub-disciplines including cultural, social, developmental, counseling/clinical, health, and community psychologies. Chapters also include content that intersect with related fields such as sociology, American studies, cultural/ethnic studies, social work, and public health. The chapters are written by distinguished scholars who merge their expertise with a review of the empirical data in order to provide the most updated presentation of scholarship about this population. The Handbook of Arab American Psychology offers a noteworthy contribution to the field of multicultural psychology and joins references on other racial/ethnic minority groups, including Handbook of African American Psychology, Handbook of Asian American Psychology, Handbook of U.S. Latino Psychology, and The Handbook of Chicana/o Psychology and Mental Health.

Author : Wang, Congcong
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1522501789

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The role of technology in the learning process can offer significant contributions to help meet the increasing needs of students. In the field of language acquisition, new possibilities for instructional methods have emerged from the integration of such innovations. The Handbook of Research on Foreign Language Education in the Digital Age presents a comprehensive examination of emerging technological tools being utilized within second language learning environments. Highlighting theoretical frameworks, multidisciplinary perspectives, and technical trends, this book is a crucial reference source for professionals, curriculum designers, researchers, and upper-level students interested in the benefits of technology-assisted language acquisition.

Author : Michael Suleiman
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143990653X

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Setting the record straight about Arab American culture.