Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Africa and the Gulf Region:Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties
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See product| Edité par | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf |
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| Edité par | Dale F. Eickelman |
| Editeur | Gerlach Press, Gerlach Press |
| Distributeur | Editions de Boccard |
The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue durée and the short-term events of current policy shifts, market-based economic fluctuations, and global and local political vicissitudes. This book explores Arabian-African relationships in their many overlapping dimensions. Thus histories constructed from the “bottom up” – records of the everyday activities of commerce, intermarriage, and gender roles – offer an incisi
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Higher education investment in the arab states of the gulf
Strategies for excellence and diversity
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See product| Edité par | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf |
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| Edité par | Dale F. Eickelman |
| Editeur | Gerlach Press, Gerlach Press |
| Distributeur | Editions de Boccard |
Over the last half-century, the GCC states have invested on a huge scale in higher education, but the stated commitment to internationally recognized excellence has also to come to terms with tradition. These pressure points are examined here in a number of comparative studies, and cover among other topics: - higher education as soft power to promote regional or global influence - intense reliance on foreign instructors - citizen entitlements - badu and hadar divisions - gender separation - d
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