worlds 17th largest oil producer‚ pumping out 1.6 million barrels (2% of world total) a day. Over 85% of its crude oil was exported. February 2011 protesters and government clashed. Things quickly turned into a civil war between the rebel-comtrolled East‚ and the government controlled West. Foreign nationals were evacuated as were multinational oil companies. These foreign nationals and oil companies did not know what to do. They were bound by law‚ and also had a moral and ethical responsibility to
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European colonialism paved the way for new nations to develop in the Middle East; however‚ they additionally caused the fall of other nations and empires. Great Britain‚ France‚ and Italy provided financial and geographical advantages for Middle Eastern countries‚ but for the most part‚ negatively affected the government and politics of those same Middle Eastern countries. By funding the projects and events taken place in the nations‚ the European nations formed alliances and created great influence
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Compare and contrast socio-cultural of northern Europe and Middle East. Human beings differentiate and organise themselves into functioning communities from a particular terrain or location. This grouping into functional behaviour or manners is what we name as society that relates to communal living. Communal living includes social classes‚ problems as well as matters affecting human welfare. Every society has its own norms‚ a common or a dominant culture. Culture is described to be distinctive
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destroying the Ottoman Empire as the dominant power in the Middle Eastern region. However‚ the effects of World War I on the Middle East had proved to be quite different from what the local population had expected because instead of liberation and expanding the territory of independent states‚ the local population faced the problem of growing impact of European superpowers‚ especially Britain‚ which became the dominant power in the Middle Eastern region. At the same time‚ Europeans had proved to be
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Perceptions on the Training and Development Function: An Empirical Study of the Middle East Abstract The present study aims to determine perceptions on the training and development function in Middle East organizations. Using a purposive sample of 150 HR practitioners from Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ Dubai and Lebanon‚ the study found that there is a perception that candidates for supervisory and management roles are adequately trained to take on their jobs. However‚ they were uncertain about
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A report from World Bank mentions that leasing industry has long existed in MENA region & is currently active in 70% of the countries. However‚ presently leasing industry is under developed by international comparison and there is lot of potential for future growth. This potential can be realized if MENA policy makers address the existing regulatory & institutional constraints. Most MENA countries have a leasing industry. Leasing in both of its forms‚ conventional & Islamic is present
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the Cold War on the Middle East. The Middle East played an influential role during the Cold War as the Soviet Union attempted to incorporate it into its sphere of influence through implementing an expansionist foreign policy. These policies towards the Middle East were not homogenous‚ rather changing with events of the Cold War and the leadership changes within the Soviet Union. These policies have seen an array of positive and negative outcomes take place in the Middle East. The influence of the
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Title: Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence & Its Links to The Middle East. Author: Khaled Ahmed ISBN: 978-0-19-90-6593-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 369 Price: PKR.550 By: Syed Haider Abbas The author of this book is Khaled Ahmed. Khaled Ahmed was in the Pakistan Foreign Service from 1969 to 1978. He left it to become a journalist of distinction in The Pakistan Times. He is a former consulting editor of Daily Times; resident editor of The Frontier Post; joint editor
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Health 120 06/21/2013 Benchmark Project Dealing with Middle Eastern Patients All Arabs or people of Middle Eastern culture are not Muslims. People from this culture are Muslim‚ Christian‚ or Jewish‚ with the majority of being Muslim. Islam is of the largest religious group in the world. Middle Eastern patients are very modest and value privacy. This group of patients is really conservative. The need for affiliation is dominant among Middle Easterners. They thrive on a large repertoire of relationships
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Challenges of Middle Eastern Women ANT101 Ashford August 2‚ 2010 Abstract There are many abuses that women in the Middle East face as part of everyday life. This paper will focus what those abuses consist of‚ why they exist‚ and what types of things are being done to help women realize their full potential. However‚ just as has been the case in other parts of the world‚ the transition to equality for women can occur at a very slow pace. Challenges of Middle Eastern Women There are
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