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Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include:

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Few empirical studies of Arab countries have dealt with political culture and political socialisation or focused on people's beliefs, values, and attitudes towards the government or political leaders, mainly because the regimes have been reluctant to allow opinion to be tested. The significance of this book is that it assesses the influence of state ideology on the new generation of Libyans, and examines their political culture. ... Read more

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Political Culture in Libya
This is an excellent book. It offers fresh thinking supported by field research on issues that go to the heart of economic, political, and social change in Libya. Based on a survey of 500 students at Garyounis University in Benghazi, Libya, the author concludes that the revolutionary government headed by Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi has enjoyed considerable success since 1969 in reproducing its values among the younger generation. Regime success is most notable in the area of gender issues together with policies on Arab nationalism, Arab unity, and the Palestinian issue. The regime has been much less successful in its efforts to create politically participant citizens and to develop acceptable alternatives to kinship ties. These are very significant findings that challenge the thinking of many observers on the construct and impact of the Qaddafi revolution. ... Read more

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Libya is one of Africa's largest nations, but its topography is dominated by a huge southern desert with some of the hottest temperatures recorded anywhere in the world. Culture and Customs of Libya explores the daily lives of the 90 million men, women, and children who struggle to get by in this authoritarian state, where only a fraction of the land is arable and 90 percent of the people live in less than 10 percent of the area, primarily along the Mediterranean coast.

In this comprehensive overview of modern Libyan life, readers can explore topics such as religion, contemporary literature, media, art, housing, music, and dance. They will learn about education and employment and will see how traditions and customs of the past—including those from Libya's long domination by the Ottoman Empire and 40 years as an Italian colony—are kept alive or have evolved to fit into today's modern age.

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Chapters: Women in Libya, Ikelan, Culture of Libya, Public Holidays in Libya. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. 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: The social setting of the family significantly affects the circumstances of a wife. Until the discovery of petroleum, and to a lesser degree until the 1969 revolution, conservative attitudes and values about women dominated society. By the 1980s, however, modifications in the traditional relationship between the sexes were becoming evident, and important changes were appearing in the traditional role of women. These varied with the age, education, and place of residence of the women. In traditional society, bedouin women played a relatively open part in tribal life. Women in villages also frequently were unveiled and participated more actively in the affairs of their community than did their urban counterparts. Their relative freedom, however, did not ordinarily permit their exposure to outsiders. Urban women tended to be more sophisticated and socially aware, but they were also more conservative in social relations and dress. For example, unlike rural women, who moved freely in the fields and villages, urban women walked in the street discreetly in veiled pairs, avoiding public gathering places as well as social contact with men. Among the upper class urban families, women fulfilled fewer and less important economic functions, and their responsibilities were often limited to the household. Greater sexual segregation was imposed in the cities than in the countryside because tribal life and life in farm villages made segregation virtually impossible. Socially, having a male child was more desirable than a female - this was largely due to the need of a dowry payment required upon marriage. According to Islamic tradition, the upbringing ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16089921 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, 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 4273 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.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, and culture of Libya. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!The Arab Renaissance (Al-Nahda) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries did not reach Libya as early as other Arab lands, and Libyans contributed little to its initial development. However, Libya at this time developed its own literary tradition, centred on oral poetry, much of which expressed the suffering brought about by the Italian colonial period. Libyan literature began to bloom in the late 1960s, with the writings of Sadeq al-Neihum, Khalifa al-Fakhri, Khamel al-Maghur (prose), Muhammad al-Shaltami and Ali al-Regeie (poetry). Many Libyan writers of the 1960s adhered to nationalist, socialist and generally progressive views. In 1969, a military coup brought Muammar al-Gaddafi to power. In the mid-1970s, the new government set up a single publishing house, and authors were required to write in support of the authorities. ... Read more

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Kabylie or Kabylia, is a historic and ethnic region in thenorth of Algeria. It is part of the Tell Atlas and islocated at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Kabyliacovers several provinces of Algeria: the whole of TiziOuzou and Bejaia (Bgayet), most of Bouira (Tubirett) andparts of the wilayas of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Jijel,Boumerdes, and Setif. Gouraya National Park and DjurdjuraNational Park are also located in Kabylie. As the essentialmodern heir of the historical Berber culture, Kabylie isconsidered as one of the cradles of Western Civilisation.It is important to not confuse "Kabylia", and theglobal "Kabyle nation" elsewhere: around 25% of Kabylepeople are living in the Algiers capital region. Thisarticle concern only the historical "Kabylie" region, anddoes not include Algiers's Kabyle population and society. ... Read more

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Recent events in Algeria, notably the unanticipated electoral successes of the "Front Islamique du Salut" and subsequent army-backed coup, have redirected attention to the countries of the Maghreb - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - a complex and little understood part of the world. The essays in this volume address the history of and contemporary dilemmas faced by this region, and fall into four discrete groups, relating to the pre-colonial period, the colonial period, the time of the struggles for the achievement of independence, and the region today. The topics covered are: the pre-colonial period: corsairing in the economy and politics of North Africa; the impact of the French conquest of Algeria on Morocco (1830-1912); problems of interpretation of North African history. "The Colonial Period:" Colonial rule in this century to 1930 - the case of the Beni Mzab; Britain and Libya 1943-45; France and Islam; the Spanish Protectorate and the occupation of Tangier in 1940; "independent states" - the FLN; the role of Berber nationalists in political reform; the political role of Islam in Morocco (1970-1990); Libya and Morocco; and French colonial heritage and language policy. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Italian Culture, published by American Association for Italian Studies on September 1, 2009. The length of the article is 10481 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mediterraneo interrupted: perils and potentials of representing Italy's occupations in Greece and Libya through film.(Report)
Author: Clarissa Clo
Publication: Italian Culture (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: American Association for Italian Studies
Volume: 27Issue: 2Page: 99(17)

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