UAE - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture - Couverture souple

Walsh, John; Culture Smart!

 
9781857338744: UAE - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 185733874X ISBN 13 : 9781857338744
Editeur : Kuperard, 2018

Synopsis

Full of people who aim to combine the ancient and the modern, the UAE is an extremely rewarding place to visit. Set on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Gulf, the country was once a poor desert land, a confederation of tribal sheikhdoms on the periphery of the Arab world, subsisting on pearl diving and fishing. It was a British protectorate until independence in 1971, after which seven of the sheikhdoms united to form a federation, the UAE. The discovery of oil in the 1950s transformed the country's fortunes, and the UAE today is a land of contrasts--embracing skyscrapers, high-tech communications, and luxury hotels, while conservative values and religion remain strong. The UAE is a major player in the shifting alliances of the Middle East and the war against radical Islam, simultaneously seeking a global leadership position while maintaining its social systems and slowly integrating women into public life without violating its core beliefs.

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À propos de l?auteur

JOHN WALSH is Assistant Professor in Marketing and Communication at Shinawatra University in Bangkok, Thailand. His doctorate, from the University of Oxford, was for research on international management. He has written extensively for learned journals, contributed to a number of encyclopedias, undertaken media and consultancy work, and also been widely published in non-academic fields. Having lived and worked in Sudan, Greece, South Korea, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates, he now lives in Bangkok with his wife and daughter.

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Éditeur
Kuperard
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
185733874X
ISBN 13 
9781857338744
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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