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The document summarizes the obstacles to progress in the Arab world in 12 points: 1) the burden of history from the decline of the once great Islamic empire, 2) the difficult natural environment with scarce water, 3) cultural stagnation due to lack of literature and research, 4) politicized religious clergy, 5) politicized military, 6) a stagnated economy hindered by corruption and bureaucracy, 7) the complexities of the Arabic language, 8) a sclerotic education system focused on rote learning, 9) an irresponsible media bought by governments, 10) a fragmented ethnic mosaic, 11) lack of civil society due to corruption and extremism, and 12) continued authoritarian rule instead of representative
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Obstacles to Arab progress.pptx
- 1. The Obstacles To Progress in the Arab World Norvell B De Atkine youstahz@aol.com Why does a once great empire lag so far behind the rest of the world?
- 2. The Great Arab/Islamic Empire
- 3. The Most Advanced in the World Al-Kharazmi Chemistry Mathematics Greek Classics Philosophy Astronomy Navigation Medicine
- 4. Military Prowess Unmatched These 7th century warriors conquered all before them
- 5. What Went Wrong Best to read the book of the same title by Bernard Lewis. Self-Sufficiency/isolation Trade route shift Fragmentation Mongol invasion ossification
- 6. The Indicators Economic output Scientific achievement Political progress Education Brain drain The Arab image today
- 7. Why the Continuing Stagnation? The 12 Obstacles The burden of history The austere natural environment Cultural stagnation Politicized Ulama Politicized military Stagnated economy The language burden The sclerotic education system An irresponsible and/or bought media Fragmented ethnic mosaic Saladin versus a civil society
- 8. The Burden of History then. W
- 9. Arabia Now. 2 22 weak nations
- 11. Water
- 12. Arab Cultural Stagnation Paucity of good books Research minimal Literacy not high Political constraints Religious constraints Western pop culture
- 13. Politicized Clergy but not Islam
- 14. Islamic Scholar Speaks KUWAIT CITY: Dr Hamed bin Hamad Al-Ali, professor of Sharia and Islamic Studies at the Kuwait University says it is legal for Muslims to kill the Danish caricaturist who abused Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). However, as long as we do not abide by the application of the Islamic Sharia and Muslims are weak, we have to resort to public interests, he said. Al-Ali also said from the religious point of view it is legal to kill the Jews in Palestine because they are the occupiers. Arab Times 8 Feb 2006
- 16. Stagnated Economy Socialism Wasta Corruption Bureaucracy but no institutions Bakshish; wealth distribution system Culture that hinders entrepreneurship Educational barriers Read Mullahs, Merchants and Militants; The Economic Collapse of the Arab World. By Steve Glain
- 17. The Language of Creation; the power to galvanizeor inhibit The three levels and multiplicity of dialects Classical Modern standard Street Kayfa Hallukah Zayak Kayf Hallak Kiifek Shloonik
- 18. Arabic and Thought Hyperbole Bombast Imprecision Context not content The words of Dr Ali Al-Wardi. Famous Iraqi historian and social scientist. Translated from his book, The Character of the Iraqi Individual
- 19. Language and Thought In Iraq as in many other Arab countries, weve been cursed by that huge difference between the slang Arabic and the classical Arabic. Iraqis use slang in their daily life while they use classical Arabic in their writings and while giving speeches. This has played an important role in forming the character of the Iraqi individual and has increasingly developed the dualism inside him. A wide number of scientists agree that language has a great impact on mans way of thinking- according to them; thinking is a kind of a silent language.
- 20. Arabic and Thought As Iraqis, we use two languages so, ,we actually use two kind of thinking. In our daily life we speak slang but whenever we are in a middle of a big celebration, we shift to classical Arabic and the same goes for writing an article or a letter. By doing so, we are adopting two characters and thinking according to two different styles. Today, we listen to hundreds of speeches and read hundreds of articles filled with poetic rhymes and grammatical decoration, nevertheless those speeches and writings fail to touch the essence of our agonies and sufferings. What mostly concerns the speaker is to pick up unique synonyms instead of giving a brief but useful description to what he is tackling. Some listeners judge the speaker according to his grammar. They might underestimate him just because he did not use powerful words.
- 21. Education System
- 22. Education Learning by rote Gender inequalities Heavily Islamic Heavily politically oriented Not career oriented
- 23. MEDIA Plays to emotions. Most is bought and paid for by the governments or political movements. Largely irresponsible, propagandistic. Very little true independence.
- 24. Ethnicity
- 25. Civil Society? Impediments The corruption of the intellectual class The lack of a civic consciousness The infection of extremist religious movements, leading to the replacement of the utopian dream of Pan-Arabism by an even greater chimera, The restoration of the Caliphate. The habit of despotic or authoritarian rule. A thousand years of tyranny better than one day of chaos
- 26. CONCLUSION So what is the future of the Arab world? Will it lead to some form of representative governments or simply more of the same death, destruction and repression? I see the glass half full. The inked finger of Iraq Suicide bombing in Israel