This chapter discusses the geopolitical historical context of the rise of ruling families in Kuwait and Qatar, with emphasis on political, geographic and economic factors. To start with, the present-day territories of Qatar and Kuwait were presumed to be scarcely populated by the ancestors of today...
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian “collective memory” of communism reveals the emergence of a field
In lesson three, we will witness the rise of nationalism in the Middle East, as it became a much more acceptable idea in the late 19th and early 20th century among an intellectual, elitist, urban minority, who were the graduates of western-style schools (remember lesson two and the process...
Chapter 2 The Emergence of English Language Education in Non-english Speaking Asian Countries Tran Le Huu Nghia and Ngoc Tung Vu Abstract This chapter aims to provide a snap shot of the rise of English language education in non-English speaking Asian countries. It begins with the key notion ...