Culture Shock!
Author: Harvey Tripp
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789812326256
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CultureShock! Saudi Arabia
Author: Peter North
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2009-11-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9814435279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultureShock! Saudi Arabia provides an insight into living and working in a kingdom where Islam governs almost every aspect of life. Uncover the true psyche of the Saudi people—the men clad in their thobes and gutra and women in their abayas—and their unique way of life, a lifestyle which foreigners may find alien and a challenge to cope with. Containing valuable information not only on the practical aspects of settling in, this book will give tips on how best to integrate into Saudi society. Learn about Saudi laws and be aware of what might get you thrown in jail or under the executioner’s axe. CultureShock! Saudi Arabia is essential for anyone who wants to fully understand this Islamic country and get the most out of his or her stay in the kingdom.
Culture Shock! Saudi Arabia
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVejledning i skik og brug i Saudi Arabien. Emnerne er bl.a. forretning, mad og sprog.
CultureShock! Bahrain
Author: Harvey Tripp
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2008-09-10
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9814435589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Islamic teachings are conservative, the social climate in Bahrain is fairly liberalised. This temperate society has allowed room for business growth and trade. Discover the rich traditions of Bahraini attire and the significance of the ubiquitous mosques in this small desert shaikdom. In CultureShock! Bahrain, gain insights into business etiquette and glean tips on socialising and settling in—all vital to setting up home and working in this rapidly developing Middle Eastern society.
Culture Shock!.
Author: Karin Mittmann
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781558680593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the etiquette and customs in Pakistan, covering a wide range of topics and providing behavioral and language guidance for traveling, socializing, doing business, and other situations, and includes a cultural quiz and a resource list.
CultureShock! Thailand
Author: Robert Cooper
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9814408980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultureShock! Thailand provides a valuable crash course on the who’s who, and the whats and hows of the country, guiding readers through a wide range of topics for day-to-day living including how to interact with the local people and fit into Thai society. Discover when and how to wai as well as how to use the bathroom upcountry. Pick up useful information for settling in like where to stay, study and play and find out more about the Thai language and how to conduct business the Thai way. Full of humour and practical tips.
Green Sands
Author: Martha Kirk
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780896723375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreen Sands is Kirk's chronicle of her life in the desert, told with exceptional candor and detail. Local Bedouins, foreign farm workers and their families, Saudi royalty, assorted Westerners, and fellow Americans share their desert world with Kirk. Her sincere curiosity, empathy, and warmth toward these new friends make her story entertaining as well as enlightening. There is a freshness to Kirk's perspective that puts the reader squarely in her shoes as she struggles to assimilate a culture so alien to her own and to embrace an adventure that few have the chance to experience. Martha Kirk shows her pioneering Texas spirit in the pages of Green Sands as she gamely kills camel spiders in the house, bravely risks imprisonment while driving the farm's pickup truck, and lovingly shares meals with Bedouin women and their children.
Inside the Kingdom
Author: Carmen Bin Ladin
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2007-07-31
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0446506192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOsama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women. On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to America. She also knew that her life and the lives of her family would never be the same again. Carmen bin Ladin, half Swiss and half Persian, married into and later divorced from the bin Laden family and found herself inside a complex and vast clan, part of a society that she neither knew nor understood. Her story takes us inside the bin Laden family and one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressed kingdoms in the world.
Brownies and Kalashnikovs
Author: Fadia Basrawi
Publisher: Garnet Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781902932255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFadia, a Saudi Arab, grew up in the strictly circumscribed and tailor-made 'desert Disneyland' of Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company). This slice of modern, suburban, middle America was located in Dhahran, Aramco's administrative headquarters in Saudi Arabia, a theocratic Muslim kingdom run according to strict Wahabbi Shari'a law. Eventually, after only brief holidays abroad visiting relatives in colorful Arab cities like Medina, Damascus and Alexandria, Fadia moved to Beirut, the glitzy 'Paris of the Middle East', to attend high school. In Beirut she fell in love with a passionate and idealistic Lebanese journalist with whom she eloped against her parents' wishes, subsequently getting caught up in Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war while raising a family of five children. Providing a fascinating account of a Saudi woman's painful journey from naïve Aramcon girl to life as a resident of a war-torn capital city, this book provides new insight into two very different Middle Eastern worlds about which so little is known by those living outside the region.
