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Culture And Conflict In The Middle East
''Culture and Conflict in the Middle East'' is a 2008 book by Philip Carl Salzman, an emeritus professor of Anthropology at McGill University and senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Canadian thinktank associated with free-market, conservative political thought. ''Culture and Conflict'' is an attempt to understand Middle Eastern politics and society as an outcome of the fact that tribal organization are central to Arab culture. Content According to Salzman, tribes conceptualized as the descendants of a common ancestor on the male line, will combine their resources with other closely related relatives against more distant ones, and the whole tribe will then stand together against outsiders. This tribal framework renders it nearly impossible to have a constitution or a regime of law and order, thereby "generating a society where all groups are on an equal basis." Tribal members "are loyal only to their groups." Tribal loyalties are said by one commentator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman (born c.1940) is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, Quebec, Canada. Background Salzman graduated from Antioch College in Ohio, United States in 1962, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1972 with a thesis on "Adaptation and change among the Yarahmadzai Baluch". He conducted field research among Nomad, pastoral peoples, first the Shah Nawazi nomadic tribe in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Baluchistan (Iran), then with the Bharawadin Reika pastoralists in Gujarat and Rajasthani people, Rajasthani in India, and finally the Sardinians in Italy.Entry with the McGill Universities website He is retired from McGill University, and is a senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Canadian thinktank associated with free-market and conservative pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, 1801–1895.'' McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980. the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant whose bequest in 1813 formed the university's precursor, University of McGill College (or simply, McGill College); the name was officially changed to McGill University in 1885. McGill's main campus is on the slope of Mount Royal in downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie, with a second campus situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, west of the main campus on Montreal Island. The university is one of two members of the Association of American Universities located outside the United States, alongside the University of Toronto, and is the only Canadian member of the Glob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Centre For Public Policy
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) is a Canadian public policy think tank, founded to undertake research and education projects in support of economic growth and social outcomes that enhance quality of life. 2012 Annual Report http://www.fcpp.org/files/annual-reports/pdfs/annual-report-2012.pdf The group claims to be non-partisan, however, their views have been interpreted by some as Neoliberalism, neoliberal, or right-libertarian. Among the positions promoted by the Centre is climate change denial. Publications and controversies Canadian Indian residential school system In September 2018, the Frontier Centre ran a radio ad which claimed to debunk myths about the lasting impact of the abuses of the Canadian Indian residential school system that resulted in the deaths of 6000 Indigenous children and was classified as form of cultural genocide by a six-year study undertaken by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Canada), Truth and Reconciliation Commission. James Das ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Kurtz
Stanley Kurtz is an American conservative commentator, author and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. He is also a contributing editor to ''National Review''. Career Kurtz was born to a Jewish family and graduated from Haverford College and holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University. He did his field work in India and taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a former Adjunct fellow with Hudson Institute, with a special interest in America's "culture wars." He has published extensively on family life, child rearing, religion, and psychology in various parts of the world. He is the education writer for the ''National Review'' and is an active member of the National Association of Scholars (NAS). Works His writings on the family, feminism, homosexuality, affirmative action, and campus " political corre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brooks (journalist)
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural commentator who writes for ''The New York Times''. He has worked as a film critic for ''The Washington Times'', a reporter and later op-ed editor for ''The Wall Street Journal'',Columnist Biography: David Brooks '''' a senior editor at '''' from its inception, a contributing editor at '''', and '' |
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8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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