Navigating Israeli citizenship: how do Arab-Palestinian teachers civicize their pupils?

This study examines citizenship education in Israel from the point of view of Arab teachers, as they rework and negotiate the content and boundaries of their Israeli citizenship. Specifically, the paper studies how teachers of citizenship education in Arab high schools in Israel perceive their sociopolitical reality, how they respond to it in their classrooms, and how they conceptualize Israeli citizenship for their pupils. In doing so, the paper ponders the pedagogical strategies and emphases of these teachers, as they mediate the citizenship education curriculum, with its heavy emphasis on the ethno-national character of Israel, to their Arab pupils.     

Arabs, the west and public relations: A critical/cultural study of Arab cultural values

Using a critical/cultural perspective to examine Arab culture, this study tests the cultural-economic model of international public relations to identify cultural value orientations that influence Arab culture. These orientations include commitment to religion, devotion to the group, resistance to change/attachment to history and recognition of hierarchal order. Based on an initial review of these orientations, the study identifies guiding principles exhorting practitioners to carefully consider the nature, function and purpose of public relations practice in the Arab world and the relationship among cultural value orientations. The study concludes with useful implications and guidelines sensitive to Arab culture for public relations professionals and scholars.     

《回回药方》所载大型真菌药研究

大型真菌是独立于动植物以外的一类特别的生物,在中医古籍中源流甚早且自成体系。作为最重要的古回医典籍之一,《回回药方》（残本）中提及大型真菌药物的词多达一百次以上,其中既有阿里公、阿里浑、阿儿公、福忒而、祖马鲁黑等回药音译,也有茯苓、天麻、蘑菇等汉药名称。它们分见于近百种药方之中,且药方之药效记载也多种多样,显示出古代回...     

Family,religion, and work among Arab American women

Using data from a national survey of 501 Arab American women, this study examines the extent to which family behavior mediates the influence of religion on women's labor force activity. Prior research on families has largely overlooked the role of religion in influencing women's labor force decisions, particularly at different stages of the life cycle. The analysis begins to address this gap by examining whether religious affiliation and religiosity have direct relationships to women's work behaviors, or whether they primarily operate through family behaviors at different phases of the life course. The results show that religiosity exerts a negative influence on women's labor force participation, but only when children are present in the home. Among women with no children, religiosity has no effect on employment.     

试论新国际环境下的中国与阿拉伯国家关系

近年来,国际形势发生巨变,中阿在新的国际环境下,均面临新的机遇和挑战.中国和平崛起,越来越与世界休戚与共,政治和经济利益的外延不断扩大,加入国际体系的程度也越来越深.与此同时,中东地区矛盾更趋错综复杂,局部动荡不宁,但发展民族经济仍是各国的根本目标.阿拉伯世界正进入政治和社会转型的关键时期,面临来自美国和本国内部巨大的改革压力.新形势下,美国的因素以及中东局势的发展走向对中国周边战略环境、整体安全形势、中阿关系及中国在中东地区的现实和长远利益都具有特殊而重要的意义.因此,要以适应时代变化的发展眼光关注和研究中阿关系,为现有关系注入新的内涵和活力.     

中东的周期性动荡和战争成因

半个多世纪来，中东地区一直存在周期性的动荡和战争，严重阻碍了该地区正常国际关系的建构，也使阿拉伯民族的凝聚力和同外部力量抗争的能力不断受到挑战。外部力量对该地区的激烈争夺、重要的地理位置和油气资源以及中东国家之间的尖锐矛盾是造成动荡和战争的主要原因。     

Economic reform when institutional quality is weak: The case of the Maghreb

Institutional improvement can be a very slow and uncertain process when institutional quality is weak. In the meantime, countries have launched far-reaching economic reforms whose success is predicated on a large investment response. However, the uncertainties attending institutional reform can raise perceptions of risk, thereby muting investment responses. Using new values of institutional quality for three Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), which we derive from fuzzy-set based transformations on freedom indices, we show that moving from low institutional quality to a stage of ‘partial improvement’ may reduce income per capita, with financial and trade reforms having unintended negative effects.     

Knowledge and Correlates of Osteoporosis: A Comparison of Israeli-Jewish and Israeli-Arab Women

ABSTRACT

The present study examined levels and correlates of knowledge about osteoporosis among 176 Israeli-Jewish (mean age = 55) and 80 Israeli-Arab (mean age = 51) women. Levels of knowledge about the disease were low among all women, especially regarding some of the risk factors. Knowledge and awareness about the disease were especially deficient among Arab women. Younger age and lower education were the main vulnerability factors among Jewish women, and lower desire to seek information from the medical establishment, higher religiosity, and the lack of extended medical insurance among Arab women. Educational programs, geared to the needs and capabilities of the different ethnic populations, should be encouraged.     

略析中阿油气合作

中国和阿拉伯国家的石油天然气合作具有厚实的发展基础和突出的经济互补性,其在世纪之交已迈开成功步伐,形成平等互利、双向投资、形式多样的良好态势.这种互利合作建立在互有需求的共同利益基础上,在新世纪“中阿合作论坛”成立等因素的推动下,战略意义深远,发展前景广阔.本文还就深化中阿油气合作提出若干建言.     

论全球化时代的阿拉伯妇女问题

本文以2002～2005年的《阿拉伯国家人类发展报告》为基础,分析了阿拉伯国家长期落后的主要原因。作者认为,男女平等是构建民主社会的基本条件,处于全球化时代的阿拉伯国家之所以社会发展严重滞后,主要是因为阿拉伯妇女问题没有得到妥善解决。此外,作者还就如何解决阿拉伯妇女问题提出了建议。