Book Description
An in-depth exploration of gender, health care training, andglobalization.

Using the Hodeida Urban Primary Health Care Project as a case study, Marinade Regt offers a fascinating analysis of how development policies of thestate interconnect with agendas of global donor organizations and theemployment of women in the face of social disapproval and barriers toadvancement. She demonstrates women's positive impact on the complexworkings of Yemeni health institutions.

Her highly accessible writing blends keen observations steeped in personalexperience with a thorough grounding in the theoretical literature. Throughinterviews and the experience of working directly with the women she writesabout, de Regt gives voice to her subjects and offers an extraordinaryportrait of the lives, emotions, and work of women dedicated to healing ina time of great political change. This vitally important work not onlychallenges preconceived notions about how health care is distributed in theMiddle East but also questions the way women participate, facilitate, andresist the political change around them. ... Read more

Book Description

Book Description
Yemen has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

Book Description

In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media shows how new forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. From the 1940s onward, a new cadre of political activists has used audio-recording technologies, especially the audiocassette, to redefine traditional Muslim authorship.

Cassette producers address conflicted views about the resurgence of tribalism by showing Yemenis how to adapt traditional mores toward more progressive and pluralistic aims. Skilled bards continue to perform orally marked tribal verse. As Miller demonstrates through an analysis of several centuries of changing media ecology, however, oral performance is anything but static. Much of the power of orality stems from its relation to writing, print, and audiovisual media that link tribal ideals with metropolitan and national discourses. Through an examination of the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, Moral Resonance shows how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history. Yemenis' use of audiocassettes turns such tropes into cultural resources for morally evaluating political liberalism.

Product Description
80 PP with full color photographs. Measures 7 1/2" x 9" in very good unused condition. Has listings for Banks, Hospitals, Holidays, Phone #'s of Government Offices etc. in the back. ... Read more

Book Description
This volume contains an important and detailed examination of the evolution of Sabaic language and culture, utilizing a number of previously unpublished pre-Islamic South Arabian inscriptions. ... Read more

Book Description
Does political inclusion produce ideological moderation? Schwedler argues that examining political behaviour alone provides insufficient evidence of moderation because it leaves open the possibility that political actors might act as if they are moderate while harbouring radical agendas. Through a comparative study of the Islamic Action Front party in Jordan and the Islah party in Yemen, she argues that the IAF in Jordan has become more moderate through participation in pluralist political processes, while the Islah party has not. The variation is explained in part by internal group organization and decision-making processes, but particularly by the ways in which the IAF has been able to justify its new pluralist practices on Islamic terms while the Islah party has not. Based on nearly four years of field research in Jordan and Yemen, Schwedler contributes both an important theory of ideological moderation and detail about these powerful Islamist political parties. ... Read more

Book Description
This volume focuses on the Jewish community of the British CrownColony ofAden, a community which is mistakenly lumped with YemeniteJewry. It providesa critical assessment of its history; salientdimensions of itssociopolitical, religious, socioeconomic, culturaland intellectual fabric;insights into the unique quintessentialtraits that determine the place of theJewish community of Aden as acultural and spiritual phenomenon withinYemenite and world Jewry. Italso affords a glimpse into the relationshipbetween Jews and Muslimsin Aden.The volume is based on a study of hundreds of yet unpublishedlegal texts anddocumentary material. ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Verbatim, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3965 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Qat in Yemen.(chewable leaves)
Author: Gregory Johnson
Publication: Verbatim (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31Issue: 1Page: 1(5)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more