How has the arab culture changed over time?? Help with research paper!!! arab people please answer or anyone!!

Question

I want to know how women in the arab culture and the culture itself changed over time from how it used to be. I need to do a research paper in my senior english class and I need help. women or anyone who is arab please answer.

Answer 1

Go to the RAND Corporation website. They have a book on it.

It's called The Muslim World After 9/11.

Answer 2

This is a very interesting subject and a majorly broad one if I may say so.

Ive lived among arabs for over 20 years even tho am not one.

I do know that, if youre going to do a research paper on women, you need to do it on a number of areas to make it easier on yourself.

For example,

1. Geographical differences of arab culture over time. How each countrys heritage and culture has evolved and changed and has affected members of that culture i.e. women

2. Religious differences of arab culture. Arabs are not just Muslims you know, there are also Christian (Qibti) and Jewish Arabs.

3. Women before and after Islam in the Arabian peninsula

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These should help you narrow it down. The subject as you can see is pretty vast, you would be doing a research into history and it needs some serious reading. :)

Im currently editing a Masters Thesis on the way women beautified themselves before and after Islam, if you need any information, dont hesitate to ask.

Good luck!

Answer 3

There are a lot of changes in the Middle East. Women are allowed to vote in some countries in the last few years and can run for office. In places like the UAE, women are being encouraged to work. But as the other poster said, it depends where they are and progress can be reversed pretty quickly as it was with the Taliban and in Iran.

Answer 4

beta_fishy is somewhat right. But am gonna tell you just a part of it. The rest, you can look for yourself.

Before Islam when a girl was born, they were buried alive because they were thought to be inferior and taking up space in the household using some of the food sources.
Islam baned this act.

I guess that's about it!

Answer 5

I'm not Arabic or a woman, so I'll give you quote from Brigitte Gabriel, a woman who was born and raised in Lebanon, in her book, "Because they Hate". She compares the way Israelis and Muslims treat women:

"As days passed, I became more disgusted with my culture. I began to compare my place as a female in Lebanese society to that of females in Israeli society. I recall a day when my cousin's husband, Shahine, came to drive my mother to the hospital, since we did not have a car. I was determined that I was going to have a good day. I was wearing a pair of shorts that Lea [an Israeli nurse] had given me, with a matching T-shirt and sandals. I felt beautiful, loved, and privileged to have met people like her. When Shahine walked through the door, I welcomed him with a big smile and told him how much we appreciated his help in driving us to the hospital. I asked him if he would like a cup of coffee before we left, and he said, 'No thank you. I have to get going.'

"I called my mother, who was already dressed, and informed him that we were ready. He looked at me with shock and said, 'Aren't you going to get dressed?'

"I said, 'Oh no, I don't feel like dressing up today. We're only going to the hospital. This is cool and comfortable.'

"'I think you should go change.' He said it like an order.

"I said, 'No, I am comfortable, I am not going to change.'

"' I will not drive you to the hospital looking like a sl ut. Go put something on that will cover your legs.'

"My mother intervened at that moment and asked me to go change. I said, 'No way. If you don't like how I am dressed, you go to the hospital by yourself. I dont' think I look like a sl ut. I wore this for three weeks In Israel. Nobody treated me like a sl ut.'

"Shahine screamed, 'This is not Israel, this is Lebanon! If they don't have any morality over there, we have some.'

"This supposedly educated, not religious, middle-aged Arab man, and a family man at that, had decided I was not worthy of respect just because I wore shorts that showed half of my legs. Rather than worry about important things like my education, my values, my intellect, my character, and what I was going to accomplish in life, he was concerned with ancient tribal ideas of our family's honor, which depended on my sexual propriety..." (p. 88-89)

Answer 6

Since the patriarch of the Arabs (Ishmael) walked the earth, Arabs have glorified murder and thievery. Nothing much has changed.

Answer 7

That will be a short paper.... ;-)