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Arab Wines Shake Off ‘chateau Migraine’

April 1st, 2010

Rabat – Agence France Presse

After a long eclipse due to nationalizations, war and the European ban on “blended” wines, viniculture is now in full bloom in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and soon in Syria.

“There are three factors favorable to wine consumption: Money, democracy and peace. Even if the Arab world doesn’t always have all three, conditions are slowly but surely becoming more favorable in the region,” French wine expert Denis Dubourdieu told AFP.

Turnover of 0 million

These countries currently have 80,000 hectares under vines, producing 33.8 million gallons, which translates as 146 million bottles. And with a turnover of 0 million and almost 50,000 people directly or indirectly employed in the sector, prospects are looking rosy.

The director general of one of Egypt’s largest wine-makers, the Lebanese Andre Hadji-Thomas, smiles as he remembers his 1998 visit to the Gianaclis estate, place up for understanding 30 years after its nationalization by then president, Gamal Abdel Nasser: “After uncorking a bottle, the Egyptian wine-maker of the estate revealed to us that, despite 20 years in the profession, as a good Muslim he had never touched a drop of wine!” Not surprisingly this epoch of Egyptian wine-making was dubbed “Chateau Migraine.”

In the past seven years, Egypt has doubled its production to a total this day of 8.5 million bottles, three-quarters of which is drunk by tourists. “If the product continues to improve, and tourism keeps booming, we will double production in the next five years,” Hadji-Thomas predicts.

In Syria, the nationalizations of the 1960s equally undermined wine production. But recently one businessman, Johnny Saade, planted a vast estate near the port of Latakia, which will begin producing wines in two years time. And in Homs, it is a Dutch priest who oversees production. In Lebanon, 15 years of civil war have hindered the industry, but now the country can look to 18 vineyards, compared with three in 1990.

Given the intensity of the competition, our producers are banking on excellence, and our wines win awards worldwide,” states Charles Ghostine, the chief executive of the Ksara vineyard, now celebrating its 150th birthday. This would seem to have been a wise decision: With an output of just seven million bottles, turnover in 2007 was up by 10 percent at million, and exports stand at 40 percent.

War affects production in Jordan

War also affected pedigree wine production in Jordan. After the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in 1967, and with it the loss of two Christian monastic orders at Cremisian and Latroun whose vines were tended to by Salesian and Trappist monks, new vineyards had to be set up north of Amman. Their 2,000 hectoliters of Eagle and Zumot wines then found an unexpected market in the 1990s, as the Iraqis tried to get around the international embargo.

Today, the Saint George brand still finds buyers among the Gulf monarchies, where wine is officially banned. In the Maghbreb, decolonization and the then European Community’s ban on blended wines at the end of the 1950s dealt a fatal blow to wine production, notably in Algeria, which was once the world’s fourth largest wine producer, at 18 million hectoliters.

20 percent exported to Europe

These days, the Oran domain in Algeria, the Nabeul region of Tunisia and that of Meknes in Morocco produce the majority of Arab wine – with 13 million hectares and around 15 “appellations controlees” (a designated calibre mark), of which 20 percent is exported to Europe.

”It’s important to effort against the prejudices that surround Arab wines. Too many people still believe it’s like in colonial days when tankers full of blended wines sailed crossways the Mediterranean to top up European wines,” states Jean-Pierre Dehut, export director with Morocco’s largest wine producer, Cellars of Meknes. This new gusto for wine alarms Islamists.

In Morocco, parliamentarians have recommended heavy taxes on alcoholic drinks and in Egypt, each year, the Muslim Brotherhood place forward proposals to ban wine…in vain.

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Article Number 300: Personalities I admire: Ghada al-Samman, a Woman Writer from the Arab Land

March 30th, 2010

by A. Davey

Article Number 300: Personalities I admire: Ghada al-Samman, a Woman Writer from the Arab Land

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Article Number 300: Personalities I admire: Ghada al-Samman, a Woman Writer from the Arab Land

By: hasan A. yahya
Posted: Dec 27, 2010

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Hasan A. Yahya, PhDs, a writer from the Holy Land

I admire personalities for their strong belief in themselves and open minded people. Ghada al-Samman is one of these candle lights personalities in the Middle East, even though a woman, with courage, she was and still, a great personality respects herself and lives in dignity and pride. As an Arab woman, writer, and poet, from Syria, the country of the late famous poet: Nizar Qabbani. she desrves not only recognition, but to include her works at higher education institutes of artsand sciences colleges and humanities. She has her own school of thought, and expression. She also is a progressive journalist and bright novelist of the time and still refreshing minds and tastes with her marvelous writings, poems, novels, and critical works. She was open minded, and a great intellectual mind. She was brave enough to stand against wrong perception of norms, and rules in term of belief and education. Ghada al-Samman dealt for years with wrong dogmatic thoughts in social behavior.

Among Arab Women Writers and poets, such as Fadwa Tuqan, May Ziade, Assia Jebar, Samira Bellil, Nathalie Handal, Fawziyyah Salama, Nawal al-Sa’dawi, Layla al-Uthman, Zainab Salbi and Salama Khadra al-Jayyousi, (to study a few), Ghada Al-Samman stands heading the line of the great women of the Middle East literary field. She stood side by side with her share, but with very much less than male writers and poets in the Middle East. We are familiar with great writers and novelists, grew up and shined in the same period, such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Haqqi, Suleiman Mousa, Zakaria Tamer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Badr Shaker al-Sayyab, Hanna Mena, Taufiq al-Hakim, Taha Hussein, Ghalib Halasa, and Badr abdul-Haq, who baved the way for critical modern literary arts.

Ghada was born two years before the writer, he is born in Palestine in 1944, she was born in Damascus. She’s like many dignified personalities who share misjudgment of opposing progressiveness of women in the Middle East in general, and who refuses to have interviews with those who do not read her books or writings. Still to this day, the saying “Arabs don’t read” describes much of the reality of the Arab street. Her dignity, in fact, was a sign of glory, when she still refuse any invitations for television interviews, the reason was that she had a negative experience when she was interviewed in Cairo, and discovered that the interviewer had not read any of her works. Imagine, how it was the reaction to interact with ignorant mortal about your humble works.

In late 1960s and 1970s, it was a dream for this writer, to meet the brilliant writer and poet, side by side with Fairuz, the marvelous singer, and the dream came true in 1970-71, The ideal times of Beirut ever in a small restaurant beside the Rousheh, with the company of a group of Palestinian poets and artists, (includes Ghassan Kanafani and Naji al-Ali) we were young then, with energies of heavenly spirits, and anticipating bright future. Some of us died, others scattered in Europe and the United States. Time was cruel for all young generation of novelists and poets of the time, and the war inflamed the feelings and emotions to defend freedom and liberty.

As a novelist, with an inner emotional lover of peace, she wrote and published her novel, “Beirut 75″, that book was added to her shining publications line in my humble library in my sojourn, in Jordan, Kuwait, and the United States, such publications include: her first official short stories book: “Your Eyes are my Destiny”, 1962, and her sharp poetry Diwan: I declare love upon you! These books have their own memory in my life, the first book, was published in my senior year in the High School. The second was published one year after I was graduated from the AUB in 1975. The begin of the civil war in Lebanon.

Ghada remained active writer but not as a poet, her poetry might be hidden for individualized reasons, but her novels were a sign of serious and sincere reaction through and after the ten war Lebanese years. She published the well known four novels between 1976 and 2003: “Beirut Nightmares”, 1977, “The Eve of Billion”, 1986, “The Impossible Novel: Syrian Mosaic”, autobiography, 1997. And finally, “A Costume Celebration for the Dead”, in 2003.

Ghada al-Samman, was internationally recognized much more than her own Arab environment. Her few criticism books and works were translated and published worldwide in several languages. Since the 1980s, Ghada was living in Paris, and regularly writes in an Arabic entrepot published in London.

In conclusion, Ghada was a role model for generations of Arab women, in Bilad al-Sham, the Gulf, and North Africa, as well as for generations of women in the Diaspora like herself. Time might come to cover other great women like Ghada, I humbly, wish Ghada, long life, good health, and great roses of thought. Finally, I wish the Arabs celebrate such a great writer and poet, I would second any one who would nominate Ghada for Nobel Prize, or similar awards, regionally and globally, because she deserves the ideal reward for a great Role Model woman from faraway land. (882 words) www.askdryahya.com

hasan A. yahya – About the Author:

Professor, Dr. Hasan A. Yahya is an Arab American writer, scholar, and professor of Sociology lives in the United Says of America, originally from Palestine. He graduated from Michigan Say University with 2 Ph.d degrees. He published 65 books plus (45 Arabic and 20 English), and 300 plus articles on sociology, religion, psychology, politics, poetry, and short stories. Philosophically, his writings concern logic, justice and human rights worldwide. Dr. Yahya is the author of Crescentologism: The Moon Theory, and Islam Finds its Way, on Amazon. He’s an expert on Race Relations, Arab and Islamic cultures, he is also, interested in religion, world affairs and global strategic planning for justice and human rights. www.dryahyatv.com

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Arab Youth Rights: From Disregard To Forfeiture

March 18th, 2010

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Arab Youth Rights: From Disregard To Forfeiture

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Arab Youth Rights: From Disregard To Forfeiture

By: Dr. Dhibian Shamam
Posted: Mar 04, 2011

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First and foremost, one of the say components is the population, and definitely one of the power factors in societies is specifically a category of young people. In this respect, the more youth potentials we have on population classification scale in our societies, the more political, economic, military and cultural powers we record on the national power scale for the state. And the more well-educated and skilled people we make use of, the more progress and prosperity we achieve in the say as well.

Having in mind, the demand of attention to voices of young people makes the sovereignty of a say exposed, no doubt, to threaten and danger; the absence of well theoretical and practical programs on hiring youth generations in proper positions guides to improper results which might totally lead to break down the cycle of development. On this basis, intentionally or unintentionally, such shortage contributes surely to maximizing weaknesses and minimizing strengthens of the national power. Furthermore, the spheres of young attentions are full up with multi ideologies that might crystalize new views and positions untaken into consideration, lead to non-affiliation and feeling as strangers in an environment that is not isolated from external influences alongside the internal ones.

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Logically, how we can anticipate an environment in which high rate of unemployment, astounding patronage, administrative and financial corruption and irresponsibility contribute all together to create reasonable reasons to make and motivate generation of young people to conduct in two different ways:

the first one represents feeling of hopeless that might near them to looking for a new world in which they begin new and moderated life, perhaps, this way includes immigration or draining of brains and well-skilled and educated people, and you can estimate the value of loosing such fundamental component for the state. By the way and with all frankness, matter of not taking this matter into Arab decision makers’ statement means absent the credibility and reliability and subsequently they are destroying their country and people. Unfortunately that’s what’s happening in the Arab world today.

The second one is related to the spirit of national resistance targeting immoderate changing of the reality, such way costs a lot, then, matter of criticizing the governments in Arab political regimes and calling for meeting the basic stipulations of people means a real threaten to the power of Arab leaders and simply they won’t tolerate in dealing with it .

Actually, this matter has been originated in most of Arab countries for long time, no reforms have been launched to fix such confused situation, no considered hiring plans, no solutions for alleviating poverty and brains draining, and no hearing to the stipulations of young people whose feelings, in return, are growing over time and sometimes got translated into actual steps that no way to be totally ignored.

So, using of extreme force on combating Arab people claims is simply justified by Arab political propaganda machine, they easily portray all forms of changing claims as they are related to external powers aiming at overthrowing the regime in favor of foreign powers, and finally are rejected at all.

Apparently, not dealing with this matter seriously pushed Arab decision makers to portray the youth energy as an undesired variable working on impeding their traditional authority. So, instead of being nearing from this source of power, they selected the option of containment, and finally waste one of important national powers resources; and recently they harvest what they implanted before.

Dr. Dhibian Shamam – About the Author:

BA Degree of Political Science, MA Degree in Strategy from Alnahrain University.

Ph.D Degree of International Relations from Faculty of Journalism and Poitical Science at Warsaw University.

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Education in the Arab Countries ? Part Seven

March 16th, 2010

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Education in the Arab Countries – Part Seven

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By: hasan A. yahya
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Al-Jazeerah reported that Arab countries are lagging behind much of the world in education, according to a UN study released on Monday. This statement was drawn from the Arab Human Development Report 2003 stated readership of books was limited, education dictated submission rather than critical thought, and the Arabic language was in a state of crisis.

Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, the UN assistant secretary general and regional director of UNDP’s Regional Agency for Arab says stated educational opportunities were being further limited as a post-September 11 anti-Arab backlash prefabricated young Arabs retreat from studying in the United States. Arab student numbers according to reports in the United Says dropped between 1999 and 2002 by an average 30%.

The UN report that focused on addressing challenges of modernity illustrated how far the 270 million Arabs lagged behind other regions in “acquisition of knowledge” especially in higher education where universities holdup behind in curriculum and methods of teaching. Many believe that demand of freedom and traditional management of universities contribute in such educational decay.

The report stated even a ideal selling novel sold on average only 5000 duplicates compared to hundreds of thousands elsewhere. Some might describe the Arabs as illiterate non-reading people compared with other people in East Asia, Europe, and the United States. Data shows this illiteracy and relates it to the media technologies.

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In general, the usual print run for novels ranges from a meager 1000 to 3000 copies. The number of books published in the Arab world did not exceed 1.1% of world production though Arabs constitute 5% of the world population.

It cited official educational curricula in Arab countries that “bred submission, obedience, subordination and compliance rather than free critical thinking.”

The UN also touched on the state of Arab universities, decrying demand of autonomy and the direct control of governments that ran them on political whims.

Arab universities were overcrowded with old laboratories and poor libraries. Enrolment figures were a political gesture to appease society more than a product of educational needs.

In terms of publication, the Arabic language was in crisis, as it confronted the challenges of globalization. No more than 10,000 books were translated into Arabic over the entire millennium, equivalent to the number translated each year into Spanish. Research and Development in the Arab world did not exceed 0.2% of Gross National Product (GNP). Fewer than one in 20 Arab university students were pursuing scientific disciplines, compared to one in five in South Korea.

The number of telephone lines in Arab countries was barely one fifth of that in developed countries. Access to digital media was also among the lowest in the world. There are 18 personal per 1000 people compared to a global average of 78. Only 1.6% of over 270 million Arabs have world wide web access, one of the lowest ratios in the world, the report said.(493 words) www.askdryahya.com

Resources:

- Khaled al-Maeena, “A Report which Should Open Arab Eyes,” Arab News, July 5, 2002.

- Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, quoted in a U.N. press release, “U.N. Human Development Report Finds Arab Countries Lagging Behind,” July 3, 2002.

- http://www.escwa.org.lb/information/press/un/2002/july/3.html.

- Sal-ama A. Salama, “Facing Up to Unpleasant Facts,” Al-Ahram Weekly, July 11-17, 2002.

- Thomas L. Friedman, “Arabs at the Crossroads,” The New York Times, July 3, 2002.

- Robert Fisk, “UN Highlights Uncomfortable Truths for Arab World,” The Independent, July 3, 2002.

- Victor Davis Hanson, “A Ray of Arab Candor,” City Journal (Online), July 3, 2002, at http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_7_3_02vdh.html

- al-Jazeerah English.

- BBC Arabic Reporting

hasan A. yahya – About the Author:

Professor, Dr. Hasan A. Yahya is an Arab American writer, scholar, and professor of Sociology lives in the United Says of America, originally from Palestine. He graduated from Michigan Say University with 2 Ph.d degrees. He published 55 books plus (40 Arabic and 15 English), and 250 plus articles on sociology, religion, psychology, politics, poetry, and short stories. Philosophically, his writings concern logic, justice and human rights worldwide. Dr. Yahya is the author of Crescentologism: The Moon Theory, and Islam Finds its Way, on Amazon. He’s an expert on Race Relations, Arab and Islamic cultures, he is also, interested in religion, world affairs and global strategic planning for justice and human rights. www.dryahyatv.com

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Spanish history – under Arab rule from 731 to 1031 AD

March 14th, 2010

From the date of arrival in Gibraltar on 30 April 711 Tariq ibn Ziyad from North Africa with his army of mercenaries in less than 20 years almost all the peninsula Peninsula is succumbed to the direct rule of the caliph in Damascus in the current Syria.

governors are directly appointed by the caliph in Damascus, and they have control over something like 90% of the peninsula peninsula, including modern Portugal and Spain.

These rulers are known under the study of the Umayyads.

The Arabs and their Berber army continues to the north and easterly direction and Gaul.

their armies to move to Gaul, as we now know as France and here at last they stopped in their tracks by the Franks – near Poitiers in 732

Poitiers is less than 200 miles to the south and west of modern Paris

.. Franks is known for their success in battle, and it is not surprising that they are healthy to reject the Arabs at that time.

They return, and return where they came from Spain.

This defeat at the hands of the Franks immediately and limit any further Arab territorial ambitions in Western Europe to the peninsula Peninsula.

The defeat in 732 at Poitiers has profound implications for the Arab occupation of Spain, for it is followed by the Berber revolt in North Africa and Spain.

The period from 711 to 756 might be called the caliphate dependent, because it is directly controlled and is dependent on Damascus in Syria, but the check is impossible to enforce because of an ongoing rivalry between different factions power in the various Arab groups in Spain.

The Omayyad prince Abd al-Rahman brings equilibrise and stability in Spain when he arrives in Damascus 756th

He’s happy because he has avoided the Abbasid massacre of his entire family in Syria.

As background for this change in force in Abbasid revolt against the Umayyads? s 747th They wanted leaders in the Arab world because their descendence of Muhammad? Youngest uncle, Abbas.

The Umayyad? S took a major force in Iraq this day bombing in the Abbasid 750th

At the Battle of Zab Umayyads lost their leader and went to Egypt, but was later captured and slain.

A Abbasid Caliph was then, and he was known as Abu Abbas Abdullah.

He was also known as “If Saffah”, which translates to “The slaughterhouse” and he got this study because of the fate he dealt to the Umayyads? s, which was place to death, except for the first Rahman, who fled.

Actually, after the murder of his family from power in the Middle East has moved from Damascus to Baghdad, and thus more in the middle of Persia.

Rahman survived several assassination attempts, and after a somewhat complicated journey to conceal his identity, he finally, after about five or six years in southern Spain, which welcomed as a hero.

Rahman came from a Syrian and a Berber and is very well accepted in Spain because he represents the original Umayyad? s, which originally occupied Spain in 711, they have not recognized the change in diet following the murder of his family.

It is as though the rightful prince arrives to claim the inactivity throne so to speak.

his seat of power is located in the beautiful city of Cordoba in 756 AD.

From 756 AD to 929 AD This period in history can be called the independent caliphate as Rahman and his successors? is absolutely independent.

Here in Cordoba Rahman starts building the first great Islamic civilization in Spain and as I stated that now he is acting absolutely independent of Middle East power base, which is now in Baghdad.

It is the sole ruler of the most exclusive of Asturias in northern Spain and the coast from there to the Pyrenees in France.

In modern terms, this is from the south of Oviedo in northern Spain to tell Narbonne in southern France.

Asturias where the Visigoth nobility withdrew, and there they found a innocuous haven, because it is surrounded by mountains in the south, easterly and west, and sea to the north.

Effective Rahman controls approximately 90% of the peninsula Peninsula, including Portugal, and he is happy to leave alone Asturias ..

Even though he was a prisoner in a country that was not his original home in many ways, he and his occupation was in some respects, satisfaction, or maybe I should not state to the indigenous population as they brought trade and economy to Spain, and thus a superior lifestyle and we would state this day was an increase in living standards. They were tolerant and understanding of the existing religions.

They purchased with them many new agricultural methods, ideas and a lot of different crops to grow.

Many of the crops grown in Spain this day comes from these times, and not originally resident in Spain.

The issues I have in mind, the Almond, eggplants to apricots, artichokes, bananas, lemons, oranges, peaches, pepper and pomegranate, but a few examples.

They also have water for irrigation and even this day there are still traces of water distribution for agricultural products originating from those bygone days.

Apart from agriculture and agriculture were of course many other cultural influences including Flamenco diversion and music.

as a proof that a number of Rahman and his government were somewhat ahead of their time by West European standards, educational and healing was part of their design ideas. In contemporary terms we would call them hospitals and schools.

It is stated to Cordoba in the ninth century was probably one of the most advanced cities in Western Europe at the moment.

For example, there were hundreds of mosques and at that time about seven hundred mosques, and over time it gradually increased to sixteen hundred.

Apart from the religious aspect of life is about three hundred public baths and more than seventy libraries. Paper is widely acquirable in production has reduced from China to Persia, long before the Arabs came to Spain.

Cordoba was a beehive of economics and business, and when it does it expands in physical size, economic resources and have a reputation for both skilled professionals and scholars.

It has paved streets with lights and houses with floor heating which was probably copied from the Romans. In those days in London, for example, would have had one of those things.

It must be that Islam was extending for about 200 years to achieve before reaching Spain, and had access to many areas of great knowledge of many advanced civilizations? such as Greeks, Egyptians and Persians, who were all scholars. Much of this knowledge was at this moment in history known in Western Europe.

In 912 Abd al-Rahman Abd Allah, 111 replacement from his grandfather at age 21, and he commands a city with something like five hundred thousand inhabitants, which continue to grow at a rapid rate of knots.

In 929AD, he declared himself caliph Hims and from that time until 1031AD that period in history might be called Caliphate dynasty.

But dynasties tend to stop often after a period of rapid growth and expansion.

Sooner or later there will be unrest in the camp.

Berbers, as I have already explained, a mercenary army and they start to be impossible to control.

They demand and get large concessions, but in 1031 AD This indicates the collapse of the Omayyad caliphate and thus, as night follows day, comes at the end of Arab rule in Spain.

They are in the country from 711 to 1031 about 320 years from 756 to 1031 states that some 280 years Fri life seems to have been progressive and beneficial to the people of the country.

At the end of the Omayyad Caliphate in 1031 followed by a period of disorder among the Muslims in southern Spain.

a power vacuum, the Christian kingdoms in the north gives a very welcome opportunity to start to move south.

These realms are affected by international events such as this is the time of the Crusades and of course the Christians in Spain have their own local Muslims to confront if they want to their original country and to regain territory.

But in 1086 the Almoravids with Berber tribesmen / Tribesman as their army arrives in Spain.

The power base is starting to absolutely change as the tribal leader is now North Africa, not Arabia.

It is the noble leader of a Berber dynasty, the Almoravids and while there are no Arab control, the remains of the Muslim faith, and they carry a much harder line, which is unpopular with many.

In a brief article can not in all respects, but I hope that readers find it useful.

John Lewis – About the author:

The author writes many articles on various topics and his website is in Marbella, Spain

Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/spanish-history-under-arab-rule-731-to-1031-ad-1783273. html

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