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Arab culture has always been a fascination for Westerners. The Orientalist painters of the 17 and 18th centuries like Gerome and Delacroix were obsessed with the street market and household scenes of Arab lands. Currently, modern singers like Beyonce, Sting, Jay-Z and Shakira use the melodies and rhythms on their CDs and dance moves in their videos. Every major college and university teaches Arabic language, and has a Middle Eastern Studies department. But this fascination occurs with a simultaneous fear and paranoia. There is an ongoing media pre-occupation with the political and military turmoil in the Arab world.
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Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is the world's leading new airline and currently offers flights for Guests and cargo to more than 46 destinations in the Middle East, Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Etihad Crystal Cargo - http://www.crystalcargo.ae/ - offers a comprehensive range of cargo services throughout Etihad's network, and services its many all-cargo destinations and worldwide charters with a fleet of modern regional freighter aircraft. Etihad Holidays - http://www.etihadholidays.com/ - offers a range of innovative holiday options, including skiing, fly-drives, cruises, tours, stopovers, inbound programmes and city breaks. Etihad Airways is changing the way people see the world and has been awarded the titles of the World's Leading New Airline in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and the World's Leading Flat-bed Seat in 2006 by the World Travel Awards. Etihad has ... been voted the Airline of the Year in the Middle East by the 2006 Pax International Magazine Readership Awards, for its outstanding food and service. For more information about this award-winning aviation group, please visit http://www.etihadairways.ae/.
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The Arab society extends five and a quarter million square miles, with eighty percent being desert conditions. The traditional view of Arabs as nomads, which started with Muhammad’s emigration in 622, makes up a little less than five percent of the total world population today. Urbanization and industrialization due to heavy Western influence have changed the demographical concentration of the Arab people. Almost half live in cities, where both men and women have more educational, as well as employment opportunities. The new society of Arabs still holds close to traditional values and morals. Loyalty to the family has always, and continues to be the top priority of the Arab.
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Arab refugee problem was created by the seven Arab countries that attacked Israel in 1948. Arab refugees were intentionally not integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the fact total territory of Arab countries is about 700 times greater than that of Israel. Out of about 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has not been absorbed into their own peoples' lands. Arab nations still maintain generations of the descendants of the refugees in so called "refugee camps" under squalid conditions with the hope that someday they will dislodge the Jews in Israel. The money spent by the Arab countries on armaments would be sufficient to build houses for all so called "refugees". Arab countries should be encouraged to care for their poor population instead of spending their richest resources in the world on armaments and development of terrorist groups such as Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia.
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In total about 5-6 % of the Arab countries population are Christians. It is important to note that Arabs are not all Moslems and Moslems are not all Arabs. Some Christians who live in the Arab world refuse to be considered as "Arabs". They take pride in their heritage and trace their roots to their ancestors who inhabited the land before the appearance of Islam. For example, Lebanese Christians take pride in their ancient Phoenician roots. Egyptian Coptics trace their roots to the ancient Egyptians under the Pharaohs dynasties.
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During this period in Arab history, certain aspects of musical life may have resulted from broader cultural and political contacts. In the Ottoman world, musicians, like members of other professions, belonged to specialized professional guilds (tawa'if). In Egypt, such musicians included the alatiyyah, literally, "male instrumentalists", and the 'awalim, literally "learned females." According to M. Villoteau, whose extensive description of Egyptian music is part of the accounts prepared by the Napoleonic mission to Egypt, the former groups entertained male audiences, while the latter specialized in performing for female audiences. Instruments associated with professional musicians of the cities, included the 'ud, the qanun (zither) and the nay (flute) and were commonly used in Turkey and in the Arab world.
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