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Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | The return of the spirit Arab political parties were not born out of the same circumstances as their European and US counterparts nearly two centuries ago. Arab political life was dominated from the late 1940s by the Baathists, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s by the Nasserist experience in Egypt, which sought to install a single political system across the region. The Arabs must therefore seek to revise and develop their policies, for only by embracing policies that are flexible and quickly adaptable to changing realities will they be able to move forward. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/725/op112.htm   (1538 words)

Arab tone system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The modern Arab tone system, or system of musical tuning, is based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24-tone equal temperament (24-TET), the distance between each successive note being a quarter tone (50 cents). Thus the system is written in European musical notation using a slashed flat for quarter flat, a flat for half-tone flat, a slashed flat and a flat for three-quarter tone flat, sharp with one vertical line for quarter sharp, sharp (#) for half-step sharp, and a half sharp and a sharp for three-quarter sharp. All twenty-four tones are individual pitches differentiated into a hierarchy of important pitches, "pillars", which occur more frequently in the tone rows of traditional music and most often begin tone rows, and scattered less important or seldom occurring pitches (see tonality). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arab_tone_system   (451 words)

Arab tone system The modern Arab tone system, or system of In practice far fewer than twenty-four tones are used in a single performance. Many different but similar ratios are proposed for the frequency ratios of the tones of each row and performance practice has, as of 1996, has not been investigated using electronic measurements. www.mp3.fm /Arab_tone_system.htm   (318 words)

Think-Israel Arab liberals have become vocal critics of their societies in recent years, making the question of democracy one of the most important issues facing the Middle East. For example, a weak educational system is one factor Arab liberals often identify as a cause of this situation. The Arab knee-jerk response to September 11, he wrote, "was to deny that the perpetrators were Arab and that the event had any connection with Arab society and culture." The media and Arab public opinion spread wild conspiracy theories claiming bin Ladin was innocent even after he claimed responsibility. www.think-israel.org /rubin.arabcritique.html   (5764 words)

Almahsum,mahsom,checkpoints by Yitzhak Laor The checkpoint system is not part of the intifada, but it did grow and strengthen "thanks" to it. The checkpoint system belongs entirely to the Israeli unwillingness to give up all of the territory of the West Bank, including all of the settlements. The checkpoint system is aimed at ensuring Israeli control over the lives of the Palestinians. www.arabworldbooks.com /arab/laor.htm   (727 words)

Turath Theory of Arab Music by Ali Jihad Racy Maqam Arab music is a broad concept that encompasses music history, treatises, genres, and instruments, as well as musically-related philosophies, attitudes, and social contexts within the Arab World. Arab music covers a vast geographical area ranging from the Atlas Mountains and parts of the Sahara in Africa to the Arabian Gulf region and the banks of the Euphrates. Another salient trait is the principal position of Arab melody in Arab music and the absence of complex polyphony, a phenomenon distinguishing music of this part of the world, and a good portion of Asia, from the music of Europe and certain areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. www.turath.org /ProfilesMenu.htm   (3788 words)

Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies The tone of that debate was determined by a number of factors, including the American strategy, attempts by other countries to establish certain rules for managing the crisis, and the extent of Iraqi cooperation with UNSCOM (UN Special Committee) teams. By that time, the Arabs were coming to the conclusion that they had no power to avert the war but that the UN Security Council did. Any attempt to change regimes by force is rejected, for systems of government are the sole concern of the people of the country in question, and they take shape according to the cultural, religious, and social circumstances of the country in question as well as the stage of its political and economic progress. www.ahram.org.eg /acpss/eng/ahram/2004/5/12/ARAB4.HTM   (3462 words)

Wav Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Tone Tone - Tone-Tone (born Antonio Henderson) in Detroit, Michigan. Dial tone - A dial tone (known in the British Isles as a dialling tone) is a telephony signal used to indicate that the telephone exchange is working and ready to accept a call. When two tones are played simultaneously, a listener can sometimes perceive an additional tone whose frequency is a sum or difference of the two frequencies. cd.vvvvvv3.com /wavtone.html   (759 words)

Al-Farabi's 'Uds We may then conclude that the interval between the tones produced by the open string Bamm and its index finger fret is equal to that between the index finger fret on the Mathna and its ring finger fret. The latter nine tones are located on the following four frets: 9/8, 3/2, and 2/1 on Fret 6; 27/22 and 18/11 on Fret 9; 81/64 and 27/16 on Fret 11; and 4/3 and 16/9 on Fret 12. The relationship or identity that occurs between two tones one octave apart, i.e., either the upper octave equivalent or the lower octave equivalent of a tone. www.chrysalis-foundation.org /Al-Farabi's_'Uds.htm   (6255 words)

Arab Media Watch > Home Arab Media Watch calls for an urgent ceasefire in Somalia, for the government and Islamists to resume negotiations, and for Ethiopia to withdraw forthwith from the country. Arab Media Watch has been assured by the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Manuel Hassassian, who is Christian, that he will write in. Arab Media Watch would like to wish our members and supporters a happy and successful 2007, and thank you all for ensuring that we continue to grow from strength to strength. www.arabmediawatch.com /amw   (1178 words)

Arabian Music Whether from Morocco, Egypt, or Iraq, Arabs are able to identify today with a multi-faceted musical heritage that originated in antiquity, but that gained sophistication and momentum during the height of the Islamic Empire between the eighth and the thirteenth centuries. In this system, each mode was indicated by the names of the fingers and the frets employed when playing the 'ud. The third major process affecting Arab music was the contact between the Islamic Near East and Europe at the time of the Crusades in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries and during the Islamic occupation of Spain (713-1492.) This contact had a widespread impact on both Islamic and European traditions. www.oud.gr /music_arabe.htm   (1922 words)

Weekly Review of the Arab Press in Israel Mahajna said as well that their Arabic names were switched to Hebrew names in order not to be recognized as Arabs by the restaurant customers, for example: worker with family name such as Jabarin was switched to “Gabi” and this was a condition in order to not be fired”. Mohammed Zeidan- director of Arab Association for Human Rights stated in an interview in Al-Ittihad: "the committee work was limited in occupied territories since 1967, but due to the fact and the resemblance of "treatment" of October clashes, we decided to brought this issue to the committee, in order to be discussed". The main purpose of this publication is to provide the international public with regular news from the Arab community in Israel, and with an update on the main issues debated in the Arab society in Israel, in topics such as human rights, civil rights, discrimination, and freedom of expression. www.arabhra.org /publications/wrap/2001/wrap19.htm   (1489 words)

Arabic_Type1 This system of one shape per letter and no connections between the letters is to this day not accepted and not available in digital form on the market. This transitional system (from calligraphy to typography) did not reject the calligraphic nature of the letterforms in the sense that it keeps them attached to one another, and is what is mostly used as the standard in contemporary digital Arabic type designs to this day. Albeit its modernist tone of universal design approach, what is impressive about this study is its analysis of the problems of Arabic letterforms, the strategies it suggests for the adaptation of Arabic type to modern industrialised technologies, and its call for a clear delineation between calligraphy and typography. www.sakkal.com /articles/Arabic_Type_Article/Arabic_Type1.html   (3479 words)

The Marsh Arabs' Story The Iraqi marshes are the largest wetlands system in southwest Asia, and they are the largest area for migrating fowl in the whole of Eurasia...the western Eurasian subcontinent. Now, supporting the system of canals that were built to divert the rivers...the waters of the Euphrates and the waters of the Tigris...the whole area was dotted with causeways and dikes that compartmentalized the remaining waters of the marshes, and that greatly promoted the drying of the areas. The Marsh Arabs who normally used the water buffalos, the rice and millet, fish and so on, for trading in the urban areas and for bringing into the marshes manufactured goods...they were prevented from taking any of their goods outside the marshes, and the government also prevented any trade with the Marsh Arabs. www.public.iastate.edu /~mariposa/marsharabs.htm   (6902 words)

The Arab American News Both candidates for governor were cowed by the Zionist lobby and they kept their distance from Arab American political institutions. And whenever we admitted to being Arab there was an apologetic tone in it. He actively sought the endorsement of Arab Americans and he was proud to receive it. www.arabamericannews.com /newsarticle.php?articleid=6757   (1165 words)

Classic Arab Music - Visitors' Contributions After all, great arabic composers have inserted passages from european music and from jazz music in their compositions and they have used rythms from waltz and tango, why not also use arabic folklore as a source of inspiration. Improvisations were introduced by the Arabs during the Abbasid and Andalusian times, then by the Turks in the Ottoman time. In the modern age Arab composers did not wish to follow the then dominant Turkish modulation system as it was. arab-music.tripod.com /id70.html   (1798 words)

ALA | Arab World Some of the reasons for this are regional instability, the legacy of colonialism and the cold war, and the struggles over oil politics and the establishment of a Palestinian state. Since the Arab world spans 21 countries and many ethnic groups, the titles are arranged by the country or ethnic region in which the book takes place (if known). A familiar character in the Arab oral tradition, the Egyptian Goha resembles Mullah Nasr-ed-din from Iran, who is called Nasr-ed-din Hodja in Turkey, and Joha or Jha in other parts of the Arab world. www.ala.org /ala/booklinksbucket/arabworld.htm   (4189 words)

Talk:Quarter tone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I suggest this should be merged with the Arab Tuning System article, as the latter is a subset of quarter tone systems. It's not that I think the Arab Tuning System page shouldn't exist, but at the moment I think it should be a smaller article with reference links to Quarter Tone, which should be a bigger article containing a section about the Arabic quarter tone system. The Arab tone system is all about the three-quarter tone and not the quarter tone. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Quarter_tone   (373 words)

Saudi Aramco World : The Sound Of Arabian Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) In fact, the few clues to very early Arab music that still exist lead some music historians to conclude that the people of the Arabian Peninsula were the inheritors and conservators of much of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures. Even before these men, Arab musicians had developed a system of notation, a fact that was long overlooked by Western historians. It sounds like a flute and it is one, but probably a vertical flute tuned, as are all the instruments, according to the Arab ladder of tones and not according to the Western scale. www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196204/the.sound.of.arabian.music.htm   (1737 words)

Amazon.com: Al Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenges America: Books: Hugh Miles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Some Arabs say it is a CIA plot, while U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has accused it of "working in concert with terrorists" and "consistently lying." The upstart Qatar network's remarkable story is now finally told in journalist Hugh Miles's book Al-Jazeera. Other Arab media outlets slavishly kowtowed to their governments and were distrusted by the public, but the emir gave Al-Jazeera complete editorial freedom. Its motto was: "The opinion and the other opinion." Arabs were amazed to see TV news that finally broadcast interviews with dissidents and held their governments accountable for policies. www.amazon.com /Al-Jazeera-Arab-Challenges-America/dp/0802117899   (3194 words)

IN THE MIDDLE EAST DEADLOCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) This basically involves promoting the leading figures, and the values, of the Arab nahda ("renaissance"): patriotism and tolerance, religious belief and rationalism, freedom and reformism. At a time when, at the economic level, the state is falling into line with the neoliberalism imposed on it by its Western sources of funding, it has decided, in order to "sell" this model of society, to revive cultural and media policies inherited from the Nasser years. This elitism translates into a system of state censorship which functions by means of a "law of diminishing freedoms". www.arabworldbooks.com /Readers/articles/jacquemond_nasser.htm   (1822 words)

Amura [artists] Among his many writings, were studies on the relationship between arab modes, rhythms, and the construction of the oud. The major difference between western music and Arabic music is that in the latter the existence of the microtones (or quarter tone versus half tones in western music) leads to microtonal based scales-based on a division that does not exist in western scaler system. It is a light in character, makes use of refrains, and is simple in structure and melody Although the text in the qudud deals mostly with love, they were originally composed as religious songs. www.arabicmusicradio.com /ARTISTS.html   (1058 words)

NWCForum - Eastern Tone System/Microtones The sori is a > sign with two vertical lines through it, and raises the note by a third of a semitone (33.33 cents); the koron is has a stem with a little > at the top; it lowers the note by two thirds of a semitone (66.66 cents). These figures are of course approximate; in practice the size of the interval is variable, and that is true of the two other systems also. The Turkish system has eight accidentals, two of wiich are graphically identical to the ordinary sharp and flat respectively, and three of which are identical to signs used in the Arab system. www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/4550.htm   (639 words)

Qahwa Sada The system was exported everywhere U.S. firms went, although it has not been noticed anywhere by anyone writing about oil in the past few decades, with one important exception. Public educational systems are mostly broken, and in many countries, wages lag behind rising expenses. Arab media scholar Marc Lynch has rightly identified that there is not so much an Arab blogosphere as there is a collection of localized, regional blog communities. www.qahwasada.com   (7679 words)

NITLE Arab World Project The article is very hopeful in tone, the authors believing that the Peace Process in the Middle East will facilitate better management of water resources. In it Beinin traces economic policies through the period of state-led development schemes that tended toward a Marxist origin, often referred to as 'Arab Nationalism' or 'Arab Socialism'. It is not possible to discuss the Arab world in the modern era without considering the impact of oil and, to a lesser extent, natural gas or mineral resources. arabworld.nitle.org /texts.php?module_id=4   (1145 words)

Arab and Jewish Thought Like their European counterparts, Arabs tried to work out an appropriate synthesis of philosophy with theology, struggling as the Christians had with the relationship between faith and reason and the effort to provide an account of human nature that left room for the hope of immortality. But since their culture had preserved both the ancient texts and classical learning to a greater degree, the Arab thinkers had access to a wealth of material from the Hellenistic world of which the Latin philosophers of the dark ages were ignorant. Ibn Rushd ("Averroës" in Latin) wrote so many analyses and explanations of Aristotelean works that he became known throughout Europe simply as "The Commentator." It was almost exclusively as a result of his labors in translating and explicating the Aristotelean corpus that the Greek philosopher came to exert a lasting influence on the Western culture. www.philosophypages.com /hy/3k.htm   (1015 words)

Arab Music - Part One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) from the Arabian Peninsula towards the middle of the seventh century until the present century, Arab music has been shaped by five principal processes, some purely intellectual and cultural, others political. While retaining strong local elements, such as the singing of poetical lyrics in Arabic – the language of the Qur'an and the lingua franca of the Islamic Empire – this music featured new performance techniques, new aspects of intonation, and new musical instruments. 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. trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/Arab_Music1.html   (1995 words)

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