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Advantages and Disadvantages of Dubai to Become a Regional Cultural Hub
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2022
Pages:
1-4
Received:
5 November 2021
Accepted:
29 November 2021
Published:
8 January 2022
Abstract: Dubai, a small territory in Persian Gulf, has attained a good popularity during the last two Decades. A little territory with undesirable air in almost three decades managed good to reach the point that now most of the countries in the region like it's good trade and economic situations. Some, now, are speaking about Dubai's own pattern of development. Nowadays, it serves as the main hub for trade and economic swap in the region of west Asia, or at least Persian Gulf. The issue of development and Dubai's kind of development is not here my purpose. The question that this article tries to provide some answers for, is: Will Dubai be able to become the regional cultural hub? What is it's advantages and disadvantages? To verify this, I suggested a preposition and assumption: Dubai has some advantages that in such kind and domain are rarely found in the region, fore example has good infrastructures in tourism, digital network and transportation, but it suffers some other factors, as a sample, it doesn’t have a long history and cultural record: the disadvantageous are mainly with the cultural and political characteristic and the advantages are most in technologic infrastructure and management's field.
Abstract: Dubai, a small territory in Persian Gulf, has attained a good popularity during the last two Decades. A little territory with undesirable air in almost three decades managed good to reach the point that now most of the countries in the region like it's good trade and economic situations. Some, now, are speaking about Dubai's own pattern of developm...
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Western Modernity: The Origin, Development and the Limitation
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2022
Pages:
5-11
Received:
19 January 2022
Accepted:
6 February 2022
Published:
3 March 2022
Abstract: The paper attempts to investigate the historical origin, development and the limitation of the western modernity. It pursues why and how the western modernity was developed from eighteen centuries to twenties centuries. While discussing early chronological, sociological and political developments of the western modernity it requires the separation of the state from the religious autocracy and the establishment of technology based industrial society. The early modernity shaped western countries from traditional society to industrialization made surplus of products that tended them to establish colonialism in Asia, Africa and Latin American countries. However, the changing structural politico-economic system provide classical theories of modernity which installed US hegemony in East Asian and East European countries as colonization was established in non-western countries. On the other hand, the proponent of post-colonial theory of modernity negates the colonial theory as it is being forcibly imposed by the western colonizers upon the non-western people. But all are the theories of the modernity: pro-western, post-colonial, post-modernist and environmental approach are the expressions of their ideological structures but have the limitations within the structure. The article identified all the theories of modernity failed to suggest a realistic solution to the global problems.
Abstract: The paper attempts to investigate the historical origin, development and the limitation of the western modernity. It pursues why and how the western modernity was developed from eighteen centuries to twenties centuries. While discussing early chronological, sociological and political developments of the western modernity it requires the separation ...
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Persuasion, Media Discourse, and Image Making; Critical Discourse Analysis of Arab Gulf Media
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2022
Pages:
12-21
Received:
3 February 2022
Accepted:
19 February 2022
Published:
3 March 2022
Abstract: This comparative study aims to critically analyze the media discourse of Arab Gulf countries in terms of objectivity, persuasion, and national brands. It is also necessary to investigate the power relations in the Gulf media discourse and the ideologies adopted by the conflicting parties which aim to mobilize public opinion locally and internationally. Arab Gulf media outlets attempt to convince the masses of the legitimacy of the political agenda and foreign policies of Arab countries in the region. In many cases, the Arab Gulf regimes attempt to own hegemony and control over power relations by adopting an inflammatory media discourse capable of distorting the true image of other groups on the one hand and supporting the national brand and the foreign policies of the ruling families on the other. This complex relationship between the media discourse and the structures of power makes the task more difficult to uncover the deep link that constitutes the components of the adopted discourse and opens the door to many interpretations that need good textual and ontological analysis. Therefore, critical discourse analysis was used as a method of data analysis to understand the ideological attitudes during the online media coverage of both Aljazeera and al-Arabiya media networks. The stratified sample of this comparative study consists of 8 news reports retrieved from both websites. The comparative analysis reveals that the Arab media discourse employed by the conflicting parties is far from neutral especially when political crises arise between major powers as in the case of the Gulf dispute between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and other countries. Al-Arabiya English has used an inflammatory discourse against the Qatari regime to create a negative image of Qatar's foreign policies, while Al-Jazeera English has adopted the Qatari narrative to refute the claims of supporting terrorism, spreading hate speech, and marketing extremist ideologies. However, both media outlets funded by Arab Gulf countries manipulate media content and meaning to mobilize public opinion and convince the international community of the legitimacy of their political agenda, foreign policies, and national identities.
Abstract: This comparative study aims to critically analyze the media discourse of Arab Gulf countries in terms of objectivity, persuasion, and national brands. It is also necessary to investigate the power relations in the Gulf media discourse and the ideologies adopted by the conflicting parties which aim to mobilize public opinion locally and internationa...
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Safeguarding Uganda’s Cultural Heritage: An Inquiry into the Opportunities and Challenges Brought by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2022
Pages:
22-26
Received:
29 October 2021
Accepted:
4 February 2022
Published:
18 March 2022
Abstract: Uganda’s cultural heritage includes artistic and cultural expressions such as languages and literary arts, performing arts, visual arts and handicrafts, indigenous knowledge, cultural beliefs, traditions and values, cultural sites, museums, monuments and antiquities. Some of these cultural heritage aspects are man-made while others are natural. Our cultural heritage is important for both sociocultural and educational purposes. It promotes tourism and consequently, creates employment for people. The natural aspects of our heritage have been known to enhance the protection of the environment through indigenous knowledge (discussed in the later sections). The museums, especially community museums, for instance, have made an effort to engage young people through cultural heritage clubs, which are more than 150 across Uganda. The museums have also contributed to the safeguarding of unique and threatened aspects of Uganda’s heritage. Sites and monuments, including historic buildings, are important in preserving and showcasing our collective memory as a country and tell our journeys in terms of social life, governance and administration. Despite its importance, our cultural heritage is usually not adequately supported, maintained, or documented, and people’s awareness of its value is still alarmingly low. At the turn of 2020, Uganda just like other countries in the world was hit by the Coronavirus (COVID-19 pandemic), which virtually brought all aspects of life to a standstill. Tourism, particularly cultural tourism that provides a string on which the safeguarding of cultural heritage is fastened, was severely affected, exacerbating the dire situation that the cultural heritage industry was in before the pandemic. This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safeguarding of Uganda’s cultural heritage both tangible and intangible, which includes museums, heritage sites, historic buildings on the tangible side, and the creative industries, traditional or indigenous medicines, and traditional values, on the intangible side. The paper further explores the opportunities and challenges that the pandemic poses to the protection and promotion of our heritage industry.
Abstract: Uganda’s cultural heritage includes artistic and cultural expressions such as languages and literary arts, performing arts, visual arts and handicrafts, indigenous knowledge, cultural beliefs, traditions and values, cultural sites, museums, monuments and antiquities. Some of these cultural heritage aspects are man-made while others are natural. Our...
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