Group items tagged divorce - Media in Middle East & North Africa

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Apr 09 - Cached

A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split -- the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message -- after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention, the paper said.
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shared by Ed Webb on 22 Aug 10 - Cached

Turkish TV series have found a considerable audience in the region and angered conservatives who see them as deliberate efforts to induce moral laxity among Muslims. Some scholars at the al-Azhar mosque-university, for instance, blamed the melodrama Gümüş for increasing the divorce rate in Egypt by raising the “romantic expectations of women.”
- Ed Webb on 22 Aug 10
  
  Turkey is competing successfully with Latin American countries as a supplier to Arab markets of racier soap operas than are produced in the Arab world itself.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Turkey is competing successfully with Latin American countries as a supplier to Arab markets of racier soap operas than are produced in the Arab world itself.</div>
  
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enhance Turkey’s status as a vital and autonomous player in the region
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Increasing signs of multi-polarity also provide ample opportunities for the Turkish government to enhance its regional influence, which can be converted into bargaining power in its dealings with the US and the EU. As Ahmet Davutoğlu lucidly described his vision: “The new global order must be more inclusive and participatory…. Turkey will be among those active and influential actors who sit around the table to solve problems rather than watching them.”[7]
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shared by michelle benevento on 28 Feb 09 - Cached

shared by Manon Latil on 13 Feb 09 - Cached

divorce
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male supremacy is still enscribed in the legal code
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Internet and satellite television have opened windows into the lives of women in the West
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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09 - Cached

Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did. "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," Greenfield said. Restrain me, quick, before I break something. Because there’s a missing element in this bit of sloppy science that makes me want to throw my beloved laptop through the window. It’s this: the freaking teacher. So let me correct this: “CLUELESSLY wiring classrooms for internet access does not enhance learning.”
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It’s totally schooly, and divorced from the authentic uses we put this stuff to in that non-school place called the real world.
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More pointedly still: Creating an opposition between "critical thinking" and "reading and discussing," on the one hand, and electronic/social media on the other, is a logical false disjunctive (in plain talk, a false either/or). Any competent teacher can use the new literacy tools to create new possibilities in critical thinking, reading, discussing, and more, that were only dreamt of in pre-Internet philosophies.
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