Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (February 22, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-159)

The critical essay gained immense popularity in the sixties and seventies in the Maghrib as a way to depict national realities that had failed to live up to nationalist ideals. Their authors often shared similar attributes: young highly educated intellectuals, committed toward modernity and who steered clear of politics. Such was the case of Abdallah Laroui (born 1933) and Hichem Djaït (born 1935), two celebrated Maghribi thinkers of the post-1967 generation in Arab thought. Despite their different ideological positions, they share a similar trajectory and both wrote about the need for another Arab renaissance, in Laroui's La crise des intellectuels arabes (1974) and Djaït's La personnalité arabo-islamique (1974). The turn to critical writing is routinely dismissed for being secondary, for having a restricted audience and little political impact, yet it highlights well the Maghribi postcolonial intellectual's competing demands: to conform to an ideal representation of intellectual "commitment" through critical speech, and to secure national recognition and integration. As such, this thesis confronts the often-neglected impact of nationalism on intellectual conducts after independence around the impact of their disillusionment, and forces us to rethink critically notions of engagement, the role of intellectuals and postcolonial cultural productions that are current in Middle East studies, and problematically envisaged by postcolonial studies. These texts have been approached as dynamic objects responding to a set of questions in their time, to account for the materiality of thought production, mobilising David Scott's concept of the "problem-space of intellectual production" (1999). This thesis looks at Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït's intellectual projects from 1965 to 1978, to study the genesis and aftermaths of their critical moment, focusing on their published writings (critical essays and academic studies), press and journal articles, interviews, and fictional texts from a later period, in Arabic and French. Their writings will be read alongside several cultural journals, newspapers and memoirs dealing with this period of the Maghrib's history to account for the processes of circulation and reception by relevant audiences.

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Le constat évoqué à propos des peuples arabes, acteurs passifs d’un contexte de paupérisation, est centré sur ses orientations futures à travers l'impact déterminant des discours idéologiques.<p><p>L’entrée du monde arabe dans l’ère moderne a tourné au désastre, entravant son accès à la modernité en l'éloignant peu à peu d’une idée de progrès. L’effort de dépassement d'une logique de crise perpétuelle s'orientera inévitablement vers la recherche d’un idéal commun en mesure de conférer une stabilité vitale pour cette région soumise à des siècles d’instabilité. <p><p>Parmi les choix futurs des populations arabes, l'une des alternatives pourrait être l'éradication du contexte de misère via l’instauration d’un mode de production démocratique. / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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This thesis will explore the origins of the U.S.-Israeli alliance during the Kennedy administration. John F. Kennedy provided Israel with the first U.S. weapons sale, issued the first informal security guarantee, and established the first joint security consultations between both nations. Ironically, Kennedy gave these concessions to contain Israel, not to establish closer relations. His primary objective for the Middle East was to improve U.S. relations with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, seeing Nasser as the path for gaining pro-American sentiments among the Arab population in the region to the detriment of the Soviets. Kennedy unintentionally laid the foundations of the U.S.-Israeli alliance while trying to restrain Israel, fearing Israeli actions would impede his plans. The Palestinian refugee issue, the regional arms race between Egypt and Israel, and Israel's secret nuclear weapons program became three pivotal concerns for Kennedy that unintentionally led to the U.S.-Israeli alliance. / by Michael Bocco. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, FL : 2008 Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Cette recherche vise à étudier la problématique d’harmonisation des concepts, des termes et des objets en Union européenne élargie et dans les pays arabes. Elle se focalise sur trois domaines : économie, administration et finance. Avec 23 langues officielles et 27 pays, en attendant peut-être un autre élargissement dans le futur, l’Europe a besoin d’harmoniser les concepts afin de surpasser les mauvaises interprétations et les compréhensions faussées. Chaque pays a son système administratif et économique qui lui est propre, qui convient à sa société et à sa culture ; et c’est souvent là que les problèmes de compréhension des concepts surgissent.Les pays arabes longtemps focalisés sur l’arabisation des emprunts sont également confrontés à ce problème, sans oublier la zone euro-méditerranée, appelée aujourd’hui Union pour la méditerranée (UPM). C’est donc d’une recherche focalisée sur l’étude des concepts et des définitions dans des domaines bien déterminés dont il s’agit dans notre thèse. Nous nous sommes appuyés sur les normes ISO en matière de terminologie pour essayer d’apporter des réponses sur la question d’harmonisation des concepts et des termes dans l’Union européenne et dans les pays arabes. / This research aims to study the problem of harmonization of concepts, terms and objects in the enlarged European Union and the Arab countries. It focuses on three subject fields: economy, finance and administration.With 23 official languages and 27 countries pending a further enlargement in thefuture, Europe needs to harmonize the concepts to surpass the misinterpretations and distorted understandings. Every country has its administrative and economic systemon its own and that suits his society and its culture, and it is often, in this case ,that the understanding of the concepts problems arises.The Arab countries which focused on the Arabization of borrowings also face this problem, without forgetting the Euro- Mediterranean zone, today called Union for the Mediterranean (UPM).It is therefore a research focused on the study of the concepts and terms in the subject fields well determined. We have relied on ISO standards of terminology to help us tofind solutions to the harmonization problem of harmonization of concepts, terms in the enlarged European Union and the Arab countries.