Arab culture #7

Top ten lists.

1. Coffee is essential to hospitality as it is in all Middle Eastern countries. It is the traditional sign of welcome.
   
2. The fine lamb and mutton raised in the Middle East is the favorite meat of the people.
3. Milk from cows or goats is usually converted to laban (yoghurt), or made into the cream cheese, labneh.
4. The main cereals are rice and cracked wheat, called burghul.
5. The Lebanese like to use their own fresh olive oil, or a clarified butter called samneh. The Turks use olive oil, vegetable shortening or butter, while in Saudi Arabia the preferred fat is ghee, usually obtained from goat or sheep milk.
   
6. Arranged marriages are very common in the Arab world because the traditions of Arab culture and Islam forbid couples to have sex before marriage, so when it is time for a young man to get married, his family will look around to identify a number of potential brides such as the girls' physical beauty, her behaviour, her cleanliness, her conduct in front of elders, her education, her religious education(whether or not she has completed the memorization of the Quran), and finally her qualities as a housewife.       
7. The bride's family hosts a reception in their home, where the groom formally asks for the bride's hand in marriage from her father or the eldest man in the family. After the father agrees, the families read the Fatiha and drink sharbat, a sweet cordial prepared from flowers or fruit.
8. Engagements are in the Arab world are usually much like wedding parties, with the difference that the bride wears any dress she pleases. Usually, the bride and groom dress in matching colors. They exchange rings, putting the rings on each other's right-hand ring finger.
9. bellydance is a Western-coined name for "solo, improvised dances based on torso articulation" originating from the Middle East, especially raqs sharqi.
   
10. Belly dance in the Middle East has two distinct social contexts: As a folk or social dance, and as a performance art.

Source:

• http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600/640/641/khayat/introduction.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_wedding
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_dance

life and family in the Arabic world #6

                               

                          

                                 this pictures show  how the Arabic family wear
                                                     and how woman wear for the Islam cloths(most of the Arabic family is muslin ) .

           

             that is one of the biggest mosque in the world usually the Arabic Muslim people
                   go to the mosque one time in the week,so that place will be all  of it people praying .

there is no freedom life in most of the Arabic world when any revolution 

come the government suppression it and using power.

woman has the freedom in working and in any level in the life.
   

                                           A lot of Arabic woman like to do that tattoo in there hand.

Arabic people like to save there money by gold and the woman like to wear it. 

there is a lot of different kind of food in the Arabic world.

Synthesis & Plan #5

I learn a lot of thing about the Arabic people, and some of this thing I learn it and its Impressive me that:

 90% of the Arabic people is Muslim.

The weekend in the Arabic word in Friday not Sunday.

The Arabic people really need job/food and freedom I was thinks all the Arabic people very rich and don’t need free, food or job.

I learn that the Arabic family stays together whole life and parents help the Son/Daughter to building there future.

My question is:

1-      Is that right that women’s statuses are low?

2-      Is the all Arabic country’s no freedom in it?

3-      Is all the Arabic people can understand the language they speak in? and is there is one Arabic Traditional langue?

Arab culture #4

1. The basic of Arab society is the family, they belong a big Arab family.
2. Most of Arab cultures are in Middle East and Africa.
3. More than 90% Arabs is Muslim.
4. On Friday for the weekly Muslim go to mosque reading Koran and pray.
5. The beginning of Arab is Semitic people.
6. In some of countries of conservatism, women's status are low.
7. Most of Arab women can get homage, especially It's mother's status.
8. Arab peoples really want freedom, equality before the law, jobs, food, housing and human dignity.
9. Arabic translation movement is long time, and big area.
10.Among the key sinic cultural factors are the conviction that :(1) education is an expressway to success for individuals and nation; (2) goals should be far higher than mere survival and pursued over the long haul with single-minded diligence and a demanding work ethic; (3) merit should be sought out and rewarded; and (4) frugality and focus must guide the expenditures of funds and energies.

what makes a society just?

I think Daoism is the best because It's natural living. For example we should be nice to each other. So if we are all nice, we won't be bad.

What makes society just?

1. I think a people can get people's choose to him. He should be responsible for how to let people can live better, he shouldn't be responsible for control people's freedom.
2. I think people naturally is bad because people is selfish. I think relationships can determine people’s behavior.
3. Goverment should let people have a good life in its country. They should let people rich.
4. I think money influenced people's behavior.

Arab culture #3

Arab culture is important on human civilization. The ideas of Arab nationalism social and economic life in the thinking of long-term, customs, the system of law, understanding, life, experience, and so on. Arab culture and Islamic are closely linked. Arab-Islamic culture is not only for the Arab nation, its still for the Islamic faith of Muslims around the world. I think the Arab-Islamic culture is one of  important point.
Arab culture can be showed from stories, histories, poems, customs and so on. During middle ages, Arab culture almost became Islamic culture. The characteristic of Arab culture is there are in a big family that is not only Arabian, there are still Egyptian, Indian, Persian, Spanish, Syrian and so on. Then they make all  characteristic together, create new Arab culture, it's a big contribution for humanity.


source: Arab and Islam
Title: Arab culture
http://baike.baidu.com/view/87281.htm

Arab culture

Arab culture refers to the culture in the countries in which the official language is Arabic (although the Arabic language in some of them is the language of minority), and the west officials and scholars used to call them "Arab countries" of West Asia and North Africa, from Morocco to the Arabian Sea. Language, literature, gastronomy, art, architecture, music, spirituality, philosophy, mysticism (etc.) are all part of the cultural heritage of the pan-Arab world.

Men

Arab dress for men ranges from the traditional flowing robes to blue jeans, T-shirts and western business suits. The robes allow for maximum circulation of air around the body to help keep it cool, and the head dress provides protection from the sun. At times, Arabs mix the traditional garb with Western clothes.

Headdress The male headdress is also known as Keffiyeh. Headdress pattern might be an indicator of which tribe, clan, or family the wearer comes from. However, this is not always the case. While in one village, a tribe or clan might have a unique headdress, in the next town over an unrelated tribe or clan might wear the same headdress.

• Checkered headdresses relate to type and government and participation in the Hajj, or a pilgrimage to Mecca.
• Red and white checkered headdress – Generally of Jordanian origin. Wearer has made Hajj and comes from a country with a Monarch.
• Black and white checkered headdress – The pattern is historically of Palestinian origin.
• Black and grey represent Presidential rule and completion of the Hajj.
• Shi’a- black turbans associated with Shi’a clergy who are somehow connected to the Prophet Muhammed or Ali Ibn Abi Talib the cousin of the Prophet who was the 4th Khalif of Islam, and whom they claim was the leader of the Shi’a sect.
• Those who wear white turbans are associated with the lower echelons of the Shi’a hierarchy.

Women

Adherence to traditional dress varies across Arab societies. Saudi Arabia is more traditional, while Egypt is less so. Traditional Arab dress features the full length body cover (abaya, jilbāb, or chador) and veil (hijab). Women are required to wear abayas in only Saudi Arabia. In most countries, like Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, the veil is not mandatory. It is clear that religiously speaking the mention of the bur'qa doesn't exist for Muslims women and today represents more a politic position than a religious interpretation... About the veil, nowadays, some religious think that hijab is not obligatory while others think that it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_culture

Arab Culture

I want to study in Arab culture.

There are a lot of students is from Arab world. I can't understand their ways of life. I can't understand their language. I can't understand their religion. 

Life.
Language.

MY LIFE

Hello, I am Sijia. I am an exchange student from China. I am a sophomore in Hinsdale Central High School now.  I take choir, ESL English, world culture, person fitness, algebra 2 and cooking. And I am in a lot of club as well, for example FCCLA, JA company club, Care club, and Kung fu club. All in all, I enjoy my school life.

 When I am in the U.S.A, I live with my host family, people are very nice in my host family. When I am in China with my parents. I am only child, but I don't feel alone because I have a lot of friends. I like music, for example, I can play 4 kinds of musical instruments and sing.

In future, I want be a psychologist because I want to help all unhappy people, to make them happy.

introduction

1.My first name  is Sijia.
2.I like to hang our with my friends for fun.
3.I like environment Hinsdale Central.
4.I do my favorite thing is eating food in my native country.