Essays on Amina

In this case, IBM developed the dial-up-era dinosaur programme which was developed with the aim of connecting the customers with the company through the social media networks. This however, was similar to a similar product that had been developed by The Groupon Ltd. Groupon went further to obtain a patent to bar the other companies from using the similar product. This product as per the business ethics were said to be unfair in terms of being unfair to Groupon since it had the patent to the product (Vanian, 2016). The case brought before the court is one which was ...

This paper seeks to bring to light the problems of farms on the east coast of the UAE and show their water-related problems and its effects on domestic and business activities through a story (Cronon). The protagonist of the tale is Dr. Saif Al Qaydi, who was the Dean of Humanities of a local college in the East of the UAE. He like all the residents of the area faced first-hand the acute problem of water shortage. Al Qaydi was involved in several types of research on the issue and discovered that more than 20 farm businesses were rendered ...

In the month of March, 2013, an unprecedented protest created an enormous stir all across the world. A nineteen year old Tunisian girl, Amina, had posted two pictures of her own on a page of the social networking website, Facebook, where she posed topless. She had written “My body is my own” in Arabic over her naked body. This bizarre form of protest was in consolidation with the Femen movement that had hit the world society with its immense impetus. She later gave an interview to the Ettounisia television channel where she conveyed her support for the Femen movement ...

Feminism in Mahfouz's Palace Walk, Nadine Gordimer's None to Accompany Me and J.M. Cotzee's Disgrace

Abstract

Naguib Mahfouz, J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer are three African Nobel laureates who depicted feminism by showing their central women characters transgress tradition. If Amina, the protagonist of Palace Walk, transgressed tradition by going out on her own to the mosque for prayer, Lucy fought tradition by claiming her right not to take a part in the system of oppression and enters into an impossible relationship of her time by marrying a black man. Vera plays the role reversal by being the party who betrays ...

Islamic feminism

The condition of Muslim women has always been an issue of discussion. A number of people have raised questions about women subjugation and women related issues. The issue was highly publicized when Muslim women came out and gave voice to their issues. Some women extensively talked about their issues. This awakening about women related issues was termed as Islamic feminism. This paper intends to discuss the Islamic feminism and major contributors of this idea, Amina Wadud, Fatima Mernissi and Lila Abu Lughod along with discussing other related aspects. The idea of Islamic feminism moved on a new trajectory during ...

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The patriarchal societal system has spread its clutches all across the varied spheres of human life. The female has always been conditioned by the institutional machinery of patriarchy to embrace passivity and “correct femininity”. Thus, the women folk of the society have been kept inside the constricted sphere of the home and the normative duties which have been attributed to the women have been homemaking and childrearing. From the very tender age, the female is stripped off her independence and ideal equal status and is made to pursue the unattainable goal of becoming the epitome of immanence and ...

How is the traditional system of values, as it is depicted in Palace Walk, different from the values of a modern person like the character Fahmi? - Introduction Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace Walk provides an insight into 19th Century Egyptian society and the social, political and philosophical changes that take place during this dramatic period. Published in 1954, the book offers a highly detailed account of a society in the midst of transition from tradition to modernity and interweaves a family’s life story with the emergence of the Egyptian Nationalist Movement. This essay aims to illustrate the existence of ...

The rapid global population increase is feeding the issue of hunger in third world and developing countries. The effects of uncontrolled population particularly in counties where food supply is less than sufficient, hunger emerges as an alarming sign of poverty. This situation is evident in countries such as Bangladesh where poverty is everywhere. Mohammad Yunus (1999), founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh tells story of a woman named Ammajan Amina whose life experiences depict a life in poverty.

Amina is widow and mother of six children. Four of her children died either of hunger or disease. The fact that their family's ...

Introduction

The growing population is a great concern especially in Asia and Africa, where apart from the population growth there are other important social concerns like poverty, hunger and many more. Hence, various population experts have expressed their concerns about feeding the extra 3 Billion people, who will be joining us by the year 2050. Hence, it is important to understand and study about this problem to initiate a control now, so that the issues can be addressed on time. This paper will discuss a couple of articles that have highlighted the picture of current related concerns and at the same time will ...