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Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include:

* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken

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One of the nations of the Persian Gulf
Oman is a country full of a lot of immigrants, which Omani Arabs number about 48-50%, and South Asians number about 30% with (Baluchis numbering about 15%) and others include Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Tamils, Other Paksitanis, and Filipinos.

And Oman is full of a lot of religions being practiced with the majority being Ibadhi Muslims, while the rest are Sunni and Shia Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians. ... Read more

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Oman has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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This book is a multipurpose study that comprises general photography, rules of Islamic and Traditional Culture regarding photography and some important directions for photographing natural and historical places in Oman. The purpose of indicating the Islamic and traditional culture rules, which is the main topic of this book is to indicate how to take pictures from the perspective of people from another culture (Islamic countries), and is to let professional experts know what can be photographed, how you photograph, what should be done by indicating both the opinions of scholars and members of these societies about photography. The other topic is a photographic aspect, it presents types and techniques related to general knowledge in photography both conventional and digital photography in the Oman environment as a second topic.The purpose concerning the directions (in chapter three) is to enable photographers to know the name of the places that they can visit for taking photographs of different subjects. I have combined these three topics in one book, to give you a good picture, which will help when planning to take images and, which will keep you away from problems that could occur if one is not familiar with the positive and negative points related to the topics indicated. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1353 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Chapters: Languages of Oman, National Symbols of Oman, Omani Media, Omani Music, Religion in Oman, Sport in Oman, Arabic Language, Freedom of Religion in Oman, Oman Sail, Bahrani Arabic, Flag of Oman, Culture of Oman, Liwa, Modern South Arabian Languages, Lori Dialects, Nashid As-Salaam As-Sultani, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Mehri Language, Shehri Language, Kumzari Language, Gulf Arabic, List of Games in Oman, Mirwas, Omani Arabic, Harsusi Language, Music of Oman, National Emblem of Oman, Dhofari Arabic, Shihhi Arabic, Bathari Language, Hobyót Language, Sultanate of Oman Television, Oman Olympic Committee, Roman Catholicism in Oman, Oman at the Olympics, Oman National Beach Handball Team, Oman at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, Luwati Language, Sultan Qaboos University Library. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Egypt: Academy of the Arabic Language in CairoIraq: Iraqi Academy of SciencesJordan: Jordan Academy of ArabicLibya: Academy of the Arabic Language in JamahiriyaMorocco: Academy of the Arabic Language in RabatSudan: Academy of the Arabic Language in KhartumSyria: Arab Academy of Damascus (the oldest)Tunisia: Beit Al-Hikma Foundation Arabic ( , (·)) or ) is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. Arabic has more speakers than any other language in the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as a first language, most of whom live in the Middle East and North Africa, and by 250 million more as a second language. Arabic has many different, geographically distributed spoken varieties, some of which are mutually unintelligible. Modern Standard Arabic is widely taught in schools, universities, and used in workplaces, gove...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=803 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on December 23, 2002. The length of the article is 805 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: OMAN - The Politico-Economic Scenario.
Publication: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map (Newsletter)
Date: December 23, 2002
Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
Volume: 44Issue: 6

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At a time when the turmoil and conflict in the Middle East dominates world news, students need to develop an understanding of the people and culture of this region. This five-volume set, part of the Discovering World Cultures series, examines geographical, historical, economic, and cultural issues in 16 Middle Eastern countries. For each nation, information about people groups, natural resources and geography, economy, and religion is included. A section on everyday life considers education, leisure activities, dress, holidays, the arts, and food, including sample recipes. Tables, charts, illustrations, timelines, and fact sheets provide visual references to support the written material.

Volume 1: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt

Volume 2: Iran, Iraq, Israel

Volume 3: Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman

Volume 4: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria

Volume 5: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Grades 6-8

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A month after the September 11th attacks, the somewhat skeptical author, ex-paratrooper, teacher and smart-aleck, decides to take a job teaching English in the Sultanate of Oman to, "...show at least some of the people in the Middle East that not all Americans are war-mongers." In spite of the warnings of friends, family and the U.S. State Department, the author arrives in Oman to find the country is nothing that he (nor anyone) had imagined. He finds himself teaching students in a small town who are completely different than any students he has ever taught before. He also finds himself alone as an American and quickly he becomes immersed in a culture whose people are the friendliest he has ever seen.
He soon meets and falls in love with an Indian girl who lives two hundred miles away in Muscat. Her parents are rich and extremely conservative Hindus who will never accept their daughter being married to a "ghora" (white American). In spite of the odds against them, he drives two hundred miles every weekend, just to be with her. Together, they visit the many exotic locations Oman has to offer, from beautiful white sand beaches, to towering mountains. His unawareness of the vast differences between his own culture and the cultures he finds himself within gives him an insight to the world that most Americans (and Europeans) don't ever have. His sense of humor and his writing style make this and Another Year in Oman two of the best books you will ever read. ... Read more

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There has been a growing body of literature examining the role that the tourism industry plays on the lives of women employees. These studies have tended to focus on women in Western countries and developing countries. Both positive and negative aspects of tourism employment have been addressed. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to the employment of Muslim women in the tourism industry in the Middle East, North Africa or the Arabian Peninsula. Therefore, this book will help to bridge this gap in the literature in understanding the experiences and meanings of tourism employment for Muslim women, including the positive and negative aspects of this form of employment. Theoretical analysis of the study provides new ways to understand the potential role of tourism employment for women in Muslim societies, which includes exploitation versus empowerment, resistance and social change. Hence, the book provides a stepping-stone towards understanding the changing role of Muslim women, and should be especially useful for academic professionals and tourism policy makers, or anyone else who may be interested in the area of Muslim women and tourism employment studies. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on December 23, 2002. The length of the article is 1654 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: OMAN - The Background.
Publication: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map (Newsletter)
Date: December 23, 2002
Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
Volume: 44Issue: 6

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