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Multilingual Development : English in a Global Context
English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and psychology, this book addresses the role of English within the current linguistic dynamics of globalization. It takes Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai as case studies to illustrate the use of English in different multilingual urban areas, arguing that these are places where competing historical assessments, and ideological conceptions of monolingualism and multilingualism, are being acted out most forcefully.
Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai
This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place
Analyzing Islamic banking trends in Syria and comparing them with islamic banks in the UAE, according to customer size and product type
In the Arabic country there are a lot of peoples follows the Islamic sharia, and these people have avery big investments, and big corporate, and they don’t usually deal or transact with the conventional banks (ribawi banks). So in order to start working with this group of peoples, the first Islamic bank established in the united Arab Emirates in 1975 (Dubai Islamic Bank), with a new products, services, policies, strategies, and it was developed to meet the market needs according to Islamic sharia. Now a day the Islamic banks compete the conventional banks, and eash new products in the conventional banks have an equivalents Islamic products with a specific regulation...
