Documentaries
Gapminder
World is a useful database that allows you to research and graph trends in
international and national development in areas of economic, social, and
health.
Watch this
tutorial on how to use Gapminder.
Some general websites for research on global issues include these:
Some general websites for research on global issues include these:
- Global Issues: http://www.globalissues.org/issue
- Yale Global Online: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/
- Gapminder.org https://www.gapminder.org
John Pilger;
The Secret of the Seven Sisters
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A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact
formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.
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Pasted
from <http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/rise-of-the-oligarchs/2014/05/it-just-money-it-power-201452412128351328.html>
Empire Documentary on Globalization of Media,
Hollywood's Dominance
No Logo: Brands, Globalization and Resistance
Naomi Klein - No
Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance *
In the age of the
brand, logos are everywhere. But why do some of the world's best-known brands
find themselves on the wrong end of the spray paint can -- the targets of
anti-corporate campaigns by activists and protesters? *
Selected Bibliography
Abdulla, Abdulkhaleq. The Impact of Globalization on
Arab Gulf States. In John Fox, Nada Mourtadah-Sabbah and Mohammed al-Mutawa
(eds.) Globalization
and the Gulf. New York: Routledge,
2006.
Center for Arab Women Training and Research. First Arab Women's Development
Report: Globalization and Gender: Economic Participation of Arab Women. Tunisia: CAWTAR, 2001.
Center for Arab Women Training and Research. Gender and Trade Liberalization in
the MENA Region. Tunisia: CAWTAR, 2006.
Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Marsha
PripsteinPosusney (eds.) Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and
Society. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2003.
El Baz, Shahida.Globalization, Arab
Women and Gender Equality.
2003.http://www.forumdesalternatives.org/docs/caracas/es/Shahida_El_Baz-Globalization,_Arab_Women_and_Gender_Equality%7Bi%7D.pdf
Tohidi, Nayereh (2002). The Global-Local
Intersection of Feminism in Muslim Societies: The Cases of Iran and
Azerbaijan, Social
Research, 69, no. 3 (2002): 851-887.
United Nations Development
Programme. The Arab Human Development Report: Towards the Rise of Women in the
Arab World. UNDP, 2005. http://www.arab-hdr.org/publications/other/ahdr/ahdr2005e.pdf
Other sources:
Allehaiby, W. h. (2013). Arabizi: An
Analysis of the Romanization of the Arabic Script from a Sociolinguistic
Perspective. Arab World English Journal, 4(3),
52-62.
Ghanem, R. (2011, April 20). Arabizi is
destroying the Arabic language. Arab News.
Gran, P. (2011). Rise of the Rich: A New View of World History. New York:
Syracuse University Press.
Group, T. M. (2008). Modern Girl Around the World : Consumption,
Modernity, and Globalization. Durham, NC : Duke University Press.
Karl, T. L. (2004). Oil-Led Development:
Social, Political, and. In Encylopedia of
Energy (Vol. 4, pp. 661-672). Elsevier, Inc.
Klein, N. (2010). No Logo. Fourth Estate.
Knell, H. (2003). To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in
World War II. New York: Da Capo Press.
Muhammed, R. (2011). Summary of Arabizi
or Romanization: The dilemma of writing Arabic texts. Jīl Jadīd Conference, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX.
Ostler, R. (2000). Disappearing Languages. Retrieved September
10, 2014, from Wholearth.com: http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2100/article/138/disappearing.languages
Rehmani, M. (2011). The Long Black Dress:
Abaya, Fashion and the Female Body in the New GCC. Women and Globalization in the GCC: Negotiating States, Agency, and
Social Change. Gulf Research Meeting Workshop. Cambridge and others:
Dubai School of Government; Lund University; Gulf Research Center.
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