Resources

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:

  1. Global Issues:  http://www.globalissues.org/issue
  2. Yale Global Online:  http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/
  3. Gapminder.org  https://www.gapminder.org
 John Pilger;
The Secret of the Seven Sisters
A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.



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.
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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