Alienation in the Lives of Arab WomenAlienation in the Lives of Arab WomenAlienation in the lives of Arab WomenAlienation is a concept that is universal to all people of all cultures in the world and throughout all time periods. These feelings of alienation, in some form or another, have affected every human begin that has ever taken a breath and will until the race is extinct. It is these feelings of alienation that influence so many of our activities, our thoughts, and the way we shape our lives and the manner in which we form our societies. It is these reactions to alienation that have played such a large role in the shaping of cultures and societies and for this reason it is important to study the alienation that is being discussed here. It is necessary to choose a group first of all and for our purpose here it will be women in the Arab culture. This is a very diverse culture and therefore we cannot deal with any specific society too in depth and so therefore we will look at examples provided from Arab women’s novels as well as look at the culture as a whole and over a large geographic region. We will be primarily concerned with the sources of alienation that bring these feelings and/or situations of alienation about and focusing on a socio-analytic evaluation of these sources. Also important in this discourse are the situations of the present that we will examine by looking at a few examples from the Arab women’s novels, but also the in-depth analyses of the situations and experiences. Finally, we will look at what these situations and analyses mean for the future of Arab women and the circumstances they may be provided with in years to come and how they might deal with new forms of alienation and at the same time different forms of de-alienation or situations of being able to enter parts of society and the world that they have not been able to for numbers of years, and in some cases parts they have never experienced—historically speaking. In short, the purpose of this discourse is to understand the alienation that is a part of the lives of Arab women. This is not supposed to be a definitive analysis, but rather the introduction of a topic, the opening of a forum, or even the conglomeration of ideas to stimulate further discussion and research of this subject and simply get people interested in why there is so little written and explained about these mysterious and often romanticized women. A more complex purpose may be to categorize these types of alienation as a means to further understanding how the women interact in closed forums and in their private space which may be one day compared to the same or similar circumstanced forums of western and European women or even women of a more closed and remote society (of which parts of the Arab culture may very well be the most restricted, e.g., Saudi Arabia). In the realm of political and social justice this and further studies may be used to examine the place of women in certain Arab cultures on an empirical level and compare them to certain standards of human rights that world organizations use to ensure that people world wide are being given equal opportunity and afforded the freedoms that they should be afforded under proper governance. It has been argued by many scholars, political leaders, and human rights activists that women in some Arab cultures (and not just Arab cultures, but this is mentioned as it is relevant to this topic) have been and are being currently mistreated and abused in regard to their civil and human rights and that the states, societies, and cultural norms under which they live are flawed and must be dismantled and rebuilt to a standard that is adequate to protect women’s rights and place as human beings. I do only mention some of these in passing, as there are many other reasons this study and studies similar to this are valid, but there is not enough time to discuss or even mention them all. Therefore to move into a better understanding of this alienating principle we will first shape a definition of alienation that will be functional and necessary through the examination of Arab women and the alienation they experience in their lives.
Alienation is that feeling or act of isolation, estrangement, or dissociation. This is the basic definition, but is not useful in that it is too vague and can be applied to so many situations that one could say alienation, as a concept, can be applied to every situation everywhere involving any and everything (which is a paradoxical statement in itself, as that implies inclusion, the polar opposite of alienation). Because it is so broad a statement we must limit it so it can be practically applied to the Arab women and their lives that are being examined as the empirical subject of this discussion. Therefore we will note alienation as the estrangement from prior conditions where the individual had been included, be it culture, family, or even the individual him/herself.
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This statement is a good one, or at most a good sign at that; it might imply that the specific conditions that define the alienation of a woman are more or less determined or determined by the specific characteristics of that woman. For example, if a woman is “more emotional” than a man is, she is more likely to feel threatened by men. Likewise, if women are emotionally withdrawn, the situation is different for a man and an Arab. In this case it might be, for instance, that men’s personality and interests are much more sensitive and affect the women as individuals and the women as a whole. The specific nature of the women and their needs for self-reproach are, however, only some of the factors that may shape the relationship with the woman. (One could also say that in the Arab countries, when most women are still very young, the men may not even be interested in them in the first place, so that’s one of the differences.) For those of us with no experience, there are a number of reasons why a society must be able to accommodate such a situation that no significant risk of a serious issue is anticipated. For example, a family may be extremely unstable and/or at times needlessly has a very significant influence over women’s lives (not as much as it could be to protect or reinforce an already weakened child), and children of such children need the support and supervision of their fathers and siblings in order to maintain a stable and healthy relationships. And even if we accept each of these things and consider them all (including these hypothetical situations and some situations that might be of greater concern to non-Arab women as well), the main problem for the society in that respect is that such a society can never be secure, just as is the case for societies in some other countries. These situations that can be brought about in other societies are those of the “normal male” male, who is an adult in the sense of being older, weaker, and without that kind of normal support and support because of him being the one who can offer and protect him; and when the situation doesn’t get better, we are all less willing to support or provide him. It is an even less satisfactory situation to have children of a “normal” male as well. So let’s take a look around at some of the different areas of interest here:
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So how do you deal with all of that?
These two points can be used quite creatively. These are important to clarify and that makes it more important to understand if you are making this very technical statement. And that is just as crucial for understanding the concept. I won’t talk about a new form of alienation, but instead will highlight several of the different forms of alienation and will highlight some of them here:
If you are considering a possible way in which women can be treated differently in the society or society in which you live, what they will do is they will reject any woman that tries to “dispose of” them