Turkey's President Abdullah Gul meets with Amir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah of Kuwait during his official visit to Kuwait, on December 21, 2009.
Here we see two powerful people, who are both happy, with the confident and often times negative finger pointing gesture.
While it is still perceived as negative what is important is how neither wants to be perceived as weaker, so they match each others gesture.
In this case whomever holds it higher wins. Based on the picture it would be likely Amir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah of Kuwait was first to make the gesture and Turkey's President Abdullah Gul followed suit.
In a way it is gesture gamesmanship, and in politics it is important to master- especially in the Middle East.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Abdullah Gul meets with Amir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah
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Bridging Cultural Differences:
American Public Relations Practices & Arab Communication Patterns*
R.S. Zaharna, Ed.D.
School of Communication
American University
Washington, DC 20016
phone: (202) 885-3995
e-mail: Zaharna@American.edu
Abstract
This study focuses on how public relations practitioners and scholars can incorporate the dynamics of intercultural communication into their work. The study examines how two cultures -- the Arab and the American culture -- have two distinct perspectives for viewing language and, as a result, two differing preferences for structuring persuasive and appealing messages. Several frameworks for viewing cultural variations were used to develop a chart on "cultural communication preference" for Americans and Arabs. For the Arab culture, emphasis is on form over function, affect over accuracy, and image over meaning. An awareness of these cultural differences can help facilitate client relations, media training, and message appeals.
http://academic2.american.edu/~zaharna/arab-comm.htm
Additional Research
http://academic3.american.edu/~zaharna/research.html
Dr. Zaharan's Main Site
http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/zaharna.cfm
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Contrastive Analysis of American and Arab Nonverbal and Paralinguistic Communication.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED272935&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED272935
The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology
by Gary S. Gregg with Foreword by Dr. David Matsumoto
http://books.google.com/books?id=NBFL_-kQho0C&dq=middle+east+cultural+psychology&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Hollywood = Entertainment or Propaganda?
http://www.wolfmanproductions.com/shaheen.html
Chapter 5: - Law & Disorder
Book - Mistakes Were Made (but not by ME): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
http://www.mistakesweremadebutnotbyme.com/html/criminal_justice.html
Dr. Paul Ekman (43:50):
Proper training helps to prevent errors of misidentification of truthful people under suspicion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8nYZg4VnI
World's Friendlist Countries > Interesting that USA is the 10th friendliest country and the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain (UAE) tops the list as reported by Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/30/worlds-friendliest-countries-lifestyle-travel-canada-bahrain-hsbc.html
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