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Nation-Building: Essential Team Skills and Methodologies
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G'Day All --
If you were invited to compile an inventory of the essential team skills and methodologies for nation-building, from the village level upward, which programmatic and administrative categories would you include ??
What you might view as a "draft version" of such a skills and methodologies inventory is provided in Section 5. of The Civic Action Free University's web site, entitled:
Topic-Focused "Civic Action for Your Turf" (CA4YT) Groups & Links
>>> To get there, click on Item 5. at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/civactnet.htm#Navigation
As a fictional scenario, just for purposes of discussion, if you were given responsibility to organize and prepare Mobile Training Teams to promote constructive civic action and community development in the "Republic of Bonmaristan," which of the above-referenced skill and methodology categories would you include in the curriculum for orienting and training the Mobile Training Team members ??
What additional skill/methodology subject matter would you include, that is not mentioned in the above-referenced "topic-focused" collection ??
If you find this exercise to be of interest, it is further explained and developed at:
Creating Mobile Training Teams to Stimulate Civic Action and Community Development in the "Republic of Bonmaristan"
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/mission.htm
You are cordially invited to take a little time to think about these questions, and share your considered thoughts and suggestions with the rest of us.
>>> If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/731437
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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Kilroy's Film Fest -- Newest Arrivals
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G'Day All --
Kilroy's On-Line Classic Film Festival continues to grow, with several entertaining additions.
Included among the nine Newest Arrivals is (IMHO) one of the most hilarious productions of all time, "The Horse's Mouth," about an eccentric old artist named Gully Jimson, who lives on a decrepit houseboat on the Thames River in London, starring Alec Guinness.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/yourturf3/KilroysFilmFest.htm
I've received a few admonitions from folks who insist that anyone "seriously interested" in watching any of these films would buy the DVDs and view them on their big-screen televisions. My reply is, "By all means, do so."
On the other hand, the Film Festival web page has received several thousand hits, so it seems to interest some folks -- even if only for purposes of sampling the "merchandise" before acquiring the DVDs.
Enjoy the on-line material whenever it suits your convenience, and forward the site to any of your friends who might like to do the same.
Remember -- whether you watch on-line, or on a TV screen in your house, you are still most welcome to post comments about your favorite films on Kilroy's Movie Buffs' and Film Critics' Forum, that you can access from the link near the bottom of the above web page, or directly at:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/KilroysMovieBuffsForum/
I hope the above material will be of interest. If you have questions or comments, please let me know.
>>> If you want to forward this item to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/690889
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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Kilroy's On-Line Classic Film Festival -- A Follow-Up
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G'Day All --
This is a brief follow-up to yesterday's post about Kilroy's On-Line Classic Film Festival.
As you know, the Festival's play list is composed mostly of older movies. Very few newer and perhaps more spectacular films are available on-line, due to copyright limitations. Nevertheless, hopefully, you will be able to find a few items in the current line-up that are enjoyable to watch.
While surfing through the 'Net, if you come across additional audiovisual presentations that are entertaining, interesting, and/or informative, please send me a note, so they can be considered for inclusion in the play list.
While visiting the Film Festival's site, please don't overlook the additional invitation near the bottom of the page to join Kilroy's Movie Buffs' and Film Critics' Forum. If you would enjoy sharing your thoughts and opinions about any of the Film Fest's features (as well as any other movies that have excited your interest), you will be most welcome to do so.
I hope this follow-up information will be useful. If you have questions or I can be of further assistance, please let me know.
>>> If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/681235
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day !!
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G'Day All --
This year's greeting is introduced by a cute film clip -- (well, anyway, I thought it was cute) -- entitled "Give Up Yer Aul Sins," summarizing the story of Saint Patrick as a Young Boy, as recited by -- (of course) -- Mary:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/yourturf3/TCAFUSaintPatricks.htm
Don't forget to try the Saint Patty's Day Musical Fiesta ("Viva Celtic") Music Station, at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/yourturf3/TCAFUSaintPatricks.htm#Station
(But please note: At this particular time of year, SoundClick's Irish music tracks become so jammed with hits that you may find some of them inaccessible. Try again in a few days, and they will probably be working nicely.)
... and sample the additional film clips of Kilroy's Saint Patrick Kaleidoscope:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/yourturf3/TCAFUSaintPatricks.htm#Kegs
Otherwise, you'll see that this year's greeting looks pretty similar last year's.
Hope you enjoy it !!
>>> If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/616083
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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New Outdoor Adventure & Wilderness Survival Film Clips
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G'Day All --
For persons interested in topics related to Outdoor Adventure and Wilderness Survival, the collection of educational film clips is gradually growing, and is being consolidated in one convenient location.
Go to the Old Scouts' Association web page:
http://www.oldscouts.net
... and scroll down to the orange-colored "Sextupleplex" film clips panel. Then, continue to the bottom of the panel, where you will see the new section entitled:
"Outdoor Adventure and Wilderness Survival Film Clips -- Special Collections," that currently includes:
>>> Mountain & Arctic Area Survival Skills
>>> U.K. Special Air Service Wilderness & Hostile Area Survival Skills
>>> Canyon Lands -- Minimal Equipment Survival Skills
Note: If you would prefer to go directly to this new section, without the scrolling, just click on:
http://www.oldscouts.net#SpecialCollections
>>> If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/609509
I hope you will find the above information to be useful. If you have questions or comments, please let me know.
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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The Amazing & Exciting Aeroplane -- Classic Works
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G'Day All --
Classic Works Concerning the Amazing and Exciting Aeroplane:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/TCAFUAeroplane.htm
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Would you like to explore the possibilities for volunteer, professional, and/or career involvement in civic action, community service, and other constructive developmental efforts in countries that are of greatest interest to you ??
Take a little time to acquaint yourself with the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are currently engaged in programs of this sort. Link up and learn from them if you can find opportunities to do so. Use the directories below:
TakingITGlobal Organizations Directory
InterAction Membership Directory
USAID Private Voluntary Organizations Directory
Visit and explore the growing International Civic Action, Community Service, and Development Film Clip Collection, at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/civactnet.htm#FilmClips
>>> If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/603469
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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Working in Harmony
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Screen 1. Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Associates
Screen 2. Members of an Amish Religious Community Raise a Barn -- (Clip from the movie, "Witness," but a reasonably true-to-life portrayal.)
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Would you like to explore the possibilities for volunteer, professional, and/or career involvement in civic action, community service, and other constructive developmental efforts in countries that are of greatest interest to you ??
Take a little time to acquaint yourself with the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are currently engaged in programs of this sort. Link up and learn from them if you can find opportunities to do so. Use the directories below:
TakingITGlobal Organizations Directory
InterAction Membership Directory
USAID Private Voluntary Organizations Directory
Visit and explore the growing International Civic Action, Community Service, and Development Film Clip Collection, at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/civactnet.htm#FilmClips
>>> If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/598735
Best wishes to all,
Dave Matthews, Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building: Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address: civact6@yahoo.com
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The Audacity of Hope Author's name: Barack Obama
About this category: Culture
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Introduction and the book includes nine chapters and conclusion, and a word of thanks, the page three hundred and sixty-eight pages, and the importance of the book lies not only in the fact that the author is the head of the United States. And that some or many of the ideas contained in this book will be applied in one form or another and in different proportions, and these ideas contradict most of the policies of Bush and his conservative ideological and the Evangelical Alliance and the new, although we will not exaggerate the hopes and expectations will impart with Obama after he entered the White House State of America is administered by institutions and lobbies for the control of the multiple economic, and religious press, but we certainly expect a difference in style and approach, and serious attempts to rehabilitate the image of America and alleviate the situation of escalating hostility toward America among many peoples, not only in the world of the developing South, but in the world of the North especially from Europe and Russia through the advocacy of the ideals upon which America and the respect for international law and the charters of the United Nations and human rights, environmental protection and the application of real democracy and democracy is not 99.99%.
It must be pointed out that the book of books that get the fat designation is intense ideas and should be read carefully and it reflects the depth of thinking and a culture of accuracy and excellent views of the domestic and foreign policy is not surprising that self way amid the sweat of their brows maintained and sponsored by the family of the form of hardworking mother and grandmother, a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Columbia University and studied constitutional law at the University of Chicago as well as the early work in the field of civil rights and of the Council of the mandate of Alnioi then a member of the Senate in Washington.
And records of Obama in this book daring and frankness in criticism of American policy mistakes since the inception of the United States, especially the question of slavery, American Indians, racial discrimination and to Latin America as well as his criticism of this policy after the two first and the second is not only wrong, but the impact of proposed solutions and the further advantage of this record.
I think that reading this book not only for the task of politicians in the Arab world, whether they are in power or opposition in the parliament or the government but also to all the media and the intellectuals and opinion leaders in civil society organizations in order to know the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the era of his presidency, focusing primarily in the Chapter VIII (the world beyond our borders) in order to benefit from his experience in the field of politics and in its dealings with its citizens and voters and opponents alike, which runs more or less the policy of the world.
This is a simple attempt to summarize the eighth chapter, which concerns us only
Chapter VIII: the world beyond our borders
This chapter is one of the most important chapters of the non-American readers because it relates to foreign policy of interest to all the world thanks to the throne of America expressed the strongest military in the world economically and scientifically.
This chapter begins by talking about his childhood in Indonesia when he arrived with the husband of his mother and the age of six years, where he remained for about four years left for Hawaii, where his grandfather and grandmother lived to his mother, and then visited Indonesia four times. He criticizes the record of America in this country and its cooperation with the Suharto and condoned the violation of human rights despite the fact that this policy changed after the end of the Cold War.
Turning then growing jihadist fundamentalist Islam in Indonesia and has become a secular decline (one of the largest Islamic parties and political blocs, many of which call for the application of law).
He also pointed out that the Middle East funded mosques and religious schools in the IAF and that many women have committed themselves to the Islamic dress code that prevails in North Africa and the Gulf, which sheds light on the Islamic group which is chaired by Bashir, which he accuses of links with al-Qaeda and he concludes from this country under such variables as (become the land of strangers).
Then, after dealing with the history of foreign policy, which began the era of isolation and expansion to the west and south-west and the blatant interference in the new world and then in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean and the war entered its first, second, whether the refusal to ratify the membership of the United States of the League of Nations against the principles of age and supporters have justified isolation that (encroachment on the sovereignty of America and the restriction of the senseless America's ability to impose its will on the world),
however, that all changed after Pearl Harbor. When the war ended and the Cold War emerged, despite the success of America to avoid nuclear war during the (26) years and to reach a successful conclusion of the cold war and an era of unprecedented economic growth, but foreign policy remained a neglected area of human rights and support of corrupt dictatorships and coups against elected leaders but to policy makers American policy looked at the problems of the world from the perspective of a diplomat, not a result of cooperation between the Pentagon and the Iron Triangle, the military-industrial complex and members of Congress who are in their arms companies.
It also points out that foreign policy has been opposed, and find it even though the policy Nikson and Kissinger's policy in terms of skill, Carter focused on human rights, in sympathy with the policy of the Reagan "Star Wars" and the motive of some aspects of the Reagan vision of the world as it indicates that Bush's father in terms of realism and traditional Despite the successes, however, fell Foreign result (focus the attention of American public opinion on the economic situation of procedure) 296. While Clinton has focused more on trade from the tank and to protect intellectual property rights to protect the lives of more Americans.
Although the events of 11 September led to the heart of things upside down and increased the authority of President Bush and the sympathy of the international community with the United States, however, that the process of eliminating the Taliban in Afghanistan have been unsuccessful. It calls for the formulation of foreign policy success of the atheist and the twentieth century not only by military force against terrorism, but (to adopt an international meeting on the new transnational threats to the borders of States)
to guide the policy of the use of military force and expresses its ideals. In this connection describes the US-led invasion of Iraq that it (the invasion of senseless and reckless recklessly violated the sovereignty of an Islamic country) and the stimulation of the insurgency has adopted a broad sense of the religious and national dignity and increased anti-American.
And cooperation with the international community considers it necessary, however, then he (if we have to do the job alone, the American people would be willing to pay any price).
It also rejects the methods of Bush to impose democracy with guns and support across the parties supported by Washington, and calls for attention to generate chaos, failed because the chaos and calls for activating the work of the United Nations and the chapter concludes by talking about the Arab-Israeli conflict, which had visited the zone of conflict in the Holy Land and reached ( absurd to believe that a solution to this conflict in the current generation and the ability of America, despite its overwhelming to determine the course of events in the world).
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Evaluate the performance of the Arabs and Israel in the aspects of the conflict
About this category: Peace & Conflict
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Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the most protracted conflicts historic - now more than fifty years of continuous - defined by the contemporary world and, of course, their roots and sources of conflict to the late nineteenth century and until the Israel entity in Palestine in 1948. And characterized the Arab-Israeli conflict from other conflicts that covers various aspects of strategic, political, military, economic, cultural and other, as well as the extensive use by the Zionist creed of the myths and allegations of religious institution to interpretation dpi and fabrication of the facts of the religious Torah and the Talmud and other religious interpretations by mixing distorted by project leaders Israel ideology of secularism with the belief of this project and the main argument.
Extremism in the Israeli concepts
Another unique part of Israel within the framework of this conflict by adopting a unique and peculiar notions of national security requirements and maintain the presence and safety entity of Israel, noting that all the actions of Israel's internal and external economic and political security requirements are subject to options where stem Israel political and other permanent Israeli security requirements Which is now the supreme value among the various values of Israeli major and growing anomaly that perception especially with the post-cold war world, the Horn of atheist century, which occupied the place where economic geography or geopolitics
Moreover, Israel was almost the only country in the world that insists on the complete restructuring of the main regional and sub-regional systems surrounding it, it asserts that there is an absolute necessity for the bombing and the removal of the Arab regional order but also to fragment the Arab national social entity Not only that but also fragment the fabric National Social each Arab country separately.
We have to notes that all political settlements that have been so far between Israel on one hand and each of Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority considers adjustments along the tense and contains within it the sources of tension for the return of the conflict over private sources of permanent and comprehensive settlement and stable.
Reveal recent developments in concepts and policy development, especially sustainable development and human resource development for the escalation of the economic gap between Arabs and Israel for years, this addition to that investment in development, technology and spending on scientific research witnessing a marked decline in the Arab side by development policies that were adopted to export Raw material consumption and the development of recreation and a lack of interest by diversifying the economy and make it more complex ones, along with the majority of Arab countries still rely mainly on external resources, namely, does not depend on the capacities of local and national resources but affected the conditions of the international environment such as oil exports and tourism, expatriate remittances and foreign aid The foreign loans and sea lanes, such as the Suez Canal, one example of the negative consequences of these policies is the relative stability or decline in GDP growth rates or absolute figures for this product,
Development rates in Israel and the Arab States
It is well known that the human development index comprises mainly on three key indicators are:
1. The rate of literacy.
2. Average per capita gross domestic product.
3. Life expectancy at birth.
Besides education and health services, potable water and sanitation.
In terms of human development ladder, we find the following
• Egypt is ranked 124 in the world which is classified among the countries of low growth or lower States average growth, average per capita GDP in 1290 dollars and Egypt is ranked 127 in the world.
• Israel ranked 36 in the measurement of human development and per capita GDP of approximately $ 16 thousand and is ranked 32 in the world in this regard.
• Jordan is ranked 100 in development all over the world and a per capita of $ 1520 and is ranked 120.
The project focused before the establishment of the Israel and then continued on strategic planning, which provides forecasts and alternative poses a national priorities and preferences, while Arab and distinguished performance with a few exceptions in the fifties and sixties deal practical and pragmatic with seasonal and situational developments and events of the conflict with Israel, while devoted many institutions and communities Research in various areas of nuclear, military, security, economic and demographic in dealing with conflict management, dealing still confined to the Arab administration official bureaucracy,
which includes government institutions and ministries of foreign affairs, defense and intelligence departments and only rarely Arab governments to adopt strategic planning centers of public and private, Israel has completed the beginning of the year 1990 plan is the first of its kind since its inception, entitled "Israel in 2020" lasted six years, where he focused research team Institute of Engineering and Applied Haifa comprises about 250 specialists and crews from ten ministries, and resulted in work on the development of 18 volumes trying to cover all aspects of the Israeli internal and external.
With regard to the Israeli plan to overcome the significant population growth among the Arabs of 1948 in light of declining birth rates among Israeli Jews there attract immigrants from the former Soviet Union states at a million immigrants in the coming years after it managed to attract another million years 1990 and 2000, there also modify the balance of population For the benefit of Jews through the expansion of settlement and within the so-called Green Line, which showed the availability of a high level of awareness of the strategic nature of the conflict with Israel as the conflict extends to a comprehensive and demographic aspects of water and related land and the economy as well as confrontation and military intelligence, has developed a working group chaired by Minister of Infrastructure radical (Lieberman), which advocates the expulsion of Palestinians to Jordan voluntarily or mansion, known as the plan entitled "Israel in 2000" That was late in 1996 and included a plan of action for three axes:
1 - Adding new areas of the so-called "development towns".
2 - Provide incentives for those who go for construction and housing in these towns.
3 - The link between the settlements in the West Bank while expanding the Green Line to be annexed to Jerusalem large areas of the West Bank and this is what was in the era of Sharon's government in parallel with the accelerated construction of the dividing line between Arabs and Israelis of Arab Jerusalem and along the Green Belt.
In the military aspects clear perception of higher-Israeli strategic plan recently called "the fabric of 2000" which are based on constant readiness for war option and the plan focuses on the following rules:
• The existence of so-called deterrence based on the image of Israel as a nuclear superpower in the eyes of the Arab region.
• Effective defense: a plan fence to protect Israel from the land surface.
• Defense negative: prevention and civil defense.
• Warning and strategic information.
• offensive capabilities and to acquire F-15 aircraft and the development of the control and surveillance of the distance, while most of the Arab parties embraced the so-called peace as a strategic option, did not develop the potential outbreak of the war and how to deal with situations of tension and instability, as the case since the outbreak of the second intifada, 2000 till now.
However, the intifada of regulatory capacities popular armament even a simple addition to grass-roots efforts and extensive face normalization with Israel and raise the slogan of boycotting American goods and products can provide a concrete and reasonable level which can be called deterrence popular help provide an environment of threat to Israeli security.
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Men & women and the Culture of Dialogue
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Men and women are the construction of the world, and many conferences and seminars held not only the Arab region but throughout the world for all topics and international disputes, however, how the dialogue between men and women of most of those who have read my article on the strange creatures women believed that me, is the common enemy of women.
And they are not able to understand that the dialogue between me and women non-existent due to lack of mutual trust between us on any subject, even in the salute bumptious I always tell them, and I am rude in dealing with women, but did not ask me I do this thing?
Same time my friends knowing very well that I always try to not hurt anyone or by disposal of the word possible harms.
And with all of that I'm always accused that I'm the common enemy of women.
I tired because I'm always asked why you single till now? and I have to explain my point that I need to be convinced to dialogue because we are in a time you have agreed with me or you do not agree we don't have LOVE and the LOVE Might be found in the Life museum.
And for your knowledge that I am a human being I loved and I was missing this Love
But I was puzzled by the fact that they - men and women - especially in our society, they were convinced that the idea of the cold war or the idea of war, mainly without the need to call for a dialogue among themselves
Never did find it odd while I'm reading in a book (men from Mars and women from Venus), written by Dr. John Gray, a world expert in the field of communication and relations, did not find it odd to speak of men and women as if they had their two different planets, from, in fact the differences and also differences of men and women demonstrate daily and eternal truth theory.
The book, which sold more than forty million copies worldwide and been met with a positive and explained that women have a particular way to communicate in the way of thinking and emotions and feelings and needs in the reactions in the selection of words and sentences
this way completely different than the same way the Men thinking on it.
But he was able to convey an attractive way for us as reader by information and facts of psychology and sociology romantic manner and method of literary interesting even imagine and we really believe that men and women are from two different planets,
Speaking different languages and need each to the various food and nutrition are different.
Dr. Gray has crafted a literary and in romantic way to imagine the planet Mars and Venus.
Mars, all the population are men,
While the Venus all its population are women.
Through binoculars the Mars population found the beauty of Venus and then they take them space ships and headed a trip to the planet Venus.
Here, the author brings us to live the story of a romantic fantasy.
The people of mars loved the people of Venus a magic love and enjoy all that live in the details of this relationship, and then decided to travel to the Earth, unless the event into account.
In the morning he woke up one day, all unconscious memory and thus have forgotten each others and every one of Earth's population forgotten that he is from a different planet.
The aim of the book, of course, not sure of the difficulty of communication between men and women, but to recognize the imperative need for a common language for dialogue.
While much talk in recent years on the dialogue of civilizations and dialogue with others, organized conferences and seminars and wrote articles that emphasize the importance of Dialogue.
Under the theme of dialogue between spouses or between the world of men and women, despite a marginal significance and seriousness of life in spite of the most important social institution, a smaller the institution of marriage and thus the health of society as a whole.
Although the dialogue between men and women has not lived up to the first level of literacy courses, Illiteracy marriage, Vocabulary and understand the language of the others.
but we did not notice the movement in the Arab world in this area .
We Did not notice the fear that the collapse of the seriousness of the institution of marriage or fail due to lack of proficiency in languages of the parties and not because of their usefulness as some think that the majority believes imagine believes in the futility of this institution and the logical result will inevitably be a negative image unhealthy (increasing the rate of spinsterhood among young people and the increasing divorce rate, and a growing proportion of children orphans, despite the presence of the parents). Consequently, social and mental illness at all levels.
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