Overview
- Uniquely the only book that will approach social science of Socotra Island
- Discovers Socotra as an unknown island located in Yemen, probably one of the very few untouched places in the world
- Offers research of old cultures and indigenous people of Socotra Island are unexplored to date
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About this book
This book focuses on a clear social science approach of Socotra. The purpose of this book is to publish research about the people, behaviors, heritage, and potential tourism of Socotra. The Socotra Archipelago has long been a land of mystery. It is unknown as a tourism destination for many, however, is a popular destination for adventurers, photographers and travelers who like to travel to remote and undeveloped places. This book explains how Socotra has limited resources of electricity, which is provided by diesel generators, Internet is very slow and limited to certain points on the island. There are no shopping malls or five-star hotels. Roads, schools, and hospitals have been built only recently. This book shoes how these island people do not know the development as we do, which makes it principally interesting to research.
Previous interviewers of Socotri people about tourism development in the island have faced many challenges such as language barriers, lack of understanding the meanings and interviewing content, lack of support for the anticipated research results. This book successfully undertakes this challenge as not only in understanding the language, but understanding phenomena like e.g. tourism. Whilst acknowledging the ways in which indigenous island people have never travelled orseen a developed city. Thus, words like ‘developed’, ‘tourism destination’ or ‘washing machine’ may be unfamiliar terms for them. Therefore, new and innovative research methods that are sensitive to Socotra people were implemented in the creation of this book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Ahmad Abdelmoneim Zedan is the Vice president of Socotra University. He led the internal assessment and provided consultations on the fields of comprehensive quality management and ongoing improvement. He also participated in setting up legal drafting and contract drafting courses at the Egyptian training centers. He has participated in establishing and preparing a training program for teachers and trainers to qualify them to teach Arabic for non-Arabic speakers at the AUC.
For over 12 years, he has taught legal and contract drafting at the AUC, and he worked as a Project Manager at the Arabic and Translation Studies Division at the University. Furthermore, he taught legal and contract drafting at several institutions like Cairo University, Ain Shams University, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, State Information Service (SIS), Egyptian Tax Authority, Ahram Regional Institute for Journalism (AHRIJ), and Radio and Television Institute. He Translated the World Bank’s World Development Indicators in 2013, and was one of the translators of Reengineering Management Operations. He Coauthored the Arabic book Together to Study Arabic Syntax and Morphology, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2008. He Reviewed Terror Presidency, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2009 and Reviewed September 11 Events, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2009.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Social View of Socotra Island
Book Subtitle: People, Culture, Heritage
Editors: Nataša Slak Valek, Ahmad Abdelmoniem Zedan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4358-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4357-9Published: 01 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4360-9Due: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4358-6Published: 31 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tourism Management, Sociology of Culture, History of the Middle East, Middle Eastern Culture, Anthropology