TY - JOUR ID - TI - The British Influence on the Arabic Countries and Bringing Civilization to the Middle East AU - Ayad Enad Khalaf AU - Riyadh Abbas Ubeid AL-Jashami PY - 2022 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 13 EP - 22 JO - Dijlah Journal مجلة دجلة SN - 22226583 AB - After the occupation of the British Empire for the Middle East, the British try to maketheir influence permanent. So, to accomplish this mission they plan to make their effecton the Arabian culture. After collecting information about the customs and culture ofArabian society, the cultural propaganda tries to change the Arabic culture by mixing itwith the western culture through a lot of means. Because of the differences between theBritish cultural and Middle East culture, and especially in the Arabic countries, this mis-sion faces some obstacles. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the aims, goals,and means of the British policy in the Arabic countries in the Middle East. The structureof this work is as follows: an introduction, three parts, and a conclusion. The meaning ofthe word Middle East, the reasons behind Britain’s selection of the Middle East, and thehistory of Britain’s colonization of the Middle East are all covered in the first part. Thesecond section is going to introduce the division of the Arabic countries with GertrudeBell’s role in mapping Iraq, and the policy of the British in the Middle East. Section threewill include British cultural propaganda and policy failure in the Middle East with thedifferences between Arab world culture and British culture that lead to this failure. Themajor findings of this study found that imposing one culture on another is possible onlywhen the two share the same aspects, but in the case of the Arabic and British cultures,.the differences lead to a gap between them

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