Cross-cultural Particularities in the Middle East
Cross-cultural Particularities in the Middle East

Summary/Abstract: The term Middle East has started to be used in the nineteenth century when referring to theregion that included the Ottoman Empire, the Arabian Peninsula and the Balkan area. Incontemporary the Middle East cluster (according to Globe’s research) consists of: Egypt, Kuwait,Morocco, Qatar and Turkey, although the number of countries in geographical terms that is identifiedwith this region is much higher. From the ethnical point of view this area is characterized by a relativehomogeneity predominated by Arabs, lately in some countries (Kuwait, etc.), appearing a largenumber of foreign immigrants attracted by the oil industry. This article will present the interculturalvalues that characterize it, the leadership style, as well as tracing the main macroeconomicconsiderations that characterize them. The research is synchronic, analysing the contemporarysituation of these countries, and the analysis will be interdisciplinary exploratory, identifyingelements with regional cultural specificity.

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