Working with Arab Clients
Effectively representing clients of foreign extraction requires a working familiarity with their cultures and traditions. This is especially true today when representing clients of Arab ancestry—from a part of the world that has been the focus of media frenzy and gross misinformation during the past two years.
Let’s start with correct terminology: People are Arab or Arabic. Coffee and language are Arabic. Horses are Arabian. Arabic clients come from one of 23 Arab countries, and what is now Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, located in western Asia and northern Africa. At the beginning of the twentieth century, most of these 23 countries were contiguous components of one united nation ruled by the Ottoman Empire, which had existed for hundreds of years but was dissolved at the end of the First World War. For many centuries in the past, Arabs existed as citizens of successive united Arabic empires with one central government. Today, many Arab people still consider themselves part of the Arab Nation and yearn for the unification of divided Arab countries into one strong Arab country. ...more Arabische Touristen: München ist das Isar-Mekka
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