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AmpersandThe intersection of linguistic and socioeconomic dynamics among 344 residents of Al-Ahsa (168 non-Saudis: 95 males, 73 females; 176 Saudis: 82 males, 94 females) aged 18–60 years was examined in this study. Educational attainment ranged from high school (
Moayyad Al-Bohnayyah
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Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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Arabic dialects annotation using an online game [PDF]
, 2018 Modern Standard Arabic is the written standard across the Arab world; but there is an increasing use of Arabic dialects in social media, so this is appropriate as a source of a corpus for research on classifying Arabic dialect texts using machine ...
Eric Atwell +3 more
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Navigating Traditional‐Modernity: Women's Evolving Role in Qatar's National Identity
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article critically examines the evolving role of women in Qatar's nation‐building project through a combination of intersectional and post‐colonial perspectives. By analysing women's socio‐political positioning in the national context, it unveils the complex interplay between conceptualisations of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ in shaping ...
Zarqa Parvez
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Arabic Dialects and Classical Arabic Language [PDF]
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2015 Abdulhafeth Ali Khrisat +1 more
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DARTS: Dialectal Arabic Transcription System
CoRR, 2019 We present the speech to text transcription system, called DARTS, for low resource Egyptian Arabic dialect. We analyze the following; transfer learning from high resource broadcast domain to low-resource dialectal domain and semi-supervised learning where we use in-domain unlabeled audio data collected from YouTube.
Sameer Khurana +2 more
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Towards a sociohistorical reconstruction of pre-Islamic Arabic dialect diversity [PDF]
, 2013 textThis dissertation develops a new framework for reconstructing the diversity of a language at a given historical time period. It applies this framework to the problem of reconstructing the diversity of Arabic dialects immediately prior to the Islamic ...
Magidow, Alexander
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘What we teach is true to us’, one social studies teacher reflected when describing the curricular standards guiding his Dubai classroom. But who, in Dubai's multinational classrooms, gets to be part of that ‘us’? Private secondary schools in Dubai have become productive sites for state‐led civic nationalist projects. The United Arab Emirates'
Christian Bevilacqua
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Critical Multilingualism StudiesSociolinguistic variation is often ignored in standard language textbooks (Brown, 2011). Arabic, a diglossic language, exhibits considerable variation with a standardized formal register (Modern Standard Arabic, or MSA), and multiple spoken dialects ...
Elizabeth Huntley
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The topics include quadriliteral verbs in the Arabic dialects of eastern Arabia, technicalities and terminology of raiding and warfare as revealed by Bedouin oral narratives, variation and change in Arabic urban vernaculars, ideophones in Nigerian Arabic,
Versteegh, Professor of Arabic and Islam Kees. +3 more
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