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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Arabic natural language processing: handwriting recognition

, 2008
The automatic recognition of Arabic writing is a very young research discipline with very challenging and significant problems. Indeed, with the air of the Internet, of Multimedia, the recognition of Arabic is useful to contributing like its close disciplines, Latin writing recognition, speech recognition and Vision processing, in current applications ...
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Arabic Natural Language Processing: Introduction And Challenges

, 2014
Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by more than 330 million people as a native language, in an area extending from the Arabian/Persian Gulf in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. Moreover, it is the language in which 1.4 billion Muslims around the world perform their daily prayers.
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

The Effectiveness of Arabic Stemmers Using Arabized Word Removal

International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2022
Other languages have influenced Arabic because of several factors, such as geographical nearness, trade communication, past Islamic conquests, science and technology, new devices, brand names, models, and fashion.
Hamood ALshalabi, Sabrina Tiun, Nazlia Omar, Kamal Ali Alezabi, Fatima N. AL-Aswadi   +4 more
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental and Healthcare Professional Experiences of Food Allergen Introduction During Complementary Feeding: A Behavioural Theory–Informed Systematic Review

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background IgE‐mediated food allergy burdens individuals, families and healthcare systems. Randomised controlled trials indicate early introduction and regular consumption of common food allergens in infancy can reduce food allergy risk. Few studies have explored parental and healthcare professional experiences. This systematic review examines
Karen Wright, Amelia Dennis, Luise V. Marino, Stephanie Easton, Samantha Hornsey, Sebastien Pollet, Misbah Primett, Goldie Putrym, Susan Dixon, Helen Reynolds, Anna Rattu, Miriam Santer, Ingrid Muller, Graham Roberts, Ben Ainsworth   +14 more
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Towards Unified Multimodal Search and Generation System: An AI-Driven Text–Image Framework for Arabic

Open Information Science
Recent advances in multimodal learning have significantly enhanced natural language understanding (NLU) and information retrieval across various languages; however, Arabic remains substantially underrepresented in this domain. In this work, we propose an
Harrag Fouzi, Ayat Narimene, Redjechta Aymen Abderrahim, Rouabhi Aya Lamria   +3 more
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