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Full of noises: when “World Shakespeare” met the “Arab Spring” [PDF]

, 2015
In summer 2012, to coincide with the Olympic Games, the United Kingdom celebrated a summer of Shakespeare. Troupes from around the world were invited to produce their own versions of plays from the playwright's corpus. 2012 was also a very eventful year,
Cormack, Raphael, Litvin, Margaret, Walkling, Saffron   +2 more
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Researching Vulnerability in Multilingual Contexts: Trauma, Ethics, and Pedagogy

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the complex intersections of trauma, vulnerability, multilingualism, and ethics in refugee settings. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as a refugee academic and years of research in refugee English language education and noneducation contexts, it employs an autoethnographic approach to critically examine ...
Mohammed Ateek
wiley   +1 more source

Nieznany wiersz okolicznościowy orientalisty Tadeusza Kowalskiego

LingVaria, 2018
An Unknown Occasional Poem by Polish Orientalist Tadeusz Kowalski The question whether Tadeusz Kowalski, the founder of the Oriental philological studies in Poland, should first of all be considered a Turcologist or an Arabist has been disputed many ...
Marek Stachowski
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Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian martyr acts in Syriac to Sureth poetry on YouTube, via a historical novel in Arabic

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020
Videos posted on YouTube show how stories of East-Syriac saints have found their way to a popular web platform, where they are re-told combining traditional genres with a culturally hybrid visual representation.
Alessandro Mengozzi
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Memories of Home: Reading the Bedouin In Arab American Literature [PDF]

, 2008
In an urban neighborhood with a large Jewish population near my home, there is an Arabic restaurant. Name, menu and ownership mark its ethnic identification, yet its politics are otherwise obscured.
Wardi, Anissa J., Wardi-Zonna, Katherine
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Problems and Procedures of Translating Metaphor in Arabic Poetry into English: A Case Study of Al-Maqaleh’s Poem ‘To My Mother’

مجلة جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا للعلوم الإدارية والإنسانية
This study aims to identify problems (losses) in the English translation of metaphors in the Arabic poem 'To My Mother' composed by Al-Maqaleh (1986) and translated by Ghanem (1999), explore procedures followed in translating those metaphors, and show ...
Donia Skareeb, Waleed Mohammed A. Ahmed
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

The Values of Educational Character in the Arabic Temples of Qasidah Burdah by Imam Bushiri

Izdihar, 2019
This research aimed to determine the values of educational character in the Arabic temples of Qasidah Burdah by Imam Bushiri. The method used in this research was the descriptive analytical approach, which relies on the study of reality and phenomenon as
M. Rizalul Furqon, Moh. Fery Fauzi
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