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The Monetary Penalty Clause as a Punitive Provision In Light of Coptic Documents
This artical aims to analyze the monetary penalty clause in Coptic documentary texts as an essential legal and punitive element that reflects the management of contractual relationships, the enforcement of laws, and the mechanisms of dispute resolution ...
Walaa Ali Abd El-Rahman
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ABSTRACT Although many believe that discrimination and racism against Arabs and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities started after the events of 9/11, prejudice and discrimination toward this group was documented as early as the 1900s.
Germine H. Awad +6 more
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Abstract Dominant narratives of Cairo's waste challenges frame the issue as a consequence of overpopulation and unsanitary behaviour, advocating for technocratic solutions led by global private firms and technological innovation. These narratives, however, obscure the commodification of waste and the colonial discourses that justify waste's ...
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
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Classical oriental literatures, especially in Syriac, Arabic and Coptic languages, constitute extraordinary treasury for patristic studies. Apart from the texts written originally in their ecclesiastical ambient, the oriental ancient manuscripts ...
Rafał Zarzeczny
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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic
The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined ...
Maxim Kupreyev
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The Omissions Doctrine after Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police
In tort law, liability is generally not imposed for failing to confer a benefit on another person. This is commonly referred to as the omissions doctrine. In Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, the UK Supreme Court elucidated the scope of this doctrine.
Eleni Katsampouka
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Notes on the Geography of Arabic Language [PDF]
Arabic is a semitic language which originated in the Arabian Peninsula. The effect of the geographic environment is clearly manifested in its vocabulary which abounds in words accurately describing desert environment.
Mahmoud Mohammed Mohammadayn
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Coptic: A language without words
This is the handout of a talk presented at the symposium "Ancient Egyptian-Coptic in Typological Perspective: Commemorating Hans Jakob Polotsky" (February 2016), organized by The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Jerusalem).
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions.
Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi‐Barak
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