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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The use of Modern Standard Arabic and colloquial Arabic in translation tasks: a new perspective
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe diglossic nature of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the various colloquial Arabic (CA) dialects prevalent in Arab countries presents significant challenges for Arab students.
Mohammad S. Alanazi
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Resource efficient hybrid baseline for named entity recognition in classical Arabic
Scientific ReportsThe major challenge manifesting in resource-efficient named entity recognition for Classical Arabic may be attributed to the language’s rich morphology, orthographic variation, and the limitation in computing budgets.
Ramzi Salah +5 more
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Modern Arabic Literature A Theoretical Framework
Intro -- Modern Arabic Literature -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 The Modern Arabic Literary System -- 2 Literary Dynamics in Synchronic Cross-section -- 3 Outlines of Diachronic Intersystemic ...
Snir, Reuven.
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
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A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF RELATIVIZATION IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC WITH REFERENCE TO TRANSLATION PEDAGOGY [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis presents a theoretical overview of relativization in English, relativization in Arabic, and contrasts between them. It also investigates the problems encountered by fourth-year English department students of El-Mergib University in Libya in ...
ZAGOOD, MOHAMMED,JUMA,M. +1 more
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