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The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Modern Standard Arabic Versions of the Berlin Questionnaire and Epworth Sleepiness Scale. [PDF]
CureusLahrichi Z +5 more
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
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The translation and validation of the surgical anxiety questionnaire into the modern standard Arabic language: results from classical test theory and item response theory analyses. [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryAlghamdi AA +9 more
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Modern Standard Arabic in the Minds of Diglossic Speakers of Arabic [PDF]
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2019 openaire +1 more source
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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Improving neural machine translation for low resource languages through non-parallel corpora: a case study of Egyptian dialect to modern standard Arabic translation. [PDF]
Sci RepFaheem MA +3 more
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ArGemma: A Multi‐Task Fine‐Tuning Framework for Adapting Gemma to Arabic
Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2026.ABSTRACT Open‐source large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), particularly for English. However, their performance in Arabic has remained limited due to the scarcity of high‐quality datasets and the high computational cost of full fine‐tuning.
Taha Alselwi +2 more
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Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 793-807, October 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh +2 more
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