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Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia [PDF]

, 2016
In early twentieth century leftist politics on the geographical fringes of South Asia, Islam played a major role. Were activists in these movements leftist despite their understandings of Islam, or because of them?
Ahmed A. M., Ali K. A., Ansari K. H., Datta P. K., Khan W., Khattak A., Lindholm C., Marsden M., Marwat F.-U.-R. K., Ramnath M., Sarkar S., ed., Sartori A., Suchetana C.   +12 more
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Ergativity in Pashto

, 2021
This study focuses on the ergatitivity in Pashto. The Minimalist programme of Chomsky is adopted as a framework for analysis. The main area explored in this chapter is the derivation of Pashto's ergative structures. The results show that in Pashto ergativity is assigned in both past tense and perfect aspect.
openaire   +1 more source

Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif, Fayaz Muhammad, Matthew Light, Hina Fazal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving child mental health and learning outcomes and reducing stigma and discrimination in conflict setting: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a classroom‐based psychosocial intervention in rural primary schools in Afghanistan

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Conflict and crises have long‐lasting and dramatic consequences on the mental health of children. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention on child mental health in Afghanistan. Methods A two‐arm cluster‐randomized controlled trial was conducted in 83 rural primary schools within three provinces of Afghanistan.
Jean‐Francois Trani, Yiqi Zhu, Saria Bechara, Shuya Yin, Parul Bakhshi, Ian Kaplan, Ramkrishna K. Singh, Mohammed A. Modaber, Hashim Rawab, Madelyn Yoo, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Ganesh M. Babulal, Ramesh Raghavan   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

LA NOZIONE DI ‘FAMIGLIA LINGUISTICA ISLAMICA’ E LA SUA RILEVANZA PER LA DIDATTICA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA L2 A DISCENTI DI ORIGINE AFGHANO-PAKISTANA

Italiano LinguaDue, 2021
Il presente contributo prende in esame alcune caratteristiche del repertorio linguistico dei discenti di area afghano-pakistana alla luce di una particolare tipologia di Sprachbund su base culturale definita come ‘famiglia linguistica islamica’.
Federico Salvaggio
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The translation of foreign words in an English novel into Malay [PDF]

, 2017
One aspect of language appropriation is the inclusion of foreign words in an English text with the aim of highlighting certain aspects of a culture. This results in a text in which the dominant language, English, is interspersed with foreign words.
Haslina Haroon,, Nurul Syafiqah Daud,
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Experiences and Perspectives of Perinatal Care for Women of Refugee Background, Interpreters, and Care Providers: A Scoping Review

Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.
Introduction Women of refugee backgrounds who are pregnant continue to face significant challenges after migration, including barriers to accessing adequate perinatal care, resulting in higher risks for poor perinatal outcomes. To address these barriers and reduce these risks, it is imperative to understand the viewpoints of those involved in perinatal
Shadow Toke, Amita Tuteja, Ignacio Correa‐Velez, Elisha Riggs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PsOCR: Benchmarking large multimodal models for optical character recognition in low-resource pashto language

Ain Shams Engineering Journal
This paper evaluates the performance of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the low-resource Pashto language. Pashto OCR is challenging due to its cursive Perso-Arabic script and the scarcity of large-scale annotated
Ijazul Haq, Yingjie Zhang, Muhammad Saqib   +2 more
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Borderland Historiography in Pakistan [PDF]

, 2016
In this article I survey historical writing related to the twentieth-century Afghan-Pakistan frontier, particularly Pashtun-majority locations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: the former Northwest Frontier Province. I focus on works that help conceptualize history
Caron, James
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Does Speaking the Same Language With the Caretakers Associate With a Higher Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Use Rate?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Volume 70, Issue 6, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Use of neuraxial analgesia requires communication between the parturient and her caretakers. In this retrospective study, the use of labor analgesia is compared between parturients whose primary language is other than Finnish or Swedish and who don't communicate in these languages or English without an interpreter (Category I), who communicate
Luisa Pirsko, Anna L. U. Väänänen, Riina Jernman, Antti Väänänen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source