Jordan S Proverbs As A Window Into Arab Popular Culture

Author : Mohammed Farghal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527532335

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Jordan’s Proverbs as a Window into Arab Popular Culture by Mohammed Farghal Pdf

This book offers an insightful account of Arab popular culture through the lens of about four hundred annotated Jordanian proverbs. The collection touches on almost every aspect of daily life (including animals, kinship, religion, weather, generosity, money, food, and love). The proverbs cover a wide spectrum of morals related to competence, appearance, ignorance, naivety, corruption, wisdom, experience, courage, and kindness, among many others. Specialized readers, including linguists, translators, anthropologists, psychologists, diplomats, and military persons, among others, will find significant material and insights relevant to their work in this book. It serves to provide the reader with a better, deeper understanding of Jordanian/Arab mentality and behaviour, which will encourage intercultural communication and help remove several socially-biased stereotypes, in addition to enriching the culture of proverbs in human language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211408831

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107016897

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A History of African Popular Culture by Karin Barber Pdf

A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107167698

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A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture by Richard Stoneman Pdf

Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

Author : Anne W. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107119420

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Poetic Ethics in Proverbs by Anne W. Stewart Pdf

This study explores the sophisticated understanding of the formation of the moral self that emerges in the poetry of Proverbs, which many have wrongly dismissed as simplistic. Anne W. Stewart analyzes images and metaphors to illuminate the Book's views on the role of emotions and desires in shaping moral imaginations.

Author : Shuang Liu,Zala Volcic,Cindy Gallois
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446259542

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Introducing Intercultural Communication by Shuang Liu,Zala Volcic,Cindy Gallois Pdf

Books on intercultural communication are rarely written with an intercultural readership in mind. In contrast, this multinational team of authors has put together an introduction to communicating across cultures that uses examples and case studies from around the world. The book further covers essential new topics, including international conflict, social networking, migration, and the effects technology and mass media play in the globalization of communication. Written to be accessible for international students too, this text situates communication theory in a truly global perspective. Each chapter brings to life the links between theory and practice and between the global and the local, introducing key theories and their practical applications. Along the way, you will be supported with first-rate learning resources, including: • theory corners with concise, boxed-out digests of key theoretical concepts • case illustrations putting the main points of each chapter into context • learning objectives, discussion questions, key terms and further reading framing each chapter and stimulating further discussion • a companion website containing resources for instructors, including multiple choice questions, presentation slides, exercises and activities, and teaching notes. This book will not merely guide you to success in your studies, but will teach you to become a more critical consumer of information and understand the influence of your own culture on how you view yourself and others.

Author : Ali Almanna
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443882262

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Contextualizing Translation Theories by Ali Almanna Pdf

Contextualizing Translation Theories: Aspects of Arabic–English Interlingual Communication provides critical readings of available strategies of translating, ranging from the familiar concept of equivalence, to strategies of modulation, domestication, foreignization and mores of translation. As such, this volume demonstrates to the reader the pros and cons of each of these strategies within a theoretical context that is augmented by translational tasks and examples, most derived from actual textual data.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231039096

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The different aspects of islamic culture by UNESCO Pdf

This publication examines art, the human sciences, science, philosophy, mysticism, language and literature. For this task, UNESCO has chosen scholars and experts from all over the world who belong to widely divergent cultural and religious backgrounds.--Publisher's description.

Author : Halim Barakat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0520914422

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The Arab World by Halim Barakat Pdf

This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : International Folkloristics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : 1433119919

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Proverbs are Never Out of Season by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagandistic tool, Wolfgang Mieder looks at how we adapt proverbs to rapidly changing social attitudes - the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric, misogynist sayings become feminist slogans, and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips. The book is richly illustrated and contains name, subject, and proverb indexes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1614 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Paperbacks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211446468

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Paperbound Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231027420

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The different aspects of islamic culture by UNESCO Pdf

This volume, the first of six to be published, studies fundamental values of Islam, along with the nature of rights and the responsibilities in a general context. The authors analyse the development of social thought and morality in Islam, and ways in which they are enforced through the family and education. Particular attention is paid to the status of women, children, youth and the socially excluded. Several chapters broach specially Islamic approaches to economics, government and justice. A world religion since its inception in the seventh century A.D., Islam is today seeking vigorous answers to contemporary problems through its multi-faceted history. Issues of poverty and wealth, inequality and demands for political expression, and respect for diversity in a difficult world of conformity are dealt with in this series. The study is organized along thematic rather than chronological lines and thus it is not necessary to read the volumes in order. Volume II is in fact the first to have been published. Volume IV is forthcoming end 2002, volume V mid 2003 and volumes III and VI in 2004. This volume, the first of six to be published, studies fundamental values of Islam, along with the nature of rights and the responsibilities in a general context. The authors analyse the development of social thought and morality in Islam, and ways in which they are enforced through the family and education. Particular attention is paid to the status of women, children, youth and the socially excluded. Several chapters broach specially Islamic approaches to economics, government and justice.

Author : Ted Hildebrandt,Fred Putnam
Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1905048874

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The Book of Proverbs by Ted Hildebrandt,Fred Putnam Pdf

Author : Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110487862

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The Mandaean Book of John by Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath Pdf

Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545880879

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Refugee by Alan Gratz Pdf

The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.