Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies

Resisting colonialism remains the main theme of the poetry of the Arab Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. This paper explores how Darwish employs nature as a new way for resisting the occupation of his homeland. His poems, throughout his writing life that spans fifty years, can be used to demonstrate how an ecopostcolonial perspective might contribute to an understanding of the poet's resistance through nature to the colonisers in his homeland. The theoretical framework used in this study is derived from both the ecocritical and postcolonial theories of reading literature. It is termed as ecoresistance as a new perspective of analysing resistance in the Arab literary studies, a non-western viewpoint and an original analytical lens for reading Darwish's work. The analysis reveals that Darwish uses the various forms of nature that range from the forms of the pure nature to the forms that have been cultivated. Through the ecopostcolonial perspective of the study, the employment of nature for resistance and the indication of Darwish as an ecopostcolonial poet of the Arab world are played out. The paper further proposes new insights into man's connection to land and is a step towards opening up the field of ecocriticism as a way of reading Arab poetry of resistance.

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Introduction

Hamlet's Arab Journey ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691137803.003.0001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Margaret Litvin

Keyword(s):

Arab World ◽

Self Determination ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Central Concern ◽

Arab Politics ◽

Historical Agency

This introductory chapter summarizes the journey of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the post-1952 Arab world and discusses this study's contributions to Arab politics and literary studies in general. Here, the chapter shows how the character Hamlet's central concern is the problem of historical agency. He asks what it means “to be” rather than “not to be” in a world where “the time is out of joint” and one's very existence as a historical actor is threatened. He thus encapsulates a debate coeval with and largely constitutive of modern Arab identity: the problem of self-determination and authenticity. Following Hamlet's Arab journey, the chapter attempts to clarify one of the most central and widely misunderstood preoccupations of modern Arab politics.

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Introduction

Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691181936.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

Tarek El-Ariss

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

Media Studies ◽

Digital Humanities ◽

Arab World ◽

Technological Development ◽

Digital Age ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Arab Culture ◽

Political Upheaval ◽

The Way

This chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. The book draws on literary studies, media studies, and digital humanities, and focuses on the Arab world in a transnational context in order to examine the radical transformations affecting the way stories are told, dissent is expressed, and canons are produced in the new millennium. Focusing on new writing from Egypt and the Gulf, it explores these writings' fascination with and appropriation of digital media. These writings chart a particular redefinition of what Arab culture means in the digital age, pointing to the changing meaning of Arab culture (novels, authors, education, etc.) and of traditional codes of civility (adab) as a model of subjectivity in a context shaped by technological development and political upheaval.

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A Comparative Genre-Based Analysis of Move-Step Structure of RAIs in Two Different Publication Contexts

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v14n3p12 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 12

Author(s):

Sultan H. Alharbi

Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Arab World ◽

Applied Linguistics ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Research Articles ◽

Future Research ◽

Step Structure ◽

Research Article ◽

World English ◽

Local Research

This genre-based study investigates the move-step structure of two sets of English-medium research article introductions (RAIs) in the field of applied linguistics using Swales’ (1990, 2004) Create a Research Space (CARS) model of move/step analysis. A corpus of 30 RAIs from two English-medium research articles (15 International and 15 Local) was selected. The international research articles written for an international readership were selected from the journal English for Specific Purposes, while the local research articles, written for local readers, were selected from Arab World English Journal. The findings indicated that although the three moves suggested by the CARS (Swales, 1990, 2004) model appeared in the two subcorpora, some variation was observed with respect to the range of moves employed in each subcorpus. As expected, Move 2 was not always found in texts in the Local subcorpus. In terms of steps and sub-steps analysis, the findings showed the three steps and sub-steps of Move 1 are conventional in the International and Local applied linguistics RAIs. Further, while M2-S1B is conventional and M2-S1A is optional in the Local subcorpus, these two sub-steps of Move 2 are conventional in the International subcorpus. There were no striking differences between the two subcorpora with regard to the employment of the proposed steps of Move 3. Limitations and the implications of the findings, as well as recommendation of some suggestions for future research are provided.

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The role and status of the English language in Kuwait

English Today ◽

10.1017/s026607841500022x ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 28-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Abdulmohsen Dashti

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Language Use ◽

Arab World ◽

School Curriculum ◽

Arab Countries ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Business Organizations ◽

Main Subject ◽

Domains Of Life ◽

World English

In the Arab world, English is having substantial effects on the region's educational systems, language policies and patterns of language use (Nunan, 2003; Bolton, 2008; Kirkpatrick, 2008). Having realized the importance of English in all domains of life, Arab countries have encouraged the acquisition of English by their people. Most Arab countries have introduced English as a main subject in the school curriculum. In most government and private sectors, most business organizations ask for proof of English proficiency before hiring people for employment.

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