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Advances in literary study, 2020
This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-... more This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-1983), ʾiJāza ʿlā Shāṭiʾ al-Baḥr (A Seaside Vacation) and the Al-ḥidād Yalīqu bi Qaṭr Al-nadā (A Mourning Becomes Qaṭr Al-nadā), The study reveals the cultural heritage and references from which ʾAmal Dunqul draws in his poetry. It further examines the reasons and motives that prompted the poet to employ these sources. The study shows that ʾAmal Dunqul, who came from the village, reveals his unfamiliarity with city life and the various psychological, social and political shocks it inflicts on him. He sees that the poet's life in the city is full of anxieties and is very black; he sees that he is suffering living there. Dunqul compares his status to that of others. He feels attuned to the spirit of the nation, and he believes that he belongs to it. He uses Egyptian folk songs and reflects on their content to criticize the prevailing political, social and economic conditions. Since he dreams of a more beautiful future, he believes that poetry should be a voice of opposition and resistance to the state of reality. Poetry, for him, expresses the rejection of the humiliation heaped upon us. Dunqul leverages his cultural heritage to increase peoples' national identity. He quotes Egyptian folk songs and roundelays, including them in his poetry after changing their context to decry the country's political and moral corruption, and the loss of Egypt's firm and moral political leadership. His poems express his sadness and grief because of the political and moral corruption on the one hand, and the infirmity of presidents on the other.
Journal of educational and developmental psychology, Apr 23, 2020
The principal aim of the study was to compare gender differences in the level of autonomy, parent... more The principal aim of the study was to compare gender differences in the level of autonomy, parental and peer involvement in the decision-making processes of Jewish and Druze adolescents. The method that was chosen to conduct the study was the qualitative research method and to measure the variables in the current study, a questionnaire containing 30 items was developed. The research population includes 243 participants aged 15-18. The findings partially confirmed the research hypotheses. The study showed four main findings. First, the study showed that no gender differences are apparent between Jewish and Druze adolescents in the overall degree of autonomy or in parents' and peers' involvement in their decision making. Second, the study revealed that in both groups of adolescents, boys have more autonomy in making decisions relative to girls. The third finding showed that among both male adolescent groups, friends are more involved in their decisions relative to among both female grops. The final finding showed that there is bigger gap in the Druze culture between boys and girls regarding the degree of parental involvement than in the Jewish culture.
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2018
2. SF has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of roman... more 2. SF has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the readers" environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that SF narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern technological environment (Seed, 2011: 1-2). The Oxford English Dictionary defines SF as "imaginative fiction based on postulated scientific discoveries or spectacular environmental changes, frequently set in the future or on other planets and involving space or time travel", adding that the term did not come into common usage until the 1920s. Adam Roberts views the terms of this basic dictionary definition are instructive: "imaginative fiction" differentiates SF from "realist" fiction, in which there is some attempt at a literary verisimilitude that reproduces the experience of living in the world we recognise as ours
International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2018
This research compares decision-making between Jewish adolescents and Druze adolescents as it rel... more This research compares decision-making between Jewish adolescents and Druze adolescents as it relates to level of autonomy, parents’ involvement and the involvement of peers. This is a pioneering research, which tests existing differences between Jewish and Druze adolescents with regards to the factors influencing their decisions. 243 subjects aged 15-18 participated in this research. Of these subjects 124 were Jews and 119 were Druze; about half of both groups were boys and half were girls. Each subject filled out a self-report questionnaire that was particularly designed with the factors mentioned above in mind and for this research. Although no differences were found between Jewish and Druze adolescents in total degree of autonomy or in parents’ and friends’ involvement in decision-making, the findings partially confirmed research hypotheses.
Advances in Literary Study, 2020
This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-... more This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-1983), ʾiJāza ʿlā Shāṭiʾ al-Baḥr (A Seaside Vacation) and the Al-ḥidād Yalīqu bi Qaṭr Al-nadā (A Mourning Becomes Qaṭr Al-nadā), The study reveals the cultural heritage and references from which ʾAmal Dunqul draws in his poetry. It further examines the reasons and motives that prompted the poet to employ these sources. The study shows that ʾAmal Dunqul, who came from the village, reveals his unfamiliarity with city life and the various psychological, social and political shocks it inflicts on him. He sees that the poet's life in the city is full of anxieties and is very black; he sees that he is suffering living there. Dunqul compares his status to that of others. He feels attuned to the spirit of the nation, and he believes that he belongs to it. He uses Egyptian folk songs and reflects on their content to criticize the prevailing political, social and economic conditions. Since he dreams of a more beautiful future, he believes that poetry should be a voice of opposition and resistance to the state of reality. Poetry, for him, expresses the rejection of the humiliation heaped upon us. Dunqul leverages his cultural heritage to increase peoples' national identity. He quotes Egyptian folk songs and roundelays, including them in his poetry after changing their context to decry the country's political and moral corruption, and the loss of Egypt's firm and moral political leadership. His poems express his sadness and grief because of the political and moral corruption on the one hand, and the infirmity of presidents on the other.
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2018
This study deals with the issue of conflict between the programmed mechanical system and the rebe... more This study deals with the issue of conflict between the programmed mechanical system and the rebellious human being against this system as reflected in the science fiction novel al-Sayyid min Ḥaql al-Sabānik (The Mister from the Spinach Field) by the Egyptian writer Ṣabrī Mūsā. The novel describes a society divided into classes, committees, centers and bodies run by a general system, which establishes a fixed daily program for everyone from the moment each person rises until they go to bed. Thus, the mechanical robotic human being becomes the master of the universe, while the real human being turns into a mechanical slave that obeys and performs without thinking. The hero of the novel, Homo, tries to break this programmed track because it nullifies citizens? creativity, negates their personal freedom within the concept of ?discipline?, and prevents them from following their whims. The tragedy of Man in the coming age lies in his acceptance of slavery imposed by the programmed system...
Creative Education, 2020
Online education connects a teacher/lecturer and a student/pupil or who is not in the same physic... more Online education connects a teacher/lecturer and a student/pupil or who is not in the same physical location and not necessarily even in the same time zone. This system can operate through almost any electronic device connected to the internet. Students engaged in distance learning in real time, with teachers giving live streaming classes via the internet, are performing “synchronous learning”. “Asynchronous learning” offers prerecorded classes that are always available to students. Students access these recordings when convenient for them and study and practice at their own pace. Online education has advantages, e.g., increased access to knowledge and learning and reduced teaching costs, takes less time and enables learning at one own speed, but it also has disadvantages e.g., decreasing the “market value” of an academic degree, weakening the learning quality, limiting dialogue with lecturers/teachers, and hurting academic research. Its success depends on the optimal combination of...
Advances in literary study, 2020
This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-... more This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-1983), ʾiJāza ʿlā Shāṭiʾ al-Baḥr (A Seaside Vacation) and the Al-ḥidād Yalīqu bi Qaṭr Al-nadā (A Mourning Becomes Qaṭr Al-nadā), The study reveals the cultural heritage and references from which ʾAmal Dunqul draws in his poetry. It further examines the reasons and motives that prompted the poet to employ these sources. The study shows that ʾAmal Dunqul, who came from the village, reveals his unfamiliarity with city life and the various psychological, social and political shocks it inflicts on him. He sees that the poet's life in the city is full of anxieties and is very black; he sees that he is suffering living there. Dunqul compares his status to that of others. He feels attuned to the spirit of the nation, and he believes that he belongs to it. He uses Egyptian folk songs and reflects on their content to criticize the prevailing political, social and economic conditions. Since he dreams of a more beautiful future, he believes that poetry should be a voice of opposition and resistance to the state of reality. Poetry, for him, expresses the rejection of the humiliation heaped upon us. Dunqul leverages his cultural heritage to increase peoples' national identity. He quotes Egyptian folk songs and roundelays, including them in his poetry after changing their context to decry the country's political and moral corruption, and the loss of Egypt's firm and moral political leadership. His poems express his sadness and grief because of the political and moral corruption on the one hand, and the infirmity of presidents on the other.
Journal of educational and developmental psychology, Apr 23, 2020
The principal aim of the study was to compare gender differences in the level of autonomy, parent... more The principal aim of the study was to compare gender differences in the level of autonomy, parental and peer involvement in the decision-making processes of Jewish and Druze adolescents. The method that was chosen to conduct the study was the qualitative research method and to measure the variables in the current study, a questionnaire containing 30 items was developed. The research population includes 243 participants aged 15-18. The findings partially confirmed the research hypotheses. The study showed four main findings. First, the study showed that no gender differences are apparent between Jewish and Druze adolescents in the overall degree of autonomy or in parents' and peers' involvement in their decision making. Second, the study revealed that in both groups of adolescents, boys have more autonomy in making decisions relative to girls. The third finding showed that among both male adolescent groups, friends are more involved in their decisions relative to among both female grops. The final finding showed that there is bigger gap in the Druze culture between boys and girls regarding the degree of parental involvement than in the Jewish culture.
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2018
2. SF has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of roman... more 2. SF has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the readers" environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that SF narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern technological environment (Seed, 2011: 1-2). The Oxford English Dictionary defines SF as "imaginative fiction based on postulated scientific discoveries or spectacular environmental changes, frequently set in the future or on other planets and involving space or time travel", adding that the term did not come into common usage until the 1920s. Adam Roberts views the terms of this basic dictionary definition are instructive: "imaginative fiction" differentiates SF from "realist" fiction, in which there is some attempt at a literary verisimilitude that reproduces the experience of living in the world we recognise as ours
International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2018
This research compares decision-making between Jewish adolescents and Druze adolescents as it rel... more This research compares decision-making between Jewish adolescents and Druze adolescents as it relates to level of autonomy, parents’ involvement and the involvement of peers. This is a pioneering research, which tests existing differences between Jewish and Druze adolescents with regards to the factors influencing their decisions. 243 subjects aged 15-18 participated in this research. Of these subjects 124 were Jews and 119 were Druze; about half of both groups were boys and half were girls. Each subject filled out a self-report questionnaire that was particularly designed with the factors mentioned above in mind and for this research. Although no differences were found between Jewish and Druze adolescents in total degree of autonomy or in parents’ and friends’ involvement in decision-making, the findings partially confirmed research hypotheses.
Advances in Literary Study, 2020
This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-... more This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-1983), ʾiJāza ʿlā Shāṭiʾ al-Baḥr (A Seaside Vacation) and the Al-ḥidād Yalīqu bi Qaṭr Al-nadā (A Mourning Becomes Qaṭr Al-nadā), The study reveals the cultural heritage and references from which ʾAmal Dunqul draws in his poetry. It further examines the reasons and motives that prompted the poet to employ these sources. The study shows that ʾAmal Dunqul, who came from the village, reveals his unfamiliarity with city life and the various psychological, social and political shocks it inflicts on him. He sees that the poet's life in the city is full of anxieties and is very black; he sees that he is suffering living there. Dunqul compares his status to that of others. He feels attuned to the spirit of the nation, and he believes that he belongs to it. He uses Egyptian folk songs and reflects on their content to criticize the prevailing political, social and economic conditions. Since he dreams of a more beautiful future, he believes that poetry should be a voice of opposition and resistance to the state of reality. Poetry, for him, expresses the rejection of the humiliation heaped upon us. Dunqul leverages his cultural heritage to increase peoples' national identity. He quotes Egyptian folk songs and roundelays, including them in his poetry after changing their context to decry the country's political and moral corruption, and the loss of Egypt's firm and moral political leadership. His poems express his sadness and grief because of the political and moral corruption on the one hand, and the infirmity of presidents on the other.
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2018
This study deals with the issue of conflict between the programmed mechanical system and the rebe... more This study deals with the issue of conflict between the programmed mechanical system and the rebellious human being against this system as reflected in the science fiction novel al-Sayyid min Ḥaql al-Sabānik (The Mister from the Spinach Field) by the Egyptian writer Ṣabrī Mūsā. The novel describes a society divided into classes, committees, centers and bodies run by a general system, which establishes a fixed daily program for everyone from the moment each person rises until they go to bed. Thus, the mechanical robotic human being becomes the master of the universe, while the real human being turns into a mechanical slave that obeys and performs without thinking. The hero of the novel, Homo, tries to break this programmed track because it nullifies citizens? creativity, negates their personal freedom within the concept of ?discipline?, and prevents them from following their whims. The tragedy of Man in the coming age lies in his acceptance of slavery imposed by the programmed system...
Creative Education, 2020
Online education connects a teacher/lecturer and a student/pupil or who is not in the same physic... more Online education connects a teacher/lecturer and a student/pupil or who is not in the same physical location and not necessarily even in the same time zone. This system can operate through almost any electronic device connected to the internet. Students engaged in distance learning in real time, with teachers giving live streaming classes via the internet, are performing “synchronous learning”. “Asynchronous learning” offers prerecorded classes that are always available to students. Students access these recordings when convenient for them and study and practice at their own pace. Online education has advantages, e.g., increased access to knowledge and learning and reduced teaching costs, takes less time and enables learning at one own speed, but it also has disadvantages e.g., decreasing the “market value” of an academic degree, weakening the learning quality, limiting dialogue with lecturers/teachers, and hurting academic research. Its success depends on the optimal combination of...