Metaheuristic Approaches for Solving University Timetabling Problems: A Review and Case Studies from Middle Eastern Universities

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Manar Hosny
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
University Timetabling

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Marcus DuBois King
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Times ◽  
Regional Water

Recognizing that water has been intrinsic to Middle Eastern civilization since at least the times of Mesopotamian civilization, the chapter frames 7 contemporary case studies by regional experts that shed new light on important political and hydrological trends. Taken as a whole, the case studies illustrate that while regional water conflict has diverse roots, the time is ripe for reconceptualization of how basic assumptions of water’s role are challenged by an essentially new hydropolitics. The chapter argues that policymakers must act promptly to mitigate conflict in the face of political shocks, inequalities and rapidly dwindling water supplies that are explored in greater depth by the volume’s authors.

scholarly journals Linguistic Dissent on Jordanian Radio: Implicature and Stance as Ambiguous Subversion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jona Fras
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Linguistic Ideologies ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Military Activity

This paper examines the mobilisation of linguistic ideologies as a form of dissent from dominant discourses of identity in contemporary Middle Eastern media. As part of my broader doctoral research on non-government Jordanian radio today, it takes a linguistical anthropological perspective focused on the notion of indexicality: the non-referential meanings that are invoked contingently in language use, and thus articulate links to broader social and cultural ideologies, including stereotypes of identity categories such as gender and geographic origins.I examine two case studies in which speakers problematise and reframe such stereotypes. The first involves the indexical mechanism of implicature, whereby a talk show caller mounts a challenge to dominant discourses of urban linguistic refinement through the ironic use of a ‘sanitised’ pronunciation of a local Jordanian dish (ča‘āčīl / ka‘ākīl). The second, from a programme in honour of a Jordanian pilot executed by the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, exhibits the performance of an evaluative stance towards Jordanian military activity as a form of patriotic nationalism, through the use of the [g] pronunciation of the sound /q/ (qāf) by a female broadcaster – a usage that defies gendered linguistic norms Jordanian radio, which require female speakers to use the [ʔ] (glottal stop) pronunciation instead.While these contingent uses of implicature and stance form challenges to certain dominant discourses, they are nevertheless ambiguous in that they draw on other problematic ideologies, including localist linguistic ‘authenticity’ and patriotic Jordanian nationalism. Thus, while details of language use provide important potential for dissent, this paper also problematises this potential – asking whether (1) subversive linguistic practices always need to draw on other dominant discourses in order to be meaningful, and (2) whether such references necessarily make dissent compromised or illegitimate.

scholarly journals Investigating the Implementation of Critical Literacy Approach in the Middle-East Education Contexts: Three Main Constraints

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-418
Author(s):  
Sadegh Rahimi Pordanjani ◽  
Laode Muhammad Firman Guntur
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Teachers And Students

Critical literacy, which is derived from critical pedagogy and critical thinking, is crucial for teachers and students to acquire throughout their education. According to critical literacy approach, students are not only expected to read and write different texts but are also required to challenge, synthesize, analyze, and go beyond these forms of skills analytically and critically. With regard to reviewing various literature, this approach is not implemented effectively in the Middle East education systems due to some main obstacles. This paper is aimed at reviewing different literature and case studies in order to grasp these pivotal constraints that students and teachers encounter while learning and teaching in Middle-Eastern educational settings. The main purpose of this article is to review critically the domination of education by politics and religion, the lack of communicative language teaching approach, and the exclusion of teachers from making decisions as to the major impediments of enacting critical literacy in the Middle-east contexts.

scholarly journals Taking to the Streets

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Jacob Høigilt
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Back Cover ◽  
Middle Eastern Studies ◽  
The Arab Spring

This edited volume consists of ten case studies framed by an introductionwritten by the two editors and a postscript written by Larry Diamond, a leadingscholar of democracy studies today. The Introduction, which places thevolume within the tradition of political sociology and political science, relatesexplicitly to the study of contentious politics and social movements.In doing so, it contributes to a trend in Middle Eastern studies that startedduring the early 2000s in analyses of Islamism and that seeks to add insightsto a field that has so far been relatively neglectful of the Middle Easterncontext.The book promises to “illuminate the concept of activism as an ongoingprocess, rather than a sudden burst of defiance” (back cover) by critically examiningthe ideas that the Arab Spring emerged “from nowhere” and wasdriven by “tech-savvy, disgruntled youth” (p. 2). It sets out to explore the natureof activism before, during, and after the uprisings, as well as how the ...

Interrupting planetary urbanization: A view from Middle Eastern cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azam Khatam ◽  
Oded Haas
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Political Citizenship ◽  
New City ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper argues that the ‘city’ as a political entity is significant in struggles over the ‘urban’, by identifying two moments of ‘differential urbanization’ in the Middle East. Our study in Iran and Palestine/Israel shows that the vision of the ‘city’ as a legitimizing space for political citizenship is at the heart of conflicting imaginaries: in Iran, ‘cities of revolution’ built through housing the poor around Tehran, and redistributive politics that stand on filling the ‘rural/urban gap’, and in Palestine, the new city of Rawabi as a city of Palestinian independence, where privatized urban development contrasts colonial spatialities with anti-colonial potentials. Thus, the right to the ‘urban’ involves claims for the ‘city’ that go beyond the capitalist logic of urbanization. This theorization points to a troubling gap in the planetary urbanization thesis, which moves from collapsing the ‘urban/non-urban’ divide into ‘concentrated’, extended’ and ‘differential’ urbanization to diminishing the role of distinct sociospatial configurations in claims over the ‘urban’. Our case studies show that examining the reconfiguration of inherited spatialities in the context of particular political regimes is imperative for epistemology of the ‘urban’ in its planetary stage. Urbanization otherwise remains an uninterrupted process towards a non-spatial ‘urban condition’.

scholarly journals Women’s Voices in Middle East Museums: Case Studies in Jordan / Dreaming of Change: Young Middle-Class Women and Social Transformation in Jordan

1970 ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Shelagh Weir ◽  
Lucine Taminian ◽  
Feisal Yunis
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Anthropological Literature

Women’s Voices in Middle East Museums: Case Studies in JordanDuring the past few decades museums have proliferated in the Middle East, not only in the wealthy oil states, but also in poorer countries and even (notably) within the dreadful constraints of occupied Palestine. Rulers and their officials want them for international prestige, to promote dynastic or nationalistic narratives, to attract tourists, and to provide educational facilities for their publics. Dreaming of Change: Young Middle-Class Women and Social Transformation inJordanIn her book Dreaming of Change, Droeber studies young single women of middle class background and higher education as a social group that has great influence on the direction that social and political changes are taking in Jordan. Youth, male and female, are under-represented in the anthropological literature on the Middle East, despite the fact that they constitute almost one third of the population of any Middle Eastern country. Al-Rujula wa Taghayyur Ahwal al-Nisa’ (Manhood and Women Changing Conditions of WomenAzza Baydoun is not the kind of social psychologist you often encounter in our world of academia. She is a woman with a specific mission: to delve deeply into the inner core of society, so as to uncover intensely held perceptions, beliefs, and behavioral orientations that affect the most important and the most troubled relationship: that between man and woman.

scholarly journals Review of Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam by Evren Savcı (Duke University Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leelan Farhan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Translation Methods ◽  
Critical Translation ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Evren Savcı’s Queer in Translation presents an alternative, both in methodology and analysis, to the Orientalist analytical frameworks typical of Western scholars studying queer politics in Middle Eastern regions. Specifically, Savcı analyzes the rise of Turkey’s Adalet ve Kalınma Partisi (AKP; in English, the Justice and Development Party) to show how the AKP’s increased securitization and oppression of marginalized communities—including, but not limited to, Turkey’s LGBTQ community—is the result of the marriage of Islam and neoliberalism. Savci produces compelling case studies that reveal how Turkey’s weaponization of religion, morality, and capitalism serve to secure the nation against dissenting citizens. From the discourse surrounding the complicated murder of a gay Kurdish man, to unlikely solidarities between religious hijabi women and LGBTQ activists, and the public commons that became Gezi Park, Savci’s critical translation methods reveal how the language to construct and resist securitization in Turkey are far more nuanced than simple attribution to solely Islamist extremism or Western neoliberal influence.

Planning the New Towns in Libya

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Kezeiri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
New Town ◽  
New Towns ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Recent Government

AbstractThe recent history of Middle Eastern new town formation and the concepts which underlie it are briefly outlined. New town developments in Libya are reviewed, from the colonial experiments of Italy, through the oil industry expansion in the 1960s, to the recent government sponsored schemes. A number of case studies are provided to illustrate the specific environmental and social factors which planners need to take into account in Libya. Some preliminary comments are offered on the success and failure of twentieth century new towns in Libya.

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