Radical Politics and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pipes
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Nationalist Party

Until now, there has appeared no party in the Arab world that can compete with the SSNP for the quality of its propaganda, which addresses both reason and emotion, or for the strength of its organization, which is effective both overtly and covertly. By virtue of its organization, this party succeeded in creating a very powerful intellectual and political current in Syria and Lebanon.

scholarly journals The Arabic Version of the Mobile App Rating Scale: Development and Validation Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Bardus ◽  
Nathalie Awada ◽  
Lilian A Ghandour ◽  
Elie-Jacques Fares ◽  
Tarek Gherbal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Management ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Health Apps ◽  
Highly Correlated

BACKGROUND With thousands of health apps in app stores globally, it is crucial to systemically and thoroughly evaluate the quality of these apps due to their potential influence on health decisions and outcomes. The Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) is the only currently available tool that provides a comprehensive, multidimensional evaluation of app quality, which has been used to compare medical apps from American and European app stores in various areas, available in English, Italian, Spanish, and German. However, this tool is not available in Arabic. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to translate and adapt MARS to Arabic and validate the tool with a sample of health apps aimed at managing or preventing obesity and associated disorders. METHODS We followed a well-established and defined “universalist” process of cross-cultural adaptation using a mixed methods approach. Early translations of the tool, accompanied by confirmation of the contents by two rounds of separate discussions, were included and culminated in a final version, which was then back-translated into English. Two trained researchers piloted the MARS in Arabic (MARS-Ar) with a sample of 10 weight management apps obtained from Google Play and the App Store. Interrater reliability was established using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). After reliability was ascertained, the two researchers independently evaluated a set of additional 56 apps. RESULTS MARS-Ar was highly aligned with the original English version. The ICCs for MARS-Ar (0.836, 95% CI 0.817-0.853) and MARS English (0.838, 95% CI 0.819-0.855) were good. The MARS-Ar subscales were highly correlated with the original counterparts (<i>P</i>&lt;.001). The lowest correlation was observed in the area of usability (<i>r</i>=0.685), followed by aesthetics (<i>r</i>=0.827), information quality (<i>r</i>=0.854), engagement (<i>r</i>=0.894), and total app quality (<i>r</i>=0.897). Subjective quality was also highly correlated (<i>r</i>=0.820). CONCLUSIONS MARS-Ar is a valid instrument to assess app quality among trained Arabic-speaking users of health and fitness apps. Researchers and public health professionals in the Arab world can use the overall MARS score and its subscales to reliably evaluate the quality of weight management apps. Further research is necessary to test the MARS-Ar on apps addressing various health issues, such as attention or anxiety prevention, or sexual and reproductive health.

scholarly journals Research on psychosocial aspects of asthma in the Arab world: a literature review

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anas J. Al-Khateeb ◽  
Jamal M. Al-Khateeb
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Bronchial Asthma ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Arab Countries

The importance of psychosocial factors in the management of bronchial asthma has long been recognized. This paper offers a review of research published in the English language related to psychosocial aspects of bronchial asthma in Arab countries. Several databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Springer Link, ERIC, and PsychInfo) were searched using the following keywords: bronchial asthma, Arab countries, Algiers, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (West Bank, Gaza), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Sudan, Somalia; United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Thirty-two studies were conducted in 9 Arab countries. Almost all studies found were published in the last fourteen years with an apparent increasing rate in the last five years. In descending order, these studies addressed: knowledge of and attitudes toward asthma, quality of life, behavioral and emotional problems and factors related to academic achievement. The main results of the studies reviewed were: (a) physicians’, school staff’s, and parents’ knowledge of and attitudes toward asthma were generally unsatisfactory, (b) in-service asthma education programs significantly impacted parent and staff knowledge and attitudes, and asthma management practices, (c) quality of life in children and adolescents was significantly adversely affected by asthma, (d) asthma was a common cause of school absenteeism, and had a significant negative impact on academic achievement of students, and (e) students with asthma had significantly higher rates of behavioral and emotional difficulties compared to students without asthma. The paper concludes with a discussion about the implications of these results and a call for further research in this area.

scholarly journals From Practices to Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities of Public Administration in the Arab World

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-98
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Governmental Institutions

This paper examines the challenges facing PA education, considering the colonial heritage of the region. Over the past decade, researchers have paid attention to Public Administration (PA) and its education in the Middle East. Many explored the history of the PA in the region and the quality of PA programs within high education institutes. In the context of the developmental challenges that face the current generation in the region, and under the current political circumstances which have negative consequences on PA, many voices call for a reliable and high-quality PA education and good governance, which includes accountability, transparency, democracy, and other concepts related to bureaucratic machinery within the public institutions. There is therefore a need to examine what governmental institutions, together with academic institutions in the Arab States, are doing to make significant progress in this field. The paper examines the main challenges facing PA education in Arab countries.

"Iraqi diplomacy towards the Arab world before 2018" "Analytical study"

2019 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Ayad Abdulkarim Majeed ◽  
Burhan Ali Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Variables

Talk about the Iraqi diplomacy towards the Arab world after 2003, I mean talk about the pivotal and important stage in the history of modern Iraq, as this stage, represented an important turning point in Iraq's history of diplomacy towards the Arab yolk, this stage has been associated with an important event \ in the history of the Arab nation, namely the occupation of Iraq and change its political system. And characterized the Iraqi diplomacy during the period that followed in 2003, a large led to a lot of the obvious failures in completing the required level of the new Iraqi diplomatic tasks, because of problems that were dictated quotas base broad form, especially in the political sphere, one of the conditions weakened external political action, as well as about conflict in the constitutional powers between the central government and local governments, and the Iraqi diplomatic suffered during the last term of conflicting political visions that represent different views of the Iraqi political forces to participate in power over many of the key variables that Iraqi foreign political control and determine the quality of international relations. However, the Iraqi diplomacy was not without achievements during the last term and they seem to be enhanced during the next phase, especially in light of the emergence of new political forces that new political movement based on the conviction is pushing for change, and therefore it is expected that the Iraqi diplomatic based in the coming period on a set of the basic principles that will support its foreign policy, and perhaps the most prominent of those principles

Memory as Theatre

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rathbone
Keyword(s):  
Radical Politics ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah

In 1995, the Asante people of central Ghana celebrated a sumptuous first-fruits festival, Odwira. Although the festival is held annually, this one was unusual in that it also marked the 25th year of the reign of their king, the Asantehene. The event was charged with political as well as cultural meaning. Asante and its king had been at the centre of opposition to the radical nationalist party led by Kwame Nkrumah which had taken Ghana into independence in 1957. That opposition had been ruthlessly suppressed and humiliated and this Odwira proved to be a very public opportunity for both an energetic re-assertion of Asante pride and for revenge against a brand of radical politics which remains significantly less popular in the region than it does in other parts of Ghana.

scholarly journals The Importance of Pragmatic Competence in the EFL Curriculum: Application and Implications*

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Mohamed Amine Choraih ◽  
Ayoub Loutfi ◽  
Abdullah Mansoor
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Grammatical Competence ◽  
And Training

The field of language teaching and curriculum development has been characterized by its constant development, with a concomitant impact on the quality of education and training. The drive is mostly due to the rapidly changing world characterized by globalization and the result of openings on other fields of research. One area that has informed this field is the teaching of L2 pragmatic competence, with the commonly expressed generalization being that there is a gap between what research in pragmatics has found and how language is generally taught today (Ishihara &amp; Cohen, 2010). On this view, this paper purports to investigate the role of pragmatic competence in the teaching of English. We provide evidence that language proficiency should not only be equated with grammatical well-formedness, but also with how to use it appropriately and efficiently in the target language. This being the case, however, we will show that the implementation of this view is far from being easy, especially in a trend that has for long been characterized by a focus on the grammatical competence, both in terms of training and curriculum design. This is paired with a similar difficulty in terms of how to translate the pragmatically-based approach into L2 classroom practices and how to identify modes of assessment. Addressing these issues, we believe, will shed light on some of the challenges and implications on the teaching of English along with the applicability of the suggested approach to the current ELT reform in the Arab world in general and in Morocco in particular.

scholarly journals Sale Documents in Oman and Zanzibar In the period (March 11, 1784 - May 11, 2015) Historical study, archival and documentary with publication and investigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
محمد مسعود محمد أبو سالم
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Gregorian Calendar ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Subject

The study deals with the study of Omani and Zanzibar documents. Their main legal action is buying and selling, which took place in different periods of time, cities and villages. The problems are represented by the existence of substantial differences in the Omani documents with the Zanzibar documents dealing with the subject of buying and selling. The existence of some mathematical errors in the comparison of the dates AH in the Gregorian calendar, the quality of sales and purchases, the vocabulary of life and its prices and the reasons for this, and the The number of documents in this geographical region of the Arab world, and how they are documented, used and combined with the Arab-Islamic heritage and inspired by their environment, and the names of the countries, cities and villages mentioned in the documents in question, are mentioned in the documents (31, 39) In regard to the mention of unknown persons and their relationship to legal conduct, as well as the inheritance of a person is not specified the reason for his inheritance and the value of this inheritance, and then the girl who was handed over to the buyer, did not give the document a reason for it, and these things are vague The research was based on the historical and analytical approach through reviewing the primary and secondary sources and criticizing them in cash both externally and internally, with the critical analytical observation of those sources, in addition to interviewing the personalities of some of the holders of these documents or some sheikhs and personalities of Oman, And the use of the diplomatic approach to access the legal versions and parts of documents.

scholarly journals The Arabic Version of the Mobile App Rating Scale: Development and Validation Study

10.2196/16956 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. e16956
Author(s):  
Marco Bardus ◽  
Nathalie Awada ◽  
Lilian A Ghandour ◽  
Elie-Jacques Fares ◽  
Tarek Gherbal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Management ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Health Apps ◽  
Highly Correlated

Background With thousands of health apps in app stores globally, it is crucial to systemically and thoroughly evaluate the quality of these apps due to their potential influence on health decisions and outcomes. The Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) is the only currently available tool that provides a comprehensive, multidimensional evaluation of app quality, which has been used to compare medical apps from American and European app stores in various areas, available in English, Italian, Spanish, and German. However, this tool is not available in Arabic. Objective This study aimed to translate and adapt MARS to Arabic and validate the tool with a sample of health apps aimed at managing or preventing obesity and associated disorders. Methods We followed a well-established and defined “universalist” process of cross-cultural adaptation using a mixed methods approach. Early translations of the tool, accompanied by confirmation of the contents by two rounds of separate discussions, were included and culminated in a final version, which was then back-translated into English. Two trained researchers piloted the MARS in Arabic (MARS-Ar) with a sample of 10 weight management apps obtained from Google Play and the App Store. Interrater reliability was established using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). After reliability was ascertained, the two researchers independently evaluated a set of additional 56 apps. Results MARS-Ar was highly aligned with the original English version. The ICCs for MARS-Ar (0.836, 95% CI 0.817-0.853) and MARS English (0.838, 95% CI 0.819-0.855) were good. The MARS-Ar subscales were highly correlated with the original counterparts (P<.001). The lowest correlation was observed in the area of usability (r=0.685), followed by aesthetics (r=0.827), information quality (r=0.854), engagement (r=0.894), and total app quality (r=0.897). Subjective quality was also highly correlated (r=0.820). Conclusions MARS-Ar is a valid instrument to assess app quality among trained Arabic-speaking users of health and fitness apps. Researchers and public health professionals in the Arab world can use the overall MARS score and its subscales to reliably evaluate the quality of weight management apps. Further research is necessary to test the MARS-Ar on apps addressing various health issues, such as attention or anxiety prevention, or sexual and reproductive health.

Calligraphic Animation: Documenting the Invisible

Animation ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura U. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Kutlug Ataman ◽  
The Invisible

Calligraphic animation shifts the locus of documentation from representation to performance, from index to moving trace. Animation is an ideal playing field for the transformative and performative qualities that Arabic writing, especially in the context of Islamic art, has explored for centuries. In Islamic traditions, writing sometimes appears as a document or a manifestation of the invisible. Philosophical and theological implications of text and writing in various Islamic traditions, including mystic sciences of letters, the concept of latency associated with Shi‘a thought, and the performative or talismanic quality of writing, come to inform contemporary artworks. A historical detour shows that Arabic animation arose not directly from Islamic art but from Western-style art education and the privileging of text in Western modern art – which itself was inspired by Islamic art. A number of artists from the Muslim and Arab world, such as Mounir Fatmi (Morocco/France), Kutlug Ataman (Turkey), and Paula Abood (Australia) bring writing across the boundary from religious to secular conceptions of the invisible. Moreover, the rich Arabic and Islamic tradition of text-based art is relevant for all who practice and study text-based animation.

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