Media Post-coloniality and the Ethereal Persian ‘Empress’: How Hollywood Weaponized the Nostalgia of Exile

The osmosis between Iranian exile, Oriental repertoires, and the commodification of nostalgia in film and contemporary1 culture alludes to the Disney reproduction of the East that is capitalized by Hollywood’s invisible hand. The commodification of Orientalist logic via nostalgia of old civilization and Achaemenid grandeur is conveyed by Hamid Naficy’s (1991) reference to Edward Said’s (1978) ‘imaginary2 geography’—the inventive tool of narration that augments tales and anecdotes of exilic narratives, while heightening essentialism of the East. The European modeling of coronation, bejeweled scepters of royalty under the Pahlavi period (1941-1979), and cinematic repertoires of Iranians in film are perpetuated for viewers via fetishization, lust, and enchantment. The televised 1967 coronation of Queen Farah (b. 1938) solidified the trope of the Persian ‘Empress’ through picturesque markers of Achaemenid rulership (550-330 BCE). Media3 propagations of nostalgia in the paradisiacal Pahlavi coronation can be paralleled to current illusions of the Orient presented in the film Paterson (Jarmusch, 2016), starring exiled Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani. I refer to the Pahlavi coronation to expand on the spectacle of ‘nostalgia’, and the desire for a distant homeland. Naficy’s (1991) interpretation of ‘nostalgia’—a factor of exile, expounds how relics and objects induce a longing for the distant and ahistorical. Objects of nostalgia are inexplicably weaponized in Hollywood inventions of Near Eastern characters and serve as palpable symbols of the East via skewed representations of women, sexuality, and the exotic4 (Ahmed, 2006). Poetry, nostalgia, and fictional tales of the Orient in Paterson (Jarmusch, 2016) allude to Said’s (1978) vision of the imperialist project in Orientalism. The inventive and imaginary power of color media in the televised Pahlavi coronation and the fashioning of a politically permanent subject of interest—Iranians and the East, augured a pertinent era of media post-coloniality5 via the preservation of orientalism, rather than the Orient.

Revival of the Abbasid caliphate in Cairo In light of inscriptions on Mamluk coins 659) AH/ 1261CE): إحياء الخلافة العباسية في القاهرة في ضوء النقوش الكتابية على النقود المملوكية (659هـ/1261 م)

The study aimed to address the revival of the Abbasid Caliphate in Cairo, after it fell at the hands of the Mughal advance in the fall of Baghdad in 656 AH, so the Abbasid Caliphate fell and the Mongols took control of its capital, Baghdad, and killed the last Abbasid caliphs, the Sultan Al-Mustasim slaughtered in 656 AH, and since then Muslims did not have a state that defends them and fights under its flag except the Mamluk state in Egypt, which responded to the Mongol attacks on the Islamic world, and the Mamluks managed to defeat the Mongols in the famous battle of Ain Jalut 658 AH, which was the beginning of the true breakdown of the Mongol advance to the Islamic world, and the Mamluk victories continued over the Mongols. After that, many of the Islamic countries they had conquered were liberated at the beginning of their encroachment on Muslim countries. The Mamluks were then the campaigners of the jihad brigade and raised their banner against the Mongols, and they also became the actual rulers of Egypt and the Levant since then with the right of the sword and the power they possessed, especially after they rid the Islamic world of the attacks of the Mongols who terrorized people and killed hundreds of thousands and could only stand in the face of them. Mamluks, so people condemned the Maliki and satisfied their rule. However, the Mamluks themselves saw a lack of their rule as if the specter of slavery in which they lived before they became rulers continued to haunt them, and the matter increased during the reign of Zahir Baybars, who tried to legitimize his rule and the rule of the Mamluks after him, so he took many measures to achieve that and the most important of these The measures are "reviving the Abbasid caliphate in Cairo," which had fallen in its capital, Baghdad, after the Mongol attacks and the fall of Baghdad in their hands, so that the city of Cairo became the incubator of the caliphate and its new patron during the Mamluk era, but this time the caliphate did not become an absolute authority as it was before, but rather Imaginary power behind which the Mamluks rule the Islamic countries, so the position of the caliphate was divided into two parts of the religion of the Abbasid caliph and the politician of the apparent Baybars, and the title of the apparent Baybars Qasim, the Commander of the Faithful, a metaphor for the sharing of the position of the caliphate between him and the Abbasid caliph, and struck that on the money that was silenced in his era, which is more accurate Witness the new changes in the conditions of the Abbasid Caliphate, as well as the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. And this research that is in our hands will address this topic through a descriptive study of the writings and inscriptions on Mamluk money minted in Egypt during that period. The researcher found that: 1- the Abbasid Caliphate was merely a mere caliphate that had no strength in that period. 2- the researcher recommended the necessity of studying archeology and archaeological writings from a historical point of view as a primary source for documentation and validation of historical information.

Voltage Dip/Swell Mitigation and Imaginary Power Compensation in Low Voltage Distribution Utilizing Improved Unified Power Quality Conditioner (I-UPQC)

The main purpose of this work is to introduced power quality improvement in low voltage distribution networks with the application of Improved Unified Power Quality Conditioner (I-UPQC). Ordinarily, in the normal UPQC, the series inverter handles active injection while the shunt inverter provides load imaginary power injection. However, in the case of I-UPQC, the series inverter of the UPQC performs two functions concurrently as a sag and swell compensator and assists the shunt inverter in load reactive power requirements. The reactive power sharing is achieved by the integration of the Power Angle Control (PAC) of UPQC to coordinate imaginary power-sharing between the two inverters. With the view that the series inverter produces active and reactive power, this concept is named I-UPQC. Full mathematical analysis to extend the PAC method to I-UPQC has been carried out in this work. The simulation and results produced in the MATLAB / SIMULINK environment and discussion to support the developed concept are also presented. The result from the proposed concept is confirmed by comparing the concept with operation unified power quality conditioner in steady-state.

Power System Stability Enhancement using FACTS Devices

To utilize maximum cross section of installed power system conductors, the diversion of imaginary power should be must .With this; we can achieve maximum utilization of real power generated at the station. Generally preset passive inductive VAR generators may share conductor portion when low demand times. Active VAR generators are preferred to overcome this issue .Further control systems helps to determine the required VAR and type of VAR such that conduction period of switch varies according to the requirement of load which is very advantageous nature of active VAR generators. The simulink models of STATCOM and SVC are present in this paper. The results are analyzed accordingly in this paper.

Allocation of distributed generation and capacitor banks in distribution system

<p>Voltage profile and power losses on the distribution system is a function of real and imaginary power loading condition. This can be effectively managed through the controlled real and reactive power flow by optimal placement of capacitor banks (CB) and distributed generators (DG). This paper presents adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (MPSO) to efficiently tackle the problem of simultaneous allocation of DG and CB in radial distribution system to revamp voltage magnitude and reduce power losses. The modification to the conventional PSO was achieved by replacing the inertial weight equation (W) in the velocity update equation base on the particle best experience in the previous iteration. The inertial weight equation is designed to vary with respect to the iteration value in the algorithm. The proposed method was investigated on IEEE 30-bus, 33-bus and 69-bus test distribution systems. The results shows a significant improvement in the rate of convergence of APSO, improved voltage profile and loss reduction.</p>

THE HARDY AND HEISENBERG INEQUALITIES IN MORREY SPACES

We use the Morrey norm estimate for the imaginary power of the Laplacian to prove an interpolation inequality for the fractional power of the Laplacian on Morrey spaces. We then prove a Hardy-type inequality and use it together with the interpolation inequality to obtain a Heisenberg-type inequality in Morrey spaces.

KONSEP WAHYU DALAM ALQURAN (KAJIAN SEMANTIK)

For prophets who are at a lower level, angels descending to them both in the conscious or dream world, will dwell in their imaginary power and the supernatural nature (revelation) which descends from the Hadhrat miah Scientific will reach their hearts. But for the Prophets who have a position higher than q uqul and angels, the delivery of revelation and the descent and descent of angels will be realized with the permission of the Nafs Nabawi. They can witness and dialogue directly with the angels especially with the angel Jibril witnessed in “the nature of 'uqul” with the form of "Tamatsul Aqli", in the Muslim world with the form "Tamatsul Mitsâli" and in the material world with the form "Tamatsul Nâsuti" and in this way they take revelations from angels

An Educational Platform for Cascade PWM STATCOM

This paper presents a training system based on low-voltage cascaded PWM STATCOM.It is intended to train the employee in power grid companies.The system is characterized by load disturbance in 380-V power grid and imaginary power compensation of transformerless cascade PWM STATCOM with star-configuration. A two-hierarchy DC voltage balance strategy is adopted to stabilize the H-bridge capacitors in the compensation procedure. Simulation and experimental waveform indicate that a 380V-20kvar cascade STATCOM with star-configuration compensate the the imaginary power shortage within 20ms.

The Boundedness of Some Integral Operators on Weighted Hardy Spaces Associated with Schrödinger Operators

LetL=-Δ+Vbe a Schrödinger operator acting onL2(Rn),n≥1, whereV≢0is a nonnegative locally integrable function onRn. In this paper, we will first define molecules for weighted Hardy spacesHLp(w) (0<p≤1)associated withLand establish their molecular characterizations. Then, by using the atomic decomposition and molecular characterization ofHLp(w), we will show that the imaginary powerLiγis bounded onHLp(w)forn/(n+1)<p≤1, and the fractional integral operatorL-α/2is bounded fromHLp(w)toHLq(wq/p), where0<α<min{n/2,1},n/(n+1)<p≤n/(n+α), and1/q=1/p-α/n.