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    • Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains 

      AHMAD, RIZWAN ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2016 , Article)
      Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries became extremely attractive to workers from other Arab countries and beyond. Initially, Arabs were a majority in ...

    • The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Khanh Bao, Tran; Lang, Justin J; Compton, Kelly; Xu, Rixing; Acheson, Alistair R; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      BackgroundUnderstanding the magnitude of cancer burden attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors is crucial for development of effective prevention and mitigation strategies. We analysed results from the Global ...

    • Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar 

      AHMAD, RIZWAN; Hillman, Sara ( De Gruyter , 2021 , Article)
      This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar's government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We ...

    • Metaphorical expressions in E-commerce: A study of arabic language websites 

      Liginlal, Divakaran; AHMAD, RIZWAN; Meeds, Robert; Gopinath, Preetha ( Taylor and Francis Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      This study examines the use of metaphors in Arabic language e-commerce websites and shows that metaphorical language plays an important role in enhancing the effectiveness of websites and e-commerce businesses in general. ...

    • My name is Khan… from the epiglottis: Changing linguistic norms in Bollywood songs 

      AHMAD, RIZWAN ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2018 , Article)
      Many recent studies, academic and non-academic alike, have argued that the use of Urdu in Bollywood has started to decline. These studies, important as they are, however, suffer from some limitations. They are either ...

    • TRANSLATING QUR'ANIC STYLISTICS (AL-I'JĀZ AL-BALĀGHĪ): A STUDY OF SIX ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF SŪRAT ṬĀHĀ 

      AHMAD, RIZWAN (2022 , Master Thesis)
      Stylistic inimitability, al-i‘jāz al-balāghī, is one of the cornerstones of the Qur’anic textual structure. Based on the inability of the Arabs of the time to compose even one verse like that of the Qur’an, Muslim scholars ...

    • Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi 

      Ahmad, Rizwan ( Cambridge University Press , 2011 , Article)
      In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia—a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written ...