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Teacher education and the development of teacher identity
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)This chapter reports on a study of teachers' professional identity development, which took place in a Sudanese English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program. The socio-political and economic discourses are ... -
The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure's ... -
The light belongs to Yves Saint Laurent: luxury beauty brands in translation
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This paper examines the issues related to the translation into Arabic of international advertising campaigns, with particular reference to the luxury goods market in the Arabian Gulf area. Data selected from a corpus ... -
The neural basis of idea density during natural spoken language
( Springer International Publishing , 2020 , Book chapter)Idea density (ID) evolved as a quantification of propositional base structure. Besides its function as a measure of linguistic complexity, ID has also been used as an index of general linguistic ability. In order to find ... -
Theorizing the Performance of Blackness: Relations, Processes, and Possibilities
( Johns Hopkins University Press , 2022 , Article)Through a summation of representative critical works that challenge us to think of new ways of imagining performing bodies and racial performance, this essay gestures towards a process-oriented approach for theorizing the ... -
Transit‐Oriented Development and Livability: The Case of the Najma and Al Mansoura Neighborhoods in Doha, Qatar
( Cogitatio Press , 2022 , Article)Since the 1970s, Qatar’s rapid urban growth has resulted in a segregated and poorly connected urban form, particularly in the country’s capital, Doha. Although the recent opening of the Doha Metro has begun to mitigate ... -
Transit‐Oriented Development in Doha: The Case of the Al Sadd Neighborhood and Hamad Hospital Metro Station
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)Over the last two decades, transit‐oriented development (TOD) has been widely implemented as an integrated strategy to enhance urban livability. Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has faced urban challenges such ... -
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook
( De Gruyter , 2015 , Article)The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ... -
Translation and the narratives of legitimacy: A semiotic analysis of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen’s legitimacy-constructing strategies and their Arabic translations
( John Benjamins Publishing , 2020 , Article)How legitimacy narratives in conflict zones are constructed and mediated through translation remains largely under-researched. This article investigates the strategies that the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin ... -
Underlying Mechanisms of Transit-Oriented Development: A Conceptual System Dynamics Model in Qatar
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an urban planning approach that facilitates the achievement of sustainable development goals from an urban planning and transportation perspective. Developed countries are moving rapidly ... -
Undoing Babel: The tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon literature
( University of Toronto Press , 2018 , Book)The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the ... -
Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi
( 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 ... -
Using Texts Which Address Local Issues to Create a Discursive Space within an Undergraduate Writing Course
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This study explores whether collaboratively writing about local issues would enable learners to deepen their understanding of their relationship with their own social context. A discursive space within an English for ... -
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation
( SAGE , 2021 , Article)The current study investigates multiple acoustic cues–voice onset time (VOT), spectral center of gravity (SCG) of burst, pitch (F0), and frequencies of the first (F1) and second (F2) formants at vowel onset—associated with ... -
Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Languages with a two-way voicing contrast in phonology usually contrast prevoiced b, d, g stops with voiceless unaspirated p, t, k stops or voiceless unaspirated stops with voiceless aspirated stops (Iverson & Salmons, ... -
The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels
( Cambridge University Press , 2023 , Article)Arabic has a vowel system with three long and three short monophthongs. One of the parameters that accounts for qualitative differences between long and short vowels across languages is tenseness/laxness of vowels located ... -
The Way We See It: Poetic-Visual Reciprocity in Egyptian Street Art Since 2011
( Brill , 2022 , Article)This article traces the manifestations of the newly adapted artistic form of “calligraffiti,” or the synthetic braiding of poetry and graffiti on what became known as the “walls of protest” in post-2011 Egypt. This new ... -
West Bay Business District in Doha, State of Qatar: Envisioning a Vibrant Transit-Oriented Development
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)In recent decades, Doha, the capital of Qatar, has experienced a large-scale transformation due to globalization and rapid economic growth. Recently, these changes have led to a focus on infrastructural development and ... -
الألفاظ والتعبيرات التمييزية المستخدمة في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية
( مركز الحكمة للبحوث والدراسات - الجزائر , 2021 , Article)سعت الدراسة إلى رصد الأشكال الصحفية والألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة الواردة في التغطية الإخبارية في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية خلال الحرب الدائرة أثناء إجراء هذه الدراسة، والمقارنة بين الألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة المستخدمة ...