A Look at Fatalism

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Different Look at Peer-Reviewing of Articles

A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...

Beyond Fatalism

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A Look at Crudeoils

This paper will examine the collaborative group Crudeoils with respect to their creation and production process, purposeful reference and appropriation of historical masterpieces, and combination of art and technology in current visual culture. Crudeoils’ work combines the familiar act of viewing with a language of interactivity. This fusion extends the meaning of original masterpieces by incor...