ahmad moharram is one of the contemporary poets who felt poverty and deprivation along his life. since his view toward life is a realistic one, so his literature is a realistic one that can be a whole mirror of his contemporary society. since nationalism and patriotism is one of the prominent indices of realistic literature, so this essay tries to analyze national morale of this poet. poem and ...

Plato’s attitude toward the poets and poetry has always been a fl ashpoint of debate, controversy and notoriety, but most scholars have failed to see their central role in the ideal cities of the Republic and the Laws, that is, Callipolis and Magnesia. In this paper, I argue that in neither dialogue does Plato “exile” the poets, but, instead, believes they must, like all citizens, KRITERION, Be...

We discuss the design of a CVE poetry performance and experiences arising from staging it to two hundred members of the public. The design, a collaborative effort between computer scientists, artists, poets and producers, addresses issues of. virtual world structure; embodiment of performers and audience; navigation interfaces; temporal structure of the event; and mixed reality presentation Exp...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by ritualistic-repetitive behaviors and impaired verbal and non-verbal communication. Objectives were to determine the contribution of genetic variation to ASDs in the Lebanese. Affymetrix Cytogenetics Whole-Genome 2.7 M and CytoScan(™) HD Arrays were used to detect CNVs in 41 Lebanese autistic children a...

Adolescent obesity is associated with both immediate and longer-term health implications. This study aims to identify dietary patterns among a nationally representative sample of Lebanese adolescents aged between 13 and 19 years (n 446) and to assess the association of these patterns with overweight and obesity. Through face-to-face interviews, socio-demographic, lifestyle and anthropometric va...

comparing literary views of the poets and writers, as the creators of literary texts and those of the critics has rarely been noticed in the area of literary criticism. this article, studies attar’s point of views on various issues of poetry including rhyme, rhythm, poetic inspiration, addressee, utterance, meaning and didactic poem. the author of the article studies four masnavis of attar –ela...

the present article studies the vocabulary relating to victory in palestinian contemporary poets poetry in al – asf al – makoul. the present paper attempts to compare the type and the structure of these vocabularies which contain the concept of victory and triumph in quran and ancient poetries. in fact these lexicons divide into two parts: first the old words such as victory, triumph and so on ...

the present article is an attempt to familiarize with ashoura political poetry in the iraq contemporary literature. the emphasis is on hassen al senaid poetry as one of the most important remonstrant poets in iraq. the method of reading the revolutionary – political poetry which is related to the iraqi poet is inductive – analytical. the results have shown that the most important aim of the poe...

the calling of the ancient characters in modern arabic poem that inspires the poets needs some more researches to clear the content of the odes. this paper attempts to study the influence of the ancient characters in the poem of the famous contemporary egyptian poet, amal donqol (1941-1983). the poet tries to taking advantage from three techniques: name, role and speech. in his poem and change ...