kharijite as one of the groups in the first and second centuries, had a respectively certain attitude toward women. they have offered quite different views of woman and her participation in social and political issues including, marriage, treatment toward female prisoners, women in battles and women caliphate, which took influence of looking at surface and appearance of quran and ideas of peopl...

Of building cultural centers in all communities and with any kind of attitude has always been one of the designers’ issues. When we use the term in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”- art, literature, music and painting. According to sociologists, the concept of culture includes such activities, but also far more. Culture c...

Students, when entering the community of university, are faced with changes which might affect their individual-social adjustment. Individual-social adjustment will be proved by person's interaction with the environment skills and its result is that person enjoys of social interaction, positive feelings about themselves and others and leave a positive impact on others. The present study was to ...

In this thesis I explore women's engagement with body, weight and eating from a socio-cultural perspective. I discuss the limitations of current research on body dissatisfaction and propose that women's negative appraisal of their body needs to be understood as an active engagement with their social context. Research that focuses on the interaction of ethnic/cultural differences and body dissat...

BACKGROUND Iraqi Kurdistan region is one of the areas where female genital mutilation is reportedly widely practiced but inadequately studied. The aim of this study was to determine (i) the prevalence of female genital mutilation among Muslim Kurdish women in Erbil city, (ii) the patterns and types of female genital mutilation, (iii) the factors associated with this practice and (iv) women's kn...

This research is entitled (Reflection of openness cultural in Kurdish music), and it an attempt to identify analyze the culture music, through proofs, poetic examples, songs folklore different types forms. We try answer these questions: 1- What meaning who used this term? 2- How where did music come from? 3- Were our folk closed or open? Although term open society new world, including Kurds, bu...

In 2010, the Ministry of Education of one of the most diverse provinces in Canada initiated the implementation of a support program for newcomer students to facilitate their academic, linguistic, social, and cultural adaptation in French speaking schools. This longitudinal multiple case study will document how immigrant parents support their children’s learning, and create a home environment co...

physical self-concept or perception of physical self is one of the main factors and properties of perception of one’s identity, especially of the youth which has recently been the center of attention of experts in different branches of humanities and social sciences. in fact, perception of body can be considered one of the most important factors that inevitably influence many of our social rela...

This paper looks at the Kurdish women’s struggles for gender justice intersection of two diverse social movements in Turkey: national movement, on one hand, and Turkish feminist other. It argues that Women’s Movement (KWM) has functioned as a powerful process learning both men women community larger society. destabilized transformed feudal–patriarchal relations norms community, lingering sexism...