Contemporary poetry appears in a diverse range of forms and medial constellations: in spoken word events live on stage, on audio CDs – spoken by the poets themselves or by professional speakers, at times accompanied by music or beats –, in YouTube videos, as entertaining ‘poetry clips,’ as artistic poetry films in art installations in museums, public spaces or the cinema. Finally, there is a wi...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a very old and of great interest in pattern recognition field. The recognition of cursive scripts like Persian and Arabic languages is a difficult task as their segmentation suffers from serious problems in different languages. Segmentation is a process of dividing cursive words into smaller parts in order to decrease complexity and increase accuracy of re...

In the first decades of nineteenth century, British Calcutta stood as one most important cities in world for editing, printing, and selling Arabic books. Before famous Bulaq Press Cairo was established 1820, from 1801–19, European Orientalists Indian munshi s (scribes clerks) maulvi (Arabic, mawlana s), alongside Yemeni scholar, had already printed 22 titles movable type—many time—at Fort Willi...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

ghadir is one of the main sources of inspiration for poets and writers in the history and many poets and poems written bits in this field have accused. each expresses his devotion to the holy shrine of imam ali. arabic poetry is not an exception. threads of ghadir  are, so vast that  it is not restricted to specific discussion or particular poet.given the great importance of the topic chosen an...

defamiliarize or deviation is one of the foundational pillar to studies of contemporary linguistics and the purpose of it is deviation from the norm logical and natural and going beyond the common language, so stylistic and aesthetic purposes language appear in this manner and this (unfamiliarity) can create  intellectual engagement in mind of the reader and make an impression on his. ghada al-...

Abstract This article discusses use of the meter mutaqārib in Persian masnavī (narrative) poetry as related to its content from a comparative perspective. One aims is demonstrate various connections between set narrative poems composed . The questions previous assumptions about form and style early verse romances contributes further discussion approaches poetry.

viability of verse is interrelated to its multiple layer nature and legibility. being affected by western poetry and criticism in the middle of 20th century, this trend entered arabic contemporary verse into a new stage and made it as a field for activity of national and international myths. badr shakir al- siab was one of premier innovative arabic poets that he has highly benefitted from myste...