Storytelling and intertextuality feature frequently in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s literary works. This paper investigates the role storytelling play his novel Paradise, published 1994, shows how they ultimately undermine very concept of paradise itself. The first section analyses two intertextual references to Milton which cast doubt on idea East Africa as a through their contradictory nature. second ...

Vulnerable, threatened, and degraded. This is the status of Earth’s biodiversity, upon which we all rely. Humanity demanding too much from nature while at same time deteriorating natural world. Unprecedented rates ecosystem degradation species decline set stage for anticipated twice delayed 15th Conference Parties to UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (COP-15), rescheduled later this y...

To my mother, Ammi. "Cling to her feet, because paradise is there" (Prophet Muhammad).

ahmad showqi is one of the outstanding contemporary poets and had such an important state among the poets who were called poet laureate. quran played as a spring which he enjoyed it a lot for his poetry. by studying his poetry we come to conclusion that holy quran had a significant effect on showqi’s poetry and he had used its vocabulary and semantics in all his poetry. doomsday and its images ...

With each of the classical tree–like forcings adjoining a new real, one can associate a σ– ideal on the reals in a natural way. For example, the ideal of Marczewski null sets s corresponds to Sacks forcing S, while the ideal of nowhere Ramsey sets r corresponds to Mathias forcing R. We show (in ZFC) that none of these ideals is included in any of the others. We also discuss Mycielski’s ideal P2...

associating certain forms and designs in islamic arts with the promised heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. it is believed that islamic art has been derived from the imagination of the paradise as depicted in holy quran. to express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in islamic arts has been the gardens of h...