Aims: Due to the widespread outbreak of COVID-19, thousands of people have died, and millions of people have been infected around the world, putting communities at great risk. The present study assessed the lived experience of people infected by COVID-19. Participants & Methods: This qualitative research with a phenomenological approach was conducted in March 2020 in Boroujerd, Lorestan. Using...

Too little is known about human functioning amidst chronic adversity. We addressed that need by studying adult Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), a population that has experienced longstanding economic and political hardships. Fourteen group interviews were conducted in February, 2010 in Arabic by local fieldworkers with 68 participants representing the main stratificat...

ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT POLITICS IS THAT industrialization and urbanization often bring about profound changes in the nature of politics. The literature on village politics, especially in Asian countries, rather consistently :shows that rural communities try to avoid overt partisan confrontations and strive instead to arrive at some kind of "consensus." It is understandable tha...

people usually associate power with military force, multinational corporations, as well as ele-vated political positions. however, marriage and family are not exempted from power strug-gles too; couples often encounter power issues. present article discusses power in families with focussing on power between married partners or conjugal power.the paper also high-lights some of the questions like...

certainly, methodology of political jurisprudence (feghe seyasi) is closely related to “ejtehad”( practicing religious jurisprudence) . so, methodologically, understanding characteristics of political jurisprudence , requires understanding ejtehad. and ejtehad ,in turn, requires understanding the relations of it with “language” and “action” .therefor, understanding the two relations, clears the...