As the most prominent novelist in contemporary Persian prose, Jalal Ale-Ahmad has had great influence on Persian writers, insofar as many writers have followed his suit. Employment of colloquial language is the characteristic style of his fiction. What makes his different, however, is mainly the employment of colloquialism in a subtle, precise and accurate way. Due to the extensive use of collo...

Research has shown that extensive planning is typical of skilled adult writers (Bridwell-Bowles, Johnson, & Brehe, 1987; Flower & Hayes, 1981b). Yet word processors tend to discourage high level planning (Haas, 1989). In this research, we used the Writing Environment, a computer-based authoring tool that encourages planning, to study the strategies of adult writers. Nine graduate students and e...

as a committed writer, najib al-kayl?ni was of the belief that works of art and literature should be used as a means to promote the islamic culture; thus, he regarded writing narratives, in a realistic style, as the need of the arab world and particularly the egyptian society. features which distinguish his works from those written by other writers are the religious hue and spirit of his storie...

Written around 990 A.D., Hidayat-MllIaallemill Fit Tibb (Student's Guide ill Medicine) is the oldest general medical text known to have been written in modern Persian. Little is known of the author other than the fact that he was apparently a well experienced practicing physician by the name of Abu Bah Rabi' bin Ahmad al-Akhawaini from Bukhara who claimed to bea second generation student o...

Since Najib al-Haddad and Tanyusʻ Abdu’s first Arabic versions of Romeo Juliet Hamlet at the end 19th century, reception Shakespeare in Arab world has gone through a process adaptation, Arabization, translation proper. We consider Arabization / domestication Shakespeare’s plays since al-Haddad’s adaptation Hamlet, to achievements Khalīl Mutran Muhammad Hamdi. underline, as particular examples a...

Holistic processing has been shown to be a behavioral marker of face recognition and object recognition in experts. We tested Chinese literates who can read and write Chinese characters (Writers) and Chinese literates whose reading performance far exceeded their writing ability (Limited-writers). We found that Writers perceived Chinese characters less holistically than Limited-writers. In addit...