literary criticism is a lively science which develops with the development of societies and people's thoughts. this science has connections to other human sciences and amongst its branches intertextuality has a root in old arabic literary criticism with similarities to adoption, plagiarism, and parody. but the difference is that intertextuality is pre-designed and on purpose and does not o...

surrealism is a literary school originating in europe, which found its way into the literature of other nations ,including arabic literature and thus having an impact on them. egypt is one of the world's leading arab nations in fiction. egyptian writers’ familiarity with european literature opened a new gate for the literary currents. naguib mahfouz, the great egyptian writer and nobel prize wi...

This paper examines the figurative use, both metonymy and synecdoche, of Arabic body parts in English literary translation. The aim is twofold: first to investigate translational procedures used render them and, second, see what linguistic cultural constraints determine choices. corpus consists first-encountered 100 utterances featuring names extracted from Naguib Mahfouz’s (1947) novel زقاق ال...

Epithelial stem/progenitor cells are considered as cancer initiating cells which has been detected in human endometrium, may initiate and progress endometrial carcinoma. Targeting cancer-initiating cells would be necessary to improve cure rates. The relation of endometrial adenocarcinoma and stem cell markers expression has not been reported yet, in spite of ALDH1 expression is frequently alter...

Notions could be warriors in a battle, totally ready to fight against other notions, without shedding the blood of their utterers. Naguib Mahfouz’s two allegory-based novels Khufu’s Wisdom (1939) and Sons Our Alley (1959) were banned when they first published. The reason was that symbolize some religious figures interpreted as abuse. Accordingly, Mahfouz became subject an issued fatwa death sen...

Environmental factors play a key role in the expression of phenotypic traits and life-history decisions, specifically when they act during early development. In birds, brood size is such an important environmental factor affecting development. Experimental manipulation of brood sizes can result in reduced offspring condition, indicating that conditions during development in enlarged broods have...