seuyoty was one of the most celebrated medieval authors in arabic literature and during a literary period known as mamlooki era. although anecdote (magama) is a literary type which is written like a story and is based on the beggarliness and trickery of the first character of the story, seuyoty’s anecdotes (maqaamas) are different from the anecdotes of his predecessors. seuyoty’s magamas are no...

We introduce a novel task Anecdote Recognition and Recommendation. An anecdote is a story with a point revealing account of an individual person. Recommending proper anecdotes can be used as evidence to support argumentative writing or as a clue for further reading. We represent an anecdote as a structured tuple — < person, story, implication >. Anecdote recognition runs on archived argumentati...

irony in literature is an art that reflects the underlying pain and heals the hidden anguish that it wants to use to heal its grief and remove its anguish through its opposite. hence, the pain felt by the writer or the poet and his inability to remove the causes of this pain is the motivation behind this irony that the poet creates. however, the motivation to resort to this method varies from e...