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The paper discusses the issue of translating terms related to artificial intelligence and digital literature; it tracks important terms and concepts in the digital field and studies the process of transferring them into Arabic through translation and Arabization. Since the nineties of the last century, Arabic works that deal with the relationship of literature and technology began to appear successively, heralding the emergence of new literary forms and genres. These works have so far tended to translate the terms they encounter into Arabic, but as their translation methods vary, confusion has been the result. Hence, some researchers prefer to Arabize Western terms, since accurate Arabic alternatives are difficult to find. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Muslims in the West face numerous challenges in that not only westerner assumptions including many different stereotypes and communal prejudices influence Muslims’ lives, but diaspora affects their identity as well. These challenges make Muslim identity unstable amid on one hand, a sense of belonging to the culture of origin and on the other hand, a sense of adaptation to the host culture. They are, consequently, trapped between two contrasting and conflicting cultures, constantly negotiation their cultural entities. This paper aims at analysing diaspora and its effects on Muslim youth's identity in Na'ima B. Robert's From Somalia with Love, and exploring the postcolonial key concepts of identity, diaspora and hybridity. Its purpose is to explore the challenges Muslim characters face and explicate how diaspora influences their religion and culture by mean of identifying the reasons and how identities are negotiated. To do so, this qualitative and non-empirical study is conducted in a descriptive-theoretical analysis. This paper finds that diaspora makes Muslim youths live in-between two cultures and that this third space has created a hybrid culture, affecting cultural uniqueness. This effect is reflected in the features of hybridization that appeared in a sense of alienation, lack of original cultural knowledge, practice of homeland and grandparents' customs and traditions and ancestors' history. The importance of this study lies in enabling the reader to understand the basic terms of the topic: diaspora, hybridity and hybrid culture. This is reinforced by the analysis of Homi Bhaba’s view of hybrid culture in his book ‘The Location of Culture’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This scientific paper sheds light on the "image of time" in the poetic texts of the poet Ibn Daniyal (1249-1311 AD), to reveal the "structure-function" in his poems, by employing the meaning of "understanding" as one of the basic and primary research tools in the structural-formative approach that was founded by the French critic, Lucien Goldmann (1913-1970 AD). The argument of the research is that Ibn Daniyal's use of temporal structures in his texts did not come arbitrarily, but it is rather out of awareness of the dialectical relationship between time as a historical period and time as a source of inspiration; where Ibn Daniel mixes between the two concepts to create poetic themes, with expressive contents about the reality of a relived life. From this perspective, the study aims to prove a relationship of mutual influence between the moment of creative creation of Ibn Daniyal’s temporal structure and its social contexts of living by the class of workers and craftswomen in particular. This is to prove its impact in creating temporal concepts related to the temporal and spatial eras that appeared in the Mamluk era particularly in Egypt. This study also investigate impact of this "spatio-temporal" in creating the structure of the perceptions of his poetic themes and their motives manifested from the structure-function, revealing the vision of the creator of the work for his world. The methodology of this study adopts the descriptive analytical approach. The study concluded that his line of poetry was formed by multiple standards. Ibn Daniyal used it to express the image of time in his mind, to which he gave contradictory features, such as: The absence of viability and presence of annihilation, deserted reality and fertile imagination, unity in utopian society and abandonment in dystopian society, and the psychology of alienation and the psychology of stability. The minor structure of work in the texts of Ibn Daniyal came in perfect harmony with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is an analysis of the social discourse of Active Sudanese youth in social media, especially (Facebook). Using pragmatic and interactive method, research sample was selected from youth writings on the floods that swept Sudan in the rainfall of 2020 AD, which caused great losses and constituted great attention to public opinion and the media. This research concluded with many results, the most important of which are: The discourse of the research sample was built from a combination of vocabulary from the Arabic language at its standard level mixed with vocabulary from the Sudanese colloquial dialect; because the latter is sometimes used to convey intended meanings, to create a desired interaction, and deliberation intended by the letter's writer. Likewise, the nature of the social discourse of Sudanese youth on Facebook, who wrote about the ordeal of torrents and floods, is mostly interactive and does not care about preserving sacred level and does not take them into account. The writer of the speech is from the public, and he targets the public and those who are both higher and lower than him. The study confirmed the adoption of a free agenda in the posts of Sudanese youth on Facebook regarding floods and torrents, and the presentation and discussion of the discourse that was studied in this paper focused on the topic (i.e. the meaning), not the form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This scientific paper presents an extensive research project that has been completed and directed, aiming to formulate a detailed dictionary for: "the meaning of augmented forms in the Arabic language" by approaching the "increased forms" and their derivatives mentioned in "Lisan al-Arab" by Ibn Manzoor. The study aims to analyze the lexical units mentioned in this dictionary from several linguistic angles, through the context in which the unit was presented. The lexical analysis technique used in this research is based on the concept of "distinctive semantic features", which provides a structural and functional description of lexical units. Through the inductive method, the study was able to identify and list the most frequently used augmentative forms in the Arabic language. Hence, the proposed dictionary will classify the verbal forms and the nominal forms. This study also identified the most frequently used affixes in augmented forms by comparing their frequency in other dictionaries of Arabic language. Through the project, the research has compiled an inventory of the verbal and nominal derivatives contained in the dictionary of Lisan al-Arab by Ibn Manzoor. The research also found that the number of the triple roots from which the words of the Arabs were derived, amounted to more than (50000) roots, and that the extra letters were not confined to the letters (سألتمونيها), especially in suffixes. Finally, the research found that theforms of verbal derivatives were more frequent in the Arabic language than the forms of nominal derivatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to uncover the impact of Al-Zuhūr Magazine - which was issued in the second decade of the twentieth century in Egypt - on the Arab literary renaissance. It sheds light on the magazine special attention to literature, which distinguished it from most of the magazines that appeared at that time. The paper also attempts to reveal its role in the renaissance, as well as its prominent literary and poetic contributions to the transformation of poetic styles .The paper highlights the magazine's efforts in drawing interest to innovative attempts in modern Arabic literature in both poetry and prose. It illustrates this new style in poetic structure and prosody in a poem written by Khalil Muṭrān, and in a prosaic text by May Ziadeh with a poetic style. In addition, the paper would also highlight the magazine's interest in translating modern European literature. This illustrates to what extent the magazine had contributed to changing the literary taste at the beginning of the twentieth century by providing a literary horizon that allowed for renewal attempts in later stages, as happened with the al-Diwan and Apollo poetry schools and what came after them . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper highlights on the autobiography of Hussein Barghoutsī (I Will Be Among the Almonds) as it embodies an exceptional case of cancer self-confrontation. It also bears many visions and perceptions about this disease, its effects on the patient, and its methods of treatment. The objective of the paper is to uncover the subconscious of this biography from the perspective of textual psychoanalysis, and to examine the subconscious of the text and monitor the journey of a cancer patient from the beginning of its discovery, fore sighting until its confrontation. This is to show how narrative creativity can be a means of resisting disease and treating it and challenge the physical mortality of the creative person through an intensive narrative discourse, which explores the depths of the self, starting from the depths of the text. This research concludes with the possibility of health practitioners utilizing creative narrative texts, especially autobiographies, to reveal the suffering of patients, know their psychological and physical needs in this long, painful journey, and distinguish issues that may negatively affect the treatment plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at highlighting the life of the poet of the Ummah Mu˙ammad ʿĀkif Arṣawi, his relations with friends and people and his works in general that had the influence on the realm of thought and literature. It will also shed lights on his career as a writer, poet, veterinar, memorizer, preacher, translator, teacher and other that. We observed that his frequent references were always the Quran and the Prophetic tradition. He was steadfast all along his life in putting on his best efforts to correctly understand Islam and convey it to the people. The paper follows the descriptive and analytical methods to arrive at the intended conclusions, of which are: he suffered difficult and shameful during the period when the Ottoman empire was on its last leg and the verge of establishing new nation. He was a fighter that sacrificed for the nation. His thoughts are found in his works in literature, exegesis, advices, aticles, treaties and all these are the keys to his world of thoughts. It can be said that the source of his main ideas is the Quran and the Prophetic tradition. His poetic works are the expressions of his belief that literature should contain the benefits for ethics and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research discusses one of the rhetorical methods of the Arabs, namely; the method of versification of pronouns in the modern Arabic poetry due to its significance as an element of textual cohesion. This paper aims at analyzing the methods of versification of pronouns in the poems of contemporary Libyan poet Hasan Al-Sousy. This is also to attempt to link between the traditional views with the modern perspectives that is between the aesthetic beauty of versification of pronouns as pointed out by the traditional scholars of rhetoric and the impacts of the poems of Al-Sousy through discussing the features of verification of pronouns found in those poems using the descritpive analytical method. The topic of verification of pronouns in the Quran has been given siginificant attention but its use in poems has not been given similar attention in the literary studies and critics. The research questions of this study are: how does the poet use the versification of Pronouns style in his poems to express his thoughts? The main objective of this study is to diagnose and analyse the methods of versification of Pronouns in the poems of Hasan Al-Sousy and to discuss its aspects the descriptive, analytical and inductive methods. This research consists of four sections; the first section is devoted for the definition of versification of pronouns linguistically and idiomatically. The second section refers to versification of pronouns from the first person to the second, the third section is devoted for versification of pronouns from the second person to the third; the fourth section is devoted to the third person to the second person. The study concludes that methods of versification of pronouns is a brilliant form of the rhetorical structures, where it involves a kind of flux resulting in a form of diversion from the recipient expectation. Al-Sousy has been able to be in control of his language, and the employment of its potential stylistic, to highlight this kind of versification in the four sections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the textual cohesive devices in the old Arabic poem entitled ‘jafā widduhū’ by the Abbasid poet Basyār bin Burd. This would be done from the perspective of text linguistics. It aims to uncover the extent of organic unity in the text as an example of the old Arabic poetry. The study uses textual method and focuses on three salient aspects of the poem namely: reference, repetition, and conjunction. The study begins with reference as it is the most stand out feature in the text and a grammatical cohesive feature. Three of its categories were explained in the poem: personal, comparative, and implicative references. Subsequently, repetition will be discussed as a lexical reference and four of its categories will be elaborated namely: total, partial, synonymous, and semi synonymous repetitions. Conjunction is also a part of lexical cohesive device and four of its relations are evident in the poem: conjunctive relation, the relation between the whole and part, the relation between the parts, and the relation between the elements of a general category. It is evident in the end that the textual cohesive devices are deployed in the poem and they are overlapping in many instances thus proving the organic unity of the poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some compilers of supplication materials made mistakes in their brochures with grammatical and stylistic errors. Some of them in authentic supplications and most of them in non-authentic supplications. From this standpoint, this paper seeks to highlight these linguistic and stylistic shortcomings, and by linguistic we mean grammatical, morphological and spelling issues. The research also aims to clarify the errors in those supplications and then correct them according to what is intended from the text. The research also aims to make people who pray to God to understand his words. Therefore, we see that one of the duties of a Muslim is to learn the Arabic language in order to understand the content of his prayers and to be aware of what he said and not merely repeating what he hears for by doing so he would be considered to be among those pray to God but their hearts are lame and heedless .The research uses the descriptive approach to describe the the linguistic and stylistic errors before analysing them, to explain the errors and correct them. Among the conclusions of the study, the most important of which are: it is indeed an obligation for Muslim to learn the Arabic language so that he knows the meanings of the supplications he utters whether he chooses authentic supplications or non-authentic supplications, so that his servitude to Allah the Almighty is sincere and he would be certain of the good he desires. Besides, the study indicates that the compilers of supplications do not actually care about knowing the meanings of the supplications and their correct language, grammatically and stylistically. This is the main reason why they commit such mistake while writing or compiling the supplications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research deals with Ibn Sayyidah’s interest in directing the readings and his care for them. However, there are some places where the author mentioned the Qur’anic verse on one of the Qur’anic aspects of the verse, citing it on some linguistic and semantic issues without referring it to a specific reading, or leaving other readings, which has led some to believe that there might be no other reading of that particular verse. However, he did explain the reading in question, which indicates his interest in explaining it. Nonetheless, the research manage to trace other places and found a number of the other readings that it attempts to clarify and analyze in order to show their elaborations by the author to highlight his role in it. The research also aims to clarify Ibn Sayyidah's use of those readings to argue for certain grammatical, morphological, or rhetorical issues. This research follows the descriptive and analytical methods. Among the most important conclusions of this paper are: Ibn Sayyidah’s had displayed his interest in explaining those readings; he has used Quranic readings as one of the sources in validating certain issues in Arabic; he cited the readings to argue for the correctness of certain pronunciations in the language and the their meanings; he always mentioned certain words, their meanings and conjugations followed by the relevant Quranic verses; it is also apparent that Ibn Sayyidah's approach to explaining the Quranic readings are methodologically numerous; his elaboration included several aspects such as by clarifying its meaning, or indicating that they are types of dialects, or explaining it morphologically or grammatically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The genres of prose have special importance, thus the research of these genres within the modern theories and approaches would open new horizons on the viewpoints of these texts. This paper examines the topic of the influence of argumentative ties on textual cohesion by directing the argumentation hierarchy, by applying the approach on an ancient Arabic text namely the Nahj al-Balāgha, specifically the examples of the letters of Imam Ali to King al-Ashtar. The research takes the argumentative approach as a method using the methods of textual linguistic studies. Among its most important observations are the results of applying the said methods in the text analysis, and that this approach would be beneficial if combined with other methods and theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at highlighting on the dubbing process that is categorized as one of the most popular types of the audio-visual translation. It is a process of substituting the original script with the new voice either with a different language or with the same source text. Dubbing needs to preserve the length of the sentences and the time needed to complete the expression. It needs also to be synchronized with the movements of the lips of the original actors. The study focuses on the film ‘Lion of the desert’ which was originally produced in English and translated into Arabic with the new title ʿŪmar Mukhtār. Through descriptive analytical study the two writers present a theoretical description for dubbing and the method of omission in translation. 6 samples were extracted on the levels of words spoken by the original actors. They were analyzed to determine whether the dubbing manage to translate the original intended meaning or not and whether the synchronization between the visual and audio. It is observed from the study that the omissions that were done did not change the content of the original texts and the synchronization between the visual and the audio. It did not add new things to its semantic content. Rather, it helps to convey the content in a clearer manner. Synchronization was also achieved in most of the samples that were analyzed. The dubbed expressions were synchronous with the original script and movements of the lips of the actors as well as their body language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper sheds light on The Speech Act Theory and its role in constructing argumentation by applying it on a selected set of anecdotes (rarities) of the book entitled Al-Bukhalāʾ (The Misers) written by Al-Jāḥiz. In fact, the present research has two main objectives : the first is to test the cognitive explanatory competence of the theory in hand, and the second is to know the method of employing linguistic structures in convincing certain arguments. To fulfil the above aims, the research edopted for a pragmatic method starting from the analysis of the linguistic structures to reach the pragmatic level, which is most of the time is extra-linguistic inguistic in nature. The main finding that we come through this investigation is that there is an intimate relationship between the linguistic structure of the anecdote and its impact degrees on the receiver. And this is a relationship that takes place under the effect of the pragmatic level with all its components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]