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This paper deals with the growing tension in Sino-American relations and its repercussions on Arab-Chinese relations. The paper assumes that the Arab countries have resisted the pressures exerted against their relations with China. As a result, they have achieved a reasonable balance in their relations with the United States and other major powers. The paper indicated that the Chinese-American tension would continue. Therefore, American pressure will continue on the Middle Eastern and other developing countries to curtail their relations with China. Moreover, the United States partners in the Middle East have realized the significant changes in the international political scene and the shifts in the policies of the United States. As a result, they adopted new diversifying foreign policy options, especially the Arab Gulf states. The paper showed that Chinese-Arab relations had reached an advanced stage of strength, linking economic, commercial, political, cultural, and popular interests and transferring relations to the stage of strategic cooperation partnership. Moreover, the level of these relations may soon be upgraded to the stage of comprehensive strategic partnership after the mutual summit in Riyadh on 9/12/2022. The paper concluded that Chinese-Arab relations had reached an advanced level of overlap. However, such overlapping does not prejudice these essential and mutually beneficial relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces an in-depth view of the contribution of German researchers in the field of information and communication science on one of the main professional and ethical principles the "objectivity". German researchers have laid down specific pillars of what they call "professional objectivity" such as: relevance to reality and integrity to be the basis on which rest the criteria of objectivity of correctness, completeness, accuracy, importance, neutrality, balance and independence. The Germans have developed ways to test each of these concepts to measure the compliance of the communicator with these professional and ethical principles. This paper adds certain empirical testing methods that German researchers have not previously addressed to develop the normative pillars of professional objectivity to make them more effective. This paper also provides live examples from the real Arab media on most of these criteria to make it even clearer to the Arab researcher in the field of media and communication science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the exception of Ḥāzim al-Qarṭājanni, no scholar was able to interpret the form of the Arabic poetic verse (al-Bait) which consists of two symmetrical parts (al-Ṣadr wal-‘Ajuz). Based on the Aristotle’s idea of imitation, Al-Qarṭājanni explained al-Bait as an imitating mental image of the Arab tent. Though this is brilliant, it is still an inadequate interpretation. This paper attempts to introduce a new explanation by combining the phenomenological method with Neuroaesthetics via adapting some of its results to focus on the creative process itself. The paper, through theoretical and applied analyzes, reached a main conclusion that the form of Arabic verse is an allegorical image of the poetic consciousness which produced it, and an outcome of its metaphorical thinking represented by the interrelating of the function of the left hemisphere of the brain (thinking) and the function of the right hemisphere (imagination), which correspond to alṢadr wal-‘Ajuz respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper sheds light on the civilizational role of the Arabs especially the Sabaean Arabs in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in which the importance of the geographical location of Ethiopia, the natural features and other factors were the main reason for the migration of some of Sabaean Arabs who settled and integrated with the original inhabitants. They made an ancient civilization that left its clear imprint on both peoples and history. The importance of this topic lies in its contribution to solve the problems that led to a controversy between historians and those who were concerned with the multiple lineages of the Sabaeans in the Torah, especially some of them who came from the sons of Kush, while the Sabaeans, as we know, came from Arabic origin. The current paper deals with several important topics, including the importance of the location of Ethiopia, the historical roots of the civilizational relations between Ethiopia and the Sabaeans, the Sabaeans' settlement in Ethiopia, and then the results of these ancient relations between the two parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this research is to study the intellectual and political aspects of Abdulhamid Sharaf’s life, and to monitor the intellectual and political controversy in it. The preparation of this research depends on his lectures to the public, articles, interviews and press conferences, and a number of political documents relating to his biography, as well as the testimonies given by his colleagues during his study, or during his diplomatic or political career, were all important sources of this study, and it also benefited on his own papers his family has. This study highlighting the genesis and forming of Abdulhamid Sharaf, monitoring factors influencing his personality formulation, and analyzing the motives behind his belief, or political positions. This research focused on the controversy of thought and politics in the life of Abdulhamid Sharaf, through several topics: Jordanian issues and affairs, the Palestinian issue, Arab issues and affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to identify the aspects of cultural globalization embodied in the video songs broadcast by the Rotana channel. This paper seeks to recognize the way these songs work to promote cultural globalization, which has become one of the controversial issues in societies with cultural specificity such as the Arab society. To doing so, this piece of research is carried out based on the descriptive approach, as it also used the data collection tool, which is to analyze a sample of video clips the channel recently presented. The video clips were chosen intentionally in line with the objective of the study. The most important findings of this study are: that the Arab songs represented as a cultural system and a media container, lack meaning and are mired in traditional slander. However, they are perfectly capable of transmitting culttiral globalization, as they include a wide range of its manifestations by emphasizing the Western lifestyle, based on material consumption and the marketing of women as a female body that drives lusts. They also present a distorted and misleading picture of reality and promote manifestations of destruction within the Arab society: things that helps marginalizing its local and diverse culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss one of the most significant issues that comes under the umbrella of the intellectual studies. This issue concerns with the genesis of the Arabic Grammar in the Middle Islamic Arabic culture. The researcher endeavors to diagnose all the aspects of the historical circumstances that formulate the Arabic Grammar through several questions the Islamic the decision of establishment the Arabic Grammar, in the Islamic Arabic culture, a purely cognitive or an ideological one? Did the aforementioned decision consider to some extant unprecedented triumph for the Bedouin Arabs in exchange for marginalization against the Urban Arabs language? What are the sources of sacredness or holiness of the Arabic Grammar ? To what extent may the critical approach be considered an infringement against the holiness of the Quranic text? In order to answer all these questions, the researcher chose to apply the critical historical approach as the genesis of Arabic Grammar as it is a historical issue in the first place that had been subjected during the course of history to series of studies in order to diagnose it. Therefore, the researcher in this research has to follow the critical approach to examine those studies and clarify their major shortcomings. As a result of the aforementioned approach, the researcher reached to some conclusions that the Arabic Grammar contributed to conveying the Arabic culture from the oral stage to the written one. Consequently, that led to reinforcement of the Language and culture of the Bedouin Arabs in exchange of marginalization of the culture and language of the Urban Arabs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]