Arabic Language, Literature & Culture

Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017

  • Oriental Vision of Bonds and Related Metaphors in Literature

    Elia Saneleuterio

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: 24 November 2016
    Accepted: 21 December 2016
    Published: 23 January 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.allc.20170201.11
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    Abstract: The paper analyses symbols and references related to freedom lost and finding by the human being, with the sample of Rabindranath Tagore’s literary work, Indian poet, philosopher and painter (1861-1941). Through those elements a symbolic framework is built, showing a certain conception of true freedom, always related to transcendence. That conquest... Show More
  • Albanian Literature Written in the Arabic Alphabet

    Muhamed Mustafi

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017
    Pages: 5-8
    Received: 7 December 2016
    Accepted: 30 December 2016
    Published: 22 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.allc.20170201.12
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    Abstract: Albanian literature of Baytajes appears as a new stream of Albanian pre-renaissance literature. Here, once again, we must emphasize that this literature was developed by many talented poets and literary consciousness formed by the intertwining of Turkish-Arab-Persian culture with the Albanian folk culture. All this undoubtedly shows the high level ... Show More
  • A Physics Teacher as a Journalist: The World in the Students' View

    Abdul-Sahib Hasani N.

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017
    Pages: 9-12
    Received: 26 December 2016
    Accepted: 20 February 2017
    Published: 4 March 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.allc.20170201.13
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    Abstract: A physics teacher taught Farsi Language for middle school students in the academic year 2015-2016 in Abadan. Physical sciences demonstrations and mathematical puzzles motivated the students to improve their observation skills and to make progress in writing skills. They found some similarities between observing a physical phenomenon and observing a... Show More
  • Syntactic Ambiguity of Arabic Prepositional Phrase Attachment in Saudi Newspaper Headlines

    Khadija Alamoudi

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017
    Pages: 13-17
    Received: 15 January 2017
    Accepted: 7 February 2017
    Published: 6 March 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.allc.20170201.14
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    Abstract: In this article, an attempt is made to analyze syntactic ambiguity in a specific register, i.e. newspaper headlines. As a form of media text, newspaper has a significant role in society as it presents various local, national and international events and information. In order to attract readers' attention, journalists may tend to form headlines to b... Show More
  • Feminist Awareness in the Writing of the Syrian Writer Zakaria Tāmer

    Alon Fragman

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017
    Pages: 18-28
    Received: 22 January 2017
    Accepted: 8 March 2017
    Published: 23 March 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.allc.20170201.15
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    Abstract: This article seeks to examine the image of women as reflected in the short stories by the important Syrian author Zakaria Tāmer, which were written in the second half of the twentieth century. In light of the theoretical debate on the extent to which men can faithfully represent the female experience, this article seeks to present Tāmer’s work as w... Show More
  • Differences in Cultural Transmission While Interpreting Hidden Mental Mechanism in English Proverbs

    Evis Çelo, Lorenc Danaj

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2017
    Pages: 29-33
    Received: 19 February 2017
    Accepted: 17 March 2017
    Published: 3 April 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.allc.20170201.16
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    Abstract: This paper consists on recognizing essentially proverbs and developing communication in different and specific situation, but what is hidden in the human mind still remains a dilemma. Nobody can fully read the human mind as long as human intelligence differs in opinion at fraction of a second. Proverbs are used to understand human nature and to dis... Show More