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Decolonising Information Literacy: Diversity Integration For Empowering Minority Groups, Elize Du Toit Mar 2025

Decolonising Information Literacy: Diversity Integration For Empowering Minority Groups, Elize Du Toit

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

For a long time, library guides (LibGuides) have been essential resources for linking students with information related to faculty, specific subjects, and coursework. However, the scope of LibGuides has expanded significantly in contemporary library practices. They now include a wide variety of resources, such as guides on particular library products, platforms, resources, instructional materials, and 'how-to' guides. These enhanced features demonstrate the changing requirements of library users as they navigate a more complicated academic environment. In 2016, the University of Johannesburg launched an online course on information literacy using the SpringShare LibGuide platform, which was highly successful. Originally created in …

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Academic Library Identity And Space Design, Michael Crumpton Mar 2025

Academic Library Identity And Space Design, Michael Crumpton

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In academia, the library can be considered the heart and soul of the campus as well as instrumental to the curricula and course design for teaching and learning. How is the library perceived and identified for all the value created for stakeholders? The modern library is not just about books anymore, it is so much more. How do people identify with the academic library? What can make the most difference to contemporary students/researchers/scholars? How are spaces designed to recognize and enhance, all the multifaceted elements that stakeholders identify with the library?

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Inspiration For Learning: The Development Of A Design Concept For Library Space, Gry Bettina Moxnes, Hege Undem Store Mar 2025

Inspiration For Learning: The Development Of A Design Concept For Library Space, Gry Bettina Moxnes, Hege Undem Store

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In this lightning talk we will tell you about the process of rethinking and redesigning the existing library space at the main library at Oslo Metropolitan University. We will be using pictures to help illustrate and give you a better understanding on the process.

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If The Walls Could Speak: Artwork For Representational Library Spaces, Kara Jones Mar 2025

If The Walls Could Speak: Artwork For Representational Library Spaces, Kara Jones

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Artwork featuring diverse styles, cultures, and perspectives can promote inclusivity and representation within library spaces. Our library has partnered with a local Art Foundation to introduce artwork from local artists that reflect the diversity of our student population. Rather than a centrally located exhibition, the art has been integrated into the whole library building to be accessible and inspire reflection and recognition. This lightning talk briefly explains the collaborative project and the value of art in a library space to express diverse voices explored through visual storytelling.

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Amplifying Underrepresented Voices: Advancing Citation Justice In Scholarly Communication, Heather Cunningham Mar 2025

Amplifying Underrepresented Voices: Advancing Citation Justice In Scholarly Communication, Heather Cunningham

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Voices of scholars are raised and amplified through the academic currency of citations. However, not all voices are heard and shared equally. Citation justice is an increasingly recognized issue within academic circles, focusing on the under-citation of women and people of color. This systemic bias, evident across many disciplines, impacts career progression, grant acquisition, and ultimately diversity among decision-makers. Citation practices are pivotal in shaping academic discourse, research, and education. Despite the significant influence of these practices, there is currently no comprehensive method to assess citation biases based on the demographics of authors. Efforts to measure diversity through computational analysis …

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Libraries For Belonging: Empowering Monash University Library Staff, Kaye Sullivan Mar 2025

Libraries For Belonging: Empowering Monash University Library Staff, Kaye Sullivan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2024, Monash University Library launched its Libraries for Belonging program, which builds on its longstanding role in supporting the University's goals of fostering inclusion and a sense of belonging. Research shows that students who feel a strong sense of belonging are not only more engaged and have better mental health outcomes but are also more successful academically. Having a sense of belonging has also been shown to be particularly important for international students and student retention. As part of the initiative, the Monash Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Team worked with the Library to develop a Library EDI Action …

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Amplifying Indigenous Knowledges And Voices Within Universities And Libraries, Laki Sideris, Kathleen Butler, Matthew Davis Mar 2025

Amplifying Indigenous Knowledges And Voices Within Universities And Libraries, Laki Sideris, Kathleen Butler, Matthew Davis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper brings together leaders from Australian academic and library sectors discussing initiatives to amplify Indigenous Knowledges and voices. The paper is introduced by Professor Kathleen Butler (Bundjalung and Worimi), Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, Strategy and Leadership at University of Newcastle, and previously Director of the Wollotuka Institute, one of the longest-established Indigenous student centres in Australia’s tertiary sector. Laki Sideris, Head of Product at Informit, will highlight initiatives undertaken by academic publication database Informit, including a series of interviews with ‘Indigenous Scholars You Should Know’, in which First Nations researchers of diverse fields and varied career …

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From Intent To Action: Reconciliation And Inclusion In Three Canadian Academic Libraries, Lisa O'Hara, Talia Chung, Vivian Lewis Mar 2025

From Intent To Action: Reconciliation And Inclusion In Three Canadian Academic Libraries, Lisa O'Hara, Talia Chung, Vivian Lewis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A sense of belonging and inclusion creates conditions for individuals and organizations to thrive. Many Canadian university libraries have been initiating actions which advance reconciliation with Indigenous communities in Canada, and to support equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. Efforts to operationalize reconciliation and inclusion share important qualities yet require distinctive approaches due to historic and contemporary factors. Reconciliation in Canada must recognize the significance and centrality of the land to Indigenous communities. While inclusion strives to more broadly create conditions in which individuals may thrive, with a focus on those from groups who have historically faced systemic barriers. For both …

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“The Mixed-Up-Ness Is The Complete Picture:” Lessons From Vietnamese American Understandings Of Family Histories, Van Anh Tran Mar 2025

“The Mixed-Up-Ness Is The Complete Picture:” Lessons From Vietnamese American Understandings Of Family Histories, Van Anh Tran

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

The experiences of refugees and their children contribute to a complex narrative of remembrance, citizenship, and belonging in the United States. In this study, I analyze the narratives and multimedia creations of the children of Vietnamese refugees to explore how they negotiate generational memories to make meaning of their personal identities and family histories. I organized participants' ways of processing their families’ histories around themes of fracture, excavation, and return. I argue that their approaches show how they began/continued to heal and how they could, then, re-member. The meaning-making processes of Vietnamese American young people offer powerful considerations for educators …

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Dartbot: Overhand Throwing Of Deformable Objects With Tactile Sensing And Reinforcement Learning, Shoaib Aslam, Krish Kumar, Pokuang Zhou, Hongyu Yu, Michael Yu Wang, Yu She Mar 2025

Dartbot: Overhand Throwing Of Deformable Objects With Tactile Sensing And Reinforcement Learning, Shoaib Aslam, Krish Kumar, Pokuang Zhou, Hongyu Yu, Michael Yu Wang, Yu She

School of Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications

Object transfer through throwing is a classic dynamic manipulation task that necessitates precise control and perception capabilities. However, developing dynamic models for unstructured environments using analytical methods presents challenges. In this study, we present DartBot, a robot that integrates tactile exploration and reinforcement learning to achieve robust throwing skills for nonrigid relatively small objects under the influence of moment of inertia which cause the object to spin in the air. Unlike traditional sim-to-real transfer methods, our approach involves direct training of the agent on a real hardware robot equipped with a high-resolution tactile sensor, enabling reinforced learning in a realistic …

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Perceived And Recorded Temperature In Aircraft Cabins During 143 Flights, Matthew Nicholls, Peter Vink Feb 2025

Perceived And Recorded Temperature In Aircraft Cabins During 143 Flights, Matthew Nicholls, Peter Vink

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

This essay reports on the perceived and recorded temperature in aircraft cabins during 143 flights. In each flight, passengers reported their experience. They recorded temperature and humidity after boarding and one hour later. The reports show that fewer than half of the passengers perceived the temperature as “good.” Most passengers (39%) perceived it as hot, and some (17%) perceived it as cold. Comparing the temperatures with guidelines shows that 18% of the recorded temperatures in the cabin were empirically too hot and 2% empirically too cold. The differences between passengers in what they perceive as a good temperature are large, …

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A Lao Chinese American Perspective On Law School, Tommy Souravong Feb 2025

A Lao Chinese American Perspective On Law School, Tommy Souravong

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This creative work provides a Lao Chinese American perspective on law school.

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Effect Of Buckwheat And Silage Tarps On Sweetpotato Between-Row Weed Control, Emmanuel G. Cooper, Stephen L. Meyers, Katherine Jennings, Ashley Adair, Kevin D. Gibson, William G. Johnson Feb 2025

Effect Of Buckwheat And Silage Tarps On Sweetpotato Between-Row Weed Control, Emmanuel G. Cooper, Stephen L. Meyers, Katherine Jennings, Ashley Adair, Kevin D. Gibson, William G. Johnson

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Field studies were conducted on certified organic land in Lafayette and Vincennes, IN, in 2023 to determine the impact of different between-row weed control methods on weed suppression and sweetpotato yield. Between-row treatments consisted of organic buckwheat (108 kg ha−1) broadcast seeded immediately after sweetpotato transplanting followed by silage tarping from 3 wk after transplanting (WATr) through harvest, organic buckwheat (108 kg ha−1) broadcast seeded 3 WATr and terminated 7 WATr, and cultivation as a grower standard. Weed density at 6 WATr was 0, 184, and 162 plants m−2 for the silage tarping, living mulch buckwheat, and cultivation treatments, respectively. …

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Lowell Hardin: Mentor Extraordinaire, Larry L. Murdock, Thomas W. Hertel, Gebisa Ejeta Feb 2025

Lowell Hardin: Mentor Extraordinaire, Larry L. Murdock, Thomas W. Hertel, Gebisa Ejeta

Purdue University Press Books

Lowell Stewart Hardin (1917–2015), an Indiana farm boy who became an enormously influential international agriculturalist, made the world a better place for the poor and the hungry on this earth. For seventeen years he led the Ford Foundation’s agricultural development efforts, contributing to the Green Revolution. He helped to found and guide international agriculture research centers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He inspired others to get involved and opened doors for them. He taught by example, gave others credit, and always stepped back, avoiding the limelight himself. In this volume, twenty-two people who knew him well share stories of …

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Purdue Stars Performance Analysis, Kayla Gurganus, Lynne Dahmen Feb 2025

Purdue Stars Performance Analysis, Kayla Gurganus, Lynne Dahmen

Institute for a Sustainable Future Documents

This Sustainability Performance Analysis (SPA) report reviews Purdue’s past and present sustainability performance as captured through STARS reporting to understand sustainability actions and to clearly and objectively identify where Purdue excels and how it might improve performance through the next STARS 3.0 submission.

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A Language Narrative, Jer Xiong Feb 2025

A Language Narrative, Jer Xiong

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

"A Language Narrative" is about the author's own journey with the English language, fanfiction, online spaces, and the decision to be a writer.

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Iros 2023 Workshop Report: Draft Guidelines On Manufacturing Procedures, Test Methods And Reporting For Soft Robotics, Robert Baines, Laura Blumenschein, Jennifer Case, Robert Maccurdy, Gina Olson, Andrew Spielberg Feb 2025

Iros 2023 Workshop Report: Draft Guidelines On Manufacturing Procedures, Test Methods And Reporting For Soft Robotics, Robert Baines, Laura Blumenschein, Jennifer Case, Robert Maccurdy, Gina Olson, Andrew Spielberg

School of Mechanical Engineering Working Papers

No abstract provided.

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Adoption Of Improved Crop Varieties Limited Biodiversity Losses, Terrestrial Carbon Emissions, And Cropland Expansion In The Tropics, Uris Baldos, Alfredo Cisneros-Pineda, Keith O. Fuglie, Thomas Hertel Feb 2025

Adoption Of Improved Crop Varieties Limited Biodiversity Losses, Terrestrial Carbon Emissions, And Cropland Expansion In The Tropics, Uris Baldos, Alfredo Cisneros-Pineda, Keith O. Fuglie, Thomas Hertel

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Research investments in crop improvements, including by national and international agricultural research centers, have made significant contributions to raising yields of staple food crops in developing countries. Although mostly intended to improve food security and rural incomes, innovations in crop production also have major implications for the environment. Building on the latest productivity estimates from historical crop improvements in developing countries and using a gridded (0.25 degrees) equilibrium model of global agriculture, we assess the impacts of improved crop varieties on cropland use, threatened biodiversity, and terrestrial carbon stocks over 1961–2015. We replicate a historical baseline and produce a counterfactual …

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University Student Organizations: Influence On Leadership Skills In The Workforce, James W. Ebert, Tomicka N. Williams, Aline K. Major, Kristi Pitts, Donna Yohman, Jodi Levit, Thomas Anderson Jan 2025

University Student Organizations: Influence On Leadership Skills In The Workforce, James W. Ebert, Tomicka N. Williams, Aline K. Major, Kristi Pitts, Donna Yohman, Jodi Levit, Thomas Anderson

The Guardianship Journal

The modern-day workforce is ever-changing, and so are the required leadership skill sets for employees to be successful in the workplace. University student organizations (USOs) offer students opportunities to develop their leadership skills in preparation for the workforce. The purpose of this research is to conduct an empirical study that uses distributed leadership theory (DLT) as a lens to explore how USOs influence a student's leadership capacity in the workforce. Exploring the various components of DLT (autonomy, accountability, and leadership capacity) using an empirical research method approach is plausible in understanding the unique approach USOs offer students while simultaneously preparing …

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Designing An Interactive Application To Prevent Runway Incursion: A Systems Engineering Approach, Yixuan Cheng, Dahai Liu, Dennis Vincenzi, Donald S. Metscher Jan 2025

Designing An Interactive Application To Prevent Runway Incursion: A Systems Engineering Approach, Yixuan Cheng, Dahai Liu, Dennis Vincenzi, Donald S. Metscher

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Runway incursion is a leading cause of serious incidents and accidents at airports. A common cause of runway incursions is unfamiliarity with the airport layout. To address this, we designed an electronically interactive application intended as a practice tool for pilots during flight preparation. The aim of this application is to improve pilots’ familiarity with airports, ultimately helping to reduce runway incursions, with the goals of being interactive, affordable, easily accessible, and designed for use on mobile devices. We applied a systems engineering approach that adheres to human factors engineering principles to ensure user-friendly design and optimization of the interaction …

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Online Media Sentiment Analysis Of Shrimp And Salmon In The United States, Jingjing Tao, Kwamena K. Quagrainie Jan 2025

Online Media Sentiment Analysis Of Shrimp And Salmon In The United States, Jingjing Tao, Kwamena K. Quagrainie

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

There is a growing interest in the U.S. seafood and aquaculture market; however, studies utilizing online information to understand this market are limited. This study employs online media analytics to obtain insights into consumer perceptions and potential demand signals for shrimp and salmon in the U.S. Our results show that platform X is the preferred medium for shrimp and salmon discussions, with shrimp's physical quality and salmon's environmental impact being the two major perception drivers. Additionally, autoregressive modeling is conducted to explore the dynamics of net sentiments. Farmed shrimp and salmon consistently exhibit lower net sentiments compared to their wild …

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Financial Impact Of Beef Cow Culling: Canadian Analysis, Heidi R. Johnson, Eric T. Micheels, Kathy A. Larson Jan 2025

Financial Impact Of Beef Cow Culling: Canadian Analysis, Heidi R. Johnson, Eric T. Micheels, Kathy A. Larson

Journal of Applied Farm Economics

Culling decisions within beef production systems are not reversible, and as such, data can help decision-makers double-check heuristics to avoid costly mistakes. In this essay, we use financial methods to examine cow culling decisions, evaluating their impact on overall herd profitability. To do so, we use production and financial data from 16 “typical farms” within the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network to explore the financial impact of different culling strategies. This essay builds on prior literature by using Canadian data, as there may be differences in costs and productivity across production regions. We identify four culling scenarios that vary …

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A Poetry Collection By Soul Vang, Soul Vang Jan 2025

A Poetry Collection By Soul Vang, Soul Vang

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This is a poetry collection from Soul Vang.

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Prison Sentences: Spaces Of Liberation In Arab Prison Writing, Joseph Farag Jan 2025

Prison Sentences: Spaces Of Liberation In Arab Prison Writing, Joseph Farag

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Spatial and temporal motifs predominate throughout the extensive corpus of Arabic prison writing. However, far from establishing the prison as an exceptional space, and periods of imprisonment as “time outside time,” this paper argues that modern Arabic prison literature tends instead to blur the distinction between “inside” and “outside” prison space and time. In place of a rigid spatial demarcation, dramatically exemplified by images of towering, razor wire-tipped walls, Arabic prison writing consistently seeks to create continuity between the punishment meted out to those within the prison’s walls and the repression endured by those beyond it. Consequently, these texts figuratively …

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Punish Yet Cannot Discipline: Two Iraqi Prison Novels, Hanan Jasim Khammas Jan 2025

Punish Yet Cannot Discipline: Two Iraqi Prison Novels, Hanan Jasim Khammas

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Al-Munāḍil (The Militant) (1972) by ʿAzīz al-Sayyid Jāsim, and Iʿjām (Iʿjaam) (2004) by Sinan Antoon are two prison novels about the historical turning points which mark the rise and fall of the Baʿth regime in Iraq. While the first employs imprisonment as a lens through to expose the corruption and injustice exercised by the monarchy against the emergent revolutionary power, the second shows the Baʿthist government applying similar methods of surveillance, and of physical and psychological torture. Reading these texts by al-Sayyid Jāsim, who died in the Baʿth prisons, and by Antoon who wrote Iʿjaam …

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Hold Fast The Rope Of God: Space, Authority, And Speech In Muslim Prison Narratives, Basit Kareem Iqbal, Walaa Quisay Jan 2025

Hold Fast The Rope Of God: Space, Authority, And Speech In Muslim Prison Narratives, Basit Kareem Iqbal, Walaa Quisay

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Scholarship about Muslims in prison has been overwhelmingly dominated by security studies’ radicalization thesis and by a superficial reading of incarcerated Muslims’ “religious resilience.” Such approaches caricature the force of Islam in prison and indeed in Muslim prison narratives. This essay draws on interviews with survivors of prisons in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria in order to develop other terms for analysis. Across our textual and ethnographic engagements, we read for varied permutations of carceral space, formations of religious authority, and an intimate (witnessing) relation between speech and violence. Muslim prison narratives see a broad emphasis on the …

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The Networks Of Prison Narrative: Imagining Sociality And Making Narrative In Assad’S Syria, Anne-Marie Mcmanus Jan 2025

The Networks Of Prison Narrative: Imagining Sociality And Making Narrative In Assad’S Syria, Anne-Marie Mcmanus

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article argues for a new reading of collectivity – in both narrative voice and scenes of shared experience – in works of Syrian prison literature. Although these texts were published and are interpreted as the products of single author figures, the wider narrative field from which they emerge is shaped by numerous collective practices, from the oral and written to the digital. Breaking disciplinary boundaries around prison literature, this article introduces the term “prison narrative” and foregrounds diverse efforts by Syrian writers and former prisoners to imagine alternative formations of national experience and community under the Assad regime (1970-2024). …

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Prison As A Living Being: ‘Assad’S Syria’ As A Model For The Imprisonment State, Jaber Baker Jan 2025

Prison As A Living Being: ‘Assad’S Syria’ As A Model For The Imprisonment State, Jaber Baker

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The Syrian Assad regime used prisons as tools of domination. As such, prisons had the power not only of active repression but also as places of detention and disappearance for Syrians. The expansion of political detention in Syria over fifty years transformed prison into a living being in the sense that prison became a part not just of Syrians' political life, but also of their social identity. One can recognize it in voices, attitudes, lifestyles, and even written and oral culture. Syrian cities are full of weapons since a large area of the urban space is inhabited by the buildings …

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From Prison To The World: A Comparative Reading Of Naji’S Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence, 2020) And Abd El-Fattah’S You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (2021), Teresa Pepe Jan 2025

From Prison To The World: A Comparative Reading Of Naji’S Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence, 2020) And Abd El-Fattah’S You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (2021), Teresa Pepe

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article analyses Ahmed Naji’s Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence) and Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated through the lens of ‘prison literature’, that is “literary works produced in, about, or through the experience of political detention” (Taleghani 13). Comparing them to previous forms of prison literature from Egypt, it shows that both books depart from the social-realistic mode that has prevailed throughout the 20th century. Rather they renovate the genre with aesthetic traits drawn from postmodern and digital literature, exemplified by autofictional or anonymous modes of authorship and co-authorship, narrative fragmentation, and bodily exposures. These aesthetic …

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Khairy Shalaby’S Novel The City Of The Enslaved: Egyptian Prison Literature With A Russian Twist, Sarali Gintsburg Jan 2025

Khairy Shalaby’S Novel The City Of The Enslaved: Egyptian Prison Literature With A Russian Twist, Sarali Gintsburg

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Although the interconnectedness of Russian and Arabic literatures has been demonstrated by Soviet/Russian and, to a limited extent, Western Arabists, this research remains limited to a few names. However, the role that the Russian/Soviet literary tradition had in shaping contemporary genres of Arabic literature is complex and diverse. This is, for instance, the case with prison literature—Russian/Soviet literature has a long tradition of turning to the topic of imprisonment. It was Dostoyevsky, who turned to the genre of katorzhnaya proza (prison literature) and popularized it. Later, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Gorky dedicated a number of their influential literary works to further …

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