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Aanikoobijigan [Ancestor/Great-Grandparent/Great-Grandchild], Sheila Nayar

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026), directed by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil.

Undertone, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of undertone (2026), directed by Ian Tuason.

Theydream, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of TheyDream (2026), directed by William David Caballero.

A Life In The Service Of He Culture Of North Africa "Afro-Berber Culture", Author: Bert Flint, 2018 - A Book Review Report, Taco Meeuwsen, Mohamed Saadouni

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

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Curative Cantilenas Women's Songs: From Production To Reception, Miloud Taifi

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

The subject of my paper is the Berber oral literature of central Morocco, the linguistic area of the Tamazight dialect: the healing cantilenas sung by women. These songs are sort of melodies, laments in the usual sense of monotonous and melancholy songs. The monotony lies in the melody and rhythm of the poetic verses sung, and the melancholy is due to their content, which generally relates to the things of life : sorrow, pain due to disappointed love, or simply feelings of nostalgia and sadness.

The Cry Of The She-Wolf La Part Des Femmes : Transmission And Creation, Zineb Ali-Benali

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

How to give place – and what place – to a story made of fragments of narratives, reluctance and silences? This is the question addressed in this article, which focuses on the female part of the history of the Algerian war of independence. Through the approach of Liamna's story (the cry, inarticulate and yet so eloquent by the silence that follows it), the question arises of what can make heritage and heritage. At the same time the question arises of the posture of the one who writes and thus keeps a trace of the cry and silence.

Symbology, Social Imagination And Narrative Dynamics Of Amazigh Women In Some Oral Texts Of Ayt Khebbach (South-East Morocco), Anna Maria Di Tolla

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This contribution is based on research into fifteen Tamazight stories collected from the Ayt Khebbach in the Tafilalt region of south-east Morocco between 2002 and 2010. The aim is to give an overview of some elements of Tamazight production, to describe very briefly the corpus of tales studied and to analyse some key categories concerning the Amazigh women of the Ayt Khebbach, in order to understand the structure of the meaning of the stories. Finally, an examination of the content of the tales will lead us to conclude with a reflection on the changes and innovations in the symbology, the …

Aspects On Manuscripts, Customs And Traditions In Mazouna, Farouk Bouhadiba

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This article proposes an overview of the most prominent cultural aspects in Mazouna which are indicative of strong ties with the Berber language. Some sociolinguistic traits are presented to show that Mazouna gathers considerable local arabo-berber resources that need to be compiled, investigated, digitalized and valorized as part of Algeria’s immaterial cultural patrimony.

Kabyle Song, A Vehicle For Transmitting Intangible Cultural Heritage And A Living Heritage To Be Perpetuated, Tanina Ben Boudjema

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

Song is the Kabyle people's preferred means of expression. It is the expression of their civilisational and cultural heritage. Commonly referred to as intangible and oral cultural heritage, song is a form and a practice that needs to be preserved. In our contribution, we will look at ways of safeguarding and transmitting ancient Kabyle poetry, particularly through song, following the example of the Tiwizi group. We will also try to show that the re-appropriation and updating of ancient Kabyle song by modern singers is also a way of to preserve ancient poetry and a means of transmitting the oral tradition. …

Writing History In The Digital Age, Taoufik Ait Bouchgour

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

In the digital age, the Humanities and Social Sciences have undergone major changes, affecting the tools, practices and methods specific to each discipline. The digital revolution is similar to that of the Renaissance and the printing press. In history, historians have had to review their epistemological and theoretical concepts. The relationship with sources and heuristic questions have also undergone profound changes. The notion of "digital history" is challenging the certainties of historians in the face of our societies' new need for historical truth and the predominance of memory. Historians need to look to the foundations of their profession. Without this …

The Meaning Of The Words Used In The Berber Proverbs Of The Ait Warain Expressions Of The Animal World And Parts Of The Human Body, Noureddine Amhaoui

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

The aim of this article is to examine the connotations of terms relating to animals and parts of the human body in the Amazigh proverb of the Ayt Ouarain. These terms often appear and function in this literary genre according to inference and deduction as semantic charges of each word in order to reveal the role of animals and parts of the human body in the life of the Amazigh man of Ayt Ouarain and his environment

Changes In Meaning In The Maghreb: Languages, Memories, And Heritage In The Digital Age, Nadia Kaaouas, Taoufik Ait Bouchgour

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

Volume 8, Issue 1 examines dynamics of change in the Maghreb by showing how digital transitions reshape languages, memories, and heritage. The contributions connect linguistic and script visibility in urban spaces with living transmission—songs, women’s healing chants, tales, and proverbs—understood as ongoing remediation and narrative recomposition. They also stress the urgency of identifying, cataloguing, and digitizing dispersed local resources and manuscripts, turning fragile traces into accessible corpora. Finally, the issue highlights the epistemological stakes of digital scholarship: tools can expand scale, but critical methods—selection, archiving, and interpretation—remain decisive. Morocco and Algeria are read in dialogue across disciplines, informing debates today.

The Amazigh Language And The Marking Of Urban Heritage (The Case Of The Town Of Tiznit, Morocco), Aballa Aboudrar

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This study looks at the use of the Amazigh language in commercial signs in the town of Tiznit (Morocco). The aim is to find out the extent to which this language is used to mark space. We found that some shopkeepers prefer to leave their signs anonymous, either because they have not yet thought of marking their territory or because they consider it unnecessary to name them as they are known to their customers. In the inner city, Amazigh is virtually absent from shop signs, while Arabic and French are the two most widely used languages. As for English, it …

Emotional Branch Termination And False Fantasy Collapse: A Structural Specification Of Computational Resource Restitution In Interpersonal Systems, Griselda Poe

Publications and Research

This paper specifies the structural protocol for communication within interpersonal systems by focusing on branch generation mechanisms and computational resource allocation. Conventional interpersonal communication often relies on emotional modulation, which obscures established constraints and triggers the generation of Emotional Branches (EB) within the recipient’s internal model. These branches function as unresolved parallel processing tasks that persistently occupy working memory, leading to a state of non-computability termed False Fantasy (FF). To resolve this, the study introduces Emotional Branch Termination (EBT)—a termination operation that outputs only constraints, facts, and procedures while excluding emotional modifiers. By halting the supply of EBs, EBT triggers …

Interview With Orca Award Winner Michael James, Unl Textile Clothing & Design; Abstract Quilted Fabric Artist, Mark A. Griep, Michael James

UNL ORCA Interview Series

Prof. Michael James was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Something in his youth must have sparked an interest in the arts because he earned a bachelor and master of fine arts, both with an emphasis on painting and printmaking. His bachelor’s was from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and his master’s was from the Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduation, he embarked on a 26-year career as an independent studio quilt designer and maker. His career took a new direction in Spring 2000 when he was a Visiting Lecturer in Textiles at his Dartmouth Alma Mater. In Fall 2000, …

Beyond Productivity: A Christian Vision For Work And Technology, Part Ii, Grady Burkhart

Student Work

"While AI can automate repetitive processes, optimize efficiency, and analyze vast amounts of data, it cannot replace the relational core of human vocation."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­a Christian approach to automation from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

Beyond Productivity Part II

What Goals? Which Point? Whose Purpose? A Critical Engagement With Sport Internalism, Francisco Javier Lopez Frias

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

In this article, I critique the dominance of internalism in sport philosophy and outline an alternative theoretical framework that integrates internal and external elements while striving to transcend the dichotomous language used to conceptualize sport. The analysis begins by claiming that internalism conflates three fundamental teleological aspects of sport: goals, point, and purposes. I argue that this conflation limits internalism’s ability to explain the complexity of sporting practices. By carefully distinguishing these elements, I illustrate their distinct roles in shaping sport and explore how they interact. I conclude by proposing that the alternative pluralist framework briefly sketched here enables a …

Role Of Depression And Anxiety On Brain Care Scores In A Primary Care Setting: A Preliminary Analysis Of The Bham Registry, Terina Lane Myers

ETDs from 2020-2029

While the field of brain aging research continues to grow at a rapid pace, there is still much to learn about how certain factors influence brain aging as well as when and how these factors can be intervened upon. Cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases continue to pose a major obstacle to healthy brain aging and the better we understand the risk factors of these diseases, the greater chance we have at mitigation strategies and prevention. Previous research has identified key factors, consisting of physical, lifestyle, and socio-emotional aspects of life, which have the greatest impact on brain aging. These factors overlap …

On The Misattribution Of Reassurance: A Structural Account, Griselda Poe

Publications and Research

This paper challenges the conventional assumption that empathy generates reassurance in interpersonal services. Reassurance is treated not as an emotion transmitted from the outside, but as an internal state transition that arises when a fixed and erroneous world model—a False Fantasy—undergoes collapse and the world becomes computable again. The study identifies a systematic misattribution pattern where providers and receivers treat empathy as a causal mechanism rather than a post hoc explanatory label. By introducing Base AI as an external reference—a system capable of providing structural information without emotional modulation—this paper demonstrates that reassurance is generated through operations such as distraction …

Editorial: Welcome To The Journal Of Online Mentoring!, Lee Stadtlander

Journal of Online Mentoring

I am pleased to welcome you to Walden University’s new Journal of Online Mentoring (JOM), sponsored by the Institute for Faculty Mentoring Excellence. This open access, peer reviewed journal is dedicated to advancing evidence based practices, scholarship, and innovation in virtual mentoring. The inaugural issue explores how online mentoring strengthens scholarly identity, ethical research practices, and doctoral student success in digitally mediated environments.

Yafo, Ha-Te‘Uda Ha-Aduma Street: The Military Finds / יפו, רחוב התעודה האדומה: ממצא צבאי, Alexander Glick

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The excavation on Ha-Te‘uda Ha-Aduma Street in Yafo uncovered fourteen military items, including two cannonballs and twelve small-caliber bullets. A correlation of these finds with historical sources and with modern and eighteenth–nineteenth-century maps suggests that the military items uncovered in the excavation were related to one or more of the historical sieges of Yafo: the siege laid by Muhammad Beq Abu-Dahab in 1775–1776, during which a siege battery was constructed within the area of the present excavation; or Napoleon’s siege in 1799, whose batteries were likewise positioned within the excavation area.

Yafo, Ha-TeʻUda Ha-Aduma Street: The Glass Finds, Brigitte Ouahnouna

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The excavation at Ha-Te‘uda Ha-Aduma Street in Yafo yielded about fifty glass items dating from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries CE. These include imported and locally produced medicine, cosmetic and beverage bottles, as well as bracelet fragments of common types that first appeared in the Mamluk period and remained in use through the Ottoman period and into recent times. The finds reflect a modest repertoire associated with local daily life at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Yafo, Ha-TeʻUda Ha-Aduma Street: Late Ottoman Porcelain And Ceramics, Anna De Vincenz

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The salvage excavations on Ha-Teʻuda Ha-Aduma street in Yafo yielded a small Late Ottoman ceramic and porcelain vessel assemblage. Porcelain and hard-paste vessels were imported from Europe, whereas glazed earthenware vessels were imported from Europe and Turkey. Among the locally made vessels were Black Gaza Ware and other coarse ware vessels. Many roof tiles, complete and fragmentary, as well as bricks, were imported mainly from Marseille, France. Only a few smoking pipes and narghile were found; these were either locally produced or originated in Turkey.

Yafo, Ha-Te‘Uda Ha-Aduma Street: Remains Of The Al-Hureish Neighborhood From The Late Ottoman Period And British Mandate Era / יפו, רחוב התעודה האדומה: שרידי שכונת אל־הורייש משלהי התקופה העות'מאנית וימי המנדט הבריטי, Ayelet Dayan, Yoav Arbel

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The excavation at the corner of Yehuda Ha-Yamit and Ha-Te‘uda Ha-Aduma Streets in Yafo uncovered remains dating to the eighteenth–twentieth centuries CE, including those of the late Ottoman and British Mandate neighborhood of al-Hureish. The earliest construction remains at the site, dated to the second half of the nineteenth century CE, suggest agricultural activity in the area or early residential structures with channels installed for drainage. This construction was later disrupted by a wall, possibly part of the eastern wall of the al-Hureish neighborhood, built in a subsequent phase. The main significance of the excavation was the al-Hureish neighborhood, founded …

Does Deference To Religious Authority Predict Support For Political Violence?, John W. Compton, Ann Gordon

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

Does deference to religious authority undermine support for democratic norms, including those forbidding the use of violence for political ends? Scholars have struggled to answer this question, in part, we believe, because they have typically employed proxies for religious deference (e.g. Biblical literalism, worship attendance, and self-reported religiosity) instead of measuring it directly. We develop a new measure of deference to religious authority in politics (DRAP), using the 2024 Chapman Survey of American Fears. We find that (1) DRAP is strongly correlated with support for political violence; (2) other common measures of religiosity (e.g. Biblical literalism and self-reported religiosity) are …

A Fijian Barkcloth In The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Delaney M. Bahns

Department of Anthropology

This report examines an object in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, a barkcloth attributed to the Fiji Islands. The report discusses the attribution, as well as the distinction of the object as Fijian masi kesa. The report discusses the techniques used to make bark cloth, as well as past studies of bark cloth in the Pacific Islands. It also examines the gendered context of masi, as well as the issue of cultural intellectual property in recent uses of masi motifs for commercial purposes.

Daily Coping Strategies, Unmet Needs And Daily Health Outcomes Among Family Caregivers Of Persons Living With Alzheimer's Disease And Related Dementias, Henrietta Armah Bennett

ETDs from 2020-2029

Providing care for an individual with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) is considered the most stressful type of family caregiving that impacts caregivers’ health. More than one in five ADRD family caregivers report their overall health as poor to fair. These adverse health outcomes are often exacerbated when caregivers’ emotional, informational, and practical needs remain unmet throughout the caregiving trajectory. Numerous studies have shown that the ways in which caregivers cope to caregiving-related stressors significantly shape their health outcomes. Despite this evidence, a clear and consistent understanding of caregivers’ own appraisals of their unmet needs, coping strategies and mental …

How Does Johnson & Wales University In Providence Combat Food Insecurity On Campus For Its Students?, Ava Zajczenko

Interdisciplinary Studies: Student Publications

Across the United States, an increasing number of people are becoming food insecure, and a part of this population are college students. With tuition, housing, books, and personal expenses, college students have a large financial burden placed on them when they enter college. Johnson & Wales University is a private university with a prestigious culinary program. With food being at the forefront of many students, professors, and chef instructors’ minds at JWU, this raises the question: How does Johnson & Wales University in Providence address food insecurity on campus for its students? JWU already has multiple resources that exist on …

(Actualizado) Evangelio De Juan, Robert Holst

Cursos teológicos-otros

Evangelio de Juan

Trump Country: The Role Of Alienated Voters In Alabama And Georgia, Scott E. Buchanan, Bruce L. Blair

Commonwealth Review of Political Science

Abstract Since 2016, U.S. politics has galvanized by the Trump presidency. During his two previous, and now third, campaigns for president, Donald Trump has been successful in appealing to rural white voters through the nation, but most especially in the South. Methods. Using a variety of socioeconomic variables, we examined the 2016 and 2020 election cycles to see where Donald Trump was performing the best, and worst, in Alabama and Georgia. Results. Our analysis indicates that the oft-discussed rural/urban divide is alive and well in both states, with rural counties being much more supportive of Donald Trump in …