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Cataloging Authority: The Development And Function Of The Fihrist Genre, Garrett Davidson Jun 2006

Cataloging Authority: The Development And Function Of The Fihrist Genre, Garrett Davidson

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Emphatic Sounds In Educated Cairene Arabic: What To Teach To Afl Students?, Jean N. Druel Jun 2006

Emphatic Sounds In Educated Cairene Arabic: What To Teach To Afl Students?, Jean N. Druel

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The Intoxication Of The Spirit: Ahmed Ibn 'Ajibah's Commentary On 'Umar Ibn Al-Farid's Wine Song, Nuri Friedlander Jun 2006

The Intoxication Of The Spirit: Ahmed Ibn 'Ajibah's Commentary On 'Umar Ibn Al-Farid's Wine Song, Nuri Friedlander

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Refusals In Arabic: Egyptian Native Speakers Vs. American Learners Of Arabic As A Foreign Language, Rasha M Abdel Moneim Badr Feb 2006

Refusals In Arabic: Egyptian Native Speakers Vs. American Learners Of Arabic As A Foreign Language, Rasha M Abdel Moneim Badr

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The purpose of this thesis was to find out what were the types of strategies employed by American learners of Arabic as a second language and Egyptian native speakers of Arabic, to perform the speech act of refusal. Also, the present study investigated the similarities and/or the f differences between the most frequent strategies employed by both groups to perform refusals; in addition to investigating the relationship between the social status of the interlocutor and the initiating acts on one hand and the strategies chosen by both groups to perform refusals on the second hand. The study was conducted using …


Contesting The Gendered Flâneuse Of The Arab Metropolis: Literary Representations Of Gender, The Body And Urban Space In Selected Urban Writings Of Salwa Bakr, Leila Aboulela And Hanan Al-Shaykh, Mona Bur Jan 2006

Contesting The Gendered Flâneuse Of The Arab Metropolis: Literary Representations Of Gender, The Body And Urban Space In Selected Urban Writings Of Salwa Bakr, Leila Aboulela And Hanan Al-Shaykh, Mona Bur

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This study attempts to identify salient motifs and critical themes relating to flânerie (street strolling) of women in the city as represented in two short stories and a novel by three Arab women- Egyptian, Sudanese, and Lebanese.