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Consequences Of The Absence Of The Grammatical Course On The Arabic Language Program In Secondary Education In The Kingdom Of Morocco, Abdellatif Elabidi Jun 2025

Consequences Of The Absence Of The Grammatical Course On The Arabic Language Program In Secondary Education In The Kingdom Of Morocco, Abdellatif Elabidi

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This article monitors the reality of the grammatical course at the Moroccan secondary school, in the countries of the Arab East it's called general secondary school, in which the student graduates with the baccalaureate certificate that allows him to move to university. The study revealed that grammatical courses were completely absent from Arabic language courses in the literary pathways in the three years of this qualification level, while they were poorly attended in the scientific pathways in a manner that seemed to be unprejudiced and did not meet the targeted educational goals. The objective of this analytical and descriptive study …


Rhetorical Figures In Image: A Semiotic And Argument Approach, Youness Laghouibi Jan 2025

Rhetorical Figures In Image: A Semiotic And Argument Approach, Youness Laghouibi

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

Based on the principle that every image carries a narrative; we relied in this study on the narrative semiotics to decipher its meanings. This led us through the extended arguments to uncover a variety of rhetorical figures such as comparison, metaphors, meronymy, and metonymy – the common figures of speech used in linguistic discourse to influence the addressee and direct them towards the intended destination.


The Deletion Of The Feminine Marker In The Noble Qur’Anic Text: Readings In Trends Of Linguistic Thought, Hamdi Jabali Dec 2022

The Deletion Of The Feminine Marker In The Noble Qur’Anic Text: Readings In Trends Of Linguistic Thought, Hamdi Jabali

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This study relates to some aspects of the purposeful deletion of the Arabic feminine marker “ha’” in the Noble Qur’anic text. It has resulted in a lot of controversies among Arab grammarians and linguists which, by their turn, have indicated that the Arabic Language uses particles followed by words to serve certain purposes; however, Arabic deletes these particles in special contexts and circumstances. The researcher aimed to explore the deletion of the marker and the reasons for such a deletion in qur’anic texts only in order to collect as many linguistic features as possible of the Arabic language that allow …


Heritage Figures In Contemporary Algerian Feminist Poetry, Naima Boulkaibet Dec 2022

Heritage Figures In Contemporary Algerian Feminist Poetry, Naima Boulkaibet

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

Heritage in poetry may be one of the most studied themes. It is an essential element in saving identity and singularity (uniqueness) wanted by poets in their poems. That was manifested with modernism poets who coexisted with heritage and grasped the way they can use it and the charming beauty it adds to the poem. The manifestation of using heritage in the Algerian modern poetry in general and feminist poetry in particular confirms the poet’s recognition of the historical and civilizational awareness included in their poetry by the use of heritage. This study is an exploration of the way that …


Post-Colonialism Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein In Baghdad": Textual Representations And Depths And The Aftermath Phrasing, Rami Abu Shehab Dec 2022

Post-Colonialism Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein In Baghdad": Textual Representations And Depths And The Aftermath Phrasing, Rami Abu Shehab

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

The paper aimed to examine "Frankenstein in Baghdad" by the Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi. The text highlighted the impact of the neo-colonial era represented by the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2003, which launched a new stage of colonialism in the twenty-first century. The novel was able to realistically reflect that historical period in terms of the post colonialism context through an imagined text. This novel reflected some features of the post colonialism novels, especially the textual depths, representations, phrasing and effect and the possibility of achieving all these features. Therefore, the hypothesis of this study was based on …


Narrative Fiction And Collective Representation Biases (Socio-Cultural Study), Loui Khalil Jun 2022

Narrative Fiction And Collective Representation Biases (Socio-Cultural Study), Loui Khalil

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

The subject of the study is related to the textual city, which represents a partial narrative shadow of the real city. The study is based on the hypothesis, "All forms of groups within the Syrian city during the Baath Party rule lack cohesion and order"! Thus, the aim of the study was to seek, prove or deny this hypothesis. To achieve this purpose, the study used the tools of the sociological approach and cultural criticism to reveal the biases inherent in the texts. As a result, the hypothesis has been accepted and the need to differentiate between two types of …


State, Vulnerability And Protest Movements In Mining Areas: The Case Of Jerada In Morocco, Azzeddine El- Farra Jul 2021

State, Vulnerability And Protest Movements In Mining Areas: The Case Of Jerada In Morocco, Azzeddine El- Farra

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

The problem of the research revolved around the protest movement of Jarada as a social act, in which both the economist and the politician overlap. To address this problem, the researcher analyzed the problem using a systematic combination of ethnography, critical discourse analysis and social history. The researcher analyzed the discourse of Morocco’s state on vulnerability, and investigated the rationale for shaping the policies pertaining to the mining fields. Also, he tackled the process of transformations in the field and the population of the study, and identified the factors that brought about these transformations. In addition, the researcher described the …


Women In Palestinian Folk Tale, Mohammed Dawabsheh Nov 2020

Women In Palestinian Folk Tale, Mohammed Dawabsheh

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This paper examines the wemen are portrayed in the Palestinian folktales. Of special interest are the so-cial spiritual, psychological and sexual portrayal of women in the roles they assume: mother, sister, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and fellow wife. It also investigates both the negative and positive mythical depictions of women in Palestinian folk tales. Later, the paper draws a comparison between this portrayal and the way women are featured in modern social and psychological science. Inspired by the relevant approaches, particularly the mythical ap-proach, the paper used the descriptive analytical approach.


The Standards Of Poetic Quotation In Grammatical Probability, Yusuf Abbood Nov 2020

The Standards Of Poetic Quotation In Grammatical Probability, Yusuf Abbood

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

Poetry is an art, which is easy in its ideology and hard in its way. Long time ago, the Arabs specified it with the most beautiful qualities. They appreciated and glorified it. Through history, periods could not limit its genius, but it could give it a sense of restricted freedom.
The following research debates the problem of poetic quotation concerning its freedom restrictions, the strict chains and disciplines the Arab scholars set for protesting with poetry. Then it alludes to the grammarians’ efforts in reviving them and making use of the quotation ability in probability issues. The first section of …