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Editor's letter and contents page, May 2018, Volume 10 no. 2.
No full textEditor's letter and contents page, May 2018, Volume 10 no. 2 of Transnational Literatur
Emerging infectious uveitis: Chikungunya, dengue, Zika and Ebola: A review
Get PDF© 2018 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of OphthalmologistsRecently recognized forms of uveitis include intraocular inflammations that occur during or following one of several emerging infectious diseases: chikungunya fever, dengue, Zika virus disease and Ebola virus disease. Anterior, intermediate, posterior and pan‐uveitis have been described in individuals infected with chikungunya virus. Persons who contract dengue or Zika viruses also may develop different types of uveitis in the course of the infection: maculopathy is a common manifestation of dengue eye disease, and Zika eye disease may cause hypertensive anterior uveitis or mimic a white dot syndrome. Up to one‐third of Ebola survivors develop aggressive uveitis, which is frequently associated with vision loss and complicated by cataract. There are no specific anti‐viral drugs for these forms of uveitis, and thus treatment is largely supportive. In this article, we summarize the systemic infectious diseases and virology, and describe the clinical presentations, outcomes and management of emerging viral forms of uveitis
The Girl With the Book
Get PDF'This love story cum mystery is set in present day Pakistan and explores the extent to which people, especially women, have their life choices circumscribed by religious and cultural indoctrination.
Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pencils by Aeen Norouzi. Translated from Persian by Yasaman Rahmani.
No full textTranslation of a short story by Aeen Norouzi
Fiji MAA: A Book of Thousand Readings
Get PDFThe spread of English is like the spread of plague of insomnia in Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, at first it is convenient, it (English and insomanis) frees one to work more, spreading the reach but soon one realizes that they are losing memories of their dear past and they are unable to have dreams of their future. Living in present with no ties to the past and no hopes of future, one becomes an alien, speaking an alien language. To counter the erosion of memories, one has to write, label things and describe their function in black and white. Marquez’s character does so, and so does Subramani in his upcoming book, Fiji Maa: Mother of a Thousand. He recreates the world of Girmitiyaas and their descendants. A world lost long, long ago is made alive in front of eyes with the power of his magical words. Reading this book will be like starting a journey back towards the grandparents’ village. This book, yet to be published, encapsulates the history of a time which will never come back. The descendants of Girmitiyaas have migrated to far off places, have lost all ties with their collective memory. Fiji Maa: Mother of a Thousand will remind them what they were before the plague of the foreign tongue. The book should be supported, celebrated and gifted to the coming generations by the present generation. The paper highlights the literary resurrection of a bygone culture in Subramani’s novel which makes it a book of thousand readings, ritualistic reading for the people of today and for the people to come. Fiji Maa: Mother of a Thousand is about digging up the long lost Girmit memory. The spread of English is like the spread of plague of insomnia in Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, at first it is convenient, it (English and insomania) frees one to work more, spreading the reach, but soon one realises that one is losing memories of their dear past and they are unable to have dreams of their future. Living in the present with no ties to the past and no hopes of the future, one becomes an alien, speaking an alien language. To counter the erosion of memories, one has to write, label things and describe their function in black and white. Marquez’s character does so, and so does Subramani in his upcoming book, Fiji Maa: Mother of a Thousand. He recreates the world of Girmitiyaas and their descendants. A world lost long, long ago is made alive in front of eyes with the power of his magical words. Reading this book will be like starting a journey back towards the grandparents’ village. This book, yet to be published, encapsulates the history of a time which will never come back. The descendants of Girmitiyaas have migrated to far off places, have lost all ties with their collective memory. Fiji Maa: Mother of a Thousand will remind them what they were before the plague of the foreign tongue. The book should be supported, celebrated and gifted to the coming generations by the present generation. The paper highlights the literary resurrection of a bygone culture in Subramani’s novel which makes it a book of thousand readings, ritualistic reading for the people of today and for the people to come. Fiji Maa: Mother of a Thousand is about digging up the long lost Girmit memory
A Transnational Approach to ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī’s ʿUmar Khayyām
Get PDFTransnational analysis has become an essential part of approaches to modernist literature in the academy, but scholars of Arabic literature have yet to embrace its possibilities. This article presents the benefits transnational literary inquiry holds for analysing Arabic literature as a significant instance of postcolonial literature, taking as a case study the Iraqi poet ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī’s references to the Persian ʿUmar Khayyām. Through my consideration of contemporary readings of Khayyām from Iran, I re-orient Arabist understandings of this poet’s function in Bayātī’s work. Moving beyond arguments centred within a nationalist paradigm of understanding, I employ a transnational mode of analysis to provide an alternative reading of Khayyām’s presence in Bayātī’s poetry and the dramatic work A Trial in Nishapur. The article seriously considers the modern Iranian reception of Khayyām, which presents him as a rationalist and skeptic rather as a Sufi mystic. I therefore offer a new way of understanding Bayātī’s use of Khayyām as a poetic mask that attends to Bayātī’s significant engagements with Iranian culture and Persian literature. Finally, I draw on this case study to argue that we must begin accounting for the transnational connections that have defined modern Near Eastern literatures like Arabic and Persian
To Teach or Not to Teach in the Early Years: What Does this Mean in Early Childhood Education
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Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.Pedagogy in the early years has often been constructed as a choice between child-centered, play-based, or teacher directed learning. Child-centered learning is often characterized as “following the child’s interests.” This chapter examines this under-theorized notion by re-visiting constructivist theory, re-examining the differences between constructivism and critical social constructionism and in the process explores many underpinning beliefs about knowledge in early years pedagogy. Examples of critical social constructionist pedagogy, drawn from some of the “big ideas” in the Social Sciences are provided in an attempt to blur the boundaries between the binaries that have dogged educational reform in the early years for decades
Digital Infrastructure as a Determinant of Health Equity: An Australian Case Study of the Implementation of the National Broadband Network
No full text© 2018 Institute of Public Administration AustraliaInequities in access to fast and reliable internet connections, essential for digital access to services and information that are important for health, can exacerbate social inequalities in health. We evaluated the social equity of the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia based on the type of digital infrastructure delivered to areas of varying socioeconomic status. We found that areas of greater socioeconomic disadvantage were significantly less likely to receive the highest quality infrastructure, controlling for level of remoteness. These social inequities in provision of quality infrastructure will shape and possibly exacerbate inequities in health. In our discussion we consider how political decisions have obstructed equitable implementation of the policy. Lessons from the Australian case study may be valuable for other countries investing in public digital infrastructure who want to ensure equity of provision and can also inform Australian policy in the NBN's remaining rollout