137 research outputs found
Sulayman Al Bassam, un poète dans la Cité
No full textCet article retrace le parcours dramaturgique de l’auteur et artiste anglo-koweïtien Sulayman Al Bassam, dont l’oeuvre est habitée par un Levant en prise avec la tourmente ayant suivi les accords Sykes-Picot. Sa deuxième compagnie, SABAB Theatre, fondée après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, est engagée dans un long processus critique, à la fois endogène et exogène, ayant débuté par la création d’une première trilogie shakespearienne sous un prisme arabe. L’orientalisme et le colonialisme des puissances occidentales occupent, dans son travail, une place aussi importante que la censure, la dictature et le patriarcat dans les sociétés arabes. Son travail dialogue en permanence avec l’actualité régionale et internationale.This article traces the dramaturgical journey of the Anglo-Kuwaiti author and artist Sulayman Al Bassam, whose work is inhabited by a Levant grappling with the turmoil that followed the Sykes-Picot Agreement. His second company, SABAB Theatre, founded after the September 11 2001 attacks, is engaged in a long critical process, both endogenous and exogenous, which began with the creation of a first Shakespearean trilogy viewed through an Arab lens. Orientalism and the colonialism of Western powers occupy a place in his work as significant as censorship, dictatorship, and patriarchy in Arab societies. His work continuously engages with both regional and international current events
Corporate Boards and Ownership Structure as Antecedents of Corporate Governance Disclosure in Saudi Arabian Publicly Listed Corporations
No full textWe investigate whether and to what extent publicly listed corporations voluntarily comply with and disclose recommended good corporate governance (CG) practices, and distinctively examine whether the observed cross-sectional differences in such CG disclosures can be explained by ownership and board mechanisms with specific focus on Saudi Arabia. Our results suggest that corporations with larger boards, a big-four auditor, higher government ownership, a CG committee and higher institutional ownership disclose considerably more than those that are not. By contrast, we find that an increase in block ownership significantly reduces CG disclosure. Our results are generally robust to a number of econometric models that control for different types of disclosure indices, firm-specific characteristics and firm-level fixed-effects. Our results have important implications for policy-makers, practitioners and regulatory authorities, especially those in developing countries across the globe
The International University of Grand-Bassam
No full textA personal narrative is presented which explores the author\u27s experience of participating in a book drive for the International University of Grand-Bassam in Cote d\u27Ivoire in 2008
A rare diagnosis: Acute bilateral vasitis mimicking incarcerated bilateral inguinal hernia
No full textInflammation of the vas deferens or what known as acute vasitis is an under-reported condition that usually presents with scrotal or inguinal pain and swelling which can be misdiagnosed and treated as many other conditions. Here, we present one of the first cases to be reported in the literature with bilateral manifestation. A 28-year-old male patient presented complaining of bilateral testicular and inguinal pain associated with inguinal swelling for 3 days. Initially, the patient was being evaluated as a case of incarcerated bilateral inguinal hernia, but with the aid of radiological imaging, the patient was diagnosed correctly and the unnecessary surgical intervention was prevented
Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change, by Bassam Tibi
No full textBassam Tibi, Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change, London and New York, Routledge, 2009. Islam's Predicament with Modernity presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved. Looking at the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines the role of culture and religion in Muslim society under conditions of glob..
The Shariʿa-State and the Islamist Shariʿatization of Islam
No full textThe Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations is honored to host Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi, Professor Emeritus of International Relations (Göttingen), with the generous support of the Cleveland H. Dodge foundation. Prof.Tibi is the author of more than forty books in English and German, and he held chairs at both Cornell and Göttingen Universities before his retirement in 2009. He was an also affiliate of the Harvard Center for International Affairs from 1982–2000. Prof. Tibi has held visiting appointments around the world at universities in Turkey, Cameroon, Singapore, Sudan, Switzerland, Indonesia, and Austria, as well as Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, Michigan, and Yale in the United States
Simpler Formulation and Numerical Validation for a Nonlinear High Order Finite Shell Element
No full textWithdrawn due to: Professor Bassam Izzuddin and Professor Ahmed Elghazouli did not co-author the Article</jats:p
A critical study of the twentieth century biographies of Jonathan Swift, 1981
No full textProbably no English writer's life has received more attention than Jonathan Swift's has. For almost three hundred years, Swift has been the subject of extensive biographical study by various kinds of biographers with a great range of interests and aims. Due to new methods of scholarship as well as advancements in medicine, psychology and other fields, the twentieth century biographers' capacity to make contributions to new -understandings of major aspects of Swift's life and to new interpretations of his writings in accordance with these understandings is enormous. This thesis is a study of twentieth century biographers of Swift with emphasis on the different approaches these biographers have used in analyzing and interpreting his life, especially the two -most controversial issues with which they have been confronted. These issues: Swift's relations with the two women who played major roles-JLn his life, and his illnesses, especially during the last five years of his life. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first two chapters set the main body of the thesis in a proper context. Chapter One contains a survey and brief review of the biographical studies produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, The. twentieth century biographies are examined in the second chapter. The third chapter presents the modern biographers' views of Swift's relations with women, particularly those with the two most important females in Swift's life, Vanessa and Stella. The fourth chapter discusses modern biographers' treatments of Swift's physical and mental condition and especially their accounts of these illnesses during the five last years. When biographers claim reflections of his mental state which can be found in his writings, the chapter gives attention to these claims. The last chapter is a conclusion which summarizes the content of the earlier chapters and states the need for a comprehensive, more objective biography than had yet appeared. The diagnoses of Swift's physical and mental condition as made by modem physicians are presented in an appendix in order to provide a scientific and factual basis, as far as current knowledge permits, upon which students of Swift may judge the extent to which this knowledge has made possible new insight into Swift the man and the writer
The Meaning of Home Podcast - Episode Fifteen: Disparity
No full textThe Meaning of Home Podcast: Episode FifteenDate of recording: Monday 18 December 2023Episode theme: DisparityTopics: gendered city; urban design; marginalisation; reimagining spaces; quality of life.Guest(s)Nourhan Bassam, Founder of GamingX and author of The Gendered City</p
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