79 research outputs found
Atiq Rahimi’s Exophonic Entanglements: Multilingual and Multimodal Poetics
No full textIn 2008, first-generation Afghan migrant novelist-artist Atiq Rahimi published his first translingual work in French, Syngué Sabour: Pierre de patience. This article interrogates his multilingual and multimodal aesthetics across his translingual oeuvre. In his exophonic novel Les Porteurs d’eau (2019), Rahimi valorizes a polyvocal and culturally diverse Central Asian history. The Prix Goncourt–awarded author introduces Afghanistan’s past and present beyond its intracultural challenges. The epitome of the Rahimi-esque aesthetic is the author’s publication L’Invité du miroir (2020), which acts as a revolt, a transnational dialectic crossroads where multilingual fiction meets classical Persian calligraphy and nonfiction to explore the human spirit
Navigating challenges in access to antenatal and intrapartum care: Afghan refugee women's experiences amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
No full textBackground: Balochistan, Pakistan's most economically and health system-deprived province, hosts a significant portion of the Afghan refugee population. The province's already fragile healthcare infrastructure faces additional strain due to the refugees. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the barriers to antenatal and intrapartum care seeking among Afghan refugee women in Balochistan during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design: This study employed a cross-sectional survey approach to assess antenatal and intrapartum care-seeking behavior among Afghan refugee women residing in Balochistan, Pakistan. The study focused on refugee women living in Kharotabad Union Council in Quetta city to understand their barriers to accessing maternal healthcare services. Methods: The survey focused on antenatal and childbirth care-seeking behaviors among married women of reproductive age (MWRA) with at least one child aged 12-23 months born during the first four waves of COVID-19 in Pakistan. Results: Of 480 MWRAs, only 36.9% sought antenatal care (ANC); only 13.1% received at least four ANC visits. Furthermore, only 38.8% of MWRA had skilled birth attendance. Only 32.9% of MWRAs received at least one ANC and had skilled birth attendance (i.e., comprehensive care). Accessing comprehensive care was associated with maternal age less than 25 years (adjusted odds ratio (OR): 0.40; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.21, 0.78), Tajik ethnicity (adjusted OR: 0.40; 95% CI: 0.23, 0.70) and large family size (adjusted OR: 0.58; 95% CI: 0.37, 0.93). Predictors of poor access were concern related to documentation of the refugee women they faced (adjusted OR: 1.52; 95% CI: 1.00, 2.34), women with no one at household to accompany them at health facility (adjusted OR: 1.75; 95% CI: 1.13, 2.70), myths and misconceptions related to available care (adjusted OR: 1.89; 95% CI: 1.18, 3.02), and the transport availability (adjusted OR: 1.76; 95% CI: 1.12, 2.77). Concerns related to COVID-19 had no association. Conclusion: The study highlights the barriers to maternal, neonatal and child health service utilization among Afghan refugee women in Balochistan. Tailoring healthcare services to consider age, ethnicity, cultural dynamics, and system constraints is crucial for improving access
Dialogical Intervention of Material Agency in Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes
No full textThis paper examines how material agency embodied by the land, ruins, silence, and objects involves in a dialogical relationship with human trauma and memory in Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes. The novella portrays Dastageer, an elderly survivor of a bombed Afghan village, journeying with his grandson Yassin through a devastated landscape. The narrative employs evocative imagery and second-person address to interweave the responses of the terrain into the emotional and psychological trajectories of the protagonists. This study relies on trauma theory and eco-critical concepts for the analysis of selected literary text. The research highlights how the environment actively speaks through Dastageer’s reveries and Yassin’s innocent misinterpretation of deafness believing that others have lost their voices rather than his hearing that poignantly illustrates a material voice in rupture. The land bears witness to atrocity and become a counterpart to human testimony in the novel. The novel’s sparse yet charged prose transforms landscape into a co-author of memory, grief, and unspoken history
Epidemiological characteristics of elderly population receiving pre-hospital emergency care after road traffic injuries in Punjab, Pakistan
No full textBackground: Every year, 1.3 million lives are lost to road traffic injuries (RTIs). 90% of these deaths disproportionately occur in Lower-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Due to frailty and reduced physiological resilience, elderly populations are at higher risk of RTIs and poor outcomes, versus younger populations. Further, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global elderly population will double by 2050, indicating that this group will be at an even higher risk of RTIS.Objectives: Our study aims to utilize Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data to better understand the trends, types, injuries, patient characteristics, and outcomes of RTIs involving the elderly, ultimately contributing to more targeted and effective road safety policies and interventions.Methods: We analyzed secondary EMS data during 2022 and 2023 from the Emergency Services Department (Rescue 1122) in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. RTI data in patients aged ≥ 65 years was extracted from the database for age, gender, education, response time, injury type, RTI victim type, location of injury, and victim outcome. Multivariable analysis was carried out using multiple logistic regression to obtain an adjusted odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval for on-scene mortality.Results: From 4.2 million EMS activations, data on 34,345 RTIs in elderly patients was analyzed. Patients had a mean age of 70.12 years, and 77% (26,608) were males. The most common injury type was soft tissue injury (24,166; 70.36%), followed by limb injury (5,126; 14.9%), and head injury (2,590; 7.5%). Most victims suffered injuries as passengers (11,396; 37.2%). The mean response time was 7.19 minutes, and the on-scene mortality rate was 1.3% (443). The odds of on-scene mortality increased with increasing response time (AOR: 1.05, CI: 1.04-1.07), while an increase in the degree of urbanization was associated with decreasing odds of on-scene mortality (AOR: 0.99, CI: 0.98-0.99). Head injuries (OR: 24.49, CI: 20.11-29.93) and pedestrian injuries (Adjusted OR: 1.40, CI: 1.06-1.84) were strongly associated with on-scene mortality.Conclusion: Our study revealed that head and pedestrian injuries emerged as key factors for on-scene mortality in elderly patients of Punjab, Pakistan. These findings necessitate targeted interventions to encourage a rapid pre-hospital response to lower on-scene mortality rates
Domestic violence against women in Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
No full textDomestic violence against women is a common social ill that destroys thousands of women’s lives worldwide (Khan, 2000). However, the growth of this concern, particularly in developing countries such as Afghanistan, requires more scholarly attention not only because the lives of many Afghan women are affected by it, but also because it remains overlooked due to socio-cultural norms that consider discussions about it as taboo. Of late, however, there is a rising trend among members of the Afghan Diaspora in portraying domestic violence against their womenfolk back home through such artistic mediums as fiction (Parveen, 2015). Therefore, in this paper, we shall examine the manifestations of domestic violence against women in the Afghan context through a textual analysis of The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi, an author belonging to the Afghan Diaspora. Originally written in French, this breakthrough novella highlights the harsh reality of the misery suffered by many Afghan women on a regular basis, notably the various forms of domestic violence that they have to endure in the poverty-stricken, war-torn and staunchly patriarchal environment of their homeland. Through a feminist reading of The Patience Stone (2011), we shall examine Rahimi’s depictions of domestic violence against women in the novella as a highly engendered phenomenon resulting from gender inequality and a sexist hierarchy of power prevalent in Afghan society. Furthermore, this paper is outlined based on three main forms of domestic violence, namely physical, sexual and emotional abuse, which are depicted in The Patience Stone through the novella’s female characters, notably the main protagonist
Domestic violence against women in Atiq Rahimi\u27s The Patience Stone
No full textDomestic violence against women is a common social ill that destroys thousands of women?s lives worldwide (Khan, 2000). However, the growth of this concern, particularly in developing countries such as Afghanistan, requires more scholarly attention not only because the lives of many Afghan women are affected by it, but also because it remains overlooked due to socio-cultural norms that consider discussions about it as taboo. Of late, however, there is a rising trend among members of the Afghan Diaspora in portraying domestic violence against their womenfolk back home through such artistic mediums as fiction (Parveen, 2015). Therefore, in this paper, we shall examine the manifestations of domestic violence against women in the Afghan context through a textual analysis of The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi, an author belonging to the Afghan Diaspora. Originally written in French, this breakthrough novella highlights the harsh reality of the misery suffered by many Afghan women on a regular basis, notably the various forms of domestic violence that they have to endure in the poverty-stricken, war-torn and staunchly patriarchal environment of their homeland. Through a feminist reading of The Patience Stone (2011), we shall examine Rahimi?s depictions of domestic violence against women in the novella as a highly engendered phenomenon resulting from gender inequality and a sexist hierarchy of power prevalent in Afghan society. Furthermore, this paper is outlined based on three main forms of domestic violence, namely physical, sexual and emotional abuse, which are depicted in The Patience Stone through the novella?s female characters, notably the main protagonist
Ecriture au feminin par procuration : Pierre de patience d'Atiq Rahimi
No full textThe author proposes a feminist interpretation of Pierre de patience, a novel by the afghan francophone writer Atiq Rahimi. He sees it as a francophone text come from elsewhere, as world literature, but also as a message and hope for our time and for gender equality
Retelling one’s story across media : migratory self-adaptation and instantiations of the migrant selves in works of Marjane Satrapi and Atiq Rahimi
No full textCertain migrant authors, as for example Marjane Satrapi, the renown Franco-Iranian graphic novelist and film director, have chosen to perform a multimodal authorship by (co)directing adaptations of their own books, re-experiencing the same story through different medium specificities. This process, conceptualized in this paper as “self-adaptation”, is further layered in works of others like Atiq Rahimi, the Franco-Afghan novelist and film-director, who associated the process of adaptation with translation proper, adapting his translingually written French novel into a Persian film. Self-adaptation, just as its sister-concept self-translation is described, is more of an artistic strategy highly charged with the presence of the author, no matter generated from authorial anxiety or self-fascination. The salience of “self” gets further complicated if infused with the borderline experience of the migrant, where it gets alternatively fragmented and refurbished in a different scale. Migratory self-adaptation moves therefore in a double direction: adapting oneself and adapting one’s self. In this paper I explore different notions of “self” in the process and products of self-adaptation, having works of the above-mentioned authors as points of departure. Apart from gender differences and dissimilarity in their career paths, the two provide an informing comparison pair since they differ significantly in terms of including autobiographical aspects; Satrapi’s work are acknowledged as autobiographies while Rahimi’s novels and films are void of any reference to (his) migrant experience at the level of story. The least would be hence to discuss the representation of the migrant experience in these narratives. Rather, this paper will focus on performative instantiations of the migrant self as the author; the translingual; the double-(or non)-citizen; etc., in textual and contextual layers. </p
Salmonella Cholecystitis: Atypical Presentation of a Typical Condition
No full textSalmonella cholecystitis is a rare but important complication of Salmonella typhi infection. We are reporting an 11 years old female child who presented with complaints of high-grade fever, jaundice and right sided abdominal pain (Charcot\u27s triad). Her examination showed tender hepatomegaly. Initial blood results revealed high white cell counts with left shift, deranged liver function tests. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed distended gallbladder with minimal layer of sludge seen within its lumen along with streak of pericholecystic fluid. Blood culture grew Salmonella typhi. She was successfully treated with intravenous ceftriaxone
The Influence of Mullah in Atiq Rahimi's the Patience Sone
No full textThis study pictures the society in Afghanistan under the regime of Taliban which is poured by the author in his literary work. The picture is the influence of the Mullah to the main character representing the whole society in the novel, the Patience Stone. Using sociology as the method by which the researcher connects the literary work with the society where the author lives that the Mullah in real life gives much influence to the society through the understanding of the Koran, the researcher finds that the Mullah creates patriarchal society in general and betrayal in specific society.
Keywords: sociology of literature, patriarchal society, betraya
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