38 research outputs found
The worship of Love
Get PDFRania, a young introverted woman, lives in a traditional Muslim family. It is a working class family, of Indian and Cape Malay heritage. Her parents married each other against her paternal grandmother's plans for her son, and because of their disapproval of Rania's mother, it caused a rift isolating both Rania and her mother from them. Rania feels stuck in an environment where she doesn't fit in and feels that she doesn't belong. Feeling like this, she escapes into a dream world of books and art to survive her overbearing mother, Shazia, who is both emotionally repressed and verbally abusive toward her. Her father, Ismail (Miley) Ahmed, fuels the drama with his obsessive control which Rania questions, yet obeys. Shazia, heartbroken from a previous love lost, pretends not to be interested in the silliness of love, and feigns disinterest in her husband's suspected extramarital affairs, yet does everything she can to hold onto him. Until he humiliates her beyond her capacity to forgive and she throws him out, but still secretly holds onto a hope that he will want to come back to her. Amara is Shazia's daughter from her previous husband, Rania's stepsister, and Shazia's favourite. Shazia has great plans for her, but she is a strong and free spirited young woman, and rebels against her doting mother by following her own bliss. She chooses happiness over security, even if it means defying her mother's wishes and breaking her mother's heart. Rania, obedient and lonely, yearns to meet someone she can connect to, someone who can save her from the world she believes her parents are keeping her trapped in, but she may be the one blocking herself. It is a coming of age story where three women struggle to find happiness amid difficult circumstances. The events which unfold, change their lives forever
اللغة المزدوجة بين الممحوّ والمسطور: ابن عربي ودانتي / The Palimpsest of the Bilingual Author: Ibn ʿArabi and Dante
No full text[Meddeb who was authored poetic, mystic and philosophical texts presents in this testimonial article his experience as a bilingual writer while wavering between direct and indirect modes of self-representation. Meddeb starts by describing his assimilation of language(s) in his childhood and ends with a figurative description of the tension inherent in his poetic activity as an Arab author writing in French. In the middle, Meddeb engages in a sophisticated analysis and comparison of Dante and Ibn \u27Arabi-his two maîtres de pensée-showing the unspoken of and the erased debt of Dante to Ibn \u27Arabi, specifically in the notion of al-khayal al-munfasil, detached imagination, as the foundation of visionary literature. Meddeb was brought up on the Tunisian dialect, which he considers his maternal tongue, and Quranic Arabic viewed as his paternal language, since his father-a Zeitouni Shaykh-taught it to him. In his lack of comprehension and yet complete captivation by the divine cadences, Meddeb associated ambiguity with the sacred and was awed by the fleeting meaning. Thus he experienced language as double. This was further reinforced when he enrolled in French schools. Meddeb speaks of his bilingually-informed creativity in a striking image: The undulation of French is like sea waves breaking on the shores of Arabic. The latter is guaranteed solidity by the immanence of the sacred. According to Meddeb, the liquidity of French and its rupture with the invariant begins with Dante who introduced the historical dimension into his otherwise imaginative and symbolic Divine Comedy. Ibn \u27Arabi, on the other hand, dismissed the real and the actual, apart from occasional autobiographical references, thus exemplifying medieval aesthetics with its single-minded preoccupation with the sacred.
Prototipo de aplicación basada en tecnología de realidad aumentada aplicada al sector turístico/ferial
No full textEl presente proyecto tiene como objetivo el describir un conjunto formado por 4 aplicaciones basadas en tecnologías de Realidad Aumentada, aplicadas al sector ferial y orientadas al turismo congresual. Han sido ideadas e implementadas entre septiembre de 2017 y febrero de 2018 en el laboratorio IFEMA LAB 5G. La aplicación “Feria Aumentada” se ejecuta en el visor holográfico Microsoft Hololens y ha sido realizada por los 10 integrantes del laboratorio, en conjunto. Las otras 3 aplicaciones “Portal para trasladarnos a localizaciones históricas de Madrid”, “Aplicación de Visualización de Edificios y Monumentos Icónicos de Madrid” y “App Para Visualizar Cuadros del Museo del Prado”, se basan en la tecnología de realidad aumentada de Apple (ARKit) y se ejecutan en sus dispositivos. Estas tres últimas aplicaciones han sido implementadas en su totalidad por el autor de este proyecto de fin de grado.
En el proyecto también se incluye una pequeña descripción del motor gráfico con el que las aplicaciones anteriormente descritas han sido creadas (UNITY 3D), así como un estudio de las principales tecnologías de realidad virtual, realidad aumentada y realidad mixta actuales y como se integran en este motor en concreto.
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This project has as primary objective: describing the implementation of four applications based on augmented reality technology applied to the tourism/fair sector.
These apps were designed and created between september 2017 and february 2018 at IFEMA LAB 5G. The “Augmented Fair” application was built to be executed on a Microsoft Hololens headset, and it has been implemented by the ten lab members. The other three apps: “Portal To Travel to Madrid Historical Locations”, “Visualization of Buildings and Iconic Monuments Application” and “Pictures Visualization from El Prado Museum Application” are based on Apple augmented reality technology (ARKit) and were built to be executed on mobile devices. These three apps were designed and implemented by the author of this final degree project. This project also describes the graphic engine used for developing all of the apps (UNITY 3D), as well as a brief study of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality technologies and how UNITY 3D makes use of them
Comparative study of cellulose nanofiber and carbon nanofiber effects as reinforcement fillers on mechanical properties of polypropylene composites
No full textAlif 22: The language of the self: autobiographies and testimonies
No full textAutobiography is a protean genre: it covers so many forms and styles. When narrating one’s life, the narrator has to choose what he or she considers to be relevant and decisive. Beside the differences on what is fundamental in a life, the notion of the Self is culturally defined and thus varies from one place to another. The author of an autobiographical text may express only a fragment of his or her life, follow a thread in the trajectory through reminiscences, memoir, diaries, testimony, interview, letters, poems, etc. The author may declare openly that he or she is identical with the protagonist or may give the principal character a different name or no name. The author may depict private or public events, at times taking imaginative license or even including fantastic motifs. Autobiographical discourse is not only culturally conditioned; it is also symptomatic of the cultural moment. Thus it is important to explore the varieties of self-presentation, and not assume a fixed paradigm. In this revisionist spirit that looks for different and alternative ways of recording one’s life, Alif presents the autobiographical drive in multiple contexts: ancient and contemporary Egyptian; nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Arab, Moroccan, and Iraqi; South African and West African; Canadian and American; Palestinian and Sudanese; English and Irish; and even that of a hybrid background Chinese American and Algerian French. There has been a tremendous surge in autobiographical writing in recent years, and the field has been redefined by literary and cultural critics. From James Olney (ed.), Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical (1980) to Dwight Reynolds (ed.), Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001), a range of works have appeared challenging established views and approaches on the subject of autobiography. The epigraphs (whose English translation is drawn from the works mentioned above) attest to the complexity and diversity of motivations in writing about one’s past life.https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/1170/thumbnail.jp
Nocturnal poetics: the Arabian nights in comparative context
No full textThe Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul\u27s analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study of this intricate and much-admired literary masterpiece. The author draws on a wealth of critical tools -- medieval Arabic aesthetics and poetics, mythology and folklore, allegory and comedy, postmodern literary criticism, and formal and structural analysis -- to explain the specific genius of the The Arabian Nights. The author describes and examines the internal cohesion of the book, establishing its morphology and revealing the dialectics of the frame-story and enframed cycles of narrative. She discusses various forms of narrative -- folk epics, animal fables, Sindbad voyages, and demon stories -- and analyzes them in relation to narrative works from India, Europe, and the Americas. Covering an impressive range of writings, from ancient Indian classics to the works of Shakespeare and the modern writers Jorge Luis Borges and John Barth, she places The Arabian Nights in the context of an ongoing storytelling tradition and reveals its influence on world literature.https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/1163/thumbnail.jp
Clinical healing of erosive oral lichen planus with tildrakizumab implicates the interleukin‐23/interleukin‐17 pathway in the pathogenesis of lichen planus
Get PDFAlif 24: Archaeology of literature: tracing the old in the new
No full textThis issue of Alif investigates the different strata constituting texts, and the presence of older material (myths, classics, hymns, rituals, romance, philosophical fragments, etc.) as subtexts in literature. Articles explore the processes and modalities of such inclusions in a given work or the corpus of an author. The issue also includes critical essays on the nature of continuity and correspondence in plots, characters, and styles as well as redeployment of older motifs in modern and postmodern works. Contributors: English section: Walid Bitar, Leslie Croxford, Ananya Kabir, Rondo Keele, Steven Nimis, John Rodenbeck, Edward Said, Doris Shoukri, Mounira Soliman, Steffen Stelzer. Arabic section: Mohammed ‘Ajina, Mohammed Birairi, Ayman Al-Desouky, Hasab al-Sheikh Ja‘far, Scheherazade Hassan, Sami Mahdi, Samia Mehrez, Mai Muzaffar/Rafa Nasiri, Lamis Al-Nakkash/Doris Shoukri, Nagwa Sha‘ban.https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/1165/thumbnail.jp
