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Dr. Miriam McCormick – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Miriam McCormick, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, discusses her new book, Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief published recently by Routledge. In this book, Dr. McCormick argues that the standards used to evaluate beliefs are not isolated from other evaluative domains. The ultimate criteria for assessing beliefs are the same as those for assessing action because beliefs and actions are both products of agency
Morpho-syntactic features of Bedouin dialects of Northern Jordan
Full text linkThe present entry deals with the linguistic analysis of morpho-syntactic features of
two varieties of Bedouin Arabic spoken in northern Jordan. It focuses on the existential clause, the negation, and the genitive. The data was collected in June 2020 during
fieldwork in Samā, Muġayyir, and Zumlat al-Sirḥān (al-Mafraq Governorate), where we
recorded members of the Sirḥān (a camel-breeder tribe), and in al-ʿIšša (Irbid Governorate), where we recorded members of the Nʿēm (a sheep-breeder tribe). This data is compared in a synchronic perspective with the corpus of texts we collected in 2018 in the historical region of the Jordanian Ḥōrān (rural northern Jordan). This paper intends to be a step forward in the study of Bedouin-type language varieties of northern Jordan, for which an updated and exhaustive grammatical description is currently lacking
Miriam R. Lowi, Water and Power. The Politics of Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin
No full textMusset Alain. Miriam R. Lowi, Water and Power. The Politics of Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 50ᵉ année, N. 3, 1995. pp. 711-713
[Rezension zu:] Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against its Author
No full textRezension zu Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against its Author. A Poetics of Rebellion in Bryan Stanley Johnson's Oeuvre. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York (Georg Olms Verlag) 2011 (= ECHO - Literaturwissenschaft im interdisziplinären Dialog, Bd. 13). 427 S.
Mit der Publikation ihrer in der Bochumer Komparatistik eingereichten Dissertation widmet sich Miriam Havemann einem bis vor wenigen Jahren fast in Vergessenheit geratenen britischen Schriftsteller der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, dessen Arbeiten erst mit dem Erscheinen von Jonathan Coes Biographie 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' (2004) und der Wiederauflage vieler seiner Romane neue Beachtung fanden
Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal collection 1878-2009 1927-1975, 1995-2003
No full textThe collection includes memoirs, poems, notes, correspondence, photographs and clippings pertaining to Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal, to her husband Peter and to her mother Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss. Materials concentrate on the 1940s, when Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal and her mother Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss lived in Amsterdam and New York, as well as on correspondence from the 1950s and 1960s.Four extensive manuscripts of a doctoral dissertation on the poet Ilse-Blumenthal-Weiss by Beatrix Marguerre Pollack in addition to background information on the author have been removed to the LBI Manuscript Collection (The doctoral dissertation was published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich, 1994.)Books from the private library of Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal, pertaining to German literature and German-Jewish topics, including signed copies by Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nelly Sachs and others, have been removed to the LBI Library.Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal was born on March 7, 1927, the daughter of Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss and Herbert Blumenthal. The Blumenthal-Weiss family lived in Berlin until 1937, when the parents, their daughter Miriam and her older brother Peter emigrated to Holland. Herbert, who was a dentist, and Peter Blumenthal were deported to Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps and killed. Ilse and Miriam survived Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps. In 1947 they immigrated to the United States.Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss started writing poetry as a child. She was a successful writer, who published several books and exchanged letters with, among others, Rainer Maria Rilke and with her friends Nelly Sachs and Hermann Hesse.Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal married Peter Merzbacher in the late 1940s.The couple had two children and lived in New York City until 1961 before moving to Connecticut. Peter Merzbacher was born on December 4, 1910 in Nuremberg, Germany. Most of his family lived in Nuremburg and Munich. After emigrating from Nazi-Germany in 1936, Peter lived in Brazil for 10 years before immigrating to the United States.Finding aid available online.See also the Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss collection, AR 1020.Processeddigitize
Water and power the politics of a scarce resource in the Jordan River basin
No full textWhy do states in arid regions fail to cooperate in sharing water resources when cooperation would appear to be in their mutual interest? And under what circumstances could they be encouraged to negotiate even when protracted conflict characterizes interstate relations? Through in-depth analysis of the history and current status of the dispute over the waters of the Jordan River basin, among Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, and its relationship to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Dr Miriam Lowi explores the answers to these critical questions. By comparing the Jordan waters conflict with disputes in the Euphrates, Indus, and Nile River basins, she evaluates the material and ideal concerns of states with regard to sharing scarce resources with adversarial neighbors, and highlights the significance of water to both conceptions of national security and the local environmentWater and power: the politics of a scarce resource in the Jordan River basin is a provocative and well-researched study of an issue which is rapidly emerging on the international agenda because of the intimate links between environmental factors and their effects on the welfare of populations. This book will be of value to all those with an interest in the recent history and politics of the Middle East, the politics of scarcity, and resource conflict
Miriam: The Forgotten Heroine of the Exodus
No full textArtykuł podejmuje próbę ukazania wkładu Miriam w proces, w trakcie którego biblijny Izrael wyłania się jako naród. Autor artykułu skupia się na dwóch tekstach: Wj 15,20-21 i Lb 12. Po zaprezentowaniu struktury literackiej wspomnianych perykop i ukazaniu ich powiązań z innymi tekstami ST, autor przedstawia Miriam jako pieśniarkę, prekursorkę liturgii uwielbienia, prorokinię i przewodniczkę ludu. Podkreślając jej cierpienia jako nieodzowny element charyzmatu proroka, autor podkreśla ich wagę dla stwierdzenia autentyczności władzy prorockiej Miriam. Według piszącego, charyzmat prorocki Miriam został przez hagiografa ukazany jako wpajający nadzieję i między innymi polegał na przeprowadzaniu jej rodaków ze świata widzialnego do niewidzialnego, z teraźniejszości w przyszłość i z czasowości w nieskończoność.The study is an attempt to reveal the Miriam’s contribution into process of formation of biblical Israel as nation. Author of deliberations is focusing attention on two fundamental texts, that is Ex 15:20-21 and Num 12. After presentation of the literary structure of selected periscopes – making some important references to other biblical texts of the Old Testament – the author tries to portray Miriam as a singer, a precursor of worship, a prophetess and a guide of the people. Highlighting her suffering as an indispensable element of the prophetic charism, he underlines its importance for verification and authentication of Miriam’s prophetic authority. According to the author, the prophetic charism of Miriam, shown by the hagiographer for the service of hope, consisted, among others, in a “conveying” of her brethren from the visible into invisible world, from the present into the future, and from temporality toward eternity.
Explaining the behaviour of small states: an analysis of Jordan's nuclear energy policy
No full textConventional analyses claim that small states bandwagon with leading international powers. The dominant view is that small states’ vulnerabilities and limited power hinders their ability to pursue policy goals. This study critiques this position by investigating why and how Jordan continues to pursue a nuclear energy programme despite objections from the United States – its principle ally. By using theories of small states, this study analyses discursive practices in Jordanian policy-making. This approach is used to describe Jordan’s nuclear energy policy and posit a logic of the effects that energy insecurity has on the government’s perception of Jordan as a ‘small state’. I use this to create hypotheses concerning the conditions under which small states may not simply bandwagon with key international allies, but may have more freedom to pursue their goals than traditional analyses predict. Explanations that assume small states always have limited freedom to pursue policy goals without the backing of key allies are not supported by the evidence considered here
The Tribes of the Hills of North-Eastern Jordan: Some Ethnographic Remarks
No full textThe present paper summarises the ethnographic data of the fieldwork campaigns I conducted between June 2020 and May 2022 in different areas of North-Eastern Jordan, in the governorate of al-Mafraq. The fieldwork was done in numerous villages along the Syro-Jordanian border, where members of different Bedouin communities were interviewed and recorded according to qualitative methodology, while recounting their life, their diet, their habits, their occupations, their traditions, and their beliefs. The ethnographic description is based on memorial narratives and life-stories and is accompanied by the original terms in the local variety of Bedouin Arabic. The article will constitute an updated study on these tribes, for which an ethnographic description is currently lacking. Moreover, this article will also describe what has changed after the settling of the nomadic tribes in the area, who have abandoned their old lifestyles and progressively adopted new ones, without rejecting their traditions, and being proud of their Bedouin origins
Aganetha Dyck : The Power of the Small
No full text"Aganetha Dyck: The Power of the Small (2016) by Julian Jason Haladyn is the first major publication on the artistic practice of this important Canadian artist. This book considers the history of Dyck’s engagement with the small throughout her career as an artist, most prominently in her long-term collaboration with the bees. In addition to the main text, this publication includes “A Note on Other-Than-Human Beings” by Miriam Jordan-Haladyn, a collaborative essay on Dyck’s collaborative work with William Eakin and an extensive interview with the artist. This is the latest volume in the Canadian Artist Monograph Series (CAMS)." -- Publisher's website
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