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Comparative Post-conflict Power Sharing Models for Syria
No full textSalamey, Abu-Nimer, and Abouaoun examine peacebuilding approaches to post-Arab Spring states and compile comparative country analyses derived from different identity politics, nation building, and power sharing models’ experiences in deeply divided societies. This methodology is utilized to induce lessons learned as well as a potential suitable post-conflict power sharing arrangement for Syria. The comparison highlights challenges, opportunities, and prospective options for Syria.Includes bibliographical reference
Reflections on Three Decades of Islamic Nonviolence:In Conversation with Prof Mohammed Abu-Nimer
No full textThis article comprises a discussion with Prof. Mohammed Abu-Nimer, a trailblazer in the field of Peace Studies focusing on Islam and Muslim communities. It explores Prof. Abu-Nimer's reflections on the development of this field over the past three decades. It focuses in particular on methodological, institutional, and inter-cultural challenges and developments during that time. Like Prof. Abu-Nimer's long career, it is international in scope and explores convergences and divergences in the experiences and discourses surrounding Muslim-led nonviolent resistance, peacemaking and peacebuilding initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It also includes discussion of the role played by cultural difference and hybridity in translating the distinct peace and nonviolence repertoires of Western and non-Western cultural and political contexts
Palestine Yearbook of International Law, vol. 24 (2023)
No full textUnder the editorship of Nimer Sultany, the peer-reviewed Volume 24 of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law includes articles on Zionism, the legality of the British Mandate over Palestine, property rights in East Jerusalem, abolitionism and Israeli carceral regime, and the legal struggle over BDS in Spain. The Yearbook is an unparalleled reference work of general international law, in particular as related to Palestine and the Palestinian people. Published in cooperation with the Birzeit University Institute of Law, the Yearbook is a valuable resource for anyone seeking well-researched and timely information about Palestine and critical approaches to international law. Contributors include John Quigley, Anna Roiser, Annika Johnson, Fernando Acuña, and Esmat Halaby
Myelodysplastic syndromes: diagnosis and staging.
No full textMyelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) represent a heterogeneous group of hematologic disorders characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis and an increased risk of developing acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Accurate diagnosis of MDS can be difficult, and its classification requires evaluation of cytopenias, bone marrow morphology, blast percentage, and cytogenetics. These factors, as well as patient performance status and red blood cell transfusion dependence, can be used to predict prognosis in MDS. Accurate diagnosis and classification are essential for subgroup identification and prognostic assessment of patients with MDS. This article reviews essential criteria for staging and subgroup classification and summarizes prognostic scoring systems that aid in risk stratification and selection of optimal therapy. Classification systems such as the World Health Organization (WHO) classification are widely used but do not always provide sufficient prognostic information. This limitation led to the creation of the International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS). However, this system was designed to be used only at diagnosis and may not be suitable for serial assessment of patients whose disease can evolve over time. The WHO classification-based prognostic scoring system (WPSS) permits dynamic estimation of survival and risk of AML transformation at multiple time points during the natural course of MDS. Prognostic scoring systems such as WPSS allow for prediction of survival and risk of leukemic evolution at any time during the course of the disease. Such an approach may provide a useful adjunct for clinical decision making, including selection of appropriate treatment options
Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2022), vol. 23
No full textUnder the editorship of Nimer Sultany, the peer-reviewed Volume 23 of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law includes a special focus on international criminal law and Palestine as well as articles on Palestine and human rights discourse, and Sahrawi and Palestinian liberation in light of the international law of nationalism. It also includes essays on the criminalization of BDS in France in light of EU law, and on law and childhood in Palestine. . The Yearbook is an unparalleled reference work of general international law, in particular as related to Palestine and the Palestinian people. Published in cooperation with the Birzeit University Institute of Law, the Yearbook is a valuable resource for anyone seeking well-researched and timely information about Palestine and critical approaches to international law. Contributors include Omar Yousef Shehabi, Luisa Giannini, Michelle Staggs Kelsall, Sara Razai, Lama Karame, Diana Buttu, and Lori Allen
Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict : A position paper
No full textAbu-Nimer, M., Kahanoff, M., & Levanon, O. S. (2014). Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A position paper.</p
Arithmetic of quaternion algebras - by Abdalla Said Nimer.
No full textThesis (M.S.)--American University of Beirut, Department of Mathematics, 2011.;"Advisor : Dr. Kamal, Khuri-Makdisi, Professor, Mathematics Members of Committee : Dr. Hazar Abu-Khuzam, Professor, Mathematics Dr. Monique Azar, Assistant Professor, MathemaIncludes bibliographical references (leaf 83).If K is a field whose characteristic is not 2, a quaternion algebra over K is a an algebra over the basis [1,i,j,ij] where i and j satisfy the relations: i2=a j2 =b ij=-ji for a,b in K*. It turns out that for general K, such a quaternion algebra i
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Promoting Religious Dimension in Conflict Resolution: A Review on Mohammed Abu-Nimer Thoughts
No full textThe aim of this paper is to review Mohammed Abu Nimer thoughts on the field of conflict resolution, peace-building, and inter-religious dialogues. As a thinker and practitioner of conflict resolution, he built his work based on his intimate relationship with conflicts. To review his thoughts, this paper traced and observed his main ideas about conflict resolution based on his writings; books, journals, articles, etc. Thus, the findings show that Mohammed Abu Nimer draws upon his thoughts by referring to his religion, Islam. Therefore, Islam as a religion supports peace-building of civilization through its teaching to Muslims. Although Islam became the basis of his works on conflict resolution, it does not mean that he insists it to be used in conflict resolution. His idea is promoting religious dimension in conflict resolution which makes religion as a source of peace rather than a source of conflict. Then, he proves the limit on peace-building and inter-religious dialogue as a means to reach peace between two sides of a conflict. Therefore, peace-building activists should acknowledge and accommodate any possible ways to mediate the conflicting parties in order to make peace.
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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