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Trends. Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin: Terrorists?
Get PDFThe author discusses fatwas that have been issued against United Kingdom\u27s Salman Rushdie and Bangladesh\u27s Taslima Nasrin
The Threat of Intolerance. Religious Extremism
Get PDFTaslima Nasrin, the writer from Bangladesh, shot into international fame and limelight with the publication of her novel 'Lajja' (Shame) which criticized Muslims for attacking minority Hindus in Bangladesh following the 1992 destruction of a mosque by Hindu zealots in neighbouring India. Nasrin's writing so angered Muslim sentiments in Bangladesh that Khaleda Zia's government ordered her arrest in 1994 on charges of blasphemy. After a year in hiding, Nasrin fled Bangladesh for four years of exile in Europe. Several Muslim religious leaders demanded her immediate arrest and trial. They warned the government of serious consequences if she is not put on trial for suggesting that the Qur'an should be rewritten. Nasrin has denied making the comments. However, it was finally confirmed that the 36-year old author should indeed stand trial. Nasrin has appealed to the international community for help
Outcomes of Health Care Reform Implementation in Slum Areas of Isfahan: a qualitative study
Get PDFBackground & Objectives: In slum areas, due to the economic, cultural and social reasons and how health services are delivered, the health status of people needs serious attention. Implementation of health reform plan in Iran led to increased attention to the health of slum area population. The present study was conducted to assess the outcomes of implementation of primary health care services reform in comprehensive health service centers at slum areas in Isfahan.
Methods: This qualitative research with phenomenology approach was conducted in 2018. Study samples consisted of 21 experts of health deputy and health providers of comprehensive health services centers in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences selected using purposive and snowball sampling methods. Data gathering was done by semi-structure interview. Data analysis was done using content analysis and through the 10th version of MAXQD software.
Results: The outcomes of health Reform Plan implementation in primary health care services provision, at Isfahan's slum area Health Services Centers were organized and classified in 6 main themes and 51 sub-themes. Main themes were promotion of health care availability, private sector participation, management, improvement of staff education and providing resources based on the needs and establishing electronic health records with 51 sub-themes.
Conclusion: Feasibility of using public-private partnership models in building, operating, transferring, needs assessing, system evaluation and monitoring of the Comprehensive Health Service Center and compiling the required human resources chart can improve the outcomes of this plan.
Keywords: Milestones, Health care reform, Primary health care, Private sector, Slum area
Citation: Raeisi AR, Shaarbafchizadeh N, Aghdak P, Fouladi Z. Outcomes of Health Care Reform Implementation in Slum Areas of Isfahan: a qualitative study. Journal of Health Based Research 2019; 5(1): 81-100. [In Persian
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Translator, Traitor or Teacher: A Neophyte-Focused Communication Pedagogy
Get PDFThis dissertation presents a theory of teaching derived from the production and reception of translations, with a particular focus on the neophyte. The neophyte is described as either an individual who through the process of literary translation deepens his or her understanding of a new language, or a new reader of translations beginning to harvest a cosmopolitan worldview.Since its initial 1988 Iranian publication, Shahrnush Parsipur's Women without Men was first translated into English in 1998, then made into a film in 2009, and translated into English again in 2011 - an exceedingly peculiar circulation that stems from an equally complicated clash of international politics and cultural production. Using this text and its various iterations as case studies, I situate the works in both a theoretical network and literary tradition to then unpack operative hermeneutic principles. From the translations, I outline the unique pedagogical attributes obtained from the production and reception of translated works, with a marked advocacy of the neophyte on either end of this practice.First, the process of translation is traced from a critical reading of the source text and analysis of the renderings. The subjectivity and hermeneutics of the translators is then explored using material gathered from a symposium on Women without Men held at UC Irvine on February 14, 2014 with Parsipur, all three of her English translators, and other prominent scholars in the field. Discussions of the politics of translation, Iran, and America, with Parsipur's work as the central point of reference, resulted in fascinating insights from the author and translators that day.A problem that was brought to the fore during the Women without Men Symposium was the dearth of translated material from Eastern cultures in the West, despite the great fortitude going the other way. This necessitates cultivation of not just people who speak multiple languages, but also those who are using their competency, and perhaps even advancing it, in the translation of Eastern literatures for a Western audience. In my conclusion, in reference to this problematic I submit the experiences of the translators of Women without Men as testimony from exemplary neophytes serving as both creator and audience. My dissertation seeks to promote more translation projects, both as a method to learn languages, as well as an introduction to foreign concepts
Recrystallization in Si upon ion irradiation at room temperature in Co/Si(111) thin film systems
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Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs from Across the Diaspora
Get PDFMosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs From Across the Diaspora addresses Muslim women's life writing in transit since 9/11. This project follows the memoir boom fueled by many Middle Eastern women writers publishing in the U.S., Australia and Europe. By studying contemporary Arab and Iranian women's memoirs and autobiofictional works, this project investigates the expression of life writers who are trying to influence their local and global communities through the form of the confessional. This research project focuses on modes of self-representation in Middle Eastern women's personal narratives, paying careful attention to the narrative strategies they use to negotiate art and meaning within memoir. The first chapter, entitled, "True Lies: Reviving Orientalism in Honor-Killing Hoaxes" argues that the two so-called "honor killing" memoirs, Forbidden Love and Burned Alive, were successfully believed as genuine memoirs for over two years, despite the fact that they were hoaxes, because of the political post-9/11 climate resurrecting Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East. These sensationalized works used Orientalist tropes to become best-selling memoirs and in doing so, they strike many questions about how their deception was successful. Although Muslim women's memoirs can serve as a forum for creating revisionist histories through female life stories, they also function as narratives written, published and marketed with the intentionality of producing works that perform the native informant's narrative. This chapter frames my exploration of Muslim women's memoirs in my other three chapters, which explore counter-narratives that defy these stereotypes constructed by dominant Euro-American literatures.The second chapter, "Comedic Masks, Tragic Faces: Humor, Racial Passing, and Identity Fragmentation in the Memoirs of Firoozeh Dumas and Marjane Satrapi," argues that the use of humor and satire are formal devices in which Iranian immigrant women use to negotiate the precarious position of the immigrant liminal self. More specifically, these writers use humor as a metaphorical mask that allows them to partially conceal what they choose to communicate to their readers. Because this dissertation explores counter-narratives of neo-Orientalist testimonials, it explores the varying narrative devices that disrupt the conventions of memoirs penned by Middle Eastern women writers. In the memoirs of Dumas and Satrapi, the authors incorporate humor to critique Iranian, American and European societies. Chapter Three, entitled, "Mosaics of American Muslims: Reading Islam Across Mohja Kahf's Poetry and Fiction," investigates the way Mohja Kahf carves out a space for Muslim Americans, especially for Muslim women, in her semi-fictional works. Though her novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf is a fictional bildungsroman about the life of Syrian American, Khadra Shamy, it bears the semi-autobiographical perspective of the author, incorporating Kahf's personal experiences as a Syrian Muslim in America. By using fiction, the author is able to delve into sensitive and somewhat taboo issues surrounding her community and discuss American politics, without having to claim testimonial authenticity. In her autobiofiction, she is free to paint a diverse picture of Arab American and Muslim women, without being limited to the genre of memoir. This chapter discusses both her poetry and fiction to highlight shared themes resisting the essentialization of Muslim women as backward and silent. Her recuperation of veiling is a common motif that runs throughout both works, and it is significant since Kahf attempts to demonstrate the positive and personal expressions of veiling to American audiences.The fourth and final chapter, "Dislocations of Self: Unfixing Identity in Rabih Alameddine's I, The Divine" explores the connection between the autobiographical voice and the narrative structure of a fictional autobiography presented as a series of first chapters. The author creates a fictional memoir from the perspective of a Lebanese American woman, Sarah Nour El-Din, who struggles to write her life story in a series of first chapters. Alameddine creates the anti-memoir, which refuses to limit itself to chronology, truth and conventional life-storytelling. Because every chapter begins as Chapter One, Alameddine draws attention to the difficulty of succinctly and chronologically writing one's life story in a memoir, while also engaging the varying voices of the autobiographical "I" to dismantle the notion of a unified self. By creating a fictional memoir, Alameddine mocks the form of writing so popular amongst contemporary Arab American women writers, and he resists rendering his protagonist as a transparent native informant and cultural guide for American readers
THE STRUCTURE OF AUTHORING IN NIMA YUSHIJ'S POETRY: A BAKHTINIAN READING
Get PDFThis thesis employs Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of architectonics to examine the poetry of Nima Yushij, the father of “New Persian Poetry.” The architectonic structure of Nima’s poems presupposes an authorial position situated outside the whole of the work. Outsideness provides the author with the distance that is necessary for consummating the hero and all other elements inside the work’s environment in determinate spatial and temporal boundaries. As Bakhtin puts it, only in this way can the author acquire a surplus of seeing that is required for adopting a valuational stance in relation the hero and the work as a whole. To Bakhtin, the author’s valuational stance toward the hero is the essence of the aesthetic product. This valuational position vis-à-vis the other, which generates what Michael Holquist calls the “structure of authoring,” is enacted on multiple levels in Nima’s poems as the hero, and sometimes the narrator, also perform the authorial function vis-à-vis other characters inside the poem, i.e., fixing them in determinate spatial and temporal boundaries. Of course, from the author’s perspective, the hero and the narrator are also situated inside the poem and occupy specific horizons in its environment. In this sense, their authoring activity is not a precisely aesthetic activity. Nevertheless, Nima utilizes the hero and the narrator’ activity to foreground the structure of authoring inside the poem, to make its dynamics “viewable.” This is a point that I will try to elucidate fully in the course of this study.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD
Relationship With Spouse and Restriction of Role in Mothers of Children with and Without Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
No full textAbstractIntroduction: This research was down to compare Relationship with spouse and restriction of role between Mothers with ADHD sons and the normal ones. Materials and Methods: The research is a causal-comparing study and the statistical universe was all mothers of 5 to 12 years old sons with ADHD who referred to child psychiatry clinics (I bn-e-Sina and Dr Sheikh Hospitals) and all Mothers of normal son (5 to 12 years old) were selected in primary and pre-primary school at 4th educational area of Mashhad city, north-eastern part of Iran. Fifty mothers with ADHD children by at reached sampling and 80 Mothers with normal children were selected by cluster sampling. Parenting Stress Index (PSI) was used and data analyzed by descriptive and analytic statistical methods such as T-test in independent groups. Results: Results showed that there was a significant difference between relationship with spouse in mothers of ADHD children and mother of normal children (p<0.000).There was a significant difference between restriction of role in Mothers of ADHD children and mother of normal children (p<0.000)Conclusion: Mothers with ADHD children had more restriction of role compared with mothers of normal children and they also had more problems in their relationship with spouse which it is realized by parenting stress index
The effect of urban sewage sludge on chemical properties, soil basal respiration and microbial biomass carbon in a calcareous silty clay loam soil
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