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Report on Fatima Refaat
No full textفي هذا التقرير، تقدم إيمان رافع عرضًا عن الفنانة المصورة فاطمة رفعت وآخر معارضها المقامة في القاهرة.In this report, Iman Rafi gives a presentation on the photographer Fatima Refaat and her most recent exhibition in Cairo
Witnessing Genocide: a Biographical Narrative of the Israeli Assassination of Dr Refaat Alareer, Gaza's Grand Narrator and Decolonial Intellectual
No full textDr Refaat Alareer, a prominent Gazan writer, poet and professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023, at the peak of Israel's genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Prior to his assassination, Refaat was subjected to a vicious smear campaign and barraged with heinous death threats by Zionist digital warriors due to his staunch discursive and digital resistance and strident criticisms of the Israeli state on social media platforms, especially on X. But, against Zionist scare tactics, intimidation and cyber belligerence, Refaat stood his ground both on the ground in Gaza City and in cyberspace, fully aware of the consequences of his unflinching digital activity on social media. Refaat, a man of remarkable literary skill and prowess, was adamant to fulfil his destiny as Gaza's grand narrator and through his poetry and his teachings to turn his life - and his martyrdom - into the universal tale of Gaza's sacrifice, struggle, and humanity. As Israel perpetrated its genocide in Gaza, we, two of Refaat's first students at the IUG, witnessed the killing of our teacher from afar and are writing this tale - the tale of his life and martyrdom - to uphold the truth about Dr Refaat Alareer, Gaza's global intellectual, grand narrator and digital resistance fighter
Interview with Refaat Garana
No full textمقابلة مع الموسيقار المصري، رفعت جرانة، يناقش فيها مؤلفاته السيمفونية مثل "سيمفونية "23 يوليو،" "السيمفونية الخيالية،" و"النيل،" من بين أعمال أخري. كما يتحدث عن بداية علاقته بالموسيقي ودراساته الموسيقية بالمعهد العربي العالي للموسيقي المسرحية. ويتحدث أيضاًً عن عمله "كونشيرتو القانون،" الذي يعتبره حلقة وصل موسيقية بين التأليف الموسيقي العربي والغربي، وعن "متتالية الصور،" وهو عمل موسيقي مستوحى من نماذج الفن التشكيلي المصري. قام بالمقابلة حسن شمس الدين.An interview with Egyptian musician, Refaat Garana, in which he discusses his symphonic compositions, such as "23rd of July", "The Imaginary Symphony" and "The Nile," among other works. He also discusses the starting point of his musical passion and his studies at the Arab Higher Institute of Theatrical Music. Finally, he mentions his symphonies "The Qanun Concerto", which he considers a musical link between Arab and Western musical composition, and "The Consecution of Pictures", a musical work inspired by models of Egyptian art. The interview was conducted by Hassan Shams El-Din
Interview with Refaat Al-Saeed
No full textمقابلة بين المراسلة عائشه رافع ودکتور رفعت السعيد، الأمين العام لحزب التجمع، حول تواصل المسلسل الارهابي في المجتمع المصري، مشيراً إلى أنها ليست أعمال إجراميه فقط بل تمتد علي الساحه الفكرية والسياسية وعلي ساحات أخري مختلفة مؤكداً أننا نستطيع أن نقضي علي الارهاب بمجرد ضرب مجموعة من المجرمين لكننا يتعين علينا أن نقضي علي الارهاب بتغيير شامل في مجمل المناخ السياسي والاعلامي والتعليمي.An interview between reporter Aisha Rafi and Dr. Refaat Al-Saeed, Secretary General of the Tagammu' Party, about the continuation of the terrorist series in Egyptian society, indicates that it extends beyond criminal acts to the intellectual and political arenas, as well as various other arenas, and emphasizing that we cannot eradicate terrorism by simply striking a group of terrorists, but must eradicate terrorism through a comprehensive change in the overall political, social, and economic environments
Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die”: The Death of the Author, the Afterlife of the Tale
No full textThis article traces the performative role of tales and storytelling in late Refaat Alareer’s life, career, (creative) writing, activism, and death. It ultimately examines this performativity’s intensification and culmination in Alareer’s Saidian late-style poem “If I Must Die.” The article combines close textual analysis and comparative literary criticism to investigate the intricate relationship between storytelling, mortality, and resistance in Alareer’s poem. Paying attention to nuance, the article examines the poem’s intertextual connections with Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” (1919) to demonstrate how Alareer transforms storytelling into a powerful mode of cultural survival and a means of transcending physical destruction and preserving collective memory in the face of systematic oppression. Additionally, the research traces Alareer’s evolving conceptualization of storytelling from a personal imperative to a collective form of resistance, culminating in “If I Must Die” whose stylistic and thematic treatment of his impending death anchor his poem locally/nationally, namely in Gaza/Palestine
A mixed-methods approach to understanding narrow passage behaviours
No full textNarrow passage interactions are unregulated interactions at road narrowings in which two opposing vehicles cannot both pass through simultaneously. Instead, some informal agreement must be reached between the drivers as to which vehicle will pass through first and which will wait. Existing research into narrow passage interactions is typically focused on either simplistic approaches where the vehicle arriving at their entrance to the narrowing always proceeds first, or focused on the forms of communication required to reach the necessary agreement and how this may translate to future situations where one of the vehicles is autonomously controlled. There appears to be little research into how heterogeneity in wider driver behaviour, vehicle types, and situational/environmental factors relating to the layout of the narrowing itself result in the diversity of interactions and behaviours that can be observed in reality. It is clear therefore that the decision-making processes undertaken by drivers approaching narrow passages are more complex than currently reflected in existing models. To rectify this issue, this paper describes a mixed-methods approach for narrow passage research, incorporating a questionnaire, on-road experiment, and driving simulator study. Using this integrated mixed-methods framework, it is shown that each research phase interacts and complements the other components of the research framework, such that the acknowledged weaknesses of each individual methodology are compensated by the other phases. Through highlighting the key findings of each research phase and showing how they were utilised throughout the project to widen the number of factors found to influence narrow passage decision-making, and consequently propose a new theoretical model for narrow passage cognition and behaviour that better reflects observed behaviours, it is argued that the described research methodology better addresses the complexities of cognitive research than a single approach.<br/
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
Investigating and modelling the factors affecting cooperative driving behaviours at narrow passage road interactions
No full textCooperative road interactions, road interactions in which drivers work together to complete manoeuvres (Kraft et al., 2019), have received increased attention from researchers looking to model the behaviours exhibited by drivers during the interactions, and those investigating how autonomous vehicles should interact with human-driven vehicles in a composite road transport system. This attention is due to the relative lack of traffic regulations that govern these interactions, with drivers instead relying on informal traffic rules and communications to safely navigate the situations. Narrow passage interactions - a “deadlock” cooperative road interaction in which two (or more) drivers driving in opposite directions encounter one another at a road narrowing – have, however, remained under-researched and thus inadequately represented in microscopic traffic models. For example, it is widely accepted that the vehicle type being interacted with alters driving behaviours, and yet there is limited investigation of this factor on the behaviours exhibited by drivers during narrow passage interactions, with little subsequent incorporation of the factor in driver behaviour models. This research, therefore, contributes to knowledge by improving the understanding of the factors that affect a car driver’s decision-making during narrow passage interactions and the modelling of this understanding in mathematical driver behaviour models. A questionnaire study was initially carried out to widen the range of factors found to influence narrow passage decision-making. Notably, the study found that the vehicle type and the number of vehicles being interacted with influenced the decision of drivers to give way at a road narrowing. The factors were then further explored in the qualitative analysis of the concurrent and retrospective verbalisations produced in an on-road study, which sought to gain an insight into the chronological relationships between what drivers perceive, how they interpret this information and the actions they subsequently undertake. The findings from the questionnaire study were validated by the on-road study and a theoretical framework of the decision-making processes of drivers during narrow passage interactions was also proposed. Using this theoretical framework, a rule-based driver behaviour model for narrow passage interactions was developed as part of a co-simulator driving simulation package. The bespoke narrow passage driving simulator, which sought to remedy limitations of previous simulator studies, was used in a simulator study consisting of both open-world and controlled drives. The results of the study further validated the findings of the previous studies and led to the development of a novel binary mixed logit model to represent narrow passage decision-making. This model was found to outperform model structures representative of the previous state-of-the-art in the narrow passage human factors and modelling literature, that were trained and evaluated using the same dataset
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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