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Perpetual Impunity: Lessons learned from the global system of rendition and secret detention
No full textIt is now well documented that the Blair government was colluding at the highest levels in the global system for the rendition, detention and interrogation of terror suspects, at the same time as repeatedly denying any involvement. This paper seeks to explain why the UK so confidently maintained its position of denial. The main argument is that involvement in the global rendition system was facilitated and protected by an architecture of impunity. That is to say that the global rendition system deliberately consisted of a set of practices that were designed to ensure impunity for those agents involved at various levels, particularly Western governments and their intelligence agencies. Furthermore, if aspects of a state’s involvement were exposed, the architecture of impunity was sufficiently robust that the state could control the level of exposure. For example, the state could allow the light to be shone on certain aspects but could keep others very much in the dark. The state could also take specific actions to mitigate the effects, for example by withholding key information, destroying evidence, or by deflecting attention. Finally, where state involvement was exposed, again because the architecture of impunity was so robust, the authorities were in a strong position to seriously hamstring or avert investigations into wrongdoing. We conclude by offering some reflections on what this tells us about the challenges of holding governments to account for human rights violations of this nature, especially where they arise through a transnational network of state violence/crime
Insulating Universal Human Rights from the ‘Ethical Foreign Policy’ Threat
No full textAt the heart of the notion of an ethical foreign policy is the assumption that foreign policy can help deliver liberty and security around the globe. Yet, as Conor Gearty has argued, in our contemporary ‘neo-democratic’ world, liberty and security are not the universal goods they are often considered to be. Rather they are selectively granted, and curtailed for those considered a threat to the status quo. Where liberty and security are curtailed, this is often in the name of the universal freedoms that neo-democracies claim to uphold. When the Blair government was elected in 1997, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announced that British foreign policy must have an ethical dimension. There has been much debate on whether UK foreign policy under the Blair government can be argued to have been ‘ethical’. The focus of debate has tended to be the UK’s military interventions. Far less attention has been paid to the direct role played by UK authorities, through its intelligence services, in human rights violations under the New Labour and subsequent Coalition governments. This paper seeks to further the debate on the ethics of UK foreign policy since 1997. It does so by offering a detailed account of the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s rendition programme, and shows that the UK was far more involved in rendition and secret detention between 2001 and 2010 than was previously assumed. Threaded through the analysis is an account of the various measures taken by the New Labour subsequent Coalition governments to suppress the evidence of UK involvement. We conclude by offering some reflections on the role human rights organisations, litigators, and investigative journalists are increasingly playing in defending the universalism of rights, for publics that rarely appreciate what is really at stake
Interview with Sofie Abdullah
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، تتحدث الكاتبه صوفى عبد الله عن أسرار مهنة الكتابة.In this interview, Sofie Abdullah, a well-known Egyptian author, discusses the intricacies of the writing industry
Interview with Abdullah El Tayib
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، يتحدث الأديب والناقد والشاعر السوداني عبد الله الطيب عن مؤلفاته في النقد والقصص الشعبية ودواوينه الشعريه.In this interview, Sudanese author, intellectual, and poet Abdullah El Tayib discusses his collections of poetry, well-known stories, and critical writings
Interview with Abdullah Al-Baradouni
No full textلقاء مع الشاعر اليمنى عبد الله البرادوني للتكلم عن مكانة الشعر اليوم. أجرى اللقاء إبراهيم عابدين.An interview with Yemeni author and poet Abdullah Al-Baradouni about the role of poetry in modern times. Interview conducted by Ibrahim Abdeen
Task-Guided and Semantic-Aware Ranking for Academic Author-Paper Correlation Inference
No full textWe study the problem of author-paper correlation inference in big scholarly data, which is to effectively infer potential correlated works for researchers using historical records. Unlike supervised learning algorithms that predict relevance score of author-paper pair via time and memory consuming feature engineering, network embedding methods automatically learn nodes' representations that can be further used to infer author-paper correlation. However, most current models suffer from two limitations: (1) they produce general purpose embeddings that are independent of the specific task; (2) they are usually based on network structure but out of content semantic awareness. To address these drawbacks, we propose a task-guided and semantic-aware ranking model. First, the historical interactions among all correlated author-paper pairs are formulated as a pairwise ranking loss. Next, the paper's semantic embedding encoded by gated recurrent neural network, together with the author's latent feature is used to score each author-paper pair in ranking loss. Finally, a heterogeneous relations integrative learning module is designed to further augment the model. The evaluation results of extensive experiments on the well known AMiner dataset demonstrate that the proposed model reaches significant better performance, comparing to a number of baselines.We would like to thank Yuxiao Dong for suggestions. This work is supported by the Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-09-2-0053 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant IIS-1447795. This work is partially supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Kajian Sastra Perjalanan dalam Hikayat Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah Karya Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi
No full textThis research is aimed to identify and to reveal a hikayat as classic travel literature of Indonesia by the travel writing theory of Carl Thompson. To gain those purposes, this research used literary criticism and descriptive-analytic methods. The object of this study is Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi (1854), focusing on the six elements of travel writing by Carl Thompson’s approach based on the hikayat. This study shows that the hikayat contains six elements of travel writing. Those are self, other, movement, space, encounter, and writing. Abdullah as a sailor puts himself in his hikayat as the main character by using “sahaya” and “aku” to articulate “self” in his hikayat. The “self” during travel met new and foreign things that the author had never seen before. He drew and expressed his point of view, feeling, and observation of all the encounters that he had met during sailing in to hikayat.Keywords: Carl Thompson, hikayat, travel writin
Dynamic augmentation of SCORM pre-authored course materials with adaptive links to supplementary resources
No full textIn a SCORM compliant courseware, content and the pedagogic approach to be taken are predefined by the course author. As a consequence, users are unable to learn according to their preferences, and implicitly they will all encounter the same learning experience. Recent attempts to personalise learning in SCORM often resulted in either modifying or substituting SCORM specification elements. Nonetheless, SCORM is a widely-used solution to interoperability problems. For this reason, this work focuses on supplementing SCORM rather than redefining it. This is accomplished by dynamically associating each pre-authored learning material in a SCORM package with adaptive links to relevant supplementary resources upon delivery. As a result, we have developed a Personalised Link Service (PLS) to deliver these links into user’s SCORM-compliant learning environment. In this paper, we present the design of a PLS authoring architecture which enables the automatic generation of a concept map from a SCORM package and consequently links to alternative learning resources, and a PLS run-time service oriented architecture which delivers these alternative resources, alongside the SCORM defined resources, according to a user model. We demonstrate the feasibility of our architecture by implementing a service to support a simple notion of a user model (Preferred Learning style)
Identifikasi Tokoh Abdullah bin Saba’ Dalam Literatur Sunni dan Syi’ah
No full textThis paper tries to explain the history of Abdullah bin Saba 'which was perpetuated by the scholars because of its enormous role in the dark history of the people in the early days of Islam, in this case it has been written by classical Ulama in the Chronicles Sunni, such as Imam at Tabari in inbook Tarikhhisscholars, clerics and others. so also in the books of Shiite scholars. However, there are those who doubt the path of the transmission because only from one lane, Abdullah bin Saba is 'doubtful and declares that Abdullah bin Saba' is a prominent figure. It starts from the path of transmission which is in the book of Chronicles, only one path. Therefore, the author tries to examine the path of transmission in the book of the Date. This study uses the content analysis method. As a source of data used in the study of the truth of Abdulllah bin Saba 'figure, namely through the perspective of the Sunni and Shia books. The author tries to explain the results of research that shows that the figure of Abdullah bin Saba 'the fact of his existence and information obtained from Sunni and Shia data sources has similarities about the figure
Kuyucaklı Abdullah b. Muhammed el-Aydi’nin Mu’rib-i Avamil-i Cedide adlı eserinin tahkiki
No full textu çalışma, Kuyucaklı Abdullah b. Muhammed el-Aydînî’nin Mu‘rib-i ‘Avâmil-i Cedîde adlı eserinin tahkîki, edisyon kritiğidir. Kuyucaklı Abdullah Efendi ismiyle bilinen müellif, XVII. yüzyılın sonları, XVIII. yüzyılın başlarında Aydın Vilâyetine bağlı Kuyucak kasabasında yaşamış bir âlimdir. Arap dili gramerine dair yedi Arapça eser kaleme almıştır. Tahkikini yaptığımız bu eserde müellif, büyük Osmanlı bilgini İmam Birgivî’nin Arap dili gramerinin temel kurallarını anlattığı el-‘Avâmil adlı meşhur eserin gramer tahlilini yapmakta, bir anlamda teorik kuralları pratiğe dökmektedir. Yapılan bu çalışmayla eser tanıtılmış, müellif nüshasına en yakın nüsha ortaya konularak istifadeye hazır hale getirilmiş ve müellifin bir dilci olarak özellikleri tespit edilmiştir. THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE BOOK NAMED MURİB-İ AVAMİL-İ CEDİDE BY KUYUCAKLI ABDULLAH b. MUHAMMED el-AYDİNİ This Project is the textual criticism of Kuyucaklı Abdullah b. Muhammed el-Aydıni’s named Murib-i Avamil-i Cedide. As known author who is called Kuyucaklı Abdullah Efendi is a scholar lived in Kuyucak region bounded to Aydın. He wrote seven Arabic Works on the grammar of arabic language.In this book which we have investigated, the author analyses the grammar side of famous book named el-‘Avâmil that is written in it, the basic rules of Arabic language by Great Otoman Scholar Imam Birgivî. On the other side he converts the therotical rules into pratical ones. It has been known by this work creating the replica of The author’s issue(the original text) made it being used and the specifications of the author are detected as a linquistic
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