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Agha Shahid Ali, 18th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPoet Agha Shahid Ali teaches in the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His six collections of poetry include A Nostalgist’s Map of America, The Half Inch Himalayas, A Walk Through the Yellow Pages and The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems. He has also translated The Rebel’s Silhouette, a selection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz as well as the author of T. S. Eliot as Editor. His poems appear regularly in journals such as Antioch Review, Chelsea, Denver Quarterly, Field, Grand Street, Paris Review Poetry, TriQuarterly and Yale Review. He has won fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Ingram-Merril Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the New York Foundation for the Art. His recent — as yet uncollected — poems focus on the current turmoil in Kashmir, where he is from originally and where he spends his summers
La Méditerranéité dans l’oeuvre de Ezza Agha Malak.: Une méditerranéité féminine
No full textThe novels of the Franco-Lebanese women Writer Ezza Agha Malak is characterized by two essential paradigms: on the one hand, the Lebanese Mediterranean or the extreme Mediterranean, this is what is called contemporary Lebanonism, and on the other hand, the western Mediterranean to the antipode of the Beirut and Tripoli Mediterranean. This concept of a Mediterranean literature, or rather of a mediterraneanness to be revealed, animates all fictions of Ezza Agha Malak. I use the concept of mediterraneanness at Ezza Agha Malak’s novels to appeal to modern purposes in the Mediterranean literature of the extreme contemporary. It is a new discourse in the current geopolitical context with a critical objective. The references to the Mediterranean become identitary discourse for the author who furthermore maintains a feminine discourse. The writing of Ezza Agha Malak is a feminine writing, in addition, that of an oriental femininity.La obra de la escritora franco-libanesa Ezza Agha Malak está caracterizada por dos paradigmas: por una parte, el Mediterráneo libanés o extremo Mediterráneo, lo que podríamos llamar libanismo contemporáneo, y por otra, el Mediterráneo occidental, a las antípodas del Mediterráneo beirutiano y tripolitano. Ese concepto de una literatura mediterránea, o mejor dicho de una mediterraneidad que hay que revelar, anima la obra entera de Ezza Agha Malak. Utilizo el concepto de mediterraneidad en su obra para apelar a unos fines modernos en la literatura mediterránea contemporánea. Es un nuevo discurso en el contexto geopolítico actual con finalidad crítica. Las referencias al Mediterráneo se convierten en discurso identitario tanto más cuanto que la autora tiene un discurso propiamente femenino. Su escritura es una escritura femenina, y por añadidura, de una femineidad oriental
On names in Mažuranić’s epic The Death of Smail-Agha Čengić (Smrt Smail-age Čengića)
Get PDFIako sam o leksikografskoj obradi Mažuranićeve pjesni Smrt Smail-age Čengića već pisao, ostalo je podosta toga o čemu još treba progovoriti. Tom dijelu pripada i rasprava o imenima u Mažuranićevoj Smrti. Ovo je, čini mi se, ponajbolja prigoda da se o tome prozbori u članku koji je posvećen Svečaru.Starting from his overall lexicographic approach to Mažuranić’s epic The Death of Smail-Agha Čengić, the author focuses his attention here on the analysis of its corpus of names. Most studies of the epic to date have not paid special attention to the onomastic material although it was partly incorporated into Benešić’s Dictionary of the Croatian Literary Language. The author believes that a dictionary of words used in an individual literary work or in complete works of an author, i.e. a Writer’s Dictionary, should contain all the words with their meanings, including proper names (anthroponyms, place names and ethnonyms), especially since proper names as a category do not rank very low on a frequency scale. Even if a name appeared only once in a given work (e.g. in Mažuranić’s The Death of Smail-Agha Čengić), it should nevertheless be included in a dictionary. In compiling a complete dictionary of Mažuranić’s poem The Death of Smail- Agha Čengić, the author has found that the poem contains slightly less than 6.000 words (including all word forms), or 1.661 headwords used in 1.134 verses and 5 cantos of the epic: Agovanje, Noćnik, Četa, Harač and Kob. The corpus contains approximately eighty forms of onomastic names and their adjectival derivations, which can be considered as onomastic headwords. The author lists names in the alphabetical order together with the number of their occurrences and variants (in brackets), thus presenting their collocations as well. They will subsequently be listed according to semantic categories and frequency
Fieldwork Guidelines for Archaeology Officers
Get PDFThe identities of nations and countries depend on the culture, history, beliefs, faith and
religion of the people of those countries. Therefore, in order to express the identity and
personality of human beings and countries, we must go to history and historians, culture and
cultural figures, and knowledge and scholars of the relevant countries and people.
Therefore, to understand and document the history and culture of the country in systematic
way, these Guidelines for Archaeological Officers has been prepared so to undertake the
archaeological activities according to international standards. This book will highlight the legal
aspects of archaeological work in Afghanistan, archaeological survey, planning, budgeting,
restoration, conservation, protection of the excavated areas, drafting reports, and
documentation related issues. The author focused on the practical and systematic vision of
archaeological activities as the recent development in agricultural work, urban development
and illegal digging of the sites immensely destroyed the country rich archaeological heritage.
In these pages Dr. Luca M. Olivieri shares with young archaeological officers his experience in
survey, excavation, documentation, site protection, budgeting and legal frameworks. Based
on some best practice examples, this book plans to offer pragmatic assistance to readers, thus
encouraging them to focus on the various practical aspects of a scientific archaeological
fieldwork.
Dr. Anna Filigenzi, Dr. Massimo Vidale and Mrs. Livia Alberti contributed on very important
aspects of the manual. Mr. Ahmadzia Nawrang, Mr. Salim Wak and Mr. Fidah Mohammad
assisted in text correction and translation of Pashto and Dari languages. I sincerely appreciate
the efforts of all my colleagues from AIA who assisted in composing, designing and compiling
it in book form and I pray for more success.
I hope that with the publication of this valuable and extraordinary book, a service has been
made to the scientific and cultural community of the country. I am sure that the Archaeological
officers, students, professors and researchers in the field of archeology in Afghanistan will
definitely benefit from this book.
Noor Agha Noori
Director
Archaeology Institute of Afghanistan (AIA)
Kabul, December 202
Medical Education in the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Professional Development Activity of Health Professionals
No full textNoof Albaz,* Sajida Agha* Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Noof Albaz, Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, P.O. Box 3660, Riyadh, 11481, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tel +966 11 429 9999 Ext. CPD/ 91070, COM/95212, Email [email protected]; [email protected]: The development and maintenance of a high-quality medical education workforce depend on continuing medical education (CME). Traditionally, CME is delivered face-to-face, but due to COVID-19 and geographical distances, it is challenging to conduct professional development activities for several days. Using a webinar on advancement in medical education in the context of the eastern Mediterranean, we aimed to assess the participants’ perspectives towards the professional development activity using a synchronous learning approach.Methods: We used a cross-sectional survey-based study design. We invited faculty members from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) and United Arab Emirates University for Health Sciences (UAEU). We assessed their perspectives on the relevance of the content and effectiveness of the activity on their knowledge and skills after the two days’ webinar series. A self-designed questionnaire was administered post-webinar immediately. Open-ended responses were analyzed thematically.Results: One hundred thirty-six registered healthcare professionals attended day 1, and 97 registered participants joined on the second day of the webinar. Most participants appreciated the diversity of the contents, the quality of the presentations, and the expertise of the facilitators. They reported that the content optimized their knowledge and understanding of new concepts such as assessment in simulation teaching, programmatic assessment, insight into the implementation of IPE and EPAs in CBME, and so on. The e-learning platform’s user accessibility, online tutor interaction, and the addition of more scenario-based case studies were all recommended for improvement.Conclusion: Overall the two days webinar series presentations were informative and highlighted the transformation in medical practices. Suggestions to improve the quality of the webinars and content were discussed.Keywords: medical education, professional development, health professionals, webina
Synthesis and investigation of physico-chemical, antibacterial, biomymetic properties of silver and zinc containing hydroxyapatite
Get PDFIn the work we carried out microwave synthesis of modified hydroxyapatites (HA) with different content of ions. A solid solution based on HA remains a single-phase sample when the calcium ions are substituted by silver and zinc ions up to 5 % by weight (0.5 mole fraction). The microstructure parameters, morphology and the particle powders size were studied by X-ray diffraction analysis, IR spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It is shown that the modification of НA by silver (AgHA) and zinc (ZnHA) ions increases the size of its particles, the degree of crystallinity, and the pore sizes of the samples while reducing their specific surface and uniformity of their forms. Elemental analysis and distribution of elements over the surface of HA, AgHA, and ZnHA powders were performed by X-ray spectral microanalysis (RSMA). The ratio of Ca/P is within the range of 1.66-1.77 and corresponds to the ratio of Ca/P in stoichiometric HA and the HA entering bone tissue. The ability of AgHA- and ZnHA-substrates to form on their surface a calcium-phosphate layer from the simulated body fluid (SBF) at 37 °C is determined. This ability decreases in the order: in ZnHА it is less than in AgHА, but greater than in HА. The antibacterial activity of the samples was analyzed. The AgHA sample has both bactericidal and persistent bacteriostatic properties in the case of direct contact with Escherichia coli cells
Are Saudi medical students aware of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus during an outbreak?
No full textSummaryRecently, an outbreak of MERS-CoV occurred in King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), Riyadh. This outbreak contributed to the students at the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) becoming more involved in promoting health awareness in their communities.This was a cross-sectional study that evaluated students in the clinical phase of medical school. The data were collected by an online questionnaire. The measurements were obtained using a researcher-administered and a self-reported questionnaire that had been previously validated. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.One hundred and thirty-six students participated and showed good awareness regarding the clinical aspects of MERS, such as etiology, diagnosis, management, and prevention. However, 76% of the students were not aware of the mortality rate. Conversely, this study uncovered a low level of awareness in the basic sciences. Interestingly, fifth year medical students were more familiar with the incubation period than final year students (p-value <0.05). Regarding gender differences, more female students were knowledgeable about the incubation period and the possible asymptomatic presentation of the disease than male students (p-value <0.05). However, male students were more aware of the diagnostic tests for MERS than their female counterparts.Medical students were knowledgeable about the clinical aspects of MERS but were lacking background awareness in the basic sciences
Scholastic Theology [423]
No full textScholastic Theology.
This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1001 in the India Office collections.
[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 423 here with further notations and hyperlinks].
423.
1001. Size 91/2 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 304. Twenty-one lines in a page.
I. Foll. 1-15. Some notes to the earlier portion of the preceding work of Mîrzâ Jân, terminating abruptly.
Beginning:
(قوله) الثالث تقیید السلب الوارد علی الوجود و هو الصحیح قد اوردت علیه فی الحواشی ان بعد تقیید السلب بزمان الخ.
The words of Mîrzâ Jân referred to here are found at the end of fol. 9v. of the preceding no.
II.Foll. 16-304. Glosses extending over the whole work of Mîrzâ Jân, as contained in no. 421. They are followed by some notes referring directly to the work of Dawwânî, who is styled المحقق, and to that of Ḳûshjî.
According to notes on the two title-pages, the name of the author is AGHA ḤUSAIN خفاری. Additional notes by the same are on the margin.
Closely written in a small, but clear Nasta’liḳ hand, by Hâshim Ḥusainî. The second piece is dated Tuesday, 15th Rabî’ I., 1072. Gold lines round the pages.
The first piece is wrongly inscribed شرح الاشارات.
[Hastings.
The SSC of the Generalised Jahangir’s Graph Jm,k and its Algebraic Characterizations
No full textIn this article, we present important combinatorial and algebraicproperties of spanning simplicial complex (SSC) of the generalised Jahangir’sgraph Jm,k. We describe the relation to find f−vectors associatedto Δs(Jm,k) and determine the Hilbert series for the SR-ring KΔs(Jm,k).In the end, we present the associated primes of the facet ideal IF(Δs(Jm,k))and the Cohen-Macaulay characterization of the SR-ring of Δs(Jm,k).AMS (MOS) Subject Classification Codes: Primary 13-P10, Secondary 13-F20, 13-C14, 13-H10.Corresponding Author: Agha KashifKey Words: Simplicial Complexes, f-vectors, Spanning Trees, Face Ring, Hilbert Series, CohenMacaulay
ڈاکٹر وزیر آغا۔۔۔۔۔ کچھ خطوط، کچھ سوالات
No full textDr Wazir Agha (1922-2009) is a well-known critic, poet and light essayist. There are over fifty books on these genres, to his credit. He edited a legendary literary magazine, Awraq, for many decades. In this article, the author has remembered him, through his personal reflections. Unpublished letters of Dr Wazir Agha, addressed to the author, have been produced in this article. They not only express his sentiments towards his addressee but also, reflect his literary ideas regarding modern peotry. Some questions raised by the author are also answered by the literary genius. Issues requiring explanations have been expounded on, in the footnotes
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