Union of the Comoros is experiencing chronic political instability since its independence in 1975. From coups attempts to coup, from constitutional developments to national reconciliation, the Union ...is fragile and tries to resist with an endemic balkanization. It is embodied with the political affiliation of the fourth island of the Comoros archipelago, Mayotte, in the French Republic and with the separatist attempts of Anjouan and Moheli. In this tense political context occurred on March 25, 2008 the landing in Anjouan of an international force under the aegis of the African Union to overthrow President Mohamed Bacar. Union of the Comoros illustrates the obstacles of a national cohesion within a multi-insular state wrestling with heavy political difficulties and persistent economic and human development problems.
Profiling of Arabs and Muslim Americans as terrorists has led to exaggerated and fearful responses to ordinary incidents. I examine how sources shaped news coverage of Ahmed Mohamed, a teen, who was ...arrested for bringing a self-assembled clock to school. I analyse coverage of the incident in six media outlets: MSNBC and Washington Post used sources that highlighted racial discrimination; Fox News and Wall Street Journal used sources to cast suspicion on Ahmed's technical abilities and family honour; and CNN and USA Today used sources to focus on the incident rather than address the problem. I conclude that the terror frame needs to be updated so that innocent citizens are not harmed by an irrational fear of Muslims.
Recentemente completados, os 10 anos da chamada Primavera Árabe evocam anseios por mudança, frustrações, atos de bravura e tragédia. Em tempos de agitação social, interesses em conflitos e sonhos, ...por vezes irrealizáveis, ganham espaço em formato de confronto na cena pública. A própria temporalidade regular fica suspensa, dando margem para inversões, ainda que temporárias, da ordem social. A partir de uma articulação interdisciplinar entre o trabalho da historiadora Lucie Ryzova (2020) sobre a Batalha da Rua Muhammad Mahmoud, ocorrida no contexto da Revolução Egípcia de 2011, e as teses de Walter Benjamin sobre a história (2019a), com aportes da antropologia e da psicologia social, este artigo visa traçar caminhos possíveis para uma leitura crítica da ideia de liminaridade em tempos de revolta popular. Ao dialogar essas duas abordagens, identifica-se uma diferença significativa em formas de análise teórica de períodos de revolta, em particular a possibilidade da revolta como fim em si mesma ou como parte de um projeto maior de emancipação social.
New Film historians purport that the historical progression of world cinema has fundamentally been shaped by the transition from the 'cinema of attractions' to the 'cinema of narrative integration.' ...From a historical perspective, these two concepts reflected not only two visions of the cinema's functions, but they also related to two crucial moments of the development of worldwide filmmaking. This development has often been associated with the shift from 'non-narrativity' (incorporated in films of early cinema) to narrativity (exemplified in the rise of Hollywood). From an aesthetic-based standpoint, the two definitions indicated two opposing modes of visualization and two stylistic choices: Showing and telling. In a similar way to the evolution of world cinema, Mohamed Osfour's film practice developed alongside its transition from 'attraction' to 'narration.' This shift reflected Osfour's intellectual commitment and his understanding of the cinematic apparatus' social functions. The present article argues that Osfour's films of the early postcolonial period - Al-Ibn Al-a'k (The Damned Child, 1956), Al-Yatim (The Orphan Boy, 1957), and Al-Harib (Fugitive, 1962) - represented the rise of Moroccan narrative film and instigated the move to a film practice that capitalized on the narrator system. It seemed that the liberating context of post-colonial Morocco implicitly played a part in this shift, allowing Osfour to look for narrative spaces where he could manipulate the pro-filmic to tell and write (his)story. Based on the concept of 'cinema of narrative integration' - as theorized by Tom Gunning (
1994
) - this article demonstrates how these cinematic works developed film stylistics that aligned with the dominant features of narrative cinema.
This article aims to study how the Moorish coffee in Shorts story of Mohammed Dib « Au Café » and « Le Compagnon », constitutes a real nerve center around which gravitate all the events of the story. ...It is therefore a question of showing how this collective space becomes in the narrative a center of radiation of all the other spaces. This space assures the narrative a spatial stability, perhaps even a certain harmony. Being a central element in the dibian scriptural device, the coffee space is presented as a place of socialization of the main characters, nevertheless it also represents a universe of dispossession because it is indeed an unfunded space
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Nowadays, in Iraq, especially Baghdad, many accidents are recorded daily, and the occurrence is different in terms of severity (fatal, injury, property damage only) with different seasons, ...days and even times, as a result of the anxiety and great concern that these accidents pose on the part of drivers of these highways. Therefore, this study has become necessary to find out the causes which have direct interference with the accident impact on these roads. On the other hand, many researchers in the field of traffic engineering in Iraq didn’t address the severity of accidents on highways. In addition, this study is the first to find out the main causes of accidents for the most important main and vital highways that are used on a daily basis by drivers on the Al- Rusafa side in Baghdad (Mohamed Al-Qasim Expressway, Army Canal expressway). Furthermore, the data utilized in this research consists of a sample size of (236) forms and it was collected from traffic officers for period 2006 to 2019. After analysis by using Logistic Regression Model, there are three variables closely linked to the severity of accidents on Mohamed Al-Qasim Expressway (cause of an accident like (wrong turn, loss of control, closing (safety distance), vehicle body type, speed). Also, and four variables on Army Canal Expressway (road condition, day, vehicle body type, speed) resulting from the Binary Logistic Regression model.
A group of Hispanophone Sahrawi poets founded their own Generacion de la Amistad 'Friendship Generation' in Madrid in 2005. Ever since, Sahrawi poetry in Spanish has found in the anthology an ideal ...format to present itself to the Spanish reader, counting more than a dozen publications of poetry collections. Such profusion has nothing to do with the struggle for the cultural hegemony characteristic of other currents within the Spanish poetic field. By contrast, these collections keep to the anthologists' double logic of cultural preservation and literary activism, which emphasize the communitarian character of their poetry. In this paper, I examine the critical contribution of such double logic to peninsular literary and cultural studies in the anthology Ver Sahara (Looking at Sahara). In this editorial project, authors from the Canary Islands, one of the seventeen autonomous communities that comprise the Spanish State, and Sahrawi poets share pages and territorial concerns about the political conflict in Western Sahara, which has remained unsolved since the Moroccan occupation in 1975. In particular, I study the production and circulation of emotional attachments between Spanish and Sahrawi poets, and the resulting poetic space of transnational solidarity in dialogue with the colonial discourse of Hispanidad 'Spanishness' and human rights' activism. From this angle, I explore the choice of Spanish as the lingua franca between these communities and the collective praxis present in their writing, characterized by the use of a communal "we" and the inclusion of Hassaniya, the native language of Sahrawi poets. I argue that Sahrawi poetic anthologies in general and Ver Sahara in particular attempt to consolidate an additional cultural front in the struggle for the recognition of self-determination in Western Sahara. They do so by interpellating the Spanish-speaking community while delving into textual emotional resources that converge in three rhetorical topoi: the Sahrawi people's resilience in the face of repeated Moroccan aggressions, the romanticizing of their nomadic past, and the linguistic and literary ties with Spain.
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