Quantifying a successful translation: A cognitive frame analysis of (un)translatability by Ingie Zakaria

“…Cultural terms, defined here as expressions referring to concepts or entities that are unique to a certain culture, are believed to be untranslatable. This paper uses Arabic visual frames referencing the Egyptian garment ǧal-labiy-ya (or ǧilbāb) as an example and argues that (un)translatability can be quantified using semantic frames based on the assumption that all SL terms have multiple frame references, some of which, mostly the ones indicating denotative meaning, have parallels in the TL while some others, mostly the ones indicating connotative meaning, do not. …”
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Bridging the cultural gap in Bible translation as a case in point by C. Nord

“…Together with my husband, Klaus Berger, who is a New Testament scholar at Heidelberg University, I was engaged in a fascinating project: We translated the texts of the New Testament plus a large number of apocrypha from the original Greek (and Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and Arabic) into German. It was the first translation of these texts that involved a theologian and a translation scholar, and it was the first translation based on modern functional translation theory. …”
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Implicit Learning of Parity and Magnitude Associations with Number Color by Talia L. Retter, Christine Schiltz

“…In category-level experiments for each parity and magnitude, high-probability pairings of four numbers with one color were categorically consistent (e.g., the Arabic numerals 2,4,6, and 8 appeared in blue with a high probability, p = .9). …”
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Dementia incidence among a cohort of lebanese older adults: first incidence estimates from the Middle East and North Africa region by Monique Chaaya, Sarah Assaad, Hala Darwish, Marc Haber, Rosemary Khoury, Dahlia Saab, Khalil El Asmar, Ramzi Hajjar

“…In 2017, we reached 341 participants/informants, achieving a response rate of 72.6%. The validated Arabic version of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group diagnostic tool was administered through face-to-face interviews. …”
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Diagnosis Profile and PTSD Comorbidity of Syrian Refugees Sample from Refugee Mental Health Branch Polyclinic by Ersin Uygun

“…Method: The Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) was applied in Arabic language to the Syrian volunteers who applied to the Bakirkoy Mental Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital (BRHSS) refugee mental health policlinic to get mental health service during 2017. …”
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The Impact of Gross Motor Function on the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy in Saudi Arabia by Sharat Chandra Pani, Saja Fahad AlEidan, Rawan Nasser AlMutairi, AlJawharah Ali AlAbsi, Dalal Nasser AlMuhaidib, Hessa Faisal AlSulaiman, Najd Waleed AlFraih

“…The individuals and their parents were administered an Arabic version of the child perception questionnaire for adolescents. …”
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Sustainable Fruit Preservation Using Algae-Based Bioactive Coatings on Textile Packaging by Zoha Shabbir, Kashif Javed, Imran Ahmad Khan, Asfandyar Khan, Muhammad Junaid Saleem

“…Algae powders were prepared via immersion in purified water, boiling, and mixing with gum arabic to form a gelatinous coating solution. The algae coating was applied to knitted fabric, which was then crafted into bags for storing fruits such as tomatoes and apples. …”
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سندھی سیرت نگاران کی کاوشوں کی تلخیص و ترجمانی by Ayesha Sadiqa, Tehmina Ghani

“…Afterward, there appears to be a gap in Seerat writing in Sindh until the 12th century Hijri, when Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi, a prominent scholar from Thatta, made significant contributions. His Arabic work, Al-Quwwa fi Hawadith Sini al-Nubuwwah, organized Seerat events chronologically and is considered a unique contribution to Islamic literature. …”
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The Book Review of “Egyptian Literature from the Establishment of the Ayyubi State until French Campaign” by Sadq Askari

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The Ontology of the Book Interaction in Literary Genres Under the Review Scale by Rasoul Balavi

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Examination of the Form and Content of “Semantics”, with a Contrastive Criticism Approach to the Translation by Yusuf Nazari

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The Stoic Tradition by John Sellars

“…The Neoplatonic practice of writing commentaries on the works of both Plato and Aristotle in late antiquity was central, laying the foundations for the subsequent philosophical traditions in Greek, Arabic, and Latin during the Middle Ages. The Stoics had no equivalent commentary tradition. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

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Music Theory, Cultural Transfer, and Colonial Hybridity by Thomas Christensen

“…Using a range of examples from Medieval Arabic music theory, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s theory of harmony, and Schenkerian theory, it is shown that a global dissemination and absorption of music-theoretical ideas is rarely a straightforward process of import and export. …”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…That it reached the Islamic North African littoral has never been in question: there is ample testimony from Arabic documentary sources for its devastating effects from Egypt to the Maghreb. …”
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The Impact of Islamic Banking on Redistribution of Sustainable Income by Jamiu Adeniyi Yusuf, Rauf Mumini Oladapo, Ayuba Aderole Ismail, Muhammed Azeem Tunde

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The semantics of the word " Za'm " (assumption) in the Qur'an based on Izutsu’s theory by Aliakbar Noresideh, Seyed Reza Mirahmadi, Abolfazl Torabi

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A Method of Conversation Analysis in Narrative and Historical Texts by Leila Nowruzpur, Mahdi Mohammadinejad, nafiseh ghorbanpor

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Sufi Islam and Anti-Colonial Politics by Ameena Al Rasheed

“…The article will examine issues of rights, representations and history, and shed light on these African Muslim women’s ideas, perspectives and struggles in the diasporic space, and also unpack the interplay of Africanism, Arabism Muslimness/Sufism in the lives of Sudanese women, as related to wider African Islamic Sufi culture as an integral part of the composition of identity. …”
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Prevalence of cataracts in Iran based on the Persian eye cohort study by Fateme Alipour, Parisa Abdi, Hassan Asadigandomani, Mehran Rezakhani, Fatemeh Moosaie, Fateme Jafari, Mehdi Yaseri, Nazgol Motamed-Gorji, Fahimeh Khalili, Roya Tavakoli, Abolfazl Tahkor, Masoome Mohseni, Samira Salimpour, Seyed Mohammad Javad Mousavi Aref, Mohammad Mirzaei, Mohammadreza Soleimani, Kourosh Shahraki, Yousef Alizade, Mohammad Reza Shoja, Gholam Reza Khataminia, Mahmoud Jabbarvand Behrouz, Hassan Hashemi

“…Also, the risk of developing cataracts decreased with an increase in education level and socioeconomic status and some Iranian races such as Arabs, Azari, and Guilak were also at a higher risk of cataracts. …”
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