Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…The subsequent sections analyze geopolitical discourses from different sources to offer a review of some important spatial imaginaries that have contributed to representing, constituting and apprehending Libya as a subject and an object of international politics: ancient geography’s environmentalism; Italy’s imperial colonialism; Gaddafi’s pan-Arabism and, later, pan-Africanism; and Turkey’s pan-Ottomanism.Before modern colonisation, the imaginary of (today’s) Libyan territory was long apprehended through the dichotomy between urban (hadari) and rural (badawi) spaces, with the political and normative centre of gravitation oscillating from the former (during the Arab and later Ottoman hegemony) to the latter (during the rise of the Sanussi order). …”
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Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm as a Cause of Massive Hemoptysis: Diagnosis and Management by Peter Corr

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On translativity of absolute Rogosinski-Bernstein summability methods by Azmi K. Al-Madi

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Assessing environmental change and population declines of large wading birds in southwestern India by K.M. Aarif, Aymen Nefla, K.A. Rubeena, Yanjie Xu, Zakher Bouragaoui, M. Nasser, C.T. Shifa, T.R. Athira, K. Jishnu, Jasmine Anand, Seerangan Manokaran, P.P. Moosa, Anu Gopinath, Omer R. Reshi, K.M. Rajaneesh, H. Byju, Thadickal V. Joydas, Karuppasamy P. Manikandan, Mohd Irfan Naikoo, Christian Sonne, Sabir Bin Muzaffar

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De l'injure en pays maure ou « qui ne loue pas critique » by Catherine Taine-Cheikh

“…Catherine Taine-Cheik's focus on the phenomenon of insults in the Arabic-speaking society of Mauritania, begins with a study of the various terms of the Hassaniyya dialect relating to this semantic field. …”
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MANTIK ve MANTIK TARİHİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME by Ali Durusoy

“…The philosopher who has rebuilt up the logic in Arabic is Al-Farabi. Avicenna’s distinction of “tasavvur” (conception) and “tasdhik” (judgment) has provided to examine the logic with integrity in a way. …”
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Des « conciliations par le haut » ; la pratique du ṣulḥ dans le règlement des querelles théologiques à Bagdad aux ve-vie/xie-xiie siècles by Vanessa Van Renterghem

“…These are the only cases for which detailed documentation is available among Arabic sources. While conciliation can be understood as a method for settling precedence disputes between individuals, the study shows that it also enabled the caliph to intervene in controversial and sensitive ideological issues that threatened Baghdadi public order. …”
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BRICS Policy Agenda, Partnership and Cooperation by Siphamandla Zondi

“…This year also marks the full participation of the five new members of BRICS (Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates) in the whole year of discussion leading the summit and the content of the declaration to be adopted about what steps the BRICS countries agree to undertaken to implement their decisions. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book “History, Culture &Civilization of Iran in the Buyid Dynasty” Ali Yahyaei by Ali Yahyaei

“…The book “History, Culture &Civilization of Iran in the Buyid Dynasty” by Sadegh Hojjati is a detailed and relatively fluent account of the history of Iran and the Islamic world at the climax of Islamic civilization, which many scholars do not work on that period because of scarcity and Arabic linguistic references. The author appropriately organized the book into two parts: a political history (including ten chapters) and culture and civilization (including five chapters) and produced an acceptable work. …”
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Retour de l’absent by Claire Demesmay, Sabine Russ-Sattar, Katrin Sold

“…In the following article we explore the impact of the events of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Arab diasporas. This exploratory case study of the Tunisian expatriate communities in the immediate aftermath of the turmoil maps the changes in their associative networks and activities in France, Italy and Germany - the three principal European destinations for Tunisian migrants. …”
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L'injure comme délit. L'approche des fuqahâ' théologiens-légistes musulmans by Yahya Ould al-Barra, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh

“…The study of this type of infringement reveals the close links between insult and sexuality and more precisely, with female sexuality, controlled as it is by the principle of the reproduction of the corporate groups organized along patrilineal lines ('aṣabât) on which the Arab-Moslem social order is based. Insults, in the context of the qadfthemes, take the form of threats, precisely because, by questioning female sexuality, it affects the honor of the individuals and the groups, i.e. the synthetic principle of classification of men within the society such as the fuqahâ' see it.…”
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A rebuttal of recent arguments for Maragha influence on Copernicus by Viktor Blåsjö

“…In particular, I argue that: the deleted passage in De revolutionibus that allegedly references unspecified previous authors on the Tusi couple actually refers to a simple harmonic motion, and not the Tusi couple; the arguments based on lettering and other conventions used in Copernicus’s figure for the Tusi couple have no evidentiary merit whatever; alleged indications that Nicole Oresme was aware of the Tusi couple are much more naturally explained on other grounds; plausibility considerations regarding the status of Arabic astronomy and norms regarding novelty claims weight against the influence thesis, not for it. …”
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Vers une autonomisation du champ des sciences sociales turques by Jean-Baptiste Le Moulec

“…Starting in the 1990’s, after decades of isolationism, these policy-oriented sciences began to feed the debate and hereby contributed to legitimize Turkish rulers’ neo-ottoman expansionist ambitions towards the Arab Middle East. From the social science sector then emerge networks of experts discussing Turkish national foreign policy. …”
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Initial Encounters: Seeking traces of ancient trade connections between West Africa and the wider world by Sonja Magnavita

“…The long-standing, more mythical than fact-based assumptions about ancient trade contacts between West Africa and the wider world prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa have only been substantiated by archaeological evidence in recent years. …”
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Novel Approaches for Encapsulation of Plant Probiotic Bacteria with Sustainable Polymer Gums: Application in the Management of Pests and Diseases by Roohallah Saberi Riseh, Elahe Tamanadar, Mojde Moradi Pour, Vijay Kumar Thakur

“…Among them, we can mention gums obtained from microorganisms (xanthan gum and gellan gum), plant tissues (Arabic gum and gum tragacanth), seeds (konjac gum and guar gum), seaweeds (alginates, agar gum, and carrageenans). …”
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Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? by Srdjan Denic, Joumana Janbeih, Suresh Nair, Walter Conca, Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq, Suhail Al-Salam

“…Patient was from North Korea and was temporarily working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when he fell ill in March 2009. At the same time and unknown to us, many patients with similar clinical manifestations were admitted to hospitals in China. …”
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L’alternance codique dans le rap algérien et tunisien by Felix Wiedemann

“…This article examines how the Algerian rapper Lotfi Double Kanon and the Tunisian rapper Balti make use of Arabic, French and English in their songs. It is first analyzed how linguistic conventions limit and structure code-switching from one language to the other. …”
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Islam et modernité dans un manuel d’école au Maroc by Mathias De Meyer

“…To do this, we first look at the “semantic contents” of a third-year primary school Arabic textbook used in Moroccan public education. …”
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Techniques hydrauliques et gestion des espaces irrigués dans les huertas de murciennes (ixe-xiiie siècles) by André Bazzana

“…If the hydraulic techniques of Muslim period began to be known through the Arabic texts and recent archaeological researches, it is not always easy to replace it, through their actual situation, in the country where they are developed. …”
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Economic relations between Russia and Syria: investments, commodity turnover and prospects by A. H. Eid

“…This article explores the economic relations between the Russian Federation and the Syrian Arab Republic, considers Russian investments in Syria, and analyses the trade turnover. …”
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