Over the last few years protest movements such as the Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados movement, and the Occupy protests, have cascaded through the Middle East and the rest of the world.1 All of these were portrayed as ‘Internet Revolutions’, or at least as having been accelerated by the communicative capabilities of the Internet (Hamdy 1The Arab Spring is also named ‘Arab Uprisings’ by some...

Money is an everyday object, something we take for granted, and yet every image on money is innately political. One of the earliest policies put in place by the new Libyan government was to recall banknotes of the Gaddafi era and to replace outdated imagery where necessary. While the focus here is on money, it must be remembered that imagery of Gaddafi was systematically destroyed throughout th...

This study examines how the regime in Algeria could survive different popular uprisings throughout history, unlike rest of regimes that experienced Arab Spring. The argues since foundation republic, Algerian has always supported quick political reforms as a survival tactic. Contrary to other dictatorships, FLN been power, but, tactic, it willing make concessions. government used immediate dicta...

This paper presents a preliminary study of intra-speaker and inter-speaker variability in speech production and perception with an inter-dialect investigation of acoustic vocalic space according to different phonological systems. This work aims at providing an analytic study based on individual data that might account for individual strategies. We have studied variability in vowel production an...

Arabic dialects present a special problem for natural language processing because there are few Arabic dialect resources, they have no standard orthography, and they have not been studied much. However, as more and more written dialectal Arabic is found on social media, natural language processing for Arabic dialects has become an important goal. We present a methodology for creating a morpholo...

Reformulating the user query is a technique that aims to improve the performance of an Information Retrieval System (IRS) in terms of precision and recall. This paper tries to evaluate the technique of query reformulation guided by an external resource for Arabic texts. To do this, various precision and recall measures were conducted and two corpora with different external resources like Arabic...

Algerian Arabic is an Arabic dialect spoken in Algeria characterized by the absence of writing resources and standardization, hence it is considered as an under-resourced language. It differs from Modern Standard Arabic on all levels of linguistic representation, from phonology and morphology to lexicon and syntax. In this paper, we present a conventional orthography for Algerian Arabic, follow...

Arabic characters illustrate intricate, multidimensional and cursive visual information. Developing a machine learning system for Arabic character recognition is an exciting research. This paper addresses a neural computing concept for Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The method is based on local image sampling of each character to a selected feature matrix and feeding these matrices...