This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as pharmacological, among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered "holy" by Muslims (all the individuals of the species are sanctified by religion) in addition to...

This research deals with an analytical reading in the very short story collection (Do not sing to butterflies) by Jordanian writer Rami Abdullah Al-Junaidi, who is one of pioneers Jordan, has his own culture and creative language, writing this type story, art group become a special important place literary monetary arena, due its artistic aesthetic features such as condensation, paradox, surpri...

arabic prose passed during its development through different stages; and arabic literature in general was a pad of the types of literary that emerged for it in the present era in the field of principles and rules. some believe that the literary genres and systems prose are taken from the west. while if we look closely, we find models of them in the old arab literature, though contemporary men o...

today, it is clear that literature is an event that becomes apparent within the context of language; since it is language that gives form and identity to it. in fact language is a system of phonetic, grammatical, and lexical to express thoughts and feelings. with the coming of formalism then structuralism, critics became of the conviction that a literary work should be studied without any backg...

Greed is one of the most common features in human nature, and it has recently attracted increasing research interest. The purpose this work to study age-specific characteristics determining own greed its evaluation others. We continue our on as a personal trait, presence which leads maximum satisfaction interests, at expense well-being others or result ignoring their needs. problem gained momen...