Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the emancipatory promises and realities of information and communication technology (ICT) in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach – The combination of Habermasian and Foucauldian ideas implemented by a critical discourse analysis of the Egyptian Information Society Policy and interviews with employees of local decision support systems employee...

ESL students who write in English may present written material in a rhetorical and organizational mode that reflects the pattern which is valued in their native culture and rhetoric. Considering the violation of English code of writing in the writings of Iranian students, we will notice one common characteristic: They are reluctant (or ignorant of) to write a unified paragraph. Their writing co...

â  â  abstract â  â  the quran has been analyzed by many commentaries from many aspects including its rhetoric and style. it is questionable to grasp the arcane outstanding position of the quran in terms of its form, meaning, or rhetoric. of the rhetoric of the quran, oaths indicate miracle of the quran. oaths and their answers are in line with aggregates of all contexts as well as form and mea...

prophet mohammad (p) was at the peak of eloquence and rhetoric at the height of the comprehensively statement and spoke with every tribe in their language. to express the whole of word, we review the metaphor of prophet’s words in order to demonstrate a piece of his rhetoric and eloquence. this paper seeks to examine the art of metaphor and expressions of the holy prophet (p). our method of dis...

since the beginning of the presence of the holy qur’an, criticism and rhetoric have received attention in the areas of culture and thought, too. in this respect we can name some literary and rhetorical works like maj?z al-qur’?n by abu ubaydah ma’mar ibn muthann?, ket?b al-fas?hah by abu h?tam sajest?ni, e’j?z al-qur’?n by j?hez basri, naqd al-nathr wa naqd al-she’r by abu al-faraj qud?mah ibn ...

"Paganism not only holds a solution to our environmental crisis ... it can bring about a revolution in the way our culture makes sense of reality. For Paganism puts us back in touch with the body; by reconnecting our wordy analytical culture with the physical self, Paganism brings us back to the Earth" (Harris, 1995: 149). Stirring stuff, certainly, but does the rhetoric hold? Though I first sp...

Algeria’s economic crisis parallels and is an intrinsic part of its political crisis over the past decade. It consists, furthermore, of an interrelated crisis over control of the economic rent and the activities of an informal parallel economy originally based on smuggling and now sustained through violence which is legitimised by Islamist rhetoric. Economic reform, therefore, cannot be meaning...

Abdul Qadir Jurjânî, with his two famous books, is the most important scholar of Islamic rhetoric. He is the founder of rhetoric in the Muslim world. One of Jurjânî’s most prominent accomplishments is his comprehensive classification of metaphors. First of all, Jurjânî distinguishes between non-expressive and expressive metaphors, and then presents subclasses for expressive, or “useful”, metaph...

Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasion and Rhetoric (1910) is one of the best examples of what Massimo Cacciari calls the early twentieth century “metaphysics of youth.” Persuasion and Rhetoric is the result of Michelstaedter’s academic investigation on the concepts of “persuasion” and “rhetoric” in Plato and Aristotle. Michelstaedter saw in Plato’s corpus the gradual abandonment of Parmenidean “bei...