ahmad waeli is one of the iraqi and shiite contemporary poets in the field of religious poem.in this type of poem, he has been able to set a strong link between the virtues of  ahl-e-beit (peace be upon them) and  political, social and cultural conditions prevailing his era. his religion poem is accompanied with wisdom and temperance. further, his religious poem shows his strong emotion, belief...

Though the United States has become a place of increasing resettlement for refugees, particularly Iraqi refugees who have been forced to flee their homeland due to violence, persecution and civil unrest, little is known about Iraqi refugee resettlement in the United States, or the way in which resettlement impacts health and adjustment. A grounded theory study was conducted to develop a substan...

IN A 1965 interview with John Thompson, Judith Wright was asked if she considered herself a ‘nature poet’. She replied, ‘No, I don't. My real interest, I think, is the question of man in nature—man as part of nature. The theory of correspondences that Baudelaire brought forward—the question of nature as a symbol for one's experience has always seemed to me to have a great deal in it.’ Thompson ...

The process-oriented event-driven transaction systems (POETS) architecture introduced by Henglein et al. is a novel software architecture for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. POETS employs a pragmatic separation between (i) transactional data, that is what has happened; (ii) reports, that is what can be derived from the transactional data; and (iii) contracts, that is which transacti...

ahmad matar is the prominent iraqi poet and a committed character of this age who in the contemporary arab world enjoys great fame. since the holy qur'an and religious texts, are the inspiring references to all arab poets, ahmed matar is no exception. the borrowing of qura'nic verses and contents in his poetry is due to his understanding and his wisdom in a unique manner. this article intends t...

since a long time ago, poets and orators used various knowledge sources and human sciences to express thoughts, intentions, and their intellectual achievements. for instance, they utilized natural and supernatural elements and names of geographical places as the sources of their artistic creation. the old poets and orators, which are known as the laureates and frontiers of classic literature, u...

BACKGROUND In February, 2007, the Associated Press (AP) conducted a poll of 1,002 adults in the United States about their attitudes towards the war in Iraq. Respondents were remarkably accurate estimating the current death toll of US soldiers, yet were grossly inaccurate in estimating the current death toll of Iraqi civilians. We conducted a search of newspapers reports to determine the extent ...

To what extent have Iraqi engineering research emphases changed over the past fifteen years or so? Exploration of Iraqi publication patterns shows a dramatic rise in activity through 1990, followed by a precipitous decline through early 2003. Iraqi engineering research emphases include chemistry and chemical engineering, information technology, applied math and simulation, applied physics, and ...

While the advantages of production sharing agreements (PSAs) for multinational oil companies are clear, there is a severe shortage of independent analysis of whether PSAs are in the short-, mediumand long-term interests of the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, the Iraqi people have not been informed of the pro-PSA oil development plans, let alone their implications, which have transformed so seamles...