sadeq choobak and najeeb mahfooz are pioneer novelists in iran and egypt who have great contribution on the evolution and development of story writing. tangsir of sadeq choobak and thief and dogs of najeeb mahfooz novels have reflected the social realities of a historical period of iran and egypt and revealed the internal and external world of low level people of their societies. reflection of ...

death is one of the main issues in samih ghasem works; because he paid special attention to it in his works. the present paper studies his ideologies about death as well as his motivations on expressing this issue. his aesthetic view strengthens resistance spirit in his hometown fellows and causes changing in their view point on death. this article has been done in descriptive – analytic method...

In understanding and trying to reduce the risk from disasters, connections are often articulated amongst poverty, vulnerability, risk, and disasters. These are welcome steps, but the approach taken in top-down international documents is rarely to articulate explicitly that vulnerability accrues from a wide variety of dynamic and long-term processes. Neglecting these processes-and failing to exp...

Far from being a simple reflection of reality, archives are constructed windows into personal and collective processes. They at once express and are instruments of prevailing relations of power. Verne Harris makes these arguments through an account of archives and archivists in the context of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. The account is deliberately shaped around three ...

The exam of those Security Council resolutions mentioning the words poverty and inequality allows to observe a growing interest for these realities mainly from standpoint conflicts prevention regarding peacebuilding. However, way it uses its competencies deal with them is not adequate fight against poverty. On contrary, model governance that fosters end can deepen inequalities in countries emer...