The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

Poetry, despite the side-liningfaced due to profusion of novel, has made a comeback marking its genuine presence with ability combine imaginative and creative project real. Contemporary poetry, pluralistic, experimental diverse in form encompassing nature culture history world been drawing intense thematic theoretical attention itself. Myths play an important role literature especially expressi...

Abstract The present article offers a critical reading of the Old English Exodus, poem that is an versified adaptation episode from biblical story Exodus narrates Israelites’ passage across Red Sea and destruction Pharaoh’s army. aim this to analyse poem’s urban exilic imagery strongly relies on metaphorical representation Israelites as city, they are actually in exile way Canaan, walls hall de...

as a modern solution to portrait poets’ emotions, free verse is essentially important. there is a lot of difference in attitude toward the exact date of its arising and disadvantages and advantages in contrast to classic and traditional verse among critiques. some of them believe that arabic free verse is stemmed in acrostic verse – a type of vernacular verse that was appeared in andalusia. oth...

ON APRIL 30, 2006, the Egyptian Parliament voted by a large majority to renew the emergency law. This law grants the president extraordinary powers to detain citizens, prevent public gatherings, and issue decrees with little accountability to Parliament or the people. The vote was a famil­ iar ritual: the Egyptian Parliament has routinely approved the emergency law for most of the past forty ye...

ibn baabak is a poet who is not known as he deserves. we do not find many things about or from him except some imitative repeated phrases and so here we have talked about him briefly at a glance. noting his life, poems, faith, and connection to the issue of relation between a poet to his contemporary authors and poets as well as speaking about literary movement and his role in its dynamics, man...

The origins and dispersal of epidemic diseases have been the subject of much speculation (e.g. Zinsser, 1935; Brothwell & Sandison, 1967; McNeill, 1977; McKeown, 1988; Nikiforuk, 1991). Whilst the archaeological excavation of multiple apparently contemporary burials in pits may provide at the least circumstantial evidence for the occurrence of mass death by disease, most infections leave no spe...

resistance literature in many arab and non-arab is extensively used as a recent style of literature. some poets applying this style played an important role in the imagination of beautiful and dynamic visualization, and the undertaking lebanese poet, mohammad ali shams al-din is considered as one of them. he also considers other modern contemporary poets, in order to express his viewpoints by u...

this study aims to examine how the poetry of mamduh udvan was affected by quranic inspirations and show how the high language and noble meanings of the quran enhanced the modern poetry to artistic levels. this search for inspiration in udvan’s poetry has different manifestations examples of which are provided at two levels in this article: 1) lexical levels in which the poet resort to quranic l...