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The construction of identity between social space and digital space: The case of residents of marginalized neighborhoods in Morocco
Marginalized neighborhoods constitute spaces that generate social stigmatization of their residents; however, they also become strategic resources that inhabitants mobilize in defense of their interests. Adequate housing represents the most prominent of these interests, alongside access to essential services such as water and electricity. Previous studies have shown that residents of these areas rely on diverse negotiation strategies with public authorities to secure these demands. They have also demonstrated that inhabitants develop argumentative patterns that enable them to reconstruct an alternative urban identity. Building on this body of literature, this article aims to examine the formation of urban identity among residents of marginalized neighborhoods through digital spaces, with a particular focus on its manifestations on social media platforms. The central research question addresses how social networking sites have become mediators in the reconfiguration of urban identity. The study adopts a qualitative approach and analyzes widely circulated social media recordings, framed within theoretical perspectives inspired by studies of social marginality
marginalized neighborhoods, urban identity, digital space, social media, stigmatization
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The Influence of Feminist Advocacy on University Women’s Perceptions of Marriage and Career Priorities
This paper dives into the intricate relationship between feminist advocacy, traditional patriarchal norms, and a significant socio-economic crisis, all of which shape how female university students in Lebanon view marriage and careers. It’s interesting to note that Lebanon has high rates of female tertiary education, yet it struggles with poor rankings in global gender equality. This study looks at how these educated young women deal with the conflicting social, legal, and economic pressures they face. By using a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative survey data with qualitative thematic analysis, the research sheds light on the priorities and attitudes of this important group. The findings show that while feminist advocacy on university campuses promotes ideals of autonomy and gender equality, its real-world impact is significantly influenced by the economic collapse that began in 2019. This crisis has led to two distinct responses: some women are focusing on practical career paths as a way to emigrate and survive, while others are reconsidering marriage as a potential source of financial stability. The study suggests that Lebanese university women are developing a "dual-track" mindset, aiming for equal partnerships in their personal lives while being acutely aware of the patriarchal limitations imposed by sectarian personal status laws. Ultimately, the paper argues that feminism's influence isn't a straightforward journey toward empowerment; rather, it acts as a crucial lens through which this generation interprets and strategically navigates a collapsing national landscape, resulting in a complex and often contradictory set of life priorities
Feminism, Lebanon, Gender Roles, Marriage, Career Priorities, Higher Education, University Women, Economic Crisis, Personal Status Law
Tabun al-Zibl and Its Vernacular Terminology in the Folk Dialect of Saffa Village, Ramallah, Palestine
This study provides a comprehensive examination of Tabun al-Zibl in Saffa village—now completely disappear from use—as an essential component of Palestine’s tangible rural heritage. The study employs a multidisciplinary approach that combines literature review, field documentation, and anthropological analysis to examine the historical, social, cultural, and economic dimensions related to the traditional tabun. Particular attention is given to its architectural characteristics and construction materials—unshaped stone, wood, and a clay–straw mixture—alongside its operational mechanism, which relies on dried animal dung as the primary fuel source, and also to the terminologies related to it. These features show how effective the local community is at using the natural resources they have in their environmental context. Beyond its functional role in bread-making, cooking, and heating, the tabun also serves as a focal point of social interaction, especially among women, reinforcing its status as a locus of communal cohesion and cultural continuity. A qualitative field study was undertaken to assess the degree of familiarity among Safa’s residents with the popular terminology associated with Tabun al-Zibl and its linguistic and cultural implications. The findings reveal a gradual decline in the usage of traditional terms among younger generations, a trend attributed to ongoing social, economic, and technological change. The study concludes by underscoring the urgent need for integrated national and community-based strategies that employ digital documentation and linguistic approaches to effectively enable the local community to use the natural resources in its environment research to safeguard both the material and intangible heritage associated with Tabun al-Zibl throughout Palestine, ensuring its preservation and transmission to future generations
Tabun al-Zibl, Al-Muqhar, Saffa village, colloquial dialect, al-Makhbaz, Palestine
Impact of Photography as an Art Therapy on treating trauma disorder
Background: Photography as art therapy has proved to be a potential intervention to those, who have suffered traumatic disorders. Aim: This paper discusses the potential of photography to help the individuals express emotions, reflect on themselves, and develop post traumas among people who have undergone physical, psychological or chronic adversities to their health. Methods: An autobiography, qualitative design study was conducted, using the experience that the researcher has passed through as a photographer, and how the researcher treat her psychological trauma through photography. Results: By capturing, organizing and reflecting on personal photographs, the individuals create visual story through which they can externalize their complex emotional states, reframe traumatic experiences, and recover self-worth. Photography enhances a state of mind, control and rebirth into beauty in everyday life, both a form of therapy and a form of resiliency. Recent studies emphasized the creativity art therapy (photography) is able to decrease the signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), stress, and depression, and improves coping styles and mental health. Conclusion: This work highlights the possibilities of photography as artistic and supplementary intervention in the trauma therapy
Art Therapy, Photography Therapeutic, Trauma Disorders, Autobiography
Social Media between Threat and Preservation: A Study of Cultural Heritage
Yemen has a rich and diverse cultural heritage, but it has been largely neglected due to the country's current political circumstances. Under these circumstances, digital technologies, particularly social media, have become a key factor in promoting and disseminating Yemeni culture. Hence, the significance of this study emerges. This study aims to analyse Yemeni youth's perceptions of the impact of social media on their cultural heritage and to identify the most affected cultural elements. A qualitative approach was adopted, utilizing focus groups with purposive sampling to ensure participant diversity. Appadurai's theory of global cultural flows was also adopted. The theory was repurposed to suit the Yemeni context, focusing on three axes: the flow of images and media content (Mediascapes), the movement of individuals and their impact on culture (Ethnoscapes), and ideas and theories (Ideoscapes). The study concluded that social media plays a dual role between deterioration and preservation, as it relies primarily on media flows. It also significantly enhances attachment to Yemeni culture and awareness of traditions, but its role in encouraging active participation in heritage preservation is limited
Cultural heritage, Social media, Preservation, Yemen
International Migration and Digital Networks
By looking at the nature of intensified migratory flows in our digital age, this article attempts to shed light on the presence of this new digital dimension in migratory waves. First, we discuss the networked transition from the social to the digital to better understand its present and its impact on the imagination and representations of migrants. Second, we provide a brief theoretical reading of this digital trend by listing its main theories. Third, we make a modest attempt to show how digital networks reinforce the transnational dimension of migration. Therefore, we try to demonstrate the pervasive presence of digital social networks in the migration process and their impact on the process of dismantling international borders
Migration; Digital Networks ; Communication ; Digital Age
The role of forensic medicine in determining criminal liability
Forensic medicine is one of the basic sciences in achieving justice, as it contributes to the detection of crimes and the determination of criminal liability through scientific evidence and medical examinations. This research aims to study the role of forensic medicine in criminal responsibility, by addressing the nature of forensic medicine and its characteristics, as it is defined as the science that applies medical knowledge to serve the law. He also discusses the artworks of forensic experts, such as autopsies and analysis of biological evidence. The research deals with scientific evidence provided by forensic medicine, such as DNA analysis and toxins, and their role in proving or denying crimes. It also highlights the criminal liability of the forensic doctor, and the consequent legal accountability in case of negligence or manipulation of evidence. Finally, it reviews the role of the forensic doctor in the criminal case, the impact of his reports and testimony before the judiciary, as well as the scientific evidence provided by forensic medicine. The research concludes that forensic medicine is an essential tool for achieving justice, which requires its development and ensuring the accuracy and ethics of work in it
Forensic medicine, criminal liability, toxicology, DNA
The Sociological Implications of Social and Technological Change for Belonging and Citizenship
This article explores the dialectic of citizenship and belonging in parallel with the emergence of new and innovative technologies, which have reshaped the contours of personal identity for individuals and groups, while simultaneously deepening the social divide that has influenced the nature of social relationships. In this context, our research deconstructs the sociological meanings of social change, starting from the definition of this change and its connection to the concept of citizenship through its various manifestations, primarily participation and its procedural conditions such as dialogue and other forms of interaction. The article relies on sociological and legal frameworks, as well as examples drawn from field studies that address, according to the principles of pluralism and active citizenship, issues related to how the youth engage with the aforementioned social changes, which have touched upon aspects of identity, selfhood, and personality. The article begins with the issue of the conflict between social change due to technology and the new platforms of identity, and the process of reconstructing this reality as a condition for harmony between the culture of citizenship and belonging, and the dominance of technology
Belonging, Citizenship, Social Change, Technology, Youth
An Analytical Study of the Historical Project of Egyptian Historian Khalaf Abdel-Azim Al-Miri
This study examines the historical project of Professor Khalaf Abdel-Azim Al-Miri, one of the most prominent contemporary Egyptian historians. The research focuses on analyzing Al-Miri’s methodology in studying Egyptian and Arab history through a review of his diverse works, which include modern European history, Egyptian political history, and Egypt’s relations with Africa and the Gulf. The study highlights three main pillars of Al-Miri’s project: a deep reliance on historical documents, linking domestic events with the international context, and rereading history as a dynamic network of interactions between the state, society, economy, and culture. Additionally, it emphasizes Al-Miri’s ability to combine rigorous academic analysis with a practical understanding of political and social realities, making his work a key reference for understanding the present and anticipating the future
Khalaf Al-Miri, historical methodology, historical documents, Egyptian history, international relations, politics and culture
Mohammed al-Bashir Brahimi's perception of building blocks Young Algerian Muslim Personality
From this paper we aim to discover the most important personal ingredients that a young Algerian Muslim must have according to Brahimi's perception of those ingredients, based on the following problems: - What is Mohamed al-Bashir Brahimi's perception of the building blocks of the character of a young Algerian Muslim? The importance of the research is to analyse a fraction of Mohamed al-Bashir Brahimi's reformist ideas, which he put forward in a special period, namely the period of French occupation of Algeria. In the Brahimi conception analysis, the paper focused on two key elements, the first of which was its attention Young Muslims in general and Algerian youth in particular. One of the most prominent findings of the research is that Brahimi's perception of the character of the young Algerian Muslim youth is based on a range of major axes: religion, homeland, language and history, morality and science
Conceptualization; Brahimi; Validators; Young Algerians
The Cultural Heritage of the City of Hun 1835-1945
This study examines the cultural heritage of Hun (1835–1945), one of the important oases of the Jufra region with significant historical and social value. Using a descriptive-analytical historical method, the research highlights the city’s development through three main stages, its agricultural and pastoral activities sustained by groundwater resources, and its role in religious education through Qur’anic schools and Sufi lodges. The study also explores both tangible and intangible heritage, including traditional foods, drying and storage methods, cooking utensils, folk medicine with herbs, cupping, and cauterization. Furthermore, it discusses the role of religious institutions such as the Qadiriyya, Sanussiyya, Asmariyya, and Issawiyya orders, as well as mosques as centers of learning and worship. The research sheds light on prominent scholars and preachers who contributed to the spread of knowledge and guidance. Findings reveal that Hun represented a model of interaction between the desert environment, agriculture, pastoralism, and cultural heritage, producing a rich legacy that remains embedded in the community’s identity
Hun, Jufra, cultural heritage, agriculture and pastoralism, folk medicine, religious education, Sufi lodges, scholars
Digital Social Pollution and its Impact on Values and Social Relationships (A Field Study of a Sample of Digital Platform Users)
The research aimed to study digital social pollution, as it is one of the emerging issues resulting from the intensive use of social media platforms. These platforms have become an integral part of daily life, yet they have posed multiple challenges directly to social values and relationships. The research relied on a social survey approach with a sample of (200) respondents from different age groups who are social media users. Data was collected using an electronic questionnaire that included several axes to determine the impact of digital social pollution on social relationships and values. The research results revealed an addiction to these platforms. The study also revealed a decline in traditional social values and a loss of the warmth of real social relationships. The research concluded that digital social pollution represents a real threat, especially in the absence of a realistic preventative strategy
digital social pollution, social values, social relations
"The Contribution of Women Scholars to the Flourishing of Educational Institutions in al- Maghrib al-Aqsa during the ldrisid Era :Fatima al-Fihri as a Model
This study highlights the contribution of women scholars to the flourishing of educational institutions in Morocco during the Idrisid era, through the case study of Fatima al-Fihri. The foundation of al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez in 245 AH / 859 CE marked a turning point in the history of Islamic education. Her initiative was based on the waqf (endowment) system, which ensured the continuity and independence of the scientific institution. The research emphasizes that women’s role in intellectual life was not limited to learning, but also extended to founding, managing, and directing institutions, making women active partners in building scholarly and civilizational edifices. The experience further reveals that women’s endowments served as a strategic tool for safeguarding education and ensuring its sustainability across centuries. Fatima al-Fihri thus embodied the model of the pioneering woman scholar and contributed to shaping the features of educational revival in Morocco. Her legacy remains a testimony to the effective presence of women in the intellectual and civilizational history of Islam. Furthermore, Kairouan served as the starting point for Islamic conquests and later became a distinguished scientific and cultural center that brought together scholars and thinkers from across the Islamic world. Its universities, especially the historic Mosque-University of Uqba ibn Nafi‘, stood as comprehensive institutions where religious, linguistic, and natural sciences were taught
Fatima al-Fihri, al-Qarawiyyin University, waqf and education, women scholars, Islamic educational institutions
Alain Touraine's The End of Societies – A Sociological Reading of the Paradigm Shift from the Social to the Cultural-Ethical
Alain Touraine’s The End of Societies (2013) is a major contribution to redefining contemporary sociology. The author proposes a shift from a structure-centered social paradigm to a cultural paradigm centered on the “active subject” and human rights. The book examines the transformation of modern societies after the decline of class struggle and the rise of “subjectivation societies” in which collective action is framed within an ethical and rights-based horizon, beyond traditional economic struggles. This review outlines the book’s intellectual context, summarizes its content, and provides a critical reading of key concepts such as “total power,” “ethical movements,” and “dignity” as a principle of resistance. It also discusses Touraine’s contribution to renewing sociological theory and its ability to grasp contemporary transformations
Alain Touraine, The End of Societies, Active Subject, Social Movements, Cultural Paradigm
Leadership practices and their impact on job satisfaction (A field study on workers at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the Gaza Strip)
The study aimed to identify leadership practices and their impact on job satisfaction (a field study on employees at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital). The researchers used the descriptive analytical approach, and the questionnaire was the main tool for collecting data. The study community consisted of employees in supervisory positions at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, numbering (92) employees, The most important results reached by the study: The level of leadership practices came to a high degree through obtaining a relative weight (70.22%), and the level of job satisfaction came to a medium degree through obtaining a relative weight (67.29%), There is a positive, direct, statistically significant relationship at a significance level of (α≤0.05) between leadership practices and their dimensions and job satisfaction, and there is a statistically significant effect at a significance level of (α≤0.05) between leadership practices and job satisfaction. The effect size reached (0.314%). he most important recommendations reached by the study: The researchers hope that the hospital administration will empower the staff to achieve the hospital's future goals, Increased interest in job satisfaction by hospital management, as it has an impact on achieving strategic goals, Implementing incentives and rewards in the hospital, and granting incentives to employees, as incentives have an impact on increasing work efficiency and achievement
Leadership practices, job satisfaction, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Usage on Cultural Identity and Social Upbringing among Algerian Youth
This study investigates the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on cultural identity and social upbringing among Algerian youth, utilizing two rigorously validated scales directed at both youth and their parents. The scale administered to youth measured the frequency and extent of AI usage and its effects on cultural identity, while the scale for parents assessed AI’s impact on social upbringing. Results indicate that AI explains 79% of the variance in cultural identity, demonstrating a strong positive and statistically significant effect. Moreover, a significant correlation was identified between AI use and its perceived influence on social upbringing from the parental perspective. The analysis revealed no statistically significant differences in AI’s impact relative to the age of youth or educational level of parents, suggesting a broadly pervasive and homogeneous effect across demographics. The findings underscore the imperative for further empirical research on the potential of AI applications to reinforce cultural identity within the context of ongoing digital transformation
Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Identity, Social Upbringing, Algerian Youth
The Role of the Kindergarten Environment in Developing Children's Language Skills from the Perspective of Educators
The study aimed to identify the role of the kindergarten environment in developing children's language skills from the teachers' perspective. To achieve this, the researcher adopted the descriptive-analytical approach and used a questionnaire as a data collection tool. The study sample consisted of 207 kindergarten teachers in Jerusalem. The study found that the role of the kindergarten environment in developing children's language skills was rated highly by teachers. It also revealed that the classroom environment, the teacher's role, educational activities, and the physical environment in kindergarten play a positive role in enhancing children's language skills. The results indicated no statistically significant differences in the role of the kindergarten environment in developing children's language skills based on the variables of academic qualification, years of experience, and type of kindergarten. Based on the findings, the study recommended the continuous enhancement of the physical environment in innovative ways to support the comprehensive educational process in kindergartens. It also emphasized the need for ongoing training programs for teachers on how to effectively utilize the physical environment to enhance language skills
Kindergarten environment, children's theater, storytelling, kindergarten teacher
Understanding parental impact on children's gender socialisation
This research article examines the key role that parents play in the socialisation of children with regard to gender. It studies the reproduction of stereotypical attitudes, behaviours and injunctions during what sociologists refer to as “primary socialisation”. From a sociological and developmental perspective, this article presents gendered parenting practices, whether implicit or explicit, such as: identification and modelling through the traditional division of labour, the transmission of gendered norms, gender-based encouragement, the choice of toys, clothes, etc. This gendered education has potential consequences for girls’ and boys’ identities that must be carefully considered
gender socialisation, gender identity, parental expectations, gender stereotypes, reproduction
“Self-interest and Political Kinship: Power Dynamics in Federal Nepal”
This article attempts to scrutinize the recent culture of politics and powerplay that has been enacting and performed since the very advent of downfall of shah regime, transforming Nepal into Federal Democratic Republic on may 28, 2008 A.D., from mass protest, overthrowing the 240-year-old monarchy, fostering immense culture of inclination to wide arrays of political ideologies yet the subtle voices of oppressions and dominations still persist in everyday livelihood dimensions, due to collective political manipulation and exploitation of the subordinates and the hegemony over subalterns. The study further aims to explore through an interpretivist mixed method paradigm based on prolonged ethnography and participant observation through unstructured and semi-structured interviews to elicit the social realities being shaped by political suppression and the embedded artificial political kinship network of inheritance and corporate groups in reforming the hierarchies and conflicts suffused by self-interest attitudes for power capital and exerting knowledge to gain power. The explicit goal of this research is to proffer the crucial need in redefining and bridging the gap between policy and practice to demolish the traditional form of dominance, which is still in practice as a disguise of Kinship
Disguise, Kinship, Self-interest, Power play, Hegemony
This contribution examines the impact of power and politics on language planning and policy, with a particular focus on how language policy is shaped within governmental processes—especially during the agenda-setting stage. The approach aims to offer a comprehensive perspective on how power and language politics are conceptualized within the broader field of language planning and policy. This is followed by an analysis of selected applications related to agenda-setting in language policy processes. The paper concludes by addressing the challenges and constraints associated with applying notions of power and language politics to the agenda-setting phase in policymaking, along with offering recommendations for further reading
politics, language planning, language policy, policy processes
Arabic Translation Work: Erik Stokstad Seed Disperser Declines Threaten Europe’s Plants [ Science, vol.386.Issue.6718. 11 Oct.r 2024. 136]
When hunters wiped out most fruit eating birds in the tropical forest of Lambir Hills National Park on western Borneo by the 1990s, the skies grew duller—and in a few years so did the forest. Without birds to spread their seeds, the diversity of fruit-producing plants declined, illuminating the critical importance of seed dispersal for ecosystem health. The movement of seeds across the landscape in animals’ guts is a “glue that keeps ecological communities together,” says Jordi Bascompte, an ecologist at the University of Zurich. Now, ecosystems in temperate climates seem to be coming unglued as well. On p. 206, a team reports that at least one-third of European plant species could be in trouble because most of the animals that move their seeds are threatened or declining. The study is “brilliant and compelling” but also “alarming,” says Pedro Jordano, an ecologist at the University of Seville. The decline in seed dispersers—not just birds, but also mammals, reptiles, and ants—could jeopardize the ability of plants to expand their range to cope with climate change or recover after wildfire, he adds, especially in Europe’s highly fragmented landscap
distribute, dispersal, decline, seeds, rare plants, species
The social sciences, with their many specializations, have undergone significant developments that have impacted higher education and its outcomes. This is particularly evident given the ongoing developments and changes within the social sciences. Considering the most prominent challenges and stakes related to the field, addressing the social sciences in light of today's future is challenging. Through this analytical study, we will attempt to provide an objective analysis of the social sciences by answering an important question: What is the future of the social sciences today?
social sciences, future, research methods, changes
Creative Leadership and its Impact on Organizational Change Management (A Field Study of the Electricity Distribution Company in Khan Yunis Governorate)
The study aimed to identify creative leadership and its impact on organizational change management, a field study on the Electricity Distribution Company in Khan Yunis Governorate. The researchers used the descriptive analytical approach, and the questionnaire was the main tool for collecting data. The study community consisted of workers in supervisory positions in the Electricity Distribution Company in Khan Yunis Governorate, numbering (35) employees, and (29) valid questionnaires were retrieved for statistical analysis. The most important results reached by the study: The level of creative leadership came to a high degree through obtaining a relative weight (69.51%), and the level of organizational change management came to a medium degree through obtaining a relative weight (67.42%), the presence of a positive correlation with statistical significance at a significance level (α≤0.05) between creative leadership and organizational change management. There is a statistically significant effect at the significance level (α≤0.05) between creative leadership and organizational change management. The most important recommendations reached by the study: that the company's management adopt creativity in its work, due to its positive repercussions on managing organizational change, as creative leadership plays a role in improving employee productivity and making their ideas creative and innovative. he company's management should embrace change in business systems, as change is important in adopting new work systems. It should also provide incentives to employees who have innovative ideas and solutions to develop business within the company
Creative leadership, organizational change management, electricity distribution company
The Enduring Struggle for Egalitarian Governance: Elites, Power, and Political Ideals Running Head: The Enduring Struggle for Egalitarian Governance
This paper critiques the persistent issue of elite capture in political systems, examining how the concentration of power undermines the core principles of democracy and justice. It analyzes historical and contemporary examples—from ancient Rome's patrician rule to modern democratic issues like campaign financing and centralized systems such as socialism and monarchies—highlighting the enduring dominance of elites. Despite these challenges, models of decentralized governance, including Athens' democracy, Switzerland's referendums, and Brazil’s participatory budgeting, offer alternatives to elite control. The paper also explores the potential of AI-driven governance to enhance efficiency, impartiality, and transparency as innovate suggestion, while addressing concerns over bias, discrimination, and power centralization. It proposes a hybrid model combining human judgment with AI efficiency to promote fairness and public engagement, though acknowledging the risks of exacerbating inequalities and overlooking human complexities. Ultimately, the paper emphasizes the need for continuous reforms focused on decentralization, transparency, and citizen participation to achieve truly participatory governance. It concludes that whether human-led or AI-assisted, governance must resist elite capture, prioritize inclusivity, and ensure collective well-being. The study calls for further research into the practical implications of AI integration, particularly its impact on power structures and inequalities
Elite capture, democracy, governance, political reform, innovation, political system
Le rôle du cinéma dans la construction sociale de l’enfant
Dans cet article nous tentons de montrer le rôle du cinéma dans la construction de l’enfant, en tant qu’individu social, au même titre que les autres espaces et environnements de socialisation tels que la famille, l'école et les établissements d’accueil de la petite enfance (crèches, jardin d’enfants, etc.). Cette étude examinera, dans un premier temps, la variable sociale comme processus fondamental dans la formation et la consolidation de la personnalité de l'individu et dans son intégration dans la société environnante. Il revient sur l’importance du processus de socialisation dans la transmission de valeurs, de normes et de codes permettant l’apprentissage des interactions sociales par l’enfant et l’accomplissement de son évolution d’un être biologique vers un individu social. La deuxième partie explore le rôle que joue le cinéma comme produit culturel, mais également comme espace de socialisation, dans le processus de formation de l’être social en devenir, par la construction et la transmission d’un imaginaire social collectif
Enfant, socialisation, cinéma, imaginaire social collectif
Marriage Rituals and Ceremonies within the Social Structures of Tafilalt: A Socio-Anthropological Study of the Cultural Framework of the Beni M'hammed Tribes.
Marriage rituals in the oasis society, especially among the Beni M'hammed tribes in the Ziz Oasis, have historically played a central role in shaping social, cultural, and familial structures. Governed by inherited norms and traditions, marriage was deeply connected to lineage, kinship, and tribal affiliation, under the influence of the extended family and tribal authority. Despite the complex and layered nature of these social structures, marriage served to define relationships and societal order. Over time, however, these traditional rituals have undergone notable changes, highlighting a clear shift between past practices and modern forms of marriage within the oasis communities
marriage, rituals, social structures, Beni M'hammed tribes, Ziz Oasis
NATIONAL UNITY AND THE ROLE OF ARABIC LANGUAGE IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY: NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY
Language is one of the most important factors that shapes a nation and its components, language also contains a nation’s history, experiences, successes, failures, concepts, values, and etiquette, as well as its cultural emotional, and spiritual link between its people, it is an effective factor in transmitting all of the aforementioned events from one generation to another. accordingly, language plays an important role in preserving the culture and civilization of a nation, and it is a basis for nation building orientation, and contribute to the national growth and development, on that basis, Arabic language plays a tangible role in national unity, because it is the medium through both Muslims and Arab describes their present and future in terms of progress and advancement. Therefore, this language has a pioneering role in achieving the advancement of a nations. it is therefore said the level of progress of a nation is measured by the level of progress of its language, creativity, number of its speakers, in view of the importance of Arabic language and its role in nation building, this paper aims to shed light on the role of Arabic language towards national unity in Nigeria. national unity has to do with a person’s awareness of his surroundings socially, politically, and economically, as well as the feeling of the necessity of reviving his national heritage with its historical mission and its role in the development of the nation. the study concluded that Arabic language contributed significantly to strengthening national unity among different culture in Nigeria through Advocacy for national security, youth participation in national services, establishment of various Arabic language associations, its presence in various international organizations and unions
national consciousness, nationalism, patriotism, security, peace, Nigeria
The Social and Health Effects of Violence Against Children in Traditional Mining Areas in Northern Sudan
This study aimed to identify the social and health impacts of violence against children in traditional mining areas in the Northern State .The researchers used the descriptive analytical method, and the study tools included: interview questionnaires, focus group discussions, a questionnaire directed at children ,and a questionnaire directed at families. The study population consisted of children working in traditional mining areas in the Northern State, with a sample size of 385 children ,The study reached several key findings, including the increasing prevalence of child labor in traditional mining areas, where children work in hazardous environments and are exposed to health risks such as mercury poisoning and various physical injuries. There is a lack of health institutions and essential services in mining areas, leaving children vulnerable to diseases and injuries without adequate medical care. Furthermore, insufficient oversight of the work environment allows for the continued exploitation of children in unsafe conditions, with weak enforcement of protective laws ,The researchers recommended establishing mobile health institutions in traditional mining areas to provide medical care and treatment for working children and mitigate the health risks they face. They also called for the activation of laws and regulations that prohibit child labor in hazardous occupations, imposing stricter penalties on violators, and enhancing government oversight of the work environment. Additionally, they suggested launching educational and compensatory programs for working children, including youth classes and vocational education, to empower them in building a better future
Child, Child Labor, Traditional Mining, Violence, Social Risks
Yasir Mohamed Saeed Abdel Majeed Mohamed Saeed
Behind the Ballot Boxes: The Presence of the Far Right
This article analyzes Félicien Faury’s book (Ordinary Voters: An Inquiry into the Normalization of the Far Right). The study highlights the social and economic dynamics that drive support for the Rassemblement National in France. Through a sociological approach, the author examines how factors such as economic inequality, identity crisis, and the rejection of minorities influence electoral choices. This critical analysis seeks to understand the mechanisms behind the normalization of far-right voting and its impact on the French political landscape
Book Review Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems, Conversational Agents, and Chatbots
The book summarized here is titled " Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems, Conversational Agents, and Chatbots ", authored by Michael McTear, a retired professor at Ulster University in the UK. It is part of the Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies series, which focuses on computational linguistics. The target audience of the book includes researchers in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. The book was reviewed by Olga Semenik, a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France, who described it as an "easily readable introduction" to the various concepts and techniques in Artificial Intelligence.The book consists of six chapters that cover a wide range of topics such as rule-based systems, statistical systems, evaluation methods, and a review of neural systems, concluding with a discussion of the challenges and future research directions in this evolving field.The Arabic translation of this book was done by Mahmoud Mohamed Rayan, a PhD researcher at Menofia University in Egypt, holding a Master's degree in Literary Criticism with a focus on Cognitive Studies
conversational AI, human language technology, NLP, dialogue system, rule-based system, neural dialogue systems, multi modality