Search for dissertations about: "writing in Arabic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words writing in Arabic.
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1. Arabic in Home Language Instruction : Language Acquisition in a Fuzzy Linguistic Situation
Abstract : This thesis investigates the command 8th-graders in Arabic home language instruction have of written Modern Standard Arabic and if the type of instruction they have received and/or contact with written Arabic affect their performance. Background chapters discuss variables connected to the Arabic language (diglossia, research on reading and writing in Arabic) and variables connected to HLI in Sweden (set-up, steering documents). READ MORE
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2. Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic
Abstract : Morphologically marked case is a salient Standard Arabic feature without parallel in Arabic dialects. As such it is a grammatical system learned by native speakers of Arabic through formal education. READ MORE
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3. “I Can Do Nothing against the Wish of the Pen” : Studies in the Short Stories of Widād Sakākīnī
Abstract : This study focuses on the short story writing of the Lebanese/Syrian writer Widād Sakākīnī (1913-1991). Its primary aim is to discover how she was able to establish herself as a respected writer while keeping her distinctive character as a woman writer within a literary tradition that was strongly defined by patriarchal values and contained many misogynic elements. READ MORE
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4. “The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature
Abstract : This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. READ MORE
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5. Persian Writing on Music : A study of Persian musical literature from 1000 to 1500 AD
Abstract : This dissertation is an attempt to understand and map the development of Persian writings on music, focusing on their various approaches and variations of topics from the beginning of the 11th century to the end of the 15th century which can be called the classical period of Persian writing on music. The rise of Persian musical literature as a part of Persian learned literature was a result of the political and cultural decentralization of the Abbasid Caliphate. READ MORE