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Nawal El Saadawi


Nawal El Saadawi (, born 27 October 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She has been described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World". She is founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. She has been awarded honorary degrees on three continents.
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since written numerous novels and short stories and a personal memoir, "Memoir from the Women's Prison" (1986). Saadawi has been published in a number of anthologies, and her work has been translated from the original Arabic into more than 30 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and others. In 1972, she published her first work of non-fiction, "Women
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In 2004, she won the North–South Prize from the Council of Europe. In 2005, she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium, and in 2012, the International Peace Bureau awarded her the 2012 Seán MacBride Peace Prize. Nawal el Saadawi has held the positions of Author for the Supreme Council for Arts and Social Sciences, Cairo; Director General of the Health Education Department, Ministry of Health, Cairo, Secretary General of the Medical Association, Cairo, Egypt, and medical doctor at the University Hospital and Ministry
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"Zeina" was published in Lebanon in 2009. The French translation was published under the pseudonym Nawal Zeinab el Sayed, using her mother's maiden name. Saadawi speaks fluent English in addition to her native Egyptian Arabic. As she writes in Arabic, she sees the question of translation into English or French as "a big problem" linked to the fact that "the colonial capitalist powers are mainly English- or French-speaking... I am still ignored by big literary powers in the world, because I write in Arabic,
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas


God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics" is a "penetrating and admiring analysis of El Saadawi's writing," according to "Library Journal." "Men, Women and God(s)" is also about showing that El Saadawi's work is literature, not just "polemics," as it is often labeled. In "The Star Report Disrobed" (2000), Malti-Douglas deconstructs the issues surrounding the Bill Clinton sex scandal from a feminist perspective. The "California Law Review" called "
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Prison" ( , 1983). Her contact with a prisoner at Qanatir, nine years before she was imprisoned there, served as inspiration for an earlier work, a novel titled "Woman at Point Zero" (, 1975). In 1988, when her life was threatened by Islamists and political persecution, Saadawi was forced to flee Egypt. She accepted an offer to teach at Duke University's Asian and African Languages Department in North Carolina, as well as at the University of Washington. She has since held positions at
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Her father was a government official in the Ministry of Education, who had campaigned against the rule of the British occupation of Egypt and Sudan during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. As a result, he was exiled to a small town in the Nile Delta, and the government punished him by not promoting him for 10 years. He was relatively progressive and taught his daughter self-respect and to speak her mind. He also encouraged her to study the Arabic language. Both her parents died at a young age, leaving Saadawi
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and also because I am critical of the colonial, capitalist, racist, patriarchal mind set of the super-powers." Her book "Mufakirat Tifla fi Al-Khamisa wa Al-Thamaneen" (A Notebook of an 85-year-old Girl), based on excerpts from her journal, was published in 2017. At a young age, Saadawi underwent the process of female genital mutilation. As an adult she has written about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour
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of Health. She is the founder of the Health Education Association and the Egyptian Women Writers' Association; she was Chief Editor of "Health Magazine" in Cairo, and Editor of "Medical Association Magazine". The second-eldest of nine children, Saadawi was born in 1931 in the small village of Kafr Tahla. Her family was at once traditional and progressive: El Saadawi was "circumcised" (her clitoris cut off) at the age of six, yet her father insisted that all his children be educated.
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1966 in the Sudan, and raised in Egypt and England. She reports that she always had two major interests as a young woman: women's health and helping the world. As a child, she was surrounded by FGC/M but was inspired to focus her work on it by Nawal El Saadawi's book, in which Saadawi describes her own circumcision Nour attended Brown University, and went to Harvard Medical School to get her medical degree. As a medical doctor, Nour gathered a group of patients who were all women
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about the objectification of women and female bodies without male bodies in patriarchal social structures common in Europe and the US. In a 2002 lecture at the University of California, Saadawi described the US-led war on Afghanistan as "a war to exploit the oil in the region", and US foreign policy and its support of Israel as "real terrorism". Saadawi has opined that Egyptians are forced into poverty by US aid. Saadawi is the subject of the film "She Spoke the Unspeakable", directed by Jill Nicholls
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with the sole burden of providing for a large family. Her mother was from a family of Turkish origin; El Saadawi has described her grandfather, Shoukry Bey, and his family as "all of whom had the fair skin of the Turks". Her maternal grandmother was also of Turkish origin. Saadawi graduated as a medical doctor in 1955 from Cairo University. That year she married Ahmed Helmi, whom she met as a fellow student in medical school. The marriage ended two years later. Through her medical practice, she
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Woman at Point Zero


Woman at Point Zero (, ) is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi published in Arabic in 1975. The novel is based on Saadawi's meeting with a female prisoner in Qanatir Prison and is the first-person account of Firdaus, a murderess who has agreed to tell her life story before her execution. The novel explores the themes of women and their place within a patriarchal society. At the end of 1972 Saadawi was removed from her position as the Director of Health Education and the Editor-in-Chief of "
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lost her positions as chief editor of a health journal, and as Assistant General Secretary in the Medical Association in Egypt. From 1973 to 1976, Saadawi worked on researching women and neurosis in Ain Shams University's Faculty of Medicine. From 1979 to 1980, she was the United Nations Advisor for the Women's Programme in Africa (ECA) and the Middle East (ECWA). Long viewed as controversial and dangerous by the Egyptian government, Saadawi helped publish a feminist magazine in 1981 called "Confrontation." She was imprisoned
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Female genital mutilation


hospitals in 1959, but allowed partial clitoridectomy if parents requested it. (Egypt banned FGM entirely in 2007.) In 1959, the UN asked the WHO to investigate FGM, but the latter responded that it was not a medical matter. Feminists took up the issue throughout the 1970s. The Egyptian physician and feminist Nawal El Saadawi criticized FGM in her book "Women and Sex" (1972); the book was banned in Egypt and El Saadawi lost her job as director general of public health. She followed up with
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medical doctor and writer, had been a political prisoner for 13 years. They married in 1964 and have a son and a daughter. Saadawi divorced Hatata after 43 years of marriage. In 1972, she published "Woman and Sex" (), confronting and contextualising various aggressions perpetrated against women's bodies, including female circumcision. The book became a foundational text of second-wave feminism. As a consequence of the book and her political activities, Saadawi was dismissed from her position at the Ministry of Health. She also
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a number of prestigious colleges and universities including Cairo University, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Sorbonne, Georgetown, Florida State University, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1996, she moved back to Egypt. Saadawi has continued her activism and considered running in the 2005 Egyptian presidential election, before stepping out because of stringent requirements for first-time candidates. She was among the protesters in Tahrir Square in 2011. She has called for the abolition of religious instruction in the Egyptian schools. Saadawi was awarded the
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Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs." As a doctor and human rights activist, Saadawi is also opposed to male circumcision. She believes that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation. In a 2014 interview Saadawi said that "the root
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Culture of Egypt


-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many Egyptian books and films are available throughout the Middle East. Other prominent Egyptian writers include Nawal El Saadawi, well known for her feminist works and activism, and Alifa Rifaat who also writes about women and tradition. Vernacular poetry is said to be the most popular literary genre amongst Egyptians, represented most significantly by Bayram el-Tunsi, Ahmed Fouad Negm (Fagumi), Salah Jaheen and Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi. About 75% of Egypt's population is Muslim
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they need to stone the devil? Why do they need to kiss that black stone? But no one will say this. The media will not print it. What is it about, this reluctance to criticize religion? ... This refusal to criticize religion ... is not liberalism. This is censorship." She has said that elements of the Hajj, such as kissing the Black Stone, had pre-Islamic pagan roots. Saadawi describes the Islamic veil as "a tool of oppression of women". She is also critical
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and Sex", which evoked the antagonism of highly placed political and theological authorities. It also led to her dismissal at the Ministry of Health. Other works include "The Hidden Face of Eve", "God Dies by the Nile", "The Circling Song", "Searching", "The Fall of the Imam" and "Woman at Point Zero". She contributed the piece "When a woman rebels" to the 1984 anthology "Sisterhood Is Global", edited by Robin Morgan. Saadawi's novel
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas


. Malti-Douglas is currently a professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington and the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences. Malti-Douglas studied Muslim literary texts from medieval to modern times and wrote about her findings in "Women and Gender in Islam" (1991). She describes how women's bodies are increasingly seen as a threat in this literature. Malti-Douglas wrote the second English language examination of the work of Nawal El Saadawi in 1995. The work, "Men Women and
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Ny Tid


printed, in which writers from free speech-challenged countries are invited to comment and outline. These columnists are: Parvin Ardalan, Nawal El Saadawi, Irshad Manji, Elena Milashina, Katiuska Natera, Martha Roque, Blessing Musariri, Tsering Woeser, Orzala Ashraf Nemat and Natalia Novozhilova. The columns are mostly written in English. The project is called "Voices Without Borders" and is a project in memory of Anna Politkovskaja, who was a "Ny Tid" columnist from 10 February to 7 October 2006. Since the relaunch
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Mbulelo Mzamane


of the Center for African Literary Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He worked closely with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Nawal El Saadawi as co-chairs of BUWA! African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century. He was appointed by both former presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki into various advisory boards. He was also involved with some aspects of the National Development Plan. In June 2013 Mbulelo was the guest speaker at the inaugural Can Themba Memorial Lecture alongside Nadine Gordimer and Joe Thloloe. He was the Project
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observed women's physical and psychological problems and connected them with oppressive cultural practices, patriarchal oppression, class oppression and imperialist oppression. While working as a doctor in her birthplace of Kafr Tahla, she observed the hardships and inequalities faced by rural women. After attempting to protect one of her patients from domestic violence, Saadawi was summoned back to Cairo. She eventually became the Director of the Ministry of Public Health and met her third husband, Sherif Hatata, while sharing an office in the Ministry of Health. Hatata, also a
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in September by President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. She was released later that year, one month after the President's assassination. Of her experience she wrote: "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies." In 1982 she founded the Arab Women Solidarity Association. Saadawi was one of the women held at Qanatir Women's Prison. Her incarceration formed the basis for her memoir, "Memoirs from the Women's
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the United States, collaborated with the Egyptian government to end the 2011 Egyptian revolution. She added that she remembered seeing then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Tahrir Square handing out dollar bills to the youth in order to encourage them to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood in the upcoming elections. Saadawi began writing early in her career. Her earliest writings include a selection of short stories entitled "I Learned Love" (1957) and her first novel, "Memoirs of a Woman Doctor" (1958). She has
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Priya Basil


20-odd recommended writers on a list which included Hannah Arendt, Arundhati Roy, Nawal El Saadawi, Herta Müller and Juli Zeh. In 2017 Priya Basil, together with Ulrich Schreiber, conceptualized and co-curated the International Congress for Freedom and Democracy, which took place from 8–10 September 2017 as part of the International Literature Festival Berlin. Basil has written extensively on Europe and the future of the European Union, and has argued about the need for an official European public holiday across all member states. In 2017 she launched a campaign
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free life in Europe. Ayaan's work was compared to "Ich wollte nur frei sein" ("I Just Wanted to be Free") by Hülya Kalkan, "Mich hat keiner gefragt" ("Nobody Asked Me") by Ayşe, "Erstickt an euren Lügen" ("Choke on your Lies") by Inci Y., "Fundamentalismus gegen Frauen" ("Fundamentalism Against Women") by Nawal El Saadawi and "Verschleppt in Jemen" ("Kidnapped in Yemen") by Zana Muhsen. Natasha
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Dangerous Woman


so much, it's changed everything." She announced the new title of the album, "Dangerous Woman", on February 22, 2016, through her Snapchat and Twitter accounts. The following day, she posted a photo on Instagram with a caption quoting Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's 1975 novel, "Woman at Point Zero" as follows: "They said, 'You are a savage and dangerous woman.' I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous". As to
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not only in the areas of education and work but also by the 1956 Constitution that gave women the right to vote and run for election for the first time. The decline of the Nasserist regime signified another era in the feminist movement in Egypt. In 1972 the publication of the book "Women and Sex" by Nawal El Saadawi was symbolic of the re-emergence and radicalisation of the movement. The book demanded "unified criteria for 'honor' for both women and men, and denounced social practices which used religion to
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Arabic literature


re-shape Arabic politics. Some of the best known are Taha Hussein's "The Future of Culture in Egypt", which was an important work of Egyptian nationalism, and the works of Nawal el-Saadawi who campaigns for women's rights. Beginning in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as part of what is now called "the Arabic renaissance" or ""al-Nahda"", poets like Francis Marrash, Ahmad Shawqi and Hafiz Ibrahim began to explore the possibility of developing the classical poetic forms.
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Ihda'


In one of DAM's performances, they started the song by reading a quote from the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi where she explains how love is treated by the Arab society, the lovers are like 2 beautiful flowers and society is like the bees, they suck the honey and the sweetness of it. The song features Palestinian actress Rawda Suleiman in the role of the girl and the mother and the singer/actor Ibahim Sakalla as Tamer's friend in the song. Starting the song with the voice of the late Tawfiq Ziad
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Rukhsana Ahmad


India" (2007). She has also adapted plays for BBC Radio, including "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, "Woman at Point Zero" by Nawal El Saadawi, "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie and "Maps for Lost Lovers" by Nadeem Aslam. In June and October 1991, Ahmad's play "Song for a Sanctuary"' was played in many theaters in Britain. Ahmad became a member of the Asian Women Writers Collective in London in 1984. Along with Rita Wolf, in
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The Fall of the Imam


The Fall of the Imam is a novel by Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi published in Arabic in 1987. The English translation by the author's husband Sherif Hetata was published in 1988. Set in an unnamed Arabic country, the two main characters are The Imam, the hypocritical leader of the country, full of hatred and spite towards anybody born more fortunate than him, and a beautiful illegitimate orphan, Bint Allah (Daughter of God). The story centres around two extremely grisly events. First, the stoning and mutilation of
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individuals, mainly in response to their writings that some have viewed as anti-Islamic. The most famous cases are of Salman Rushdie, Nasr Abu Zayd, and Nawal El-Saadawi. The repercussions of such cases have included divorce, since under traditional interpretations of Islamic law, Muslim women are not permitted to marry non-Muslim men. However, "takfir" remains a highly contentious issue in Islam, primarily because there is no universally accepted authority in Islamic law. Indeed, according to classical commentators, the reverse seems
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Hanan al-Shaykh


in 1966. She returned to Lebanon to work for the Lebanese newspaper "An-Nahar" until 1975. She left Beirut again in 1975 at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War and moved to Saudi Arabia to work and write there. She now lives in London with her family. Al-Shaykh's literature follows in the footsteps of such contemporary Arab women authors as Nawal El Saadawi in that it explicitly challenges the roles of women in the traditional social structures of the Arab Middle East. Her work is heavily influenced by
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Prison literature


writers include Madame Roland (Paris, 1793), Krystyna Wituska (Berlin, 1942-44), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt, 1981), Joan Henry (England, 1951), Caesarina Kona Makhoere (South Africa, 1976-82), Vera Figner (Russia, 1883–1904), Béatrice Saubin (Malaysia, 1992-90), Precious Bedell (New York, 1980-99), and Lady Constance Lytton (England, 1910). 20th-century America brought about many pieces of prison literature.
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Sherif Hatata


a progressive and socialist movement. Nasser grew critical of the ASU at the time, claiming it was falling short of mentoring "socialist democracy" in Egypt. In December 1964, the ASU leadership was reorganized with the establishment of a 16-member secretariat-general, of which six were original communists, including Hatata. Hatata was married to the prominent Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi until 2010; the couple met in 1964. They lived in Cairo, but built a small house in Hatata's home village where they traveled to a
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Osman Nusairi


Osman Nusairi is a playwright and award-winning translator of Sudanese origin. He has translated two Arabic novels into English - Nawal el-Saadawi's "Two Women in One" (1985; co-translator with Jana Gough) and Reem Bassiouney's "The Pistachio Seller" (2009). The latter work won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 2009. He worked as a theatre director in the Sudanese National Theatre and as a Lecturer of Drama at Khartoum Institute of Music and Drama in 1978, having studied Theatre Direction
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Boushra Almutawakel


. In 1999, aside from developing her photographic work and being an educational adviser, Boushra Almutawakel was honoured as the first Yemeni female photographer by the Empirical Research and Women's Studies Centre at Sana'a University. Almutawakel was living in the United States at the time of the September 11 attacks, which led her to focus on perceptions, both positive and negative, of Arabs and Muslims. She engaged specifically with the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi's remark that "women who wore the "hijab" or "niqab" were the
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WALTIC


WALTIC ("Writers’ and Literary Translators’ International Congress") - "The Value of Words", is a bi-annual international literary congress founded and owned by The Swedish Writers’ Union. Having its premier launch in Stockholm between 29 June and 2 July 2008, WALTIC’s aim and thematic scope is divided in accordance to three key elements: "Increase literacy", "Safeguard freedom of expression", and "Strengthen authors’ rights". WALTIC 2008 keynote speakers were Mia Couto and Nawal El-Saadawi
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of the oppression of women lies in the global post-modern capitalist system, which is supported by religious fundamentalism". When hundreds of people were killed in what has been called a "stampede" during the 2015 pilgrimage (Hajj) of Muslims to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, she said: "They talk about changing the way [the hajj] is administered, about making people travel in smaller groups. What they don’t say is that the crush happened because these people were fighting to stone the devil. Why do
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Gender roles in Islam


the importance of new interpretations of the Quran and Sunnah (traditions and sayings of Muhammad). Ra'uf argues that the advancement of women's causes in Arab and Muslim societies requires a reworking of Islamic thought. She criticizes the efforts of those who draw their inspiration exclusively from Western feminism. Ra'uf dresses in the Muslim veil. This is a source of controversy within Islamic feminists. On the one hand, some feminists like Nawal El-Saadawi severely criticize the veil: “veiling and nakedness are two sides of the same coin.
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Egill Helgason


Nawal El Saadawi, Alice Walker and Dan Brown. "Kiljan" has been running since 2007. Egill Helgason has made documentary series on historical subjects. "Vesturfarar" ("Westward Bound", 2014) was a ten part series on the Icelandic emigration to Canada and the US from 1873 to 1914. "Steinsteypuöldin" ("The Age of Concrete", 2016) is in five parts, recounting how Reykjavík was built after a terrible fire in 1915 which devastated the center of town, than mainly built from timber
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Jamaraat Bridge


of the hajj is inherently dangerous, with challenges at the pinch points. Professor Edwin Galea of the Fire Safety Engineering Group at the University of Greenwich pointed out that the 500,000 people per hour that the Jamaraat Bridge could deliver was equivalent to the largest ever football crowd every 24 minutes, or the population of Germany in a week; he suggested that spreading the Hajj over a longer period was a possible solution. The need to stone the devil at all was questioned by Egyptian physician and feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, who said
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William M. Hutchins


finest works of fiction in Arabic literature, and Hutchins' translation is the principal version available in English (published by Everyman's Library among others). In addition, he has translated a variety of Arabic authors: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Ibrahim 'Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini, Muhammad Salmawy, al-Jahiz, Nawal El-Saadawi, Muhammad Khudayyir, Ibrahim al-Koni, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Hassan Nasr, and others. In 2005-2006, Hutchins received a US National Endowment for the
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World Forum for Democracy


the internet and the impact of the economic crisis on democracy. The Forum was inaugurated by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Other speakers included Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman and Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi. The second World Forum ("Re-wiring Democracy: connecting institutions and citizens in the digital age") was held between 23 and 29 November 2013 and addressed the impact of new information and communication technologies on democratic practices. The discussions on the initiatives presented at the Forum were organized in 21 "labs"
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Women's and Gender Education Center (Eastern Washington University)


Nawal El-Saadawi. The H.O.M.E. (Helping Ourselves Means Education) Program is a self-help network that provides resources for students who are typically low-income parents. H.O.M.E. connects students to a network of volunteer staff, faculty, and administrators. On October 17-19 1986, a conference was held and it dealt with the energy of women in building and giving birth to their communities on a local level, as well as nationally and internationally. Programs offered in the spring quarter of 1977 were sexism in counseling,
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Women in Islam


given physical and psychological pleasure, pleasure found by both partners during the act of love. Forcibly split, torn, and severed tissues are neither conducive to sensuality nor to the blessed feeling given and shared when participating in the quest for pleasure and the escape from pain." The Egyptian feminist Nawal El-Saadawi reasons that the creation of the clitoris per se is a direct Islamic argument against female circumcision: "If religion comes from God, how can it order man to cut off an organ created by Him as long as
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Fawzia Afzal-Khan


volumes, Afzal-Khan has published extensively in academic journals as well as in newspapers and on public blogs on issues related to postcolonal studies, feminism, and political Islam. Afzal-Khan's memoir, "Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style", was published in 2010 by Syracuse University Press. The memoir was immediately received as a fine contribution to the women's rights issues in Pakistan. The first edition contained commending blurbs from prominent authors and scholars: Nawal El Saadawi called it a "beautiful memoir
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Marion Molteno


I found very thought provoking and moving.’ "A Shield of Coolest Air" (1992 ) won the David St John Thomas prize for fiction. It revolves around a friendship between two young mothers, one of whom is a Somali who has had to flee from a civil war but been unable to get all her children out with her. The Egyptian writer Nawal el Saadawi said it was 'a beautiful piece of fiction, uncovering hidden realities.’ The Independent on Sunday said, 'So successfully has Molteno breathed life
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Arabic literature


Rifaat are just some of the novelists and prose writers. There has also been a number of significant female authors who also wrote non-fiction work mainly exploring the female condition in Muslim Societies, which includes authors such as Zaynab al-Ghazali, Nawal el-Saadawi and author/Sociologist Fatema Mernissi. Women writers in the Arab world have unavoidably courted controversy. Layla Ba'albakki, for instance, was charged with obscenity and "endangering public morality" a few months after she published her collection of short stories titled "Tenderness to
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Nawal El Saadawi


2004 North–South Prize by the Council of Europe. In July 2016 she headlined the Royal African Society's "Africa Writes" literary festival in London, where she spoke "On Being A Woman Writer" in conversation with Margaret Busby. She was in Göteborg Book Fair which took place on September 27–30, 2018 were she attended a seminar on development in Egypt and the Middle East after the Arab Spring and stated during her talk in the event that "colonial, capitalist, imperialist, racist" global powers, led by
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May Ziade


1932, Ziade suffered a series of personal losses, beginning with the death of her parents, a number of her friends, and above all Khalil Gibran. She fell into a deep depression and returned to Lebanon where her relatives placed her in a psychiatric hospital to gain control over her estate. Nawal El Saadawi submits that Ziade was sent to the hospital for expressing feminist sentiments. Ziade was profoundly humiliated and incensed by this decision; she eventually recovered and left after a medical report proved that she was of sound mental health.
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The Black Scholar


intellectuals from a variety of professions outside of academia. For example, "TBS" has featured articles by US Congress representatives Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, Barbara Lee, and activists such as Julian Bond, Herb Boyd, Amílcar Cabral, Eldridge Cleaver, Nawal El Saadawi, Cheddi Jagan, Julius Nyerere, Bobby Seale, and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). The journal has regularly showcased creative writers from across the Black world. Opal Palmer Adisa, Margaret Walker Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Dennis Brutus, Frank M. Chipasula,
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New Words Bookstore


fiction and nonfiction, from Bessie Head to Nawal El Saadawi. New Words also became a pivotal Boston-area focal point for political organizing, feminist discussion groups, self-help groups, and cultural programming. New Words made its Reading Room available to community groups for meetings. The Alliance Against Sexual Coercion (see Sexual Harassment), the original organizing committee for the Boston Women's Fund, Moving Violations, the Boston Dyke March planning committee, Rainbow Café (a gathering of queer women in academia), and a group
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Alifa Rifaat


Swedish. The most popular English translation of her work is of her collection of short stories, Distant View of a Minaret and Other Short Stories, which is translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Fatimah Rifaat, unlike the prominent Egyptian Feminist Nawal El Saadawi, focused her writing on women in traditional Islamic roles. In her autobiography Fatimah describes her father's lack of affection towards her as a possible root of her exploration of the needs and desires of men in terms of women. She continues on to relate that through her life
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World Conference on Women, 1980


for the use of the hijab as a protest against colonialism and Ukrainian women protesting for independence. When Nawal El Saadawi of Egypt presented a paper on female circumcision, western feminists were advised that the issue was a developing world problem and not their concern. Lesbians attendees hosted five workshops, which were well attended and less controversial than at the 1975 conference. Some of the prominent women attendees were Shulamit Aloni of Israel; Marie Assaad of Egypt; Charlotte Bunch, US lesbian activist; Phyllis Chesler a US expert on refugees; Betty
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Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival


, Karin Karakaşlı, Katerina Iliopoulou, Kürşat Başar, Lasana M. Sekou, Liz Behmoaras, Lyudmila Filipova, Mario Levi, Maureen Freely, Marko Pogačar, Mehmet Açar, Milan Dobričić, Mima Simić, Mine Kırıkkanat, Mine Söğüt, Mirt Komel, Nawal El Saadawi, Netalie Braun, Norman Manea, Olga Tokarczuk, Olivier Rolin, Owen Martell, Peter Pistanek, Petr Borkovec, Ragıp Zarakolu, Raman Mundair, Reha Çamuroğlu, Serdar Özkan, Shimon Adaf, Solmaz Kamuran, Tuna Kiremitçi, Valter Hugo Mãe, Yaprak Öz.
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World Woman


Creativity. The inaugural World Woman festival featured performances by Mari Boine, Marilyn Mazur, John McLaughlin, Mahsa Vahdat, Sister Fa, Pakistani dancer Sheema Kermani, founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan, Fahmida Riaz, Viktoria Mullova, Gary Husband, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset, Hela Fattoumi, Arve Henriksen. World Woman conversations and talks included Shirin Ebadi, Nawal El Saadawi, Hina Jilani, Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), Gro Brundtland, Scilla Elworthy, Şafak Pavey, Mona Eltahawy
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Sharia


the doctrine of hisba had for a time allowed a Muslim to sue another Muslim over beliefs that may harm society, though because of abuses it has been amended so that only the state prosecutor may bring suit based on private requests. Before the amendment was passed, a hisba suit brought by a group of Islamists against the liberal theologian Nasr Abu Zayd on charges of apostasy led to annulment of his marriage. The law was also invoked in an unsuccessful blasphemy suit against the feminist author Nawal El Saadawi. Hisba has also been invoked
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Missouri State University


program, Excellence in Community Service Awards, a yearly week-long Missouri Public Affairs Academy for high school students, a campus-wide public affairs emphasis week and the annual MSU Public Affairs Conference which brings together a diverse group of speakers and panelist for public discussions of various aspects of the public affairs mission. Past conference speakers have included Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Nawal El Saadawi, Les Garland, John Edwards and Frances Hesselbein. Missouri State University's main campus, containing over 40 buildings, is located on in central
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Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War


that led to the collapse of the 2002 ceasefire. The tribunal's 11-member panel of judges consisted of François Houtart (chair), Daniel Feierstein, Denis Halliday, Eren Keskin, Mary Lawlor, Francesco Martone, Nawal El Saadawi, Rajinder Sachar, Sulak Sivaraksa, Gianni Tognoni and Oystein Tveter. The tribunal received reports from NGOs and human rights groups, victims' testimony, eye-witness accounts including from members of the Sri Lankan armed forces, expert testimony, journalistic reports, video footage and photographs. Parts of the tribunal
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Nothia


nomen nudum" since no description was published along with the name. Validation of the name has been variously considered to have been by Høeg in 1967, making the botanical authority "Lyon ex Høeg", or by El-Saadawy and Lacy in 1979, making the authority "Lyon ex El-Saadawy & Lacy". "Nothia" has been placed in the group initially established by Banks as the subdivision Zosterophyllophytina or the class Zosterophyllopsida. El-Saadawy and Lacy regard the plant as having affinities with both the rhyniophytes and
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Nawal Al Zoghbi


at Dusit Dubai on 25 April 2007, it was announced that Nawal Al Zoghbi will be the face to advertise LG cellular phones which the company will put out in 2007–2008 in the Middle East. The conference was attended by a large crowd from various media, which exceeded a variety of over 100 means of information between written, visual and audible. On 12 June 2007 Nawal released the music video of her song, "Aghla El Habayib" from her album "Yama Alou" which was a continuation to the song "Shou
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El Layali


El Layali () is the name of the Nawal Al Zoghbi's 7th album that was released in 2000 and was produced by Rotana. The single "El Layali" which was the last song added to the album and the first single to be released of it is considered to be Nawal's biggest hit in the Arab world gaining her ultimate stardom and is somewhat considered to be the peak of Nawal's artistic career. Following the huge success of this album, Nawal became the face of Pepsi in the Middle East signing a
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Nawal El Kuwaitia


Nawal El Kuwaitia (; born Nawal Thaher Al-Zaid, 18 November 1966) is a Kuwaiti singer and musical icon in the arab world. Nawal is considered by many as the number one singer in the arab world and is known as "Qaitharat Al Khaleej" (Harp of Khaliji Song). Nawal studied at the Music Institute in Kuwait where she met the Kuwaiti composer Rashid Al-Khadr. Al-Khadr composed many of her initial songs and poet Abdullatif Al-Banay wrote lyrics for her. Nawal's first album
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Nawal Al Zoghbi


by then director of the show "Simon El Asmar". However, Nawal decided to withdraw from the talent show. Nawal became the number one female star of the nineties, with revolutionary video clips, looks and style. Starting with the year 1994 and until 2002, Nawal released an album almost every year reigning as the number one female pop star of the Arab world for 8 consecutive years. Each year between 1994 and 2002 had at least one huge hit by Nawal. After her breakthrough hits "Ayza El Radd"
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Ayza El Radd


Ayza El Radd (or sometimes "Ayza El Rad") is the 2nd album of Lebanese artist Nawal Al Zoghbi. The Album was released in 1994. Nawal First video clip ever was for the title song "Ayza El Rad" which was her breakthrough hit and made her famous throughout the Arab world. It is good to note that Nawal had an old clip that was a simple shooting of her song during a live performance, the song of Wehyati Andak which was from her first album, it can also be considered
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Nawal El Moutawakel


Nawal El Moutawakel (Amazigh: Nawal Lmutawakkil; ; born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca) is a former Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion. She was also the first Moroccan and the first woman from a Muslim majority country to win an Olympic gold medal. In 2007, El Moutawakel was named the Minister of Sports in the upcoming cabinet of Morocco. Although
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Zuhairi Misrawi


Abd al-Bayoumi Mu'thi, Adonis and Nawal Saadawi. After Misrawi finished his studies at Egypt in 2000 he returned to Indonesia and became directly active in the institutions of Study and Human Resource Nahdlatul Ulama (Lakpesdam NU) as the Coordinator for Study and Research from 2000 to 2002. Together with some the young leaders of other NU, Misrawi published a thought journal in Lakpesdam titled ""Tashwirul Afkar"" and made himself the editor of this journal from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, Misrawi continued graduate studies (post
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Appointment of Love


Appointment with Love (, translit. Maw`ed Gharam) is a 1956 Egyptian romance/musical film directed and co-written by the Egyptian film director Henry Barakat. It stars Abdel Halim Hafez, Faten Hamama, Rushdy Abaza, Zahrat El-Ola, and Imad Hamdi. Faten Hamama plays Nawal, a journalist who meets Samir, a young man. She encourages him to pursue a singing career and he does. He starts a successful career and becomes famous. Nawal gets paralyzed and, not willing to hinder his progress,
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Jad Shwery


first solo video of the legendary icon Wadih el Safi. The music video gained both critics and viewers respect. In 2012 Jad directed megastars Diana Haddad and Nawal el zoghbi s new videos. Both were unanimously successful, "gharibi hal denyi" by Nawal el Zoghbi Nawal Al Zoghbi counting around 4million YouTube hits a couple of months after its release. Jad stayed away from the music scene for a while, concentrating on his career as a producer/director and worked with big pop stars in the likes of Yara Cyrine Abdelnour,
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Iman Issa


white plinths, and a caption. The text panels feature quotes from the famous Arab writers: Edward Said, Mourid Barghouti, Taha Hussein, and Nawal Al-Saadawi. Issa picked five autobiographies from the aforementioned writers and lifted excerpts that communicated snippets of their lives tied to broader socio-political context. Functioning as one comprehensive installation, each component contributing to the overall narrative Issa wished to communicate. In this body of work, Issa considers sculpture studies as proposals to replace existing monuments she has known since she was a child
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Sihem Habchi


-minister Nilofar Bakhtiar, who had been threatened with a fatwa. Since 2007, Sihem Habchi has not ceased to defend women victims of obscurantism throughout the world: she has met with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Naeema Moghul, Nawal Saadawi, Taslima Nasrin, and many others. On 24 November 2008, Habchi addressed a letter to Nicolas Sarkozy, current French president, to demand he commit to the national cause to end violence against women. To solidify this demand, Ni Putes Ni Soumises initiated a collective of associations. In October
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Nawal 2009


Nawal 2009 is a 2009 album by the singer Nawal El Kuwaiti. Nawal is scheduled to appear on "Kelmet Fassil" (The Word Of The Season) hosted by Joumana abu Eid. Kuwaiti's latest album debuted at number 1 on Rotana's Khaleeji album charts and at number 2 on Rotana's Egyptian charts, marking the first time that she has appeared on the Egyptian Charts and the first time for a khaleeji album to ever appear on the Egyptian Charts. Two weeks after the album's release, Rotana, Nawal's
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Kartvelian languages


the Old Georgian Bir el Qutt inscriptions, written in ancient Georgian Asomtavruli script at the once-existing Georgian monastery near Bethlehem, which dates back to c. 430 AD. The Georgian script is the writing system used to write all Kartvelian languages, though the Laz language in Turkey is also written using a Latin script. Georgian is the official language of Georgia (spoken by 90% of the population) and the main language for literary and business use for all Kartvelian speakers in Georgia. It is written with an original and distinctive
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Written language


A written language is the representation of a spoken or gestural language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will pick up spoken language or sign language by exposure even if they are not formally instructed. A written language exists only as a complement to a specific spoken language, and no natural language is purely written. Written languages change more slowly than corresponding spoken languages. When at least one register of a language is strongly divergent from spoken language, the
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Dar El Tarbiah School


Dar El Tarbiah School (In Arabic مدرسة دار التربية) is an Egyptian educational institution founded in 1958 by Dr. Nawal El Degwi. Dar El Tarbiah was the first English-language instruction medium institution founded by Egyptians. It provides education in the Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12 (In the Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 6, the school is called 'Baby Home School'). The institution currently includes seven schools in Cairo and is one of the first educational institutions in Egypt. It has national, international, American and
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BCMC College of Engineering & Technology


Course; 03-months course 2. English Language Training Course (Spoken & Written); 06-months course 3. Spanish Language Training Course (Spoken & Written); 06-months course 4. German (Deutsch) Language Training Course (Spoken & Written); 06-months course 5. Arabic Language Training Course (Spoken & Written); 06-months course 6. Japanese Language Training Course (Spoken & Written); 06-months course 7. Korean Language Training Course (Spoken & Written); 06-months course 8. Chinese Language Training Course (Spoken &
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Language development


more skilled. Kroll considers the second phase in writing development to be consolidation. Here, children begin to consolidate spoken and written language. In this phase children's writing skills rely heavily on their spoken language skills, and their written and spoken language becoming integrated. Children's written language skills become stronger as they use their spoken language skills to improve their writing. Then in turn, when a development in children's written language skills is seen, their spoken language skills have also improved. A child's written language in this
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Incendies


seeing his tattoo. The twins find Nihad in Canada and deliver Nawal's letters to him without speaking to him. He opens both of them; the first letter addresses him as the twins' father, and is filled with contempt, as Nihad is written to by Nawal as her rapist. The second letter addresses him as the twins' brother, and is instead written with caring words, saying that he, as Nawal's son, is deserving of love. Nawal gets her gravestone in the aftermath of the letters being
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Sudan at the 2008 Summer Olympics


games. Malbas Jamous Nawal El-Jack, known more generally as Nawal El Jack, was an athlete who represented Sudan in the women's 400 meters while at the Beijing Olympics. She was born in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, in October 1988 and was 19 years old at the time of her competitions at the Beijing Olympics. El Jack had not previously competed at any Olympic games. During the event's qualification round, El Jack competed in the sixth heat against seven other athletes. She finished third in the event
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Jur language


Jur, also known as Luo (Luo, "Dheluwo)", is a language spoken by the Luo people of Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. The language is predominantly spoken in the western and northern parts of Bahr el Ghazal. The language is part of the Luo languages of East Africa and is especially related to the languages of South Sudan such as Anyuak and Päri with whom it forms a dialect cluster. The Jur language is spoken by the Luwo (or Jur Col), an ethnic group in South
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Melpa language


Melpa (also written Medlpa) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Melpa has a pandanus language used during karuka harvest. Melpa has a voiceless velar lateral fricative, written as a double-barred el (Ⱡ, ⱡ). It is notable for its binary counting system. Temboka, a dialect of Melpa, is the native language of the Ganiga tribe, who featured prominently in the Highlands Trilogy of documentaries by Robin Anderson
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Language planning


often viewed as secondary to spoken language, the vocabulary, grammatical structures and phonological structures of a language often adopt characteristics in the written form that are distinct from the spoken variety. Second, the use of writing often leads to a folk belief that the written language is the 'real' language, and speech is a corruption of it. Written language is viewed as more conservative, while the spoken variety is more susceptible to language change. Isolated relic areas of the spoken language may be less innovative than the written form,
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Spoken language


especially in contrast to written transcriptions of signs. In spoken language, much of the meaning is determined by the context. That contrasts with written language in which more of the meaning is provided directly by the text. In spoken language, the truth of a proposition is determined by common-sense reference to experience, but in written language, a greater emphasis is placed on logical and coherent argument. Similarly, spoken language tends to convey subjective information, including the relationship between the speaker and the audience, whereas written language tends
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Spoken language


to convey objective information. The relationship between spoken language and written language is complex. Within the field of linguistics the current consensus is that speech is an innate human capability, and written language is a cultural invention. However some linguists, such as those of the Prague school, argue that written and spoken language possess distinct qualities which would argue against written language being dependent on spoken language for its existence. Both vocal and sign languages are composed of words. In vocal languages, words are made up from a limited set of
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Salvadorans


, Ibero-America). Mestizo culture and the Catholic Church dominates the country. Although the Romance language, Castilian Spanish, is the official and dominant language spoken in El Salvador, Salvadoran Spanish which is part of Central American Spanish has influences of Native American languages of El Salvador such as Lencan languages, Cacaopera language, Mayan languages and Pipil language, which are still spoken in some regions of El Salvador Mestizo culture dominates the country, heavy in both Native American Indigenous and European Spanish influences. A new composite population was formed
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Abdul


Arabic speakers normally pronounce and transcribe their names of Arabic origin according to their spoken Arabic dialects. Therefore, it is pronounced and written "Abdel..." or "Abd El...". However, non-Arabic speakers or Arabic speakers may choose to transcribe the name according to the Literary Arabic pronunciation, which is the language of Quran, pronounced as and written "Abdul...". For other variations in spelling, see the Arabic grammar section. In Arabic language, the word ' means "slave" or "servant
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Spoken language


A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds, as opposed to a written language. Many languages have no written form and so are only spoken. An oral language or vocal language is a language produced with the vocal tract, as opposed to a sign language, which is produced with the hands and face. The term "spoken language" is sometimes used to mean only vocal languages, especially by linguists, making all three terms synonyms by excluding sign languages. Others refer to sign language as "spoken",
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Nawal Al Zoghbi


top of her game and as glamorous as ever. Other Songs in the albums that were not shot as video clips still gained a lot of success and were played heavily on Radio stations such as "Ha2oulak Eih" and "Hona El Qahera". In 2012, Nawal released a live version of the song "Andak", still from the same album, and the video was taken from a live performance at Arab Idol and proved to be a fan favorite. Nawal's Album "Ma'rafsh Leih" and her Smash Hit
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2018 Nigeria Federation Cup


Katsina United Plateau United 1-1 Enyimba Round 1 [Sep 28] (moved from Sep 24) Plateau United 0-1 Katsina United J. Atete 0-5 Enyimba Final Table: Round 1 [Sep 24] Enugu Rangers 2-1 El-Kanemi Warriors Sunshine Stars 1-1 Supreme Court Round 2 [Sep 26] Sunshine Stars 1-1 El-Kanemi Warriors Supreme Court n/p Enugu Rangers Round 3 [Sep 28] Enugu Rangers 0-0 Sunshine Stars El-Kaneni Warriors 1-0
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Lexis (linguistics)


dichotomy of spoken and written language which actually entails a shift in paradigm: while linguistic theory posits the superiority of spoken language over written language (as the former is the origin, comes naturally, and thus precedes the written language), or the written over the spoken (for the same reasons: the written language being the highest form of rudimentary speech), Halliday states they are two entirely different entities. He claims that speech is grammatically complex while writing is lexically dense. In other words, a sentence such as "
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Nawal El Kuwaitia


was released in 1984. The majority of her albums are not titled, but rather are referred to by number (e.g. Nawal 98, Nawal 99). She was once asked about the reason and she responded, "I take pride in all the songs of my album and therefore I don't refer one to the other, and I leave the album untitled so that I do not impose a certain song on the dear listener but I leave the choice open to them." She has also filmed many music videos (
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Integrationism


, or the symbolization of phonetic signs, students are equipped with the literacy to understand the written texts. However, it is often the case that students have a hard time understanding and interpreting a poem even though they know every single word. The glittering example reveals the problem of treating spoken language and written language as the same and implies the need to treat them differently. According to Kravchenko, spoken language and written language are different in that spoken language is temporal and local, while written language is atemporal and non-local
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Moabite language


Moabite is an extinct Canaanite language formerly spoken in Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early 1st millennium BC. It was written using a variant of the Phoenician alphabet. Most knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, which is the only known extensive text in the language. In addition, there is the three-line El-Kerak Inscription and a few seals. The main features distinguishing Moabite from fellow Canaanite languages such as Hebrew are: a plural in "-în" rather than "-îm"
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Ku (fictional language)


Ku is a fictional language appearing in the 2005 drama/thriller film "The Interpreter". In the film, Ku is a language spoken in the fictional African country of Matobo. The constructed language was created for the film by Said el-Gheithy, the director of the Centre for African Language Learning in Covent Garden, London. Commissioned by "The Interpreter's" director, Sydney Pollack, and Working Title Films, el-Gheithy adapted aspects of Shona and Swahili, languages spoken in Eastern and Southern Africa, to
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Integrationism


the community and society where one stays. With regard to it, this section first focuses on the distinction between spoken language (first-order language) and written language (second-order language) and how reading comprehension is achieved, and then aims at the impact of technology-enhanced interaction on reading comprehension. Traditionally, spoken language and written language are regarded as the two sides of the same coin In other words, written language is believed to fully represent its corresponding spoken language. Therefore, educators believe by teaching words
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