Vol. 2 No. 006 (2013): Issue 006

غلاف العدد 6 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 6 of Tabayyun (2013) includes the following studies and articles: “Translation and the Development of the Arabic Language: Two Sides of the Same Coin” (Hassan Hamzé); “Translation’s Influence on the Evolution of the Arabic Language” (Ali Najib Ibrahim); “The Role of Bilingual Dictionaries in the Arabic Translation Movement: The Case of Barthélemy’s Dictionary” (Nader Siraj); “The Fate of the Translation of Sciences in Arab Culture since Muhammad Ali: An Attempt at the Study of the Politics of Trans” (Thaer Deeb); “Translation and the Renewal of Philosophy in the Arabic Language” (Saleh Mesbah); “Novelistic and Literary Representations of Political Repression in Syria” (Nabil Suleiman); “Cinematic Culture in Syria: Between Mechanisms of Repression and Resistance” (Hassan Abbas); “On the Transformations of the Concept of Arab Nationalism by Hani Awwad [Arabic]” (Chamseddin Alkilani); “Nationalism and its Theories by Umut Ozkirimli” (Mona Sukkarieh); “The Holocaust, the Resurrection and the Nakba by Yair Auron [Hebrew]” (Mahmoud Muhareb); “Book Features” (Ziad mouna); “Report on the Second ACRPS Conference on Islamic Movements and Democratic Governance” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun); “Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism: Is There a Difference that Matters?” (Benedict Richard Anderson).

Published: 2013-05-01

Studies

  • Translation and the Development of the Arabic Language: Two Sides of the Same Coin

    Author: Hassan Hamzé
    07-22

    In this paper, Hamzé provides a thorough investigation into the intrinsic challenges to the field of translation. This analysis draws on linguistic diversity as a means for motivating...

  • Translation’s Influence on the Evolution of the Arabic Language

    Author: Ali Najib Ibrahim
    23-36

    This paper is premised on the notion that contact between the Arab “self” and the “other” occurs in tandem with the evolution of the Arabic language. The author argues that a consciousness of...

  • The Role of Bilingual Dictionaries in the Arabic Translation Movement: The Case of Barthélemy’s Dictionary

    Author: Nader Siraj
    37-46

    This study examines the work of French Orientalist Adrien Barthélemy, who produced an extensive bilingual Arabic-French dictionary that was used in Greater Syria in the first half of the 20th...

  • The Fate of the Translation of Sciences in Arab Culture since Muhammad Ali: An Attempt at the Study of the Politics of Trans

    Author: Thaer Deeb
    47-60

    This study revisits the well-documented history of the translation of sciences into the Arabic language, starting with Muhammad Ali in Egypt, in an attempt to present a new reading and...

  • Translation and the Renewal of Philosophy in the Arabic Language

    Author: Saleh Mesbah
    61-74

    Mesbah seeks to trace the role of translation in renewing Arab rhetoric in general, and philosophical rhetoric in particular. In so doing, he explores how various strategies of renewal have been...

  • Novelistic and Literary Representations of Political Repression in Syria

    Author: Nabil Suleiman
    77-98

    In an effort to distinguish political repression from other forms of social, religious, and sexual forms of violence (without suggesting an exclusionary distinction between them), Suleiman...

  • Cinematic Culture in Syria: Between Mechanisms of Repression and Resistance

    Author: Hassan Abbas
    99-118

    Abbas explores and defines cinematic culture and how deeply this culture was enrooted in Syrian society from the beginning of the Syrian cinematic industry until the 1970s. His study also traces...

Discussions

  • On the Transformations of the Concept of Arab Nationalism by Hani Awwad [Arabic]

    Author: Chamseddin Alkilani
    141-150

    Hani Awad in his book “The Concept of Arab Nationalism from the Material to the Imaginary” clearly expresses his desire to approach the research of Arab thinkers on the question of nationalism...

  • Nationalism and its Theories by Umut Ozkirimli

    Author: Mona Sukkarieh
    133-140

    The author bases his idea of a new stage in the theoretical debate over nationalism on the events of the late 1980s which he takes as fundamental evidence, such as the coming apart of the Soviet...

  • The Holocaust, the Resurrection and the Nakba by Yair Auron [Hebrew]

    Author: Mahmoud Muhareb
    151-156

    The official Israeli historical narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the 1948 war has refused to acknowledge the crime committed by Israeli military groups and the Israeli army in...

  • Book Features

    Author: Ziad mouna
    157-170

    Political Oppression and its manifestations in Selected Samples from Modern Arab Novels by Afif Farraj [Arabic]; Alphabet and its Semantics: Theory and Applications by Assem al-Masri [Arabic];...

Reports

  • Report on the Second ACRPS Conference on Islamic Movements and Democratic Governance

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    173-187

    The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) convened the second academic conference on “Islamic Movements and Democratic Governance: Experiences and Prospects”, held from October...

From the Library

  • Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism: Is There a Difference that Matters?

    Author: Benedict Richard Anderson
    121-130

    In Imagined Communities , I tried to illuminate the nature of this change by comparing it to the difficulties we face when we are shown photographs of ourselves taken as babies. These are...