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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 106–120.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Rawan Maki Abstract What makes fashion “local”? What makes it “sustainable”? Can non-Western fashion locales have the same definitions of sustainability espoused by the global industry? This article reflects on a fashion “sustainability” for Bahrain and the Arab Gulf that goes beyond a focus...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... The article suggests that despite the novel’s intense performance of self-reflexivity, it demonstrates a traumatic suppression of its own immediate historical conditions, particularly its temporal proximity to the events of the First Gulf War. This article thus reads the text’s telling silences and its...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in 1908 on Oxford Street. 47 The framing of this event clearly attempted to displace the Western bias deeply entrenched in fashion history by showcasing designers such as Maki, who hails from a former British colonial protectorate and seeks to reach a global audience by marketing Gulf- and Arab-world...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 99–114.
Published: 01 September 2008
... oving from Tehran to a Viennese boarding school at age fourteen, Satrapi confronts much ignorance from Euro peans about her nation and religion: "So many Europeans do not know the difference be tween Arabs and Iranians.They don't know anything of our centuries-old culture.They seem to think Iran has...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., and khaki uniforms ease what ought to be a painful display of militarized power over bare life. Forster’s narrator honestly, if despairingly, acknowledges that although he privately feels an immense gulf between those in power and himself, in reality an even larger gulf divided the Forsterian “Me” from...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Hamlet, though that goes against Shakespeare’s characterization. 109 Most prominently, Hamlet has been alcoholic in Arab adaptations such as Jawad Al-Assadi’s Insū Hāmlit (1994), directed by Issa Diyab. 110 According to Katherine Hennessey, “The connection between alcohol abuse and Hamlet’s...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 121–143.
Published: 01 October 2022
... are what Rowland Abiodun calls visual oríkìs , visual ways of telling the òrìṣàs ’ myths. 31 This African style of dress is heavily influenced by Arab embroidery and modeling due to trade networks and intense contact with the Islamized peoples of Africa, resulting in asymmetrical embroideries...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 191–209.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and passed forw ard through medieval Arabic translation and comm entary, prem odern m eteorology included w hat we now call geology. It is this study that guided early m oderns as they thought about the rela tionships between their ow n sublunary bodies and the forces that influenced them. Early modern m...
