The representation of the world in national Arab news agencies: an exploration of (trans)national networks in the official Arab media

The purpose of this paper is to draw a map of the representation of the world and of Arab states as reflected by the countries of the region. To do so, we have analysed the news (4,093 news randomly collected on February and August 2005) produced by the governments of the Arab states through their national news agencies. Several regional and world maps had been constructed to show the official Arab representation of the World, the Arab countries conflict agenda, the persistence of colonial ties (with the European metropolis) and the emergence of new relationships (Asian countries). The representation of the world that appeared in the analysis focuses its interest on the USA, the war in Iraq, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the United Kingdom, France, and Iran. The Arab regional powers organise the flow of information (Saudi Arabia and Egypt) and the colonial past determines the current structure of communication (French-speaking bloc and English-speaking bloc).

Visions of the Spanish Revolution: identities and conflicts in post-welfare societies

This is a case study that analyzes photographic documents of the social protest in Spain between 2011 and 2013. The analysis is qualitative and considers the use of space, the visual expression of the messages and the orientation toward the causes or effects of political, economic and social changes. Visual sociology allows us to appreciate, in the case of the Spanish Revolution, a dynamic of “reflexivity” unrecognizable from other research approaches. Two successive waves of social mobilization in response to two different shocks can be appreciated. The first is given by political corruption, unemployment and the threat to consumer society. The second shock is caused by the savage cuts in the Welfare State. Social mobilization is expressed differently in each phase, and the forms taken by the protests show how the class structure in post industrial society shapes the reactions to the crisis of the Welfare State.

No evolution but revolution: The future of the Dutch terraced house

Dealing with the environmental problems is one of the biggest challenges within the field of architectural technology. Solutions to this problem are mostly exclusively sought in materials and computer technology. However, far more attention should be paid to humans and their role in this problem. This paper presents a small part of our bachelor thesis, which started as an investigation on the Dutch terraced house and through research ended as a study on the human behaviour and motivation. The first part of this paper, the evolution, is focussed on the traditional way of problem solving. The second part, the revolution, is focussed on human behaviour and motivation. These two studies put together lead to our conclusion: The only way to structurally solve our environmental problem is to revolutionize our way of building by involving the human interaction into our solution instead of forcing it out.

Manuscript on the Chilean Revolution, undated

Undated narrative by an American scribe detailing the events of the 1822 Chilean Revolution.

Essay on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars,

This is a contemporary draft composition reviewing the course of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Tudor offers opinions on England’s diplomatic options after the renewal of hostilities and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger: "His task is momentous and all Europe are watching his movements with anxiety." The document is signed "Marcus Valinus."

Kitāb Nayl al-arab fī muthallathāt al-ʻArab

li-Ḥasan Quwaydir al-Khalīlī ; tarjamat al-muʼallif Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Fannī.

Hādhihi Ḥāshiyat al-Sharīf al-faqīḥ al-ʻallāmah al-shāriḥ al-Mahdī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khiḍr al-Wazzānī ʻalá Sharḥ Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī li-naẓm Alqāb al-ḥadīth li-Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻArabī al-Fāsī

Lithograph.

Hādhihi qiṣṣat al-qāḍī maʻa al-sāriq wa-mā jará baynahumā min al-muḥāwarah wa-al-āyāt al-qurʼānīyah wa-al-aḥādīth al-nabawīyah wa-al-amthāl al-ʻArabīyah ḥattá intaṣara al-liṣṣ ʻalá al-qāḍī wa-akhadha thiyābahu wa-baghlatahu wa-hiya qiṣṣah gharībah

Lithographed.

Kitāb Mukālamāt ʻArabīyah : manuscript, [ca. 1783]

المقالة الأولى في حروف العربية ووضعهم في الكلام أول ذلك علىيد اليمين على جانب الشمال... :Incipit

Amthāl Luqmān al-Ḥakīm wa-baʻḍ aqwāl al-ʻArab =: Locmani Sapientis Fabulae et selecta quaedam Arabum adagia

cum interpretatione latina & notis Thomae Erpenii.

Sūrat Yūsuf wa-tahajjī al-ʻArab =: Historia Iosephi Patriarchae ex Alcorano, Arabicè

cum triplici versione Latina, & scholijs Thomae Erpenii, cujus & alphabetum Arabicum praemittitur.

Kitāb al-Ḥikam / li-ḥaḍrat al-Shaykh al-Akbar wa-al-Kibrīt al-Aḥmar Sayyidī al-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻArabī al-Ṭāʼī al-Ḥātimī al-Andalusī : manuscript, 1904

Copy completed in 16 Ṣafar 1322 [June 17, 1904] in the hand of Aḥmad Fahmī al-ʻAṭṭār.

Bulūgh al-arab bi-taḥrīr al-nisab / li-Mawlānā al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Humām Sībawayh zamānih wa-Farīd ʻaṣrih wa-awānih al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Ghunaymī al-Anṣārī : manuscript, [1622]

According to a muqābalah note on f. 11r, copy is collated with the author's copy in the presence of the author. The author signed the copy in his handwriting in the last days of Shaʻbān 1031 AH [June 1622 AD].