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The newly named Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners come from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Lebanon. Winners of the 15th annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2021 are, upper row from left, Iman Mersal of Egypt; Mizouni Bannani of Tunisia; Asma Bint Muqbel Bin Awad Al-Ahmadi of Saudi Arabia; and Michael Cooperson in the United States. And on the lower row from left, Khelil Gouia of Tunisia; Saeed El-Masry of Egypt; Tahera Qutbuddin of the United States; and Dar Al Jadeed in Lebano...

Zayed Book Award Reveals ‘Literature’, ‘Young Author’ And ‘Children’s Literature’ Shortlists Tue 16th March 2021 | 11:30 AM ABU DHABI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 16th Mar, 2021) The Sheikh Zayed Book Award has announced the shortlists for the ‘Literature’, ‘Young Author’ and ‘Children’s Literature’ categories of its 15th edition. These nine shortlisted titles hailfromEgypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Ara...

Zayed Book Award reveals ‘Literature’, ‘Young Author’ and ‘Children’s Literature’ shortlists ABU DHABI, 16th March, 2021 (WAM) -- The Sheikh Zayed Book Award has announced the shortlists for the ‘Literature’, ‘Young Author’ and ‘Children’s Literature’ categories of its 15th edition. These nine shortlisted titles hail from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine and Lebanon, with female writers claiming the largest share with seven t...

Studying the Whipping Boy Concept: Truth or Myth? The history of the whipping boys - although generally accepted as true - is largely clouded in mystery as scholars were unable to prove it for a very long time. The story of a whipping boy is certainly a story of injustice and mistreatment, and a great insight into the skewed social hierarchy of the early and late medieval period.     At the time, young boys from the upper echelons, be they kings, heirs, princes, highborn nobles, or monarch...

A multi perspective approach to understanding the development of occupational therapy in the UK December 22, 2020 Scholarly articles are meant to stimulate discussion, but sometimes they do for unintended reasons. A recent article in the Christmas issue of The BMJ by one of us (Neil McLennan) did just this, provoking strong reactions and new discussions on social media and a number of rapid responses on bmj.com. The article profiled Wilfred Owen’s physician Arthur John Brock and his approach...

  Remembering Distinguished Professor Leith Mullings, Pioneering Anthropologist Committed to Social Justice The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the death of Distinguished Professor Emerita Leith Mullings (Anthropology), whose scholarship focused on inequality, its consequences, and resistance to it in the United States and other regions of the world and who was committed to addressing timely social issues and “empowering communities through knowledge.” Mullings died on ...

Toward a Labor Theory of Generation X Samir: It would be nice to have that kind of job security. — Office Space IF MIKE JUDGE’S 1999 cubicle farm revenge fantasy Office Space has turned 21, the film’s principal characters would, in fact, be pushing 50 now — a milestone that protagonist Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston), who labors in the alienated vacuum of the Initech Corporation, deemed existentially impossible. Yet here we are: a middle-aged Generation X that has carried on through the...