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"Our Hezbollah-style groups in America are much larger than what we have in Lebanon"

An Iranian professor made a prediction about American college students after Pro-Palestine rioting. Numerous campuses across the US have seen massive protests in support of Gaza.

Amidst widespread wave of pro-Palestine protests in American universities, an Iranian professor called anti-Israel demonstrators in the US "our people".

 

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Havana, May 19 (Prensa Latina) More than 2,500 delegates from Cuba and 38 other countries will participate in the 1st Saberes-UH 2023 International Convention, sponsored by the University of Havana, the director of Institutional Communication at that educational center, Yanicet Napoles, infoirmed.

Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.

In the past four years, Australia has undergone a major change in the way it funds supports and services for people living with disability. Part of this change has, of course, occurred in the discourse of disability, and the emergence of the term “support” rather than “care” has been a feature of this discursive shift. In this paper we used aspects of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory to analyse how the term “support” is used in a seven key policy and program documents rela...

Eric Friginal is professor and head of the Department of English and Communication and director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He specialises in applied corpus linguistics, quantitative research, language policy and planning, technology and language teaching, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, discipline-specific writing, and the analysis of spoken professional discourse in the workplace. His recent p...