A5052370267- Socioeconomic Development in MENA
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Islamic Studies and History
- Themes in Literature Analysis
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Education and Islamic Studies
- South Asian Cinema and Culture
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Middle East Politics and Society
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Gulf University for Science & Technology
2016-2025
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2022
Arab Open University
2016
We report the observation of a coalescing compact binary with component masses $2.5\text{-}4.5~M_\odot$ and $1.2\text{-}2.0~M_\odot$ (all measurements quoted at 90% credible level). The gravitational-wave signal GW230529_181500 was observed during fourth observing run LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detector network on 2023 May 29 by LIGO Livingston Observatory. primary source has mass less than $5~M_\odot$ 99% credibility. cannot definitively determine from data alone whether either is neutron star or...
Continuous gravitational waves (CWs) emission from neutron stars carries information about their internal structure and equation of state, it can provide tests General Relativity. We present a search for CWs set 45 known pulsars in the first part fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA observing run, as O4a. conducted targeted each pulsar using three independent analysis methods considering single-harmonic dual-harmonic models. find no evidence CW signal O4a data both models upper limits on amplitude...
This study explored the portrayal of illness and disability in Kuwaiti author Kulthoum Dashti’s memoir Almost Faded: Rheumatoid Arthritis Journey specifically focusing on how health-based thematic categorizations intersect with perceptions external world. Using Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC-2015) software program, a corpus specific to novel was analyzed, retrieving categories contrasting them psychologically validated lexica. The analysis revealed author’s strong authenticity narrating...
This essay is a collaborative work between an author/scholar and linguistics scholar to navigate the terrain of writing about disability. It computational linguistic analysis memoir Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness. also creative-critical reflection lack illness narratives by Arab women authors. Conceptual metaphors, motion verbs, patterns were examined in memoir. The revealed predominant conceptual structures, including ACTION IS MOTION LIFE VERTICALITY, with higher frequency...
The Intimate Lives of Disabled People is an important addition to disability literature that bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks Disability Studies and empirical research. Author Kris...
This essay begins by discussing illness narratives in literature. Given the lack of Arabic literature and Anglophone literature, author has written a collection short stories, which are partly memoir dealing with her own disability. The work is entitled Notes on Flesh. It deals disability Kuwait Middle East general. Using critical theory such as Arthur Frank's storytelling writing self body, this interrogates process healing, self-writing, reception Writing women's lives crucial, even more...
What does it mean to be disabled in a society that is always pushing for normalcy? There has been little, if any, scholarly attention focusing on Eastern perceptions and understandings of disability. Global disability research still often neglected. We now have statistical data, but hardly any personal, real, lived experiences women with disabilities. These voices are ever heard. Academia boasts the flourishing field studies since 1990s, yet achieve global perspective. Critical needed. In...
When illness and disability strike, it can seem as though one’s very being is threatened. We tend to consider a temporary situation, phase, phase that will be done with, sooner or later, the victim of attack rectified, survive it. But in chronic illness, there gap, missing piece cannot found, despite all attempts. This not necessarily loss, claim loss falls into dangerous territory positing once complete whole body and/or self. The losses are due changing body, but rather discriminatory...
People’s attitudes toward illness and disability are a product of how they informed culturally. Most studies on offer quantitative views apply Western models. In this paper, through series invoked conversations (morphed into poems) with my Palestinian maternal grandmother mother, I examine the concepts resilience, survival, historical trauma. By using autoethnography poetic inquiry, consider impact Gulf War families treat survival as tool by resilience. Circling back to disability, war...
Limited literature is available from Arab women authors on the topic of disability, and even less interest found when looking at publishing industry. This autoethnographic paper examines role industry in promoting underrepresented voices questions who determines which are important deserving publication. article intends to highlight obstacles that disabled scholars individuals confront sector by examining author's personal experience a hybrid memoir. Head Above Water: Reflections Illness...
We present results from a search for X-ray/gamma-ray counterparts of gravitational-wave (GW) candidates the third observing run (O3) LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network using Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT). The includes 636 GW received in low latency, 86 which have been confirmed by offline analysis and included cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogs (GWTC-3). Targeted searches were carried out on entire sample maximum--likelihood NITRATES pipeline BAT data made available via...
The magnetar SGR 1935+2154 is the only known Galactic source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRBs from were first detected by CHIME/FRB and STARE2 in 2020 April, after conclusion LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA Collaborations' O3 observing run. Here we analyze four periods gravitational wave (GW) data GEO600 detector coincident with FRB activity CHIME/FRB, as well X-ray glitches NICER NuSTAR close to time one FRBs. We do not detect any significant GW emission events. Instead, using a short-duration search...
We present the results of a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernova SN 2023ixf, which was observed in galaxy Messier 101 via optical emission on 2023 May 19th, during LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA 15th Engineering Run. define five-day on-source window an accompanying signal may have occurred. No gravitational waves been identified data when at least two observatories were operating, covered $\sim 14\%$ this window. report detection efficiency various possible...
There is a dearth of disability literature in the Arab world, especially studies related to cultural representation disabled people media. This article provides historical overview television and theatre Kuwait, an exploration different perspectives such as individual social models disability, well approaches disability. also critically explores analyzes contents number TV shows stage plays that show characters Kuwait. After analysis multiple genres, relation literature, are found be shown...
This article uses personal narrative and embodied experiences as autoethnographic strategies to explore the grief of losing a companion animal. It draws on my disabled academic who continues teach navigate terrain writing. Losing dog, Flake, has left me unable voice trauma. Throughout, I draw various scholars’ interpretations writing, loss, trauma, nonhuman relationships, emerge with tribute our significant relationships others: friends, students, animals.
Women have long used the literary theme of women’s madness as a form protest within patriarchal cultures. Instead strictly Eurocentric approach to female protagonists’ experiences madness, dissertation places British imperial culture in nineteenth century alongside postcolonial writing by women, whether Caribbean (Dominica), South Asia (India), or Middle East and North Africa (Jordan Egypt). Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996), Arundhati Roy’s The God Small Things (1997), Fadia Faqir’s...
This paper takes on a critical literary approach to Hanif Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic.” Through close analysis, text reveals intricate concept of hybridity and identity in neocolonial setting. Identities are shaped founded false notion “purity.” The presents tensions facing immigrants their attempt formulate maintain an that falls between complete assimilation rejection one’s own culture. To find balance is complex burden hybridity. characters must sense belonging, it...
Literary disability studies focuses on reading the representation of in literary and cultural texts. While there has been a plethora Western scholarship around anglophone literature readings discourse, remains little concerning Arab narratives that examine disability. The silence is staggering part larger metanarrative as taboo. article examines depictions multiple sclerosis (MS) through different artifacts to arrive at MS Kuwait. writers challenge re-affirm their fictional but also engage...
Life narratives are rare in the Gulf region due to many issues. Kuwait women’s writing about their lives, bodies, illnesses, and disabilities is almost unheard of. This article considers two texts by contemporary Kuwaiti women situates illness within Kuwait’s social context. By disability, authors re-claim voice agency, silenced bodies as Helene Cixous urges write through Écriture feminine. examines from a comparative perspective, highlighting themes of mental illness, healing writing.