Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study aims to assess the level of proactive behavior and strategic agility among senior academic leaders in universities in Baghdad Province, as perceived by heads of scientific departments. Additionally, it seeks to examine the relationship between the study variables. The descriptive-analytical method was used, with a study population of 413 department heads, of which 336 valid questionnaires were analyzed. The results indicate that academic leaders exhibit a good level of proactive behavior, while their strategic agility is at a moderate level, with identified gaps needing improvement, particularly in the area of opportunity investment strategy. The study also found a strong correlation between proactive behavior and strategic agility (correlation coefficient 0.893**). The study recommends establishing an effective system for reporting issues and proposing preventive solutions (problem prevention) to ensure prompt responses and the implementation of proactive solutions. It also emphasizes the necessity of empowering leaders to make proactive decisions and expand their authority, while enhancing strategic agility through balancing exploration and exploitation strategies and focusing on opportunity investment.

What distinguishes the literary language from other ordinary languages is that the literary language contains linguistic features and signs that symbolize funny connotations and moral symbols. The language of poetry is considered one of the most prominent and sublime literary models in which the word and the meaning are closely linked. The thing that has a pivotal role in a deep understanding of a literary text is a scientific study of the elements of the text’s language and its literary trends. The semiotic trend is one of the most important and prominent trends under which the reader can delve into the depths of the text by unraveling the riddles about its semiotic connotations.
This research aims to analyze the semiotics in the poem “The Ruins” by the poet Ibrahim Naji, through a semiotic analysis and reveal the hidden aesthetics in the text. This study attempts, through the descriptive-analytical approach, to study the poem “The Ruins” by the poet Ibrahim Naji, using semiotics, which has received great attention from linguists in Recently. One of the results that we reached through this research is that the semiotic study helps to investigate the hidden aesthetics in the poem “The Ruins” by the poet Ibrahim Naji and reveal the moral treasures hidden in its multiplication.

Angels are unseen creatures created by Allah from light, performing multiple roles in service to Allah and humans. The Quran speaks about angels, elucidating their nature and roles. In this study, we will address the managers (angels) and their relationship to the world of creation, and the limits set for them by the Quran. Key findings are: 1) the managers refer to angels tasked with managing the affairs of the universe by Allah's command. 2) The managing angels play an important role in organizing the movement of planets and stars. 3) The Quran has delineated the limits of the managers' authority; they are subject to Allah's command and do not possess absolute authority over affairs.

The Holy Qur’an is the miraculous book of God, which the Almighty revealed in the Arabic language, making it clear and eloquently miraculous. One of the methods of eloquence that it brought is deletion, which is considered one of the prominent linguistic phenomena in the Arabic language, especially in the Holy Qur’an. It is the dropping of one or more words from a sentence, and among its most important reasons are: The listener knows what is deleted if he is knowledgeable and aware of what is deleted and the frequent use of some words that occur frequently in speech. Which forces it to be deleted in order to reduce it. This research aims to study the rhetoric of deletion in the twenty-fifth part of the Qur’anic discourse, semantically and linguistically, based on the descriptive and analytical approach. The research concluded, through the applied study in the twenty-fifth part, that the Qur’anic verses, especially in this part, included semantically the rhetorical purposes of deletion, and among those purposes are brevity and abbreviation in speech, expansion and lightening, in addition to exaggeration and exaggeration due to the ambiguity and ambiguity it contains, and The purposes are also to belittle the matter of the omitted, or to refrain from mentioning the omitted in a specific place in order to honor or honor it.

Desertification is one of the risks that threaten the ecosystem and life, as it was found that the study area suffers from the problem of desertification and the emergence of its manifestations, which affected the decline in the productive capacity of agricultural lands, the decrease in their fertility, and the decrease in nutrients in them. Therefore, the research summarized the identification of the manifestations of desertification in the Middle Euphrates due to the dimensions of these manifestations. Economic, political and social threats to the most important natural resources, which is the land, which is the basis of economic activities, and it was shown through classification and analysis of land cover and indicators and spectral evidence of drought in the study area using seven indicators represented by (vegetation cover, water cover, soil moisture, soil salinity, soil erosion, Biological crust, sand dunes) The study area suffers from a decrease in the percentage of vegetation cover. The reason for the decrease is due to the prevailing climatic conditions represented by drought, lack of rainfall, and high temperatures, in addition to human factors that led to the transformation of large areas of vegetation cover into barren lands.