Surra Man Ra'a

This research explores the multifaceted nature of gossip, both in general and within specific cultural and workplace contexts. Gossip is defined as an unplanned, spontaneous activity that involves discussing absent third parties, often within a triad of sender, receiver, and subject. It serves various functions, ranging from reducing anxiety and clarifying uncertain situations to fostering social bonds and enforcing social norms. However, gossip can also be a tool for workplace bullying, spreading harmful rumors, and damaging reputations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to technologies that enable computers and smartphones to perform advanced tasks such as vision, comprehension, and language translation. In recent years, the use of various AI applications has rapidly expanded, including translation and the emergence of generative AI. Despite the many advantages of these technologies, they may not be without drawbacks. From a technical perspective, translation using this technology may be prone to errors, weaknesses, superficial translation, or bias. On a personal level, addiction to this technology may lead to a gradual atrophy of personal skills. This research aims to shed light on this, clarify the advantages and benefits of AI translation, diagnose its shortcomings, identify ways to address them, and address the uses of generative AI in the academic field, given its potential. For those entering the field of translation, complementary skills are required, and generative AI may be one of the choices they can leverage. The research also aims to transform the negative aspects of AI into positive ones, employ it in the academic field, and develop guidelines for its use.

This research intends to emphasize the notion of cultural translation, its tactics, influence, and function in cultural interaction, as well as to identify the challenges that translators experience throughout the translation process. The research identified the most significant challenges that translators experience in producing clear and intelligible translations in the target language. The research also examined the most essential approaches utilized in cultural translation to help with the translation process. This study employs a qualitative approach. We conducted this research by collecting cultural samples and applying cultural translation techniques. This research's strategy led to fewer mistakes and prevented complications for translators, especially with regard to equivalency.

Ecofeminist philosophy endeavours to create egalitarian and holistic societies that maintain the sustainability of the planet and its inhabitants. That prodigious objective requires various efforts to create a comprehensive awareness and actions represented by instituting laws and public activism. Literature has an important role in publicizing ecofeminist awareness. Laline Paull's The Bees is a sophisticated novel that holds many ecofeminist praxis. The heroine in The Bees, Flora 717, is a black bee who belongs to the sanitation class in a strict hierarchical, totalitarian, and theological system. However, she could save her beehive in times of calamity and ensure its continuity. The paper hypothesis the presence of ecofeminist themes in the representative and narrative levels of the novel. Thus, the paper shall apply ecofeminist lenses to investigate the novel to dismantle the layers of meanings of the novel.

Originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, British spy fiction became a literary and cultural phenomenon that was closely linked to the country's imperial consolidation and existential threats to Britain's dominance in the world. However, it was eventually supplanted by animosity and stagnation. In order to adopt and use the leads in a study of John le Carré's alternate realistic intellectual disengagement in passionate post-war novels, the main goal is to investigate how the genre both reflects and critiques British struggles with the loss of imperial power in a study of the interwoven histories of nationalism and post-colonialism. In effect, this study argues that spy fiction functioned as a narrative vehicle for entertainment and articulating geopolitical fears, processing national trauma and sustaining imperialist postcolonial imperial romance.

This study attempts to redefine the poetics of one of the most influential experimental poets in contemporary cultural scene, Jackson Mac Low. It discusses his aesthetics as generally representative of the experimental endeavors of contemporary poetics in all its characteristic multi-disciplinary and cross-generic registers. This study argues that the concept of “anarchic multiplicity” is of key significance for a compound understanding of the poetics of Jackson Mac Low. As articulated by French philosophers Félix Guattari's and Gilles Deleuze’s, in their collaborative work Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972), this concept explores how chance-based composition in the work of Mac Low is best understood as a means with which he attempts to achieve the greatest possible degree of democracy in the complex relationship between the poet and the reader, with the least amount of centrality for the poet’s ego. Simply put, Mac Low’s poetics attempts to “purify” the artistic expression from the workings of subjectivity or authorial intent.

Discourse has historically been a vital means of communication, the advent of media has transformed it into a tool for manipulation and marginalisation in contemporary times. Therefore, this study seeks to demonstrate how discourse was utilised by the West to manipulate and marginalise the Palestinians, who are regarded as foes by the West, through their media. This will be achieved by exposing their double standards through the analysis of the discourse projected in their articles following October 7th incident. The study tackles a very complicated issue: about how Western media portrays Palestinian people in comparison with Israeli people. Specifically, it aims at addressing the double standards of the western media and answer certain questions about how media deals with Palestinian issues during the war, while on the other hand how they dipct the Israeli army. It also tries to resolve this complicated issue through using the critical discourse analysis (CDA). Data analysis is done by adpoting critical discourse analysis adopting Theo Van Leeuwen's model. The study conducts the qualitative approach, three journals were examined as study material. Data were analysed by observing linguistic structures and representations of social actors from Theo van Leeuwen's adopted critical discourse analysis model. Data were analysed according to three concepts specialized to demonstrate marginalization of Palatinian nation. The findings revealed stark demonisation of unfavored actors, such as those standing as foes to the West, while sympathy for favoured actors, such as those standing as allies to the west, thus obviously exposes double standards.