Abstract The paper Rights of Persons with Disabilities in India: Provisions, Promises and Reality traces the historical evolution of the disability related legal provisions in India briefly, in the context of the United Nations mandated Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975) and the Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD,2007). In such a scenario, the paper attempts to arrive at an understanding of the extent to which the provisions have been implemented. To this extent, the researcher conducted a series of telephonic interviews with several parent-advocates who have been vocal about disability rights in India. An extensive interview was also conducted with a parent-activist, Mr. A.Joshi, who has been at the forefront of the disability rights movement in India with his personal as well as professional engagements at a national level and who was able to provide a critical understanding of the systemic roadblocks in the implementation of the legal provisions. The paper particularly tried to look at the implementation of the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPwD Act), 2016 and the proposed dilution of the National Trust Act (NTA), 1999 that was hailed by many as a landmark Act for its provision of legal guardianship of individuals with special needs (after 18 years of age). A critical reading of the press coverage on these issues as well as the extensive interview with Mr. Joshi threw significant light on them. In conclusion, although several remarkable disability laws have been passed in India, till date, due to systemic inadequacies and loopholes, the fissures between what could have been achieved and what has been achieved, are quite wide. A more concerted effort needs to be taken towards strengthening the dialogue between various stakeholders in the disability sector as well as place pressure on the powers that be, to acknowledge the gaps inherent in the system.
{"title":"RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN INDIA: PROVISIONS, PROMISES AND REALITY","authors":"Triveni Goswami Vernal","doi":"10.54729/2789-8296.1069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8296.1069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper Rights of Persons with Disabilities in India: Provisions, Promises and Reality traces the historical evolution of the disability related legal provisions in India briefly, in the context of the United Nations mandated Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975) and the Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD,2007). In such a scenario, the paper attempts to arrive at an understanding of the extent to which the provisions have been implemented. To this extent, the researcher conducted a series of telephonic interviews with several parent-advocates who have been vocal about disability rights in India. An extensive interview was also conducted with a parent-activist, Mr. A.Joshi, who has been at the forefront of the disability rights movement in India with his personal as well as professional engagements at a national level and who was able to provide a critical understanding of the systemic roadblocks in the implementation of the legal provisions. The paper particularly tried to look at the implementation of the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPwD Act), 2016 and the proposed dilution of the National Trust Act (NTA), 1999 that was hailed by many as a landmark Act for its provision of legal guardianship of individuals with special needs (after 18 years of age). A critical reading of the press coverage on these issues as well as the extensive interview with Mr. Joshi threw significant light on them. In conclusion, although several remarkable disability laws have been passed in India, till date, due to systemic inadequacies and loopholes, the fissures between what could have been achieved and what has been achieved, are quite wide. A more concerted effort needs to be taken towards strengthening the dialogue between various stakeholders in the disability sector as well as place pressure on the powers that be, to acknowledge the gaps inherent in the system.","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133470626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FACTORS INFLUENCING POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN LEBANON: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PERCEIVED CONGRUENCE","authors":"Mahmoud A. El Homssi, A. A. Ali, A. Kurdi","doi":"10.54729/2789-8296.1112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8296.1112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133347881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract 'Snatched and yanked' the readers begin a journey in Beloved’s extravagant and meandering narrative—a narrative filled with repetitions and returns that mutilate time beyond recognition. This paper aims to map time in Beloved, to understand its narrative insurgence, and feel the foreign terrains it leaves the reader in. I depend on Peter Brooks’ essay “Freud’s Masterplot” to contextualize the patterns of repetitions and returns that mutilate time in the text through a psychoanalytic understanding. Crucial to the psychoanalytic understanding of the narrative is the comprehension of narrative desire, precisely how the death instinct can be at work in the narrative. Given the controversial status of the death instinct in psychoanalysis, I also rely on Matte Blanco’s “The Four Antinomies of The Death Instinct” to elucidate how the death instinct takes root in the narrative and interacts with time. This maimed temporal map of Beloved takes the reader from three-dimensional reality on an ever-deviating spiral downwards to reach the purest, undifferentiated mode of being.
{"title":"BELOVED & THE EROTICS OF TEMPORAL MUTILATION","authors":"Ruba Habli","doi":"10.54729/2789-8296.1126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8296.1126","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 'Snatched and yanked' the readers begin a journey in Beloved’s extravagant and meandering narrative—a narrative filled with repetitions and returns that mutilate time beyond recognition. This paper aims to map time in Beloved, to understand its narrative insurgence, and feel the foreign terrains it leaves the reader in. I depend on Peter Brooks’ essay “Freud’s Masterplot” to contextualize the patterns of repetitions and returns that mutilate time in the text through a psychoanalytic understanding. Crucial to the psychoanalytic understanding of the narrative is the comprehension of narrative desire, precisely how the death instinct can be at work in the narrative. Given the controversial status of the death instinct in psychoanalysis, I also rely on Matte Blanco’s “The Four Antinomies of The Death Instinct” to elucidate how the death instinct takes root in the narrative and interacts with time. This maimed temporal map of Beloved takes the reader from three-dimensional reality on an ever-deviating spiral downwards to reach the purest, undifferentiated mode of being.","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133554059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NURSES’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, BEHAVIOR AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF JOB STRESS IN LEBANON","authors":"Suzan S. Al Kadi, A. Beydoun, A. A. Ali","doi":"10.54729/2789-8296.1131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8296.1131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115658205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A TWO-WAY TRAFFIC BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS","authors":"Mayssah El Nayal, M. G. Sayegh","doi":"10.54729/2789-8296.1140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8296.1140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125308183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE BIG-FIVE PERSONALITY FACTORS AS PREDICTORS OF OBSESSION-COMPULSION AMONG A SAMPLE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM SUDAN","authors":"A. Abdel-Khalek, S. Bakhiet, H. Osman","doi":"10.54729/2789-8296.1139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8296.1139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131912597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Abdel Khalek, Mayssah El Nayal, Olfat Mahmoud
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a major challenge at the social, economic and psychological levels, in addition to the issue of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in the wake of the Naksaa of 1948. The main hypothesis of this study is that the difficult circumstances experienced by the displaced may affect their personality traits. The sample consisted of 430 individuals, (n=204) Syrian refugees and (n=226) Palestinian refugees of both sexes. All the members of the sample responded to the Arabic Inventory of the Five Big Personality Factors. The inventory enjoys good to high alpha coefficients in both samples, and was administered by 15 social specialists during February and March 2022. The findings revealed statistically significant differences in neuroticism in both the Syrian and the Palestinian samples. Women’s mean scores were higher, while there were no statistically significant differences between the sexes on any of the other personality factors. Upon comparing the Syrian and the Palestinian samples on the personality factors, one statistically significant difference appeared in the neuroticism factor, where the Syrian mean scores were higher than those of the Palestinians, including the sexes. Calculating the correlation coefficients among the five factors, it was shown that the correlations in the Palestinian sample of both sexes were twice that of the Syrian sample of both sexes (10 to 5 statistically significant correlations). By conducting a factorial analysis of the correlations between the personality factors, two factors were extracted from the Syrian sample, labelled “Balanced Personality” and “Neuroticism vs. Extraversion”. In the sample of Palestine, one bipolar factor was extracted labeled “Stable personality vs Extraversion” Upon comparison with an Egyptian sample that lives in a stable environment, the factors of extraversion, conscientiousness in both the Syrian and the Palestinian samples were found to increase, which enables them to adapt to the current circumstances.
{"title":"عوامل الشخصية الخمسة لدى النازحين السوريين والفلسطينيين المقيمين في المخيمات اللبنانيةTHE FIVE BIG FACTORS OF PERSONALITY AMONG ISPLACED SYRIANS AND PALESTINIANS REFUGEES LIVING IN LEBANON","authors":"Ahmad Abdel Khalek, Mayssah El Nayal, Olfat Mahmoud","doi":"10.54729/bhrt8429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/bhrt8429","url":null,"abstract":"Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a major challenge at the social, economic and psychological levels, in addition to the issue of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in the wake of the Naksaa of 1948. The main hypothesis of this study is that the difficult circumstances experienced by the displaced may affect their personality traits. The sample consisted of 430 individuals, (n=204) Syrian refugees and (n=226) Palestinian refugees of both sexes. All the members of the sample responded to the Arabic Inventory of the Five Big Personality Factors. The inventory enjoys good to high alpha coefficients in both samples, and was administered by 15 social specialists during February and March 2022. The findings revealed statistically significant differences in neuroticism in both the Syrian and the Palestinian samples. Women’s mean scores were higher, while there were no statistically significant differences between the sexes on any of the other personality factors. Upon comparing the Syrian and the Palestinian samples on the personality factors, one statistically significant difference appeared in the neuroticism factor, where the Syrian mean scores were higher than those of the Palestinians, including the sexes. Calculating the correlation coefficients among the five factors, it was shown that the correlations in the Palestinian sample of both sexes were twice that of the Syrian sample of both sexes (10 to 5 statistically significant correlations). By conducting a factorial analysis of the correlations between the personality factors, two factors were extracted from the Syrian sample, labelled “Balanced Personality” and “Neuroticism vs. Extraversion”. In the sample of Palestine, one bipolar factor was extracted labeled “Stable personality vs Extraversion” Upon comparison with an Egyptian sample that lives in a stable environment, the factors of extraversion, conscientiousness in both the Syrian and the Palestinian samples were found to increase, which enables them to adapt to the current circumstances.","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125590223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“If only time would return one day”. A beautiful expression that we hear very often in all Arab countries, it carries a lot of meanings, some of which are beautiful, and some are stressful and tiring for the soul; because of the painful memories it contains. Alienation is a conscious person’s awareness of his need for a homeland, even when he is in the country in which he was born and grew up loving it, because this homeland has changed so much that it is no longer possible to be comfortable about it. Usually, this alienation occurs when the homeland becomes a dwelling for dark brute thinking, or a place in which ignorance grows like the moss climbing the walls of old homes. On the other hand, expatriation is the person’s feeling of nostalgy to his country after emigrating because of need or suppression, while holding the country’s image in the form of beautiful reminiscences in his imagination, or childish love stories, or sweet bitter memories that cannot be forgotten whenever alienation and expatriation are both congregated within one person. This is when the considered person felt alienation in his own homeland before his departure, and then felt nostalgic to his homeland after emigration; this new feeling becomes an unstable psychological state that lingers in a constant life of wandering in place and time, searching for another homeland. The feeling of alienation creates the most severe and agonizing human feelings, because it is produced by economic, political, social and cultural circumstances that surround humans, and cause the collapse of social relationships and shaking of relation with the person’s own self, or between him and others, or society. It is the actual schizophrenia, the intrapersonal breakdown from self, the resentment and complaining, as well as isolation and hostility. It is different than expatriation that is caused by travelling or emigrating a country to another for personal reasons, related to economy, education, work or pursuing knowledge and expertise. Expatriation by travelling or emigration might be a personal escape from pressures caused by circumstances or political, economic, religious and social conflicts in our countries, but it remains a personal decision, a choice that anyone can voluntarily pick, and it is different that alienation discussed here, even though both cases are somehow interlocking in some causes within the general scenes of our Arab countries and its despicable reality.
{"title":"الغربة القسرية وتحديات البقاء في شعرمحمود درويش","authors":"Bachir Faraj","doi":"10.54729/woxq2326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/woxq2326","url":null,"abstract":"“If only time would return one day”. A beautiful expression that we hear very often in all Arab countries, it carries a lot of meanings, some of which are beautiful, and some are stressful and tiring for the soul; because of the painful memories it contains. Alienation is a conscious person’s awareness of his need for a homeland, even when he is in the country in which he was born and grew up loving it, because this homeland has changed so much that it is no longer possible to be comfortable about it. Usually, this alienation occurs when the homeland becomes a dwelling for dark brute thinking, or a place in which ignorance grows like the moss climbing the walls of old homes. On the other hand, expatriation is the person’s feeling of nostalgy to his country after emigrating because of need or suppression, while holding the country’s image in the form of beautiful reminiscences in his imagination, or childish love stories, or sweet bitter memories that cannot be forgotten whenever alienation and expatriation are both congregated within one person. This is when the considered person felt alienation in his own homeland before his departure, and then felt nostalgic to his homeland after emigration; this new feeling becomes an unstable psychological state that lingers in a constant life of wandering in place and time, searching for another homeland. The feeling of alienation creates the most severe and agonizing human feelings, because it is produced by economic, political, social and cultural circumstances that surround humans, and cause the collapse of social relationships and shaking of relation with the person’s own self, or between him and others, or society. It is the actual schizophrenia, the intrapersonal breakdown from self, the resentment and complaining, as well as isolation and hostility. It is different than expatriation that is caused by travelling or emigrating a country to another for personal reasons, related to economy, education, work or pursuing knowledge and expertise. Expatriation by travelling or emigration might be a personal escape from pressures caused by circumstances or political, economic, religious and social conflicts in our countries, but it remains a personal decision, a choice that anyone can voluntarily pick, and it is different that alienation discussed here, even though both cases are somehow interlocking in some causes within the general scenes of our Arab countries and its despicable reality.","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117216029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and Post-War Reconciliation: from Optimism to Resilience. At the end of the civil war, Lebanon tried to rebuild itself but fairly quickly wars, assassinations, repeated political crises and an influx of refugees weakened it. From 2019, it is downright descent into hell with an aborted popular revolt and a whole series of financial, economic and health disasters culminating in the explosion of August 4, 2020, which transformed it into a true martyr nation. Once again, the Land of the Cedars falls back into the cycle of the absurd, even into the circularity of the myth of Sisyphus, going so far as to relive scenes of violence reminiscent of the civil war as if we were returning to the “Zero Hour”. These recent events show that the structural causes that led to the conflict among Lebanese have not yet been resolved. Today the majority of them are lost, living day to day without hope or perspective. Faced with this fatality, should we question the impact of artistic projects aiming at social reconciliation following a conflict? Can culture in general and theater in particular still be vectors for promoting peace? In which category of the process of social transformation can we place these artistic practices today? Do the practitioners of this approach always do sustainable reconciliation work or rather attempt at societal resilience? Does this resilience still have a therapeutic role that heals wounds and trauma? Or does it risk contributing to pushing the Lebanese into denial by adapting them to their new reality?
{"title":"CULTURE ET RÉCONCILIATION POST-GUERRE : DE L’OPTIMISME À LA RÉSILIENCEPOST-WAR CULTURE AND RECONCILIATION: FROM OPTIMISM TO RESILIENCE","authors":"Michel Abou Khalil","doi":"10.54729/ajqm6961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54729/ajqm6961","url":null,"abstract":"Culture and Post-War Reconciliation: from Optimism to Resilience. At the end of the civil war, Lebanon tried to rebuild itself but fairly quickly wars, assassinations, repeated political crises and an influx of refugees weakened it. From 2019, it is downright descent into hell with an aborted popular revolt and a whole series of financial, economic and health disasters culminating in the explosion of August 4, 2020, which transformed it into a true martyr nation. Once again, the Land of the Cedars falls back into the cycle of the absurd, even into the circularity of the myth of Sisyphus, going so far as to relive scenes of violence reminiscent of the civil war as if we were returning to the “Zero Hour”. These recent events show that the structural causes that led to the conflict among Lebanese have not yet been resolved. Today the majority of them are lost, living day to day without hope or perspective. Faced with this fatality, should we question the impact of artistic projects aiming at social reconciliation following a conflict? Can culture in general and theater in particular still be vectors for promoting peace? In which category of the process of social transformation can we place these artistic practices today? Do the practitioners of this approach always do sustainable reconciliation work or rather attempt at societal resilience? Does this resilience still have a therapeutic role that heals wounds and trauma? Or does it risk contributing to pushing the Lebanese into denial by adapting them to their new reality?","PeriodicalId":143734,"journal":{"name":"BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129666654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Readers of Platonic Love pieces, that were popular in the Umayyad era and spread in Arab society until almost a century after its demise, observe its uniqueness in terms of presenting the personalities of poets in a distinguished way as to men in that time in respect of cultural features. The stories also include extraordinary events that drive them away from the real framework, which critics used to believe, and puts them in an artistic framework that seeks to present a possible reality that is not achieved in actuality. Perhaps this is due to the reasons; one of the most important being the need of the Arab society to receive this kind of narration. This need goes back to the Free Arab woman who belongs to the middle class in society. This class, made up of the majority of the population of Hijaz cities in the Umayyad era and Iraqi cities such as Basra, Kufa and Baghdad at the beginning of the Abbasid era, formed the time of prevalence of this art. As to the delivery of this artistic message, it was done by narrators who have taken for themselves specific places such as bars, or people gathered in the evening near their homes, to present the stories of poets and their poems that were sung or chanted. The narrators have formulated or developed this news, they also added events in poems in order to meet the needs of women for this kind of art at that time, where women's gender identity contributed greatly, and indirectly to the formulation and dissemination of Platonic Love stories, regardless of its existence on a real basis or not. Interest in this art declined only with the change of material and cultural ways of life in the Abbasid society, cross-pollination of Arabs with non-Arabs, and the free exit of women from their social shell through methods invented by themselves; some being under the titles of maliciousness, deception, provocation and others. So other stories began to invade the Abbasid Arab society, such as the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, which replaced love stories in both of its genres. Other tales that are not closely related to women continued to be the news of heroes and their stories, such as the biography of Antara bin Shaddad, Al-Zeer Salem and other news of heroism and wars that served to emphasize masculinity and its authority in society at that time.
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