Oversettelse beskriver den prosessen hvor en tekst skifter språkdrakt og gis et nytt skrift-uttrykk i en annen språkdrakt, oversetterens oppgave blir således å ikle teksten det nye språket. Tanken er å oppnå et så likt, ...

Since the Palestinian resistance emerged as a response to the Zionist colonization of their homeland, traditional tools such as general strikes, demonstrations, boycott campaigns and armed resistance have been employed. ...

Sett fra et internasjonalt perspektiv regnes Tunisia som et progressivt land når det kommer til kvinners rettigheter, sammenlignet med andre land i regionen. På 1900-tallet begynte tunisieren aṭ- Ṭahir al-Haddād å engasjere ...

Mahragānāt er en gryende musikksjanger i Egypt. Den kan betegnes som rå og energisk ungdomsmusikk, og har oppstått fra grasrota i det egyptiske samfunnet. Revolusjonen i 2011 fungerte som en katalysator for musikkens omfang, ...

Avhandlingen handler om undersøkelsen av bildet av den andre, den vestlige, i trilogien al-Taḥawwulāt, "Metamorfosene", med andre ord presentasjoner av "den Andre" i forholdet mellom Vest og Øst i romanen. Hvordan forholdet ...

De arabisktalende landene beskrives som et diglossisamfunn, der valg av ulike strategier ved oversettelse og dubbing av utenlandske barneprogrammer påvirkes av denne situasjonen. Formålet med denne oppgaven var å se på ...

The concept of furūsīya is widely known, and discussed, among scholars and laymen alike. It encompasses a variety of meanings, from the strictest definition of horsemanship to military arts and even what we may call ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg den arabiske romanen Banāt al-Riyāḍ av den kvinnelige saudiske forfatteren Rajaa Alsanea og oversettelsen av den til fire europeiske språk; norks, svensk, engelsk og italiensk. Målet med oppgaven ...

Språksituasjonen i Egypt er et klassisk eksempel på hva som kan sies å falle innenfor det teoretiske rammeverket for et diglossisk samfunn, altså samfunn med sameksistens av to relaterte, men likevel sterkt avvikende ...

This study explores how the Muslim Sunni Women in the city of Tripoli- Lebanon perceive the the inequity in the rights of women in terms of those of men within the Personal Status codes practiced today in the Sunni Muslim ...

This study will examine the novel al-Ḥubb fī l-Manfā (Love in Exile, 1995) written by Bahā’ Ṭāhir. The novel describes the life situation of a formerly committed intellectual living in exile who is trying to come to terms ...

The Palestinian Israeli rap group Dam emerged on the scene in the early 2000s. Throughout their career, their music has gained popularity among Arab speaking listeners. When I first came across their music while studying ...

This thesis looks at the negation system of the Cairene Arabic dialect, in which the two main negation markers are miš and ma—š. Their main distribution is as following: ma—š is used for negation of verbal predicates except ...

During May and June 2007, the occupied Palestinian territories witnessed serious domestic fighting as a result of the power struggle between the two leading political parties, Fataḥ and Ḥamās. The fighting left hundreds ...

Islamist movements have traditionally been analyzed on the basis of their goal of establishing an Islamic State. But how should these movements be understood when this seemingly fundamental goal is abandoned? The following ...

This study explores the relationship between internet communication and democratization, through the notion of the public sphere. It presents a case study of the 2006 Kuwaiti reform movement “The Orange Movement”, and its ...

Egyptian Romanized Arabic (ERA) is the Egyptian variety of the writing that arose when Arabic speakers joined the domain of computer-mediated communication. At a time when almost all text on the Web was in English, and ...

Israeli Palestinians have since the establishment of the state of Israel in many ways been standing with one foot in each camp. This thesis explores to what degree this complex sociopolitical situation is reflected in their ...

This study presents developments in the Arabic linguistic tradition that relate to the question of identifying and distinguishing foreign vocabulary in the language. The connection between the linguistic tradition and the ...

Pippi Langstrømpe og Emil i Lønneberget er to av Astrid Lindgrens bøker som er blitt oversatt til arabisk. Formålet med denne oppgaven var å se på hvordan ulike aspekter ved originaltekstene ble behandlet i oversettelsene. ...

For the last thirty years the comedian ʿĀdil Imām, has been the most popular star of the Egyptian film industry. On the one hand his films claim to be bold: they take the side of the ordinary Egyptian, denounce corruption ...

I oppgaven blir programmer og prinsipperklæringer til to egyptiske moderate islamistorganisasjoner analysert – Det muslimske brorskap og Hizb al-Wasat – fra perioden 1994-2007. Ettersom de to gruppene ønsker å legge sharia ...

Egypt has shown good progress on a number of indicators for economic development in recent years. This progress, however, seems to only benefit the higher strata of society and not the vast majority of the population. In ...

Det har i århundrer eksistert økonomiske og kulturelle bånd mellom Afrikas Horn og Jemen. Etter Somalias politiske sammenbrudd i 1991 og borgerkrigen som fulgte, har denne nabokontakten fått nye dimensjoner etter at bølger ...

Innen litteraturvitenskap og arabistikk blir Qabbānīs poesi oftest behandlet som om han skrev i to forskjellige genre: erotisk poesi og politisk poesi. Mange, som for eksempel Badawi i A Critical Introduction to Modern ...

This paper examines the situation of Iraqi refugees in Egypt’s capital Cairo. Although the Egyptian government has signed the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has made restrictions to it which makes it extremely hard for ...

Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a scarcely documented contact language in the Arabic-speaking Persian Gulf countries, which has been used as a communication tool between local citizens and the large Asian immigrant population ...

Summary Between 1898 and 1902 the Syrian thinker ʿAbd ar-Raḥmân al-Kawâkibî, a pioneer of the Arabic nahḍa wrote the book Ṭabâʾiʿ al-Istibdâd wa Maṣâriʿ al-Istiʿbâd, The Characteristics of Despotism and the Destructions ...

This study examines the online media campaign of the global jihadist movement. It seeks to determine whether al-Qaeda has developed a strategy for its media operations, and to what extent the jihadist media operators adhere ...

The aim of the thesis has been to describe the nature of al-Qaeda’s interest in non-conventional weapons, as reflected by the network’s own statements and activities in the period from 1996-2006. The analysis has been ...

Haifa Bitar er en syrisk forfatter som har skrevet flere romaner og novellesamlinger. I denne oppgaven foretar jeg en tematisk lesning av hennes siste roman Imra’a min hadha al-asr. Den handler om en moden kvinnes forsøk ...

The present study is an investigation of the Arab grammarians treatment of the linguistic phenomenon, or rather phenomena, known under the name of IDAFA. Our objective is two-fold, on the one hand to present and discuss ...

In April 2001, the Berber region of Kabylia exploded in a series of violent riots that led to the death of 123 civilians and the withdrawal of all the Algerian Gendarmerie forces from the region. Algerian society seemed ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg tatt utgangspunkt i 12 artikler hentet fra fire arabiske aviser, som alle omtaler angrepene i USA den 11. september 2001. Jeg har gjort en analyse av innholdet og av de leksikalske valgene i ...

It is a common claim that Islamist movements are disinclined to accept religious and political pluralism. This thesis questions that claim, on the basis of an analysis of the discourse of Hizbullah in Lebanon. Lebanon is ...