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The main objective of this paper is to develop and report an in-depth insight of the effects of globalization on the role of Shariah-Compliant Investment Funds (SCIFs) in promoting social justice by interviewing key stakeholders. The research critically evaluates the purposive role and characteristics of SCIFs in KSA. It examines the role of the financial issues, investors, and regulators, relative to SCIFs and the effects of globalization. The analysis identifies that the absence of social justice may be due to the global economic influence of the West, and its emphasis on financial returns, which has permeated through to SCIFs through globalization. Interviewees did not link SCIF practices with social justice Islamic concepts even though they believed in the importance of social justice and, as a result, SCIFs are not achieving their social justice objectives, as shown from their screening criteria. SCIFs should take advantage of globalization and avoid its negative impact. Therefore, this paper has policy implications and provide recommendation to improve the practice of SCIFs in KSA toward achieving social justice.

An understanding of the ecological philosophy of More's Utopia invites both a textual and contextual analysis. This fact/fiction interrelationship, inherent within utopian texts, makes any critical attempt to concentrate solely on their historical context or textual format flawed and reductive. More's society was an agrarian, feudal, subsistence economy on the verge of transformation to a capitalist market economy. Land enclosures, referred to by More in the First Book of Utopia, represent a site for defining oppositional views regarding nature/human relationships. In early modern texts, pastoral and georgic concepts of nature were blurred in a perpetual process of interpenetration. It is this liminal position, which Utopia assumes as a fictional as well as a factual space that invites its interpretation as a chronotope. My research is concerned with dealing with the canonical text, Utopia from an ecocritical perspective. Questions which concern me in this research revolve around: The relation between textual and contextual Nature in this text, Exploring the relationship between nature and humans from its earliest expressions and tracing within these early expressions the beginnings of contemporary ecological problems.

This paper deals with loss that occurs in news translation when BBC translators render a news story from Arabic into English or vice versa. It shows how some translators fail to deal with the dimension of rendering discourse as a social practice, unintentionally or even intentionally to manipulate the original relations of power and ideology implied in the source text. Light is shed on the circumstances under which the discourse is produced. The research model is highly sociological and culturist. It seeks to uncover the complex social, political, cultural and ideological forces which shape media translation practices. The population under analysis is a group of texts carefully selected to explore the qualitative aspects of the translations. The analyses are done in light of Fairclough's approach to CDA that depends on a method of three components: that is, description, interpretation and explanation. In some cases, critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics are used together to examine translated texts and produce more general results. Analyses of texts along different periods of time prove that translating news stories on the BBC websites is for the most part a process of adaptation; editors adapt the story, whether political, scientific, sports or economic, to make it accessible to the reader. Eventually, the study recommends that there is an urgent need for building Arabic translational corpora. Such corpora are to be used with other linguistic and cultural tools within the framework of a multidisciplinary approach to get the best results for any issue in translation studies.

Nous traitons dans cet article la question de la dénomination en arabe attasmiyat des prénoms dialectaux de l'Est algérien (le constantinois) sous deux aspects, l'un théorique à travers l'exposition des différentes approches linguistiques anciennes et contemporaines, l'autre pratique se concentrant sur la sémantique de quelques prénoms dialectaux. Ce dernier volet comprendra alors les divers registres servant de base à ce type de nomination dialectale en Algérie. On termine notre périple linguistique par une halte sur le rapport-genre masculin/féminin entre ces prénoms dialectaux algériens.

There is no doubt that terrorism is a global phenomenon that has imposed itself on the events. Terrorist acts have varied at the global and Arab levels, and this study aims to identify the role of the family in shaping this phenomenon and how to address it. The goals of those in charge of the phenomenon of terrorism and ways to solve it. The functional constructivist theory was based on the use of the \"analytical descriptive method\" and the tools of \"questionnaire, interview and observation.\" The results resulted in: The ideology adopted by the family plays a major role in shaping or curtailing the attitudes of its children towards the phenomenon of terrorism in addition to the fact that the economic, political, social, religious and cultural problems have an impact Clear about that.

Women writers are often neglected in the literary canon. More often than not, critically acclaimed Romantic writers were male. The most famous Romantic poet, known for his poetic genius is William Wordsworth. Not much scholarly attention has been given to his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, who wrote extensively but not publicly. This paper sheds light on Dorothy Wordsworth's journals as worthy of further literary recognition. Many literary critics and scholars have underestimated the value of her writing as not poetic enough, but in her rigorous documentation of everyday life, readers are able to gain insight into the harsh effects of patriarchy on women writers. Unlike her brother, Dorothy's sense of self was not egotistical and instead hesitant and unsure. This paper uncovers Dorothy's divided sense of self as evident in her writings and claims that her literary genius has gone unnoticed and could be considered as experimental and life writing.

The Cattell-Hom-Carroll (CHC) factors of the Woodcock-Johnson Arabic Tests of Cognitive and Achievement Abilities were studied with a group of gifted students (n60) and average students (n60) between second and fifth grades. The major purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive and achievement variables that underlie performance differences between gifted students and average students. Specifically, this study was conducted using the CHC factors which identified by the WJ Arabic Tests. The two groups were matched on grade, gender, age, and father's level of education. The findings indicated that there were statistically significant differences between gifted students and average students in all study variables, and these differences were in favor of gifted students. In addition, the hierarchical multiple regression analyses in this study revealed that the best model of predicting students' GPA consisted of the WJ Arabic Achievement Tests with a higher contribution from Calculation Test. Implications of the findings were also discussed.

This study aims to investigate the significance of viral marketing dimensions on customer's intention behavior to buy the fast food restaurant's product in Jordan. This study uses the quantitative approach to collect the data from the respondents, which are the last food restaurant customers in Jordan specifically at the University Of Jordan Street in Amman, the capital of Jordan. The researcher in this study distributed one hundred and fifty questionnaires for three main fast food restaurants in this location which are (KFC, MacDonald and Burger king) with fifty questionnaires for each one of them. Question of this study adapted from previous studies and modified to be suitable for the aims of this study to collect the primary data. The findings of this study show that the viral marketing dimensions have highly significance on customer's intention to buy the fast food restaurant products. Also the findings of this study indicate that the three viral marketing dimensions have a high significance on customer's intention to buy the fast food restaurant's products. However, brand association has great significance on customer's intention following with brand confidence and brand consciousness. In addition, the results of this study show that the Jordanian customers have high intention to buy the fast food restaurants' products when they watch it in social network applications like Facebook, Twitter and other social network applications. Finally, this study suggests some recommendations for academic researchers and practitioners.

This study investigates the relationship between education spending and educational performance. It examines the impact of education spending on the quantity and quality of education in Kuwait. The yearly data sample covers the period between 1979 and 2014. The paper tests whether higher government spending on education in Kuwait can lead to improved educational performance over the long term. The estimated model is tested using the Johansen co-integration technique to determine the long-term relationship. The findings show that increasing Kuwaiti government spending on education does not improve the quality of education but instead leads only to an increase in its quantity.

This study assesses the use of social networking sites by Iraqi youth and its impact on their identity. A quantitative approach was employed first, using a survey questions distributed to a sample of students registered in four Iraqi universities to explore the social media uses depth and characteristics. Then, a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with a sample of Iraqi faculties, was able to determine the impact that could social media have on the sample' identity. Results showed that social media have been used extensively, mainly the Facebook, what's App. and Twitter. The mentioned social networks have served as a vehicle of news and entertainment. Faculties perceived social media as a threat to the original identity. The danger lies in their distance from the initial social and religious values. The sample evocated also psychological alienation as well as destructive ideas such as discrimination, hatred and intolerance. To overcome the negative aspects of social media on the sample's original identity, the respondents proposed several solutions such as enhancing the intelligentsia to raise the awareness of misuse of social networks and develop a number of mechanisms to enhance the use of the Arabic language.