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Teamworking and Concern for Standards as Part of Employability Readiness of the UAE Students’ Personality

Published in: Journal of Social Studies Education Research

May 15, 2022

/ Rakan Alhrahsheh Ivanova G.Y. Alhrahsheh R. Aboutaleb A.H. Alazab

In the time of globalization and technological revolution, we often witness that skillset required to go through life demands are changing dramatically; more digital literacy is required and specific soft skills. The last is a growing concern, especially for growing economies and societies, where involving the local workforce is a challenge. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the government places a huge emphasis on Emiratization and puts conditions on employers to include Emirati nationals in...


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Mitch: The forgotten hero of T. Williams's a streetcar named desire

Published in: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies

Jan 20, 2022

Abdul Salam Alnamer

This study aims to demonstrate the significant role Mitch (Harold Mitchel) assumes in Tennessee Williams' most prominent play: A Streetcar Named Desire. It focuses on Mitch's outstanding contribution to the development of the play, to its thematic concerns, and to its depth and richness. It also highlights the crucial part he plays, which has always been underestimated in favour of Stanley Kowalski, in the tragic conclusion of the play and the fate of its heroine, Blanche DuBois. In juxtaposing...


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Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Published in: Languages

Jan 05, 2022

Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh Abdul-Salam Al-Namer Sulafa Alnamer

This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine whether the EPA speakers would produce a geminated or degeminated phoneme. Following that, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a subset of the study cohort to obtain the participants’ own explanation of where they degeminated the consonants. Our findings suggest that...

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