This article examines French-Iranian literary interactions in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, which arguably had ongoing effects in Iran on attitudes towards links between morality and social and economic inequality. Some of the earliest fictional stories published in Persianlanguage newspapers, in the 1850s, were French. This trend continued, through Iran's Constitutio…
In the wake of the UK government's post-2010 spending cuts, talk about tax justice has become more audible and urgent. Campaigning groups such as UK Uncut have sought to bring the contested tax affairs of a number of multinational corporations, and notably Vodafone, to wider public attention, and have called for the introduction of a 'Tax Dodging Bill'. In the House of Commons, the Public Accou…
A telephone survey was conducted of Kuwaiti citizens' preferences for two types of national news programmes. Of the 490 Kuwaiti respondents, about 82% viewed the Al-Jazeera satellite channel (JSC), a liberal television model that provides news and political programming, while 98% watched the news and political programmes on Kuwaiti Television (KTV), a government television model. Two factor ana…
Talfiq secara amnya merujuk kepada menghimpunkan beberapa pandangan sehingga terhasilnya satu pandangan yang tidak diakui oleh mana-mana mujtahid. Sebahagian besar fuqaha muta’akhirin menolak keras pengaplikasian konsep talfiq dalam menyelesaikan sesuatu permasalahan hukum berikutan kesan-kesan negatif yang terhasil daripada konsep tersebut. Namun realiti semasa sebaliknya, keperluan ke…
Korean popular culture, such as movies, TV dramas, and pop music, is overwhelmingly powerful and TV dramas are especially remarkably popular in terms of obsession of fans and audiences. They also bring considerable profit to South Korea. The Korean Wave (Hallyu) brings a different level of Korean fever in certain East Asian countries, including Malaysia. By introducing new story materials…
This study dig out to answer two different but correlated question ; firstly, what is the role of Social Safety Net (SSN) measures in targeting the poverty for a developing country like Pakistan. Secondly, can the provision of social safety nets help in Sustainable Economic Development (SED)? The study surrounds to answer these questions in context of Pakistan's economy. Pakistan being a develo…