Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences: Volume 4 Issue 4 , Open Access

Welfare conditionality, sanctions and homelessness: meanings made by homeless support workers

Kelly Veasey, Jonathan Parker

This study aims to explore homeless-support workers’ perceptions of homeless welfare recipients and their experiences of navigating new conditions placed upon them by UK welfare…

Is capital conservation buffer or regulatory leverage better at improving bank efficiency? The case of an emerging market

Sarah Korein, Ahmed Abotalib, Mariusz Trojak, Heba Abou-El-Sood

This paper is motivated by the heated debates preceding the introduction of additional regulatory requirements of Basel III on capital conservation buffer (CCB) and regulatory…

The suffering of refugees in Ghassan Kanafani’s “The Child Goes to the Camp”: a critical appraisal

Rania Mohammed Abdel Abdel Meguid

This paper aims to present a critical appraisal of Ghassan Kanafani’s short story “The Child Goes to the Camp” using the Appraisal Theory proposed by Martin and Rose (2007) in an…

Imported feminism: problematizing the Westernized image of the feminist in Arab social media

Ramy Magdy, Maries Mikhael, Yassmine G. Hussein

This paper aims to analyze the discourse of Arab feminism social media pages as a form of real-time new media. This is to be conducted culturally to understand the Westernized…

The Egyptian revolution of January 25, 2011 as an anti-systemic movement

Amany Abdellatif Osman

This paper aims to analyze the Egyptian revolution as an anti-systemic movement. It illustrates how Egypt’s position in the world-economy has affected its political economy…

Community perception of heritage values regarding a global monument in Ghana: implications for sustainable heritage management

Justice Mensah

Scholarly discourses regarding heritage values for sustainable heritage management abound in heritage literature but appear elitist as they tend to exclude the perspectives of the…