Political Dimension

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Volume 11 · Issue 5 · October 2024

The political dimension of music and national anthems

Ari Qadir Mohammed, Hatham Shaoobi Ibrahim, Rzgar Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed

This research is based on historical and descriptive methods, scientifically includes several articles, which discusses the political situation that occurred and what impact it had on instrumental and vocal music in Europe. The mythological content of this research consists of several chapters: The first chapter is about the history of national music in Europe and the political situation that facilitated and encouraged the formation of this kind of view and work on music. The second chapter discusses the countries that have done the most work on national music such as (Russia, Bohemia, Spain, Austria, Hungary, France and Italy) with the presentation of the prominent artists who have played a significant role in this field. Then, in the third chapter, four of the national anthems that have appeared significantly around the world are discussed.

Volume 11 · Issue 4 · August 2024

Dialogue scenes and their dimensions in the novel of "Bab Al-Sama' Hotel" by Burhan Shawi

Abdullah Ibrahim Faqi Saleh

A dialogue scene in a novel gains a great and effective importance to clarify the human’s psychological needs and instincts. It is the most vital narrative means that the novelist uses to express his/her visions, thought and perspectives through the main and marginal and marginal characters in his/her novel. In this study, it is intended to combine these scenes and their dimensions as an effective method to understand and explore the human psyche through the dialogues of the characters. This may enable the reader to clearly visualize what was going on in Iraqi society during the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginnings of the twenty-first century in light of the accumulated overlap between art and reality in man’s everyday life. Additionally, this study attempts to approach these dimensions in the introduction and four sections distributed among the social, psychological, political, philosophical, appended to the most prominent findings.