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Journal of Arabic Language Specialized Research

About the Journal :

Journal of Arabic Language for Specialized Research is published quarterly by the Malaysian Institute of Science and Development , it is devoted to the publishing of researches concerning sciences and arts of Arabic language such as Grammar, rhetoric, metrics, prose and poetry, phonetics, modern linguistics, dialects, Arabic calligraphy, Arabization, and literary critical stylistic studies.
The journal is a research platform for scholars, teachers, and students to enrich the Arabic Library with further sound researches and precise studies for the purpose of unveiling the secrets of this language which is regarded as a miracle on its own through the Quranic text that remains a great challenge to all languages’ texts. However, the research efforts made on Arabic language and its relevant sciences as well as the unveiling of its beauty in the past and present are merely attempts to reveal the secret of its essence to persuade linguists and litterateurs of the reasons why Allah, the creator of all languages, has chosen Arabic to be the last language for his messenger Mohamed (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) and his miraculous immortal book till doomsday.



THE PARADOX IN THE "VILLAGE VILLAGE" OF MOHAMED NILE OBAIDAT


Abstract

This paper examines the paradox in the novel of "Alienation of a Village" by Mohammed Nayel Obeidat which takes place in the northern village of Kufarsoom in Jordan, and the ordeal in which its people were living in the wake of burning Algherbaleh, which was erected by the United States in some Jordanian villages to sift wheat by modern machines , as a protest against the "Baghdad Pact", and years later, the village was punished after claiming the unity with Egypt and Syria as a result for the national expansion in 1960s. This paper has dealt with a specific feature in the novel, paradox, so I started by introducing the novel, then I moved to provide various definitions of the novel, and I mentioned some cases of paradox in the novel. The paper concluded that the novel is based on paradox, and it proficiently and consciously employed it, since the importance of this Employment in the construction of the novel, and in delivering a message intended by the author, so he found what he was looking for in the paradox which extracted much more from what victims' people hid.