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Ghufran Brimo; Effatolsadat Afzaltousi
Abstract
Illustrating children's book covers plays a significant role as a medium in conveying cultural concepts to them. Images that reference specific cultural concepts of a community or a region can indirectly strengthen the cultural identity of children.
The present study aims to answer the question ...
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Illustrating children's book covers plays a significant role as a medium in conveying cultural concepts to them. Images that reference specific cultural concepts of a community or a region can indirectly strengthen the cultural identity of children.
The present study aims to answer the question of how the cultural identity of girls and women is depicted in the cover illustrations of children's stories in Arabic-speaking countries. Therefore, with the goal of understanding cultural identity, especially Arab identity among Arab-speaking girls and women, the study has conducted a comprehensive statistical analysis. In this regard, 249 cover designs from six Arab countries including Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were examined for the age group (B). The research method is analytical-comparative.
The results show that Arab girls' identity is expressed through Islamic adornments, while the identity of adult women is depicted through botanical decorations, historical symbols, and wearing the veil. the identity of elderly women is emphasized with a focus on the veil, which is one of the most prominent visual symbols. However, this symbol is less prominent in Lebanon and Syria.The results indicate that the UAE is the richest country in terms of cultural visual symbols, while Syria is the weakest in this regard. Arab girls' and women's faces are prominent in most images, and the palm tree, a symbol of natural geography, plays a significant role in Arab identity, especially in Iraqi publications. Decorations also play an important role in representing the Islamic identity of these Arab countries, but they have had a minimal impact on showcasing the local identity of each country. Older women on the cover illustrations are often veiled, and the veil is one of the most prominent visual symbols. However, in Lebanon and Syria, this symbol is less prominent across all age groups. It seems that a general conclusion can be drawn that the identity of Arab girls and women on the covers of children's books in Arabic-speaking countries in the present study is a blend of Arab and Islamic identity, with a particular emphasis on geographical and natural symbols.
Art
Ghufran Brimo; Maryam Keshmiri
Abstract
Children's and teenager's magazines, among other mass media, have an impact on the process of socialization. Because these magazines can induce, change and modify values, behaviors, and gender role patterns among children in various ways such as by choosing specific topics and targeted illustrations. ...
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Children's and teenager's magazines, among other mass media, have an impact on the process of socialization. Because these magazines can induce, change and modify values, behaviors, and gender role patterns among children in various ways such as by choosing specific topics and targeted illustrations. This article aims to compare the images of "Osama" magazine in Syria and" Roshd daneshamoz" magazine in Iran from the perspective of gender. The purpose of this article is to compare the representation of gender in the images of Osamah magazine in Syria and Roshd al-Mashoz magazine in Iran. The analysis of the samples was done using Kress and Van Leon's model in the reading of social semiotics, which examines the images on three levels of representational, interactive and combined meaning. The results of the analysis of these three meanings showed that the pictures of these two magazines try to present common gender stereotypes to children. The roles of "woman-mother", "woman-grandmother" and "daughter" are present as a central or secondary role in most of the images of both magazines, and in none of the images are women in important social roles such as medicine or technical, and the representation of such roles Completely forgotten. In examining the interactive meaning, it has been determined that most of the images are in the mode of presenting information and invite the viewers to their world. Far and medium views are mostly used in the representation of images. The combined meaning has caused a connection between the representational and interactive meaning, the use of the center-margin pattern, giving prominence to women and not using framing in most of the images of both magazines emphasize the role of women in them.
