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This research deals with two important and long controversial topics in Saudi society: women and the arts.  This study focuses on the development of social commentary through the work of Saudi female artists in the visual arts, photography, and modern art.  It presents a survey of the history of women’s education in the arts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from when art education began to be understood through the term painting in the year 1348/1929 until after its study was established under the name arts education in the year 1382/1962.

How can Islam, as a religion which calls for peace, equality and justice, lead to terrorism? This article attempts to provide an objective answer to this question through relying on the essence of Islam and the Arab-Islamic culture.

The sheared Bundelkhand gneissic complex of Meso to Neoarcheanage (3.4-3.1Ga) and mylonitisedmetasedimentary-felsic volcanics and granitoids of Precambrianto Palaeoproterozoic age are recognizedas important rock units in the study area. The older TTG and streaky gneisses having inclusions of mafic, ultramafic, amphibolites and quartzite were affected by three phases of folding under three regional compressive tectonic episodes (D1-D3).

The geometry of painting landscape remains one of the long standing problems that cannot be explained theatrically. This work is devoted to use geometrical optics to explain this aspect. It utilizes eye geometry to explain why the horizon appears as an infinite line, and also explains why sky meat earth surface at a point. besides showing the reason that makes large mountains does not converge to a point far from human eye vision.   

Groundnut the “king of oilseeds” is grown on area of 4.60 million hectares with the production of 4.8 million tonnes during the year 2014-15. Among the various agronomic practices, fertilizer, weeding and plant protection play important role in maximizing the pod yield. Keeping in view all the facts, the study of performance of groundnut as influenced by resource constraints was formulated in RBD design in three replications with 8 different treatments. The results in the present investigation revealed significant differences in respect of pod yield for all the treatments studied.

Community-based tourism has, for over four decades, been promoted as a means of poverty reduction in developing countries. This study sought to investigate the social and economic effects of community-based tourism using the Wechiau Community-based Hippo Sanctuary located in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The research relied on both qualitative and quantitative approaches using household questionnaires as its primary data collection instrument. The study reveals the ever increasing tourists arrival, with its attendant revenue, as the major economic benefit of the sanctuary.

In India, women have remained as a neglected section of work force. Women are lagging behind men mainly because of the relative absence of economic opportunities and minimal participation in decision making process. Educational backwardness is another major reason why women are lagging behind men. The participation of women in professional and technical work force is low. Therefore, the organizations concerned with the development of women considered empowerment of women as a solution to these problems.

An efficient protocol has been devised for the mass in vitro propagation of Dendrobium bellatulum Rolfe, a rare miniature orchid, through immature embryos obtained from 120-d-old capsules after pollination. In vitro seed germination trials were conducted using three different basal media viz., half strength Murashige and Skoog (½ MS), and Knudson C (KC) and Vacin & Went (VW), of which ½ MS medium proved to be ideal for getting maximum percentage of seed germination, 83.97 ± 0.83% within 8 weeks.

There are numerous different approaches for measuring and improving the quality in undergraduate education. "Educational Evalution Systems" is one of the most significant one of the cited approaches. The most important components which affect the quality of education in "Educational Evaluation Systems" are considered to be the education itself, the students and the instructors. The purview of this study is limited to “instructors”, which is one of the foregoing components, with an eye to achieve more accurate results.

This paper explores the application of Islamic concept of Hibah Mudarabah in managing waqf commercial properties in the state of Kedah, Malaysia as a wealth redistribution mechanism instead of the present welfare mechanism role. In the past, the traditional practice of waqf properties is that pieces of lands were handed over to mosques in owners’ neighbourhood for waqf uses and the State Islamic religious affairs council was the trustee.