/library/oar/handle/123456789/117804 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:29:42 GMT 2025-11-08T04:29:42Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/135570 Title: Al.luġatu al.mālṭīyyatu ūālʿarbiyyatu al.tūnisiyyatu : dirāsatun muqāranatun Abstract: Our objective in this research is to highlight the aspects of convergence between the Maltese language and the Tunisian Arabic dialect. We took into consideration as a starting point that Maltese descends from the Arabic language, based on what has been previously approved by researchers in the analysis of the Maltese language. We conducted a descriptive and comparative study of linguistic phenomena with their counterparts in the Tunisian dialect. This research includes the history of Malta, highlighting the Arab period and focusing on the text "Himyari"; perhaps, through historical events, at the end of the research a hypothetical conclusion can be drawn about the origin of the language and the population of Malta. We studied grammar and morphology, based on the Maltese approach to establishing linguistic rules and comparing them with Tunisian Arabic and Classical Arabic. We conducted an analysis of ancient Maltese texts from different periods to highlight the linguistic changes that occurred in the historical period between the 15th century and the present day; in particular, we performed a careful analysis of the poem "La Cantilène," as it is the oldest Maltese document, and the poem 'Mejju ġie bil-Ward u ż-Żahar' which dates from a later period, and finally an analysis of the poem "Catherine Ta'a Médine." We collected Maltese sayings and lessons and compared them with Tunisian ones. We also collected ancient Maltese words of Arabic origin, surnames, and place names of Arabic origin and compared them with Tunisian Berber words used in both countries. We conducted a field study using a questionnaire with Maltese people from different classes and regions to compare their linguistic and cultural perspectives on the relationship between Tunisia and Malta. We concluded with the research findings. Description: Ph.D.(Melit.) Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/135570 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/135068 Title: The navigation of endometriosis-a struggle for coherence a Maltese perspective Abstract: Endometriosis is a chronic gynaecological condition affecting millions of women worldwide. It is characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside of the uterus, often resulting in severe pelvic pain, infertility, psychological stress and other symptoms. Furthermore, the probability of persistent, recurrent symptoms and the absence of a definite explanation are likely to exacerbate endometriosis. These detrimental effects, causing a reduction in the quality of life are well represented in international literature. Illustrations, regarding the interactions with the medical profession are also represented. However, no study to date, was carried out regarding women’s lived experience of endometriosis within the Maltese context. To this end, a qualitative study was carried out, with the aim of providing a deep understanding of the impact of endometriosis on the lives of eight Maltese women by utilising in-depth interviews. The data illustrated the deep impact that endometriosis had on the lives of these participants, the delay in diagnosis and the dismissive attitude and lack of knowledge of the medical profession when interacting with the participants. This was mostly attributed to the normalisation of symptoms by family, friends, medical professionals and even the participants themselves. Finally, the findings highlight an urgent necessity of increasing awareness among the public as well as the medical profession, regarding this insidious disease. Description: M.A.(Melit.) Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/135068 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/135061 Title: The influence of art on early modernist writing : a comparative study of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’ and Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ Abstract: This work and its abstract are both under embargo until the restriction is lifted. Description: Ph.D.(Melit.) Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/135061 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/132995 Title: Heidegger on being, sophistry, and the possibility of re-poetization Abstract: Throughout the course of my dissertation I will be undertaking a rigorous investigation into the philosophy of Martin Heidegger with the aim of outlining two key concepts in his philosophical project. These concepts are firstly, sophistry, and secondly, poetry. During the course of my research, I will be showcasing how sophistry and its prioritizing of seeming over Being is a major, yet unexamined force which has led to the obfuscation of the central question in Heidegger’s oeuvre, namely, the question of Being (Die Seinsfrage). After which, I will be elucidating how, for Heidegger, it is ultimately poetry that can lead us towards a genuine disclosure of the question of Being which has been occluded throughout the philosophical tradition by its inherent-thread of sophistic interpretations. This shall be achieved by undergoing a detailed analysis of the essential texts representing Heidegger’s early, middle, and later works in each of the three respective sections of my research, and by consulting a host of secondary texts and journal articles dedicated to the field of Heideggerian scholarship. As such, during the first chapter of my study, I will be analysing Heidegger’s Being and Time to establish the significance which sophistry holds in Heidegger’s philosophy, particularly due to the role it played in the obfuscation of the question of Being. I will be achieving this primarily by looking at the references to Plato’s Sophist found in the opening pages of Being and Time and by providing a comparative study between Being and Time and Plato’s Sophist to identify both the relationship between these texts, and the characteristics which demark the sophist’s ontology. After which, I will also affirm how sophistry is an essential existential-ontological constitution of Dasein by rooting it within the ontology of Das Man. I will then turn to the second chapter of my study where I will argue that the way which Heidegger seeks to transcend the reductive ontology of Das Man in Being and Time is through the call of conscience, which, I will argue, functions as the poetic logos which reveals Dasein’s authentic way of Being. Afterwards, I will be bringing my discussion on Being and Time to a close as I broach the question of the turn in Heidegger’s philosophy. In this chapter I will be arguing that What is Metaphysics? is the text which best represents Heidegger’s turn to his later philosophy. I will also be outlining Heidegger’s understanding of the Nothing in this text and how he destrukts the Nothing as a way to Being. Lastly, I will move on to the third and final chapter of my study where we witness Heidegger’s explicit engagement with poetry and the essence of technology. Here, I will be arguing that Heidegger show us how it is poetry that can save us from the dangers of the essence of technology, and I will also outline how, in the final period, Heidegger’s response to the question of being is ultimately paved through poetry. As such, I will be arguing that poetry functions as the pharmakon and antiseptic to sophistry throughout the course of this study, as it releases the possibility of re-raising and re-engaging with the question of Being in an originary manner. Description: M.A.(Melit.) Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/132995 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z