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This study explores the adaptation of Najib Mahfuz's novels into films. Critics who have studied Mahfuz have focused on his literary achievements as a writer. Compared with this literary attention, Mahfuz's filmed novels have received little notice. More importantly, the few stu…

Mergers and acquisitions play an important role in international financial markets, which explains why this research area attracts of lot of attention from academics, bankers, and investors. Generally, in takeovers, two firms merge in order to achieve specific strategic and busi…

My creative practice, as a European composer, is driven by a deep emotional, philosophical, and creative engagement with some principal concepts in traditional Japanese aesthetics; more specifically, the concepts of ma (aesthetically placed empty intervals in space and time) and…

This PhD thesis consists of three essays which are interlinked by two themes - the problem of risk and information asymmetry in cross-border mergers and acquisitions carried out by UK investors. Majority of empirical research in finance, and in particular in mergers and acquisit…

Since the late nineteenth century, modern Palestinian resistance poetry has been an expression of the Palestinian peoples’ national culture and their historical struggle for self-determination and a homeland. This study examines Palestinian resistance poetry written during the t…

This study aims to fill a gap in percussion literature by analyzing the history and usage of the Japanese concept 間(ma). Ma is a difficult concept to put into words, especially if one did not grow up in Japanese culture: no exact English translations exist. Essentially, it is a …