Papers by Hanan Al sheikh
International Society for the Study of Vernacular Settlements, Oct 31, 2023
In recent years, there has been a notable surge in archaeological research spanning the spectrum ... more In recent years, there has been a notable surge in archaeological research spanning the spectrum from historical archaeology to contemporary archaeology, with a particular focus on the multifaceted theme of human identity. This theme shares a profound resonance with the role of portrait photography as a medium for memory preservation, intricately weaving together the threads of identity, memory, and culture in our comprehension of both historical and contemporary contexts. This research employs a visual culture approach to photography, transcending conventional analytical frameworks to delve into how photographs dynamically shape the broader cultural, social, and political landscapes. It scrutinizes the processes through which photographs construct meaning, wield influence over public perception, and actively participate in the complex terrain of identity formation and narrative construction. The findings from this investigation underscore the evolving role of photography, transcending its traditional function of memory preservation to emerge as a potent tool for the construction and communication of identity. Furthermore, it emphasizes the inherently interdisciplinary nature of memory studies, forging robust connections across the domains of archaeology, historical anthropology, and photography research, thereby enriching our nuanced understanding of the interwoven facets of memory, identity, and culture.
In recent years, there has been a notable surge in archaeological research spanning the spectrum ... more In recent years, there has been a notable surge in archaeological research spanning the spectrum from historical archaeology to contemporary archaeology, with a particular focus on the multifaceted theme of human identity. This theme shares a profound resonance with the role of portrait photography as a medium for memory preservation, intricately weaving together the threads of identity, memory, and culture in our comprehension of both historical and contemporary contexts. This research employs a visual culture approach to photography, transcending conventional analytical frameworks to delve into how photographs dynamically shape the broader cultural, social, and political landscapes. It scrutinizes the processes through which photographs construct meaning, wield influence over public perception, and actively participate in the complex terrain of identity formation and narrative construction. The findings from this investigation underscore the evolving role of photography, transcending its traditional function of memory preservation to emerge as a potent tool for the construction and communication of identity. Furthermore, it emphasizes the inherently interdisciplinary nature of memory studies, forging robust connections across the domains of archaeology, historical anthropology, and photography research, thereby enriching our nuanced understanding of the interwoven facets of memory, identity, and culture.
Article, 2023
This study examines vernacular photography as a means of understanding people's tragic circumstan... more This study examines vernacular photography as a means of understanding people's tragic circumstances and their impact. It takes the position that photographs are meant not only to be kept in archives or for documentation but can also help understand social phenomena. It argues that photographs have important ontological, philosophical, and social dimensions which may contribute to understanding the circumstances and development of individuals and communities and help in the promotion of support systems for special humanitarian cases in society. The study employed a phenomenological approach. Its sample consisted of families who had experienced a painful experience together, during which they have taken photographs. They are identified in this research as vernacular photography because they do not involve professionals. The study hypothesized that vernacular photographs taken by families during hard times represent cognitive and emotional dimensions and help them to adapt and unite with each other. The findings show that the families have discovered photography as an effective and powerful tool to achieve cohesion and unity among the family members. It also shows that taking vernacular photographs of the painful experience that the family has been going through and then displaying them explicitly in the house, is a form of inner recovery. It also helps in integrating family members and creating a sense of sympathy and solidarity with the crisis. Moreover, it forms a mental and emotional image adopted by the family members and affects their behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs.
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences
The significant development in the diversity of knowledge sources is an essential starting point ... more The significant development in the diversity of knowledge sources is an essential starting point for the development of teaching and learning methods in the higher education sector. Necessarily, this rapid development requires the development of planning and operational education strategies to provide learners with mechanisms and tools of thinking that enable them to follow the processes of research, analysis, criticism, evaluation and communication in a way that helps them to sustain their knowledge. This study adopted the selective and analytical approaches of ideas and theories of philosophy and pedagogy, aiming to induce results and recommendations for the development of teaching and learning processes. Specifically, in the field of philosophy of art, using the phenomenological approach emphasises the active and structured human presence. Thus, three main pillars were identified: obtaining knowledge; the will to knowledge – learner; and knowledge management – teacher. The study ...
The significant development in the diversity of knowledge sources is an essential starting point ... more The significant development in the diversity of knowledge sources is an essential starting point for the development of teaching and learning methods in the higher education sector. Necessarily, this rapid development requires the development of planning and operational education strategies to provide learners with mechanisms and tools of thinking that enable them to follow the processes of research, analysis, criticism, evaluation and communication in a way that helps them to sustain their knowledge. This study adopted the selective and analytical approaches of ideas and theories of philosophy and pedagogy, aiming to induce results and recommendations for the development of teaching and learning processes. Specifically, in the field of philosophy of art, using the phenomenological approach emphasises the active and structured human presence. Thus, three main pillars were identified: obtaining knowledge; the will to knowledge-learner; and knowledge management-teacher. The study concluded with several methods and techniques that related to the processes of teaching, guidance and evaluation of the philosophy of art in the higher education sector.
This specialized text deals with the increase of reading performance of adults and elderly adults... more This specialized text deals with the increase of reading performance of adults and elderly adults with low vision in the Czech Republic. The aim of the research is to contribute to the verification of effectiveness of the rehabilitation programme ‘Increasing visual performance in reading’. Evaluation of research data brings findings of verification of effectiveness of the adaptation of external conditions, which was used during the program. Measurable data are compared to the level of impact of the first part of the programme environmental adaptation and modification of conditions for reading to improve rehabilitation programme effectiveness. Based on the research results in the category of reading rate, environmental adaptation represented 42.8 % of overall increase in performance. In the category of linearity of reading, the proportion of increase within the observed part was 46.2 % of the overall increase in performance. In the category of reading comprehension, 14.3 % were achie...
A photograph can be described as an imitation of reality, but this description is so primitive. A... more A photograph can be described as an imitation of reality, but this description is so primitive. A photograph is not just a copy of reality, nor is it just a reproduction of things that actually exist. It could be argued that a photograph is the imitation of the subject that exits in reality so as to become a symbol that hides behind it various meanings. In other words, a photograph is an existence that includes another existence and this dual existence makes the photograph be framed by the limits of truth, knowledge, time and place. Therefore, the photograph becomes a way of truth happening and revealing, but at the same time it has interrelations with the visual, the tangible and the meaning represented in the thing itself. The truth is revealed only by the intentional vision which opens up the phenomenological position in all its dimensions. The establishment of this position is based on photograph that becomes the first drive and motive for the act of imagination.
Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues, 2021
The ontology of human resistance accentuates its existence through several expressive means with ... more The ontology of human resistance accentuates its existence through several expressive means with the most important being Art; as art transforms the question of resistance into a self-practice that starts with the artists and transfers between the inside and the outside in a continuous, creative and effective mutual relationship in order to emphasise the battle of existence conflict, ideology and Epistemology within the general framework of power. This philosophic analysis is based on the hypotheses of having a multilateral factor that continues with the past legacy on the one hand and interprets the present while overpassing it on the other, in order to create a state of creativity that represents the intellectual, emotional, cognitive and historical inventory, while posing a situation of continuous wondering among individuals and groups. This artistic state unifies the indicators of symbolisations and makes resistance represented in a contemporary visual discourse that rejects dom...
تأويل الفن رؤية فينومينولوجية, 2019
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Conceptual and Technical Development of War Photography in the 20 th Century in the Middle East, 2019
This study is considered a theoretical introduction to understanding photographs through tracking... more This study is considered a theoretical introduction to understanding photographs through tracking the conceptual and technical development for war photography during the 20 th century in the Middle East. This philosophical aspect represented by the views of prominent photography critics including Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, and John Tagg as well as the analytical aspect that looks into the conceptual, aesthetic, and functional denotation of the photograph. Analysis of the photograph is conducted over two stages; the first is through analyzing the photograph shape and technical values. The second is the understanding of the implied dimensions which are the symbols and denotations of the photograph that represent the group of ideas and meanings. In other words, the visual and the non-visual analysis of the photograph lead to the organized analytical understanding of the photograph. For instance, the photojournalism holds humanitarian and functional aspect in addition to the artistic, aesthetic, and social values. Furthermore, the tremendous technological advancement of the production, display, and the storage of photographs which influenced the social acceptance of war scenes and it became part of our present conscious.
Phenomenology of the Human Existence in Photography (Artistic Experiment), 2020
Photography in the contemporary time considers a vital, important, rich, and meaningful element w... more Photography in the contemporary time considers a vital, important, rich, and meaningful element which certainly influenced the concept of artistic and philosophical photograph due to the rapid development in technology and communication methods which should be accompanied by the theoretical development that paves the way for the photographic concept and analyzes its various relationships.
The artwork towards which academic women are going in the specializations of art and design is co... more The artwork towards which academic women are going in the specializations of art and design is considered as a comprehensive philosophical intellectual system; as the academic woman while understanding art is unifying psychological elements with the philosophical, intuitive, and spiritual elements. This research tackles the analysis of the concept of artistic intuition as a compositional activity that reflects to all practical life fields but under specific humanitarian conditions that distinguish leading women particularly in the specializations of art and design. Such analysis leads to being aware of all dilemmas related to the artistic intuition and not only that related to artwork; but also, the intuition that becomes expressive in the philosophical concept. It is not separate from the state of being rather than integrating in the form of a coordinated theory with the purpose of understanding human in the different varied contexts that are in harmony with his intellect, philosop...
Jour of Adv Research in Dynamical & Control Systems, Vol. 11, 05-Special Issue, 2019
A photograph can be described as an imitation of reality, but this description is so primitive. A... more A photograph can be described as an imitation of reality, but this description is so primitive. A photograph is not just a copy of reality, nor is it just a reproduction of things that actually exist. It could be argued that a photograph is the imitation of the subject that exits in reality so as to become a symbol that hides behind it various meanings. In other words, a photograph is an existence that includes another existence and this dual existence makes the photograph be framed by the limits of truth, knowledge, time and place. Therefore, the photograph becomes a way of truth happening and revealing, but at the same time it has interrelations with the visual, the tangible and the meaning represented in the thing itself. The truth is revealed only by the intentional vision which opens up the phenomenological position in all its dimensions. The establishment of this position is based on photograph that becomes the first drive and motive for the act of imagination.
Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues
The ontology of human resistance accentuates its existence through several expressive means with ... more The ontology of human resistance accentuates its existence through several expressive means with the most important being Art; as art transforms the question of resistance into a self-practice that starts with the artists and transfers between the inside and the outside in a continuous, creative and effective mutual relationship in order to emphasise the battle of existence conflict, ideology and Epistemology within the general framework of power. This philosophic analysis is based on the hypotheses of having a multilateral factor that continues with the past legacy on the one hand and interprets the present while overpassing it on the other, in order to create a state of creativity that represents the intellectual, emotional, cognitive and historical inventory, while posing a situation of continuous wondering among individuals and groups. This artistic state unifies the indicators of symbolisations and makes resistance represented in a contemporary visual discourse that rejects dom...
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