The present paper sheds light on irony as one of the most important and most common linguistic phenomena in modern linguistics, in general ,and in discourse in particular, whether it is (political, literary, journalistic, etc.). When irony is used correctly or positively, it paves the way for the speaker to gain the approval of other parties participating in the dialogue and dissolve barriers between them. It is a simple multi-functional linguistic style and an expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite according to the context and the situation. Therefore, it is necessary to study its characteristics, define its functions and traces the extent of

This study aims to study the political caricature and its indications in the Palestinian newspapers, to know its subjects, the active characters, the artistic styles, and the symbols the caricaturists use.

The study concluded that there is a variety of subjects that the political caricature handled in the studied newspapers and the degree of interest in every subject. The subjects related to the international subjects came first (% 24.5) and the other subjects came next (% 22.2).

The results showed the caricaturists relied on unnamed symbolic active characters that came first (% 62.3) and named symbolic characters (% 11.1). The positive characteristics of the Palestinian figures were higher than the negative ones, and the

         The political system in Indonesia, since gaining independence from the Dutch colonialism on the seventeenth of August 1945, has gone through long stages. The Indonesian constitution stipulated that the country is based on a democracy. In 1956 the first free elections were held in Indonesia, and President Sukarno announced the adoption of the directed democratic system Then, during the era of President Suharto, the state entered a phase called democracy based on the Five Pancasila principles, which is a false democracy because it served the interests of Suharto, who in his long reign had political and economic corruption leading up to 1998, when the Indonesian people revolted, and the government of Soeharto was overthrown

عرص كتاب البرلمان في العراق (دراسة للواقع .. وتأملات في المستقبل)

This research aims at investigating pupils’ ability in using discourse markers which are identified in the English textbooks of secondary schools. Four texts are chosen from third intermediate class. The four texts are short stories of different topics.                                                  

        This research hypothesizes that there are no statistical significant differences among Iraqi intermediate pupils’ ability in using textual

The long healing time of bone after tooth extraction in order to construct artificial teeth is uncomfortable to the patient because of aesthetic or masticatory problems in addition to the daily visit to dental clinic. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of 805 nm diode laser with long time intervals on repair of bone and skin incisions in rabbits through biochemical, radiological and histological findings. Eighteen New-Zealand rabbits were undergone surgical operations to make a cavity in the bone of the lower jaw, the rabbits were divided into two groups:- Group A (control group) containing nine rabbits. Group B (lased group) containing nine rabbits in which two cavities were done, one on the right side and the other

يتضمن ھذا البحث تحضير وتشخيص بعض المعقدات الفلزية التي تحوي على ليكاندات مختلطة ل (Amoxicillin)( Axn (و(Picoline-٣) (Pic-٣ (وقد تم دراسة ھذه المعقدات بالطرائق الطيفية (اIشعة تحت الحمراء و اIشعة المرئية –فوق البنفسجية والتوصيلية الموIرية والحساسية المغناطيسية ، ومن نتائج ھذه الدراسات التشخيصية امكن اعطاء الصيغة المقترحة العامة لھذه المعقدات و كاIتي

It is summarized that Abu-Baker Al-Soly is one of Arabic Muslim scientists who had special style in literary writing specifically in sciences and knowledge that had depended on the encyclopedia culture gained from various fields of science , this means that he was an individual who had participated to characterize features of Islamic –Arabic history enhanced the rules of it , this matter would encourage us to know the method and style of writing in the field of intellectual life in which the writer depended on the procedures direction of scientists that he lived in the Abbasid era .

The Arab woman expressed the life of oppression that she suffers from in her masculine environment, as she expressed her linguistic abilities with eloquence and intelligence, as she did not neglect philosophy, wisdom, and exhortation

الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين أبي القاسم محمد    (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم ) وعلى آله الأطهار الميامين ، وصحبه الأبرار المنتجبين إلى يوم الدين 0

وبعد : فإن أجلّ ما بأيدي أبناء هذه الأمة القرآن كتاب ربّها ، الناطق بمصالح دينها ودنياها ، الذي جعله الله تعالى هدىً ورحمةً للعالمين ، وأنزله على خير خلقه من عباده محمّد الصادق الأمين ، وحث المسلمين على أتباعه ، وأمرهم على ل