The Ideology of Betrayal in Yasmine Zahran’s novel A Beggar at Damascus Gate
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Abstract
Yasmine Zahran’s choice to write her novel, A Beggar at Damascus Gate in English, and her employment of a male narrator resulted in a work that almost defeated the author’s intention to create a work that truly expresses the suffering of the Palestinian people. This can be noted through the cultural elements that the work highlights, and the male-oriented presentation of the narrative. Key words : Postcolonial literature; Colonial discourse; Culture; Orientalism; Middle East politics; Diaries; Gender relations Resume Le choix de Yasmine Zahran pour ecrire son roman, un mendiant a la porte de Damas en anglais, et son emploi d'un narrateur masculin abouti a un travail que presque vaincu l'intention de l'auteur pour creer une œuvre qui exprime veritablement la souffrance du peuple palestinien. Ceci peut etre note a travers les elements culturels que le souligne le travail, et la presentation axee sur les hommes de la narration. Mots-cles : litterature postcoloniale; discours colonial; la culture; l'orientalisme; politique du Moyen-Orient; agendas; relations entre les sexes
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".