Middle East (general)

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Indigenous signs for "Middle East"

Spoken languages

Sign languages

Population of Deaf/deaf people

Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies

Education for the deaf

Deaf communities and cultures

Religious activities by the Deaf

Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages

Sign language dictionaries

Suwed, A. 1984. Quamus ishari carabi. [Arabic sign language dictionary].

Bibliography

Kisch, Shifra. 2007. Disablement, gender and Deafhood among the Negev Arab-Bedouin. In : Disability Studies Quarterly. 27 (4).

Boswell, Susan. 2006. Signs from the desert. New language sheds light on linguistic evolution. In : The ASHA leader (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association). 11 (1) 12, 17.

Abdel-fattah, Mahmoud A. 2005. Arabic Sign Language: a perspective. In : Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 10 (2) 212-221.

Assaleh, Khaled and M. Al-Rousan. 2005. Recognition of Arabic Sign Language alphabet using polynomial classifiers. In : EURASIP（The European Association for Signal Processing） Journal on Applied Signal Processing. 13: 2136-2145.

Al-Buraiky, Salah M. S. 2005. Arabic sign language recognition using an instrumented glove. Dissertation, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.

Abdel-Wahab, M. Saied, Moustafa Syam, Magdy Aboul-Ela and Ahmed Samir. 2004. Arabic Sign Language recognition using pulse-coupled neural networks and discrete Fourier transforms. In : Egyptian Computer Science Journal. 26 (1).

Kisch, Shifra. 2004. Negotiating (genetic) deafness in a Bedouin community. In: John Vickrey Van Cleve ed. Genetics, Disability & Deafness. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 195-227.

Al-Jarrah, Omar A. and Alaa Halawani. 2001. Recognition of gestures in Arabic Sign Language using neuro-fuzzy systems. In : Artificial Intelligence. 133 (1-2) 117-138.

Kisch, Shifra. 2001. "Hulf": Negotiating deafness in a Bedouin community in the Negev. Notes on the Bedouin. 32: 69-83. [in Hebrew]

Kisch, Shifra. 2000. Deaf discourse: The social construction of deafness in a Bedouin community. Unpublished Master of Arts thesis. Tel Aviv University . [in Hebrew].

Towards self-dependence for the Arab deaf. 1996. In : International Rehabilitation Review 47 (1 & 2) p. 48.

Zwibel, Abraham. 1994. Judaism and deafness: a humanistic heritage. In: CJ Erting, RC Johnson, DL Smith & BD Snider (Eds.) The Deaf Way. Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.　231-238.

Feldman, David. 1986. Deafness and Jewish law and tradition. In: Schein, Jerome D. and Lester J. Waldman eds. The Deaf Jew in the Modern World. New York: Ktav. 12-23.

Nwiya, P. 1978. Ishara (gesture, sign, indication). In : Encyclopaedia of Islam . (new edition), IV: 113-114.

Toubbeh J., S. Soliman and J. Yates. 1976. Communication for hearing-handicapped people in the Arab world. In: Oyer, Herbert J. ed. Communication for the Hearing Handicapped. An international perspective. Baltimore: University Park Press. 395-419.

Gautie, Marcel. 1974. Training of Teachers of the Hearing Impaired in France and the Arab Countries. Paris [UNESCO]. 6.

Barakat, Robert A. 1973. Arabic gestures. In : Journal of Popular Culture. 6: 749-793.

Researchers

History of sign language research

Events

Links

Signs of Development in Deaf South & South-West Asia: histories, cultural identities, resistance to cultural imperialism. (Revised, extended and updated).

Sign, gesture, & deafness in South Asian & South-West Asian histories: A bibliography with annotation and excerpts from India; also from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma / Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia / Iran, & Sri Lanka. Version 3.3

The Arab Sign Dictionary for Deaf Ver. 1.0 (Sense Internet Solutions )

Disability and Deafness in the Middle East

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