{"id":45313,"date":"2025-08-24T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/?p=45313"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:57:17","slug":"masters-thesis-on-autism-and-its-cultural-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/2025\/08\/24\/masters-thesis-on-autism-and-its-cultural-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s Thesis on &#8220;Autism and its Cultural Representation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of English at the College of Arts, University of Mosul, defended a master&#8217;s thesis titled &#8220;Autism and its cultural representation: an intersectional study of Elana K. Arnold\u2019s, <i>A Boy Called BAT<\/i>, Helen Hoang\u2019s <i>The Bride Test<\/i> and Tiffany Hammond\u2019s <i>A Day with No Words<\/i>&#8221; on Sunday, August 24, 2025. The defense was attended by Professor Dr. <b>Hatem Fahd Al-Ta&#8217;i<\/b>, the Dean of the College; Dr. <b>Salih Abdullah Abdulrahman<\/b>, the Head of the Department; and several faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>The study, presented by student <b>Sarah Khalid Sultan Salih<\/b>, addressed autism and its effects through selected novels from American, Asian American, and African American literature.<\/p>\n<p>The thesis aims to shed light on autism as a contemporary condition and highlight its effects on different cultures.<\/p>\n<p><b>Defense Committee<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Dr. <b>Wafaa Abdul Latif Abdulaal<\/b>, College of Arts, University of Mosul (Chairwoman)<\/li>\n<li>Asst. Prof. Dr. <b>Hikmat Khalaf Hussein<\/b>, College of Arts, University of Tikrit (Member)<\/li>\n<li>Asst. Prof. Dr. <b>Ali Hamada Maklad<\/b>, College of Arts, University of Mosul (Member)<\/li>\n<li>Asst. 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Arnold\u2019s, A Boy Called BAT, Helen Hoang\u2019s The Bride Test and Tiffany Hammond\u2019s A Day with No Words&#8221; on Sunday, August 24, 2025. The defense was attended by Professor Dr. Hatem Fahd Al-Ta&#8217;i, the Dean of the College; Dr. Salih Abdullah Abdulrahman, the Head of the Department; and several faculty members. The study, presented by student Sarah Khalid Sultan Salih, addressed autism and its effects through selected novels from American, Asian American, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/2025\/08\/24\/masters-thesis-on-autism-and-its-cultural-representation\/\"> [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":45314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45319,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45313\/revisions\/45319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}