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Abstract. The paper discusses the mechanism of visual jinās (roughly meaning wordplay?) in both ancient Egyptian and Arabic languages. It demonstrates the significance of looking into several overlooked visual aesthetics, which were mainly designed to stimulate the eyes and minds of the indigenous readers, to shape any theory related to the literary analysis of ancient Egyptian or Arabic writing systems.

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   TITLE = {The Text of `Khakheperreseneb': New Readings of EA 5645, and an Unpublished Ostracon},
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   BOOKTITLE = {The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts},
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Hany Rashwan (2020), “Comparing the Visual Untranslatability of Ancient Egyptian and Arabic Writing Systems,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 5, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 1095–1106.


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