On Tuesday, the 01st of March 2016, at 9:00 a.m. at the Hall of the Faculty of Humanities, the Masters Thesis Defense of Ms. Evin Arshad Faris, a postgraduate student from the Department of English Language at the University of Zakho, on Semiotic Horror Elements as a Means of Expressing the Modern Men's Miseries in Stephen King's the Shining John Ronald Tolkiens the Lord of the Rings took place.