This study inquires into the functions of the Palestinian colloquial dialect in its various manifestations--whether through phrases, expressions, and proverbs, or by evoking a folk atmosphere--in Pale
From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes mos
From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes mos
From the ancient Egyptian tale of a Shipwrecked Sailor through to Sinbad and Robinson Crusoe, the stranded castaway living and philosophizing alone on a strange, desert island is a theme which has cap
The rebirth of Palestinian literature is only partially a function of politics. It is also the result of a new approach to fiction, the emergence of a realist school, the acts of literary rebels, and
Yazbak (Middle Eastern history, U. of Haifa) looks at the city during a period when European penetration of Palestine combined with Istanbul's centralization efforts to alter the social fabric of the
