This paper examines the ways in which Palestinian suffering from the 1948 Nakba and the ‘ongoing Nakba’ has been silenced. Silencing has taken multiple forms in different historical moments, from the description of Palestinians as ‘non-Jews’ in the Balfour Declaration, to under-reporting of Palestinian losses in 1948, to exclusion from academic studies of trauma and genocide, to the absence of ...

Cloud computing is a term that refers to resources and computer systems available on demand through the network, which can provide a number of computer integrated services without being restricted by local resources.This research attempts to determine the opportunities and strategies of cloud computing adoption in Palestine. A focus group has been conducted in order to accomplish the research o...

during the occupation of palestinian territories by jewish settlers, palestinian civilians became the main victims of the conflicts and the targets of deportation from their home territory. collective and individual deportations and transfer by the occupying power of its own nationals into the territory it had occupied have frequently been carried out in the palestinian territories by israel as...

Rhythm is expressed by recurring, hence predictable beat patterns. Poetry in many languages is composed with attention to poetic meters while prose is not. Therefore, one way to investigate speech rhythm is to evaluate how prose reading differs from poetry reading via a quantitative method that measures predictability. We use linear regression to predict the acoustic properties of segments from...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of psychological morbidity among Palestinian children living in the southern Bethlehem District of the West Bank during July 2000. METHODS We undertook a descriptive study using the Rutter A2 (parent) Scale to determine psychological morbidity. This questionnaire comprises 31 questions that were answered by a parent of the 206 subject children (ages 6 to ...

In this manuscript, a Lebanese trainee psychiatrist qualitatively analyses and discusses the provision of mental healthcare services for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There are more than 250,000 Palestinian people sporadically dispersed in the refugee camps in Sidon, Beirut and other major cities in the Levant. Displacement, conflict, trauma, unemployment and poverty are but some of the myri...

This paper takes advantage of the overlapping geographies of Israeli military and Palestinian civil authority in the West Bank to examine the association between “partial”, or “fragmented”, statehood at the national level and the fiscal capacity of local governments. The main empirical finding is that local governments in areas of the West Bank that operate under shared Israeli-Palestinian cont...

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to provide estimates of future diabetes prevalence in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), and to compare five future policy scenarios for diabetes prevention. DESIGN We created and refined a mathematical Markov model that integrates population, obesity and smoking trends to estimate future diabetes prevalence. Model parameters were derived from the l...

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...