the end of cold war created a unique opportunity for both the arabs and israelis to end their animosity and for the united states to play an important role to bring them to peace negotiations. therefore, during the 1990s, the u.s. facilitated several rounds of talks between syria and israel, but the negotiations complicated gradually. the talks were stalled over the fact that israel did not wan...

the syrian writer nadia khost, captured the embers of creativity and painted it with ability and anecdote. then she provided to her stories, sensitivity of the unique that made her one of the authoresses of that the arab writers :union: is proud of their membership. so nadia khost smells the scent of the land of al sham, and her camphire isn't only damascene. location played a functionally...

A Short History of Psychoanalysis in Palestine and Israel Rafael Moses, M.D. The history of psychoanalysis in Palestine/Israel begins with the emigration from Germany of one of Freud's “Group of Seven,” Dr. Max Eitingon. Actually, Eitingon was not the first zionistically oriented psychoanalyst to pass through pre-state Palestine in the early part of this century. Eitingon himself had visited Pa...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to assess the feasibility of conducting large scale HIV prevention clinical trials in Mozambique by measuring HIV prevalence and incidence among women of reproductive age. This paper describes the baseline socio-demographic characteristics of the Mozambique Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) feasibility cohort, baseline prevalence of HIV and other STIs, and HIV ...

ii To the memory of my bubbe, Lillian Kotovsky, and to my parents who have taught me the importance of embracing my cultural heritage. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my Thesis Supervisor, Professor Craig Adcock, for the time and energy he has dedicated to assisting me in the completion of this thesis. My gratitude also goes to Professor Wallace Tomasini and Professor Dorothy Johnson...

International law’s indeterminacy and its capacity to be shaped by what Duncan Kennedy describes as “legal work,” or the intervention of legal worker shape many available parts, (i.e., evidence, primary documents, testimony) into an argument makes certain that there is no singular account a conflict in international law. Despite myriad arguments presented jurisprudence, scholarship, advocacy, n...

The Greater Middle East Project was put forth by Colin Powel, the Minister of Defense at George Bush Administration on 12 September, 2002. The objectives which have been posed for this plan include: Economic reform, promotion of human rights, establishment of democracy and freedom of election in the Middle East which could be implemented by different instruments and tactics. Of course, it is ne...

In this essay, I follow predatory fleas, sterile flies, and other insects, as well farmers, across the Arava/Arabah, an arid desert region in southern Israel/Palestine, south of Dead Sea, marked by harsh environmental conditions. Following a four-year ethnographic study, examine ecological political impacts Zionist settlement area fluidity definitions alien/native species. use term agricultural...