the main purpose of this research is pondering and explaining the place of women in the process of palestine’s resistance by analyzing related symbols in fadwa touqan’s poetry. she is known as the representative and the exemplary personality of women’s poetry and to some extent her reputation has been in the shadow of the literary characteristic of her brother, ibrahim touqan. fadwa has a promi...

palestinian woman poets have frequently used mythical concepts, especially those of god's messengers, in their poems, and they have sometimes been inspired by these myths. although myths have ancient origins, they endow the contemporary poet's thoughts with a deep scope, while, at the same time, the poet reprocesses them and give them the present day flavour. therefore, most poems by ...

abdol karim al karami – called abu salma – is one of the famous palestinian poets and arabic contemporary avant – garde. he loves women's beauty and explains the prettiness by his own method. the poet combines kindness between consummation and separation, reality and dream in general. the present article follows up the aesthetics aspects in women description and studies his descriptions in...

in the eyes of contemporary palestinian poets the occupied land illustrates a sweetheart boasting an endless number of ravishing names. the poet gets their way through to their sweetheart (homeland) by a figment of their imagination and takes a specific and different look at it. after the start of hardships in palestine and its occupation at the pinnacle of crises, the “woman” was looked at as ...

Abstract As a woman Palestinian dancer and choreographer in Israel, Sahar Damoni performs within multiple contexts of cultural, gendered, political oppression, employing her bodily art to challenge these structures, most poignantly through dances that express evoke pleasure sensual joy. Offering detailed ethnography three Damoni's performances one year Israel/Palestine, I argue an examination a...

BACKGROUND Urban Palestinians have a high incidence of coronary heart disease, and alarming prevalences of obesity (particularly among women) and diabetes. An active lifestyle can help prevent these conditions. Little is known about the physical activity (PA) behavior of Palestinians. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of insufficient PA and its socio-demographic correlates among urba...

A commercial medium often assumed to exist solely for a juvenile and "lowbrow" audience, comic books have been largely ignored by academic scholarship. There are some exceptions within the fields of American studies-for instance, the work of Thomas Inge-popular culture studies, where writers gather in a Comic Arts subdivision of the Popular Culture Association, and cultural studies, with work b...

• Evidence of effectiveness: This intervention has been evaluated in six well-conducted randomized controlled trials, and found to produce a sizable increase in the quit rate: 13.9% of women assigned to the intervention quit smoking in the last 4-5 months of their pregnancy, compared with 8.3% of the women assigned to the control group. In almost all cases, these effects were statistically-sign...

Objectives: To determine the posteroanterior cephalometric norms in Palestinian adults, and to compare the Palestinian norms with the norms of other ethnic groups. Materials and Methods: PA cephalometric radiographs for 70 Palestinian adults aged between 17-23 years were selected on the basis of Class I molar relationship, good facial symmetry, and no history of previous orthodontic treatment. ...