This paper concerns the outer urban area of the town of Granada in the Nasrid period (13the15th centuries). Most agricultural land was irrigated because of the characteristic drought of the Mediterranean climate, and also because of the needs of certain crops which had been brought by the Arabs from monsoon climates. Water distribution followed patterns that were not only hydrographical and top...

T get to the maternal and child health station in Mahamadia, a Moslem Arab village, you alight from the bus at the foot of Mount Tabor, slide down a hill, and find yourself in a courtyard with children and sheep. Bahija, the practical nurse, greets you and laughs as she tells of the Jewish paediatrician who, because of religious tenets forbidding touching a strange woman, refused to take her he...

Iran has experienced one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world, with 64 percent decline in total fertility rate (TFR) between 1986 and 2000. This paper focuses on Iranians’ unique experience with implementation of a national family planning program. Recognition of sensitive moral and ethical aspects of population issues resulted in successful collaboration of t...

This study figures out the historical journey of Indonesian nation which is full its own dynamics marked by prominent role Moslem in fighting for and maintaining national unity. The socio-cultural diversity vital capital as well a big challenge Indonesia building nation-state. For more than seventy years this pluralistic society has been united one state ideology, namely "Pancasila" expressly s...