2007 III DEDICATION To the owners of the glowing hearts and burning vigor.……………. To those who sacrificed their money, souls and blood for their faith..... To those who faced the devil of evil and the devil of craving………. To Al-Aqsa Intifada martyrs and all the martyrs of Palestine………. To the spirit of the struggling martyr, my nephew, Rami Ganim……… To the stubborn heroes and political prisoners...

This article examines the historical development of Arab–Palestinian soccer under the British Mandate, and then afterward under the State of Israel. It strives to explain why the Arab sporting grandstands—particularly those of soccer—did not become a site for the construction and expression of Palestinian national pride in Israel. “The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of...

Title: Health-related quality of life of Palestinian preschoolers in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study

An exploratory descriptive study design was used to investigate job satisfaction and burnout among Palestinian nurses. A random sample of 152 nurses was recruited from private hospitals. The instruments included a demographic questionnaire, the Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire and the Maslach burnout inventory. Respondents reported moderate levels of job satisfaction and moderate burnout. P...

Background UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is the main primary health-care provider for 4.9 million Palestinian refugees, including 2 million from the Gaza Strip and West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory, spent US$18.3 million on essential medicines dispensed free of charge through clinics in five areas of operation (fields) – Gaza Strip, Jo...

Ever since President Bush introduced his ‘Road Map’ for a permanent solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in April 2003, a great deal of public attention has focused on its demand for a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA) to confront aggressively radical Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad who violently oppose a two-state solution to the conflict. One of the major obstacle...

This paper provides a general introduction to using KEDS, the Kansas Event Data System. KEDS is a Macintosh-based machine coding system for generating event data using pattern recognition and simple linguistic parsing. The system codes from machine-readable text describing international events; the NEXIS data service, optical character recognition and CD-ROM can provide such texts. The paper is...