On September 2000, the Al Aqsa Itifada erupted. Palestinian children and families have been exposed to a variety of traumatic events, ranging from hearing of killing, to bombardment by helicopters at the entire Gaza Strip. The current conflict differs from the previous Intifada, in which events such as night and day raids were common occurrence in previous Intifada (1987-1993). Shelling and bom...

BACKGROUND During the last two decades, waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS), also known as hookah, witnessed a global increase in use, especially among youth. Little information is known about the burden of WTS among Palestinian youth. A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of WTS and cigarette smoking and explore the associated factors among a sample of Palestinian univer...

OBJECTIVE Over the past decade, there has been an increase in reports of health research from Palestine, but no assessment of their quality. We have assessed the quality of reports of Palestinian health research and factors associated with it. DESIGN This is a systematic review. INCLUSION CRITERIA We searched Medline and Scopus for reports of original research relevant to human health or he...

Writer identification is the process of identifying the writer of the document based on their handwriting. Recent advances in computational engineering, artificial intelligence, data mining, image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning have shown that it is possible to automate writer identification. This paper proposes a model for text-dependent writer identification based on Eng...

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...

BACKGROUND Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanomaterials that may have an infinite size with the range less than 100 nm. This science has provided solutions to many of the current limitations in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Therefore, the pharmacist's knowledge and awareness of nano-pharmaceutical drugs will increase their availability in the market, and will improve the ...

Sopralluoghi in Palestina ( Location Hunting Palestine ) () documents Pasolini’s search for an archaic, biblical world within which to set Il Vangelo secondo Matteo The Gospel According St. Matthew (). Palestine/Israel was eventually abandoned, with being filmed and around Basilicata. documentary has proven a fertile object Palestinian artists have conducted dialogues. Following Edward Said, th...