after occupation of palestine by zionists in 1948, some of palestinians became refugees to adjacent arabic countries and some of other people were inhabited inside the occupied land, particularly in west bank (of jordan river) and gaza strip. thence, palestinians never saw political tranquility, stability, and equilibrium. consequently, contemporary poetry was also affected by such chaotic circ...

Abstract This article offers a contextual analysis of Annemarie Jacir’s film Wajib . I argue that Jacir employs the tropes ‘the exasperating ride’ and ‘bittersweet duty’ as means demonstrating material conditions endured by Palestinians in Nazareth, documenting mundane acts sumuud face personal collective traumas, articulating complex sociopolitical landscape inhabited Palestinians. Employing i...

In their final section, Eller and Gerber note that the field of public policy “has perhaps paid insufficient attention” to the “remarkably fecund issue area” of counterterrorism policy, and they further suggest that explorations in this area provide not only “substantive benefit” but also “theoretic development” (p. 36). I couldn’t agree more, except that I would drop the word “perhaps.” In the...

This article takes steps from the birth and consolidation of “homeland” as central discursive engine US national security enterprise; issue with dominant scholarly interpretation geographical spatial implications its emergence in terms dissolution space spatialization policy ( Bialasiewicz et al., 2007 : 416). We adopt a multi-scalar approach to exploring discourse/practice, comparing performat...

Constitutionally, apartheid divided South Africa into “white” and “black” South Africa. White South Africa consisted mainly of the urban areas, while black South Africa was mainly rural. Black South Africa was largely comprised of the homeland areas. However, urban areas have subsequently developed in most of the former homelands. At the same time, a number of dormitory towns were developed, ei...

In this paper, we describe work in performance standards for urban search and rescue (USAR) robots begun in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. This program is being coordinated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and will result in consensus standards developed through ASTM International, under the Operational Equipment Subcommittee of their Homeland Security Committ...

This paper examines the experiences of Kurdistani Jews who were airlifted to Israel from Iraq in early 1950s with Operations Ezra and Nehemiah. The article seeks answer questions regarding what transnational ties have their former homeland Iraq, how ethnic, cultural, political mobilization transpires Israel, whether Jewish community may be considered a diaspora. scrutinizes (allegedly) enduring...