Abstract Fifty years after his death, almost the only song that French people still sung about Napoleon retold conquest of city Mantua in 1797. ‘Le bombardement de Mantoue’ is an example a popular European folk genre, siege song. Siege songs use metaphor violent wooer and reluctant maiden to narrate capture cities. They circulated, print orally, from mid seventeenth nineteenth centuries, update...

This paper aims at investigating how Arab American writer Randa Jarrar’s short story “The Story of My Building” (2016) appropriates events, themes, tropes and motifs employed by Russian Isaac Babel in his Dovecote” (1925) to portray the hard conditions circumstances that Palestinians endure due recurrent Israeli military attacks on Gaza Strip. alludes anti-Semitic violence, known as pogroms, ma...

The most common heuristic used in economics is not coincidentally entitled the 'prisoner's dilemma'. Several classical economists saw in the social phenomena of crime and punishment an obvious demonstration of the principles of economics. Through changes in the criminal justice system society could deter criminals, thus ridding itself of the baneful costs of crime. Adam Smith (1762) explained t...

subject of palestine is neither a local nor an arabic issue but it is an islamic subject and all muslims in the world assume themselves responsible for it. disasters in palestine have caused pain in heart of all muslims throughout the world. this is a land that has been usurped from its owners and became a homeland for those ones who have come there from different points of the world and unlike...

the fars tribes living during the zand and qajar dynasties served as some politically and socially influential groups of their period. when the revenues of a tribe did not suffice their necessities, they would attack other cities, mainly shiraz, where there were abundant wealth and goods, and they would plunder, pillage and murder everywhere. shiraz was the political center of iran during the z...

If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation. The process might reveal that at the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as depending on the continued existence of the corporeal body. Thus, by providing a def...

________________________________________________________________ The archaeological response to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq is often portrayed as a crusade to rescue antiquities, destroyed either directly by the military action itself or indirectly by the looting of archaeological sites and museums. I argue in this paper that this narrative is awfully inadequate, and masks the ethi...

SMALLPOX, which has a very long history in Ethiopia, was the most serious of the epidemics from which the country suffered in the past; it was moreover one of the diseases for which society evolved some of its most remarkable traditional cures, as well as being perhaps the first malady to be brought largely under control by the introduction of modern medical practices. Smallpox is thought to ha...