1Islah Medical Laboratory, Islah Charitable Social Society, Jericho, Palestine. 2Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, Palestine. 3Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 4Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Humboldt University, Charité, Berlin, Germany. ABSTRACT This study of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jericho city and the ad...

“Wild thorns” is a novel written by the Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh; it focuses on the colonisation of Palestine from a feminist point of view. She considers the Israeli colonisation as a patriarchy. This paper aims at investigating two types of colonization that have been represented in the form of patriarchy in the novel. The investigation of the issue of Palestine from a feminist poi...