ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...

if we study the contemporary palestinian poetry of the last century we will find that the theme of nationhood and motherland dominates it. one reason is the fact that during this period palestine has been through such events that has ignited a sense of patriotism, a wish to defend of the motherland and the arabic origin of the palestinian people. since the balfour declaration, the endeavour to ...

a group of palestinians became refugees in neighboring arab countries after their homeland was occupied by israel. other part of the population continued to reside in the occupied country at karate gerbil and ghazi, but they have lost the peace, and the political stability and establishment. consequently, this disordered situation affected palestinian poetry.refugee status, exile, massacre, pil...

The Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, is a master of weaving various intellectual sources and different types religious, artistic, historical, mythical figures into his poetry. Like any exceptional piece art, poetry triggers an immediate response. It blends the aesthetic with informative to create vivid world deeply rooted in global heritage local folklore. This paper investigates translation ...

The publication of Fourth Quarter, Judith Wright's latest volume of poetry, is a significant event, occurring as it does just thirty years after her hrst volume The Moving Image. In a way, the poems of Fourth Quarter crystallise many of the themes which have preoccupied the poet during those thirty years. At the same time, the poet has not lost her power to surprise us with her new and often qu...

Toward the end of the 1770s, a poet writing at the request of a powerful Buddhist monk on the island we now know as Sri Lanka juxtaposed four images of Lankan Buddhist life. The first, with which he described the time before his patron’s monastic order came into being, was an image of darkness, hypocrisy, and delusion. It described a time in which, according to the poet, Buddhist monks betrayed...

Background Congenital hydrocephalus is a common and often disabling disorder. Various syndromic forms of hydrocephalus have been reported in the Palestinian population including Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), Carpenter syndrome, and Meckel syndrome. Aim In this report we discuss the antenatal diagnosis of congenital hydrocephalus in three related Palestinian families. Method Single nucleotide p...

Despite the fact that children account for over half the Palestinian population, little attention has been paid to the problem of child injuries. We examined the types of injury mortality in children aged 0-19 years in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territory) and compared these with similar data for children in Israel and England and Wales. We used data from death certificates cover...

We present POET, a scripting language designed for applying advanced program transformations to code in arbitrary programming languages as well as building adhoc translators between these languages. We have used POET to support a large number of compiler optimizations, including loop interchange, parallelization, blocking, fusion/fission, strength reduction, scalar replacement, SSE vectorizatio...