Increasingly across the world, political conflict is as a moral clash between different sets of sacred values, which a moral community treats as possessing transcendental significance that precludes comparisons or tradeoffs with instrumental values of realpolitik or the marketplace. In experiments with Israeli settlers, Palestinian refugees and Hamas students we found that violent opposition to...

Title: Nutritional status of Palestinian school adolescents and associated sociodemographic characteristics: cross sectional study in Ramallah and Hebron governorates.

This study examines the association between decision-making power, with other background variables, and domestic violence against single, never-married women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Secondary analysis using data from a 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics domestic violence survey revealed that decision-making power and age were significant predictors of physical an...

What are the assets available to the incoming Obama administration for resolving or at least reducing the intensity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? What liabilities and constraints will the next administration face and what opportunities might it attempt to exploit for this purpose? This document constitutes a first attempt by two experts— one Israeli, the other a Palestinian—to examine th...

palestinian contemporary writer, dr. samira azzam is one of the pioneers in short story- writing at arabic and palestinian literature. the present article deals with a survey on attitude of this writer toward human-by content analysis- and to achieve this objective, rather than documentation and criticism of arab expert critiques’ comments about works of samira azzam, writer’s approach toward h...


 In his 1875 description of the language, Theodor Nöldeke describes Mandaic as among purest Aramaic languages and furthest from Western Aramaic, particularly with respect to its lexicon. As Mandæans identify their faith that John Baptist community followers, this observation is not without relevance for assessing veracity accounts reconstructing history prior advent Islam. Departing assum...