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birth to migrate to the USA, but Fadi convinces her that in the USA, he will get the opportunity of getting better education. In addition, the humiliations, frustrations, and undue hardships Muna and her son have been experiencing at the hands of Israeli soldiers at security checkpoints makes her decide to migrate to the land of opportunities, America with her son. Amreeka is an Arabic word for America. Muna and Fadi encounter their first cultural discord at the airport in…

The United Nations (UN) was established in 1945 to promote global peace and international cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations which was deemed as ineffective since it failed to prevent the Second World War. The organization enjoys a membership of 193 nations with the privilege to operate extraterritoriality. The UN also ensures that human rights of member states are not violated in any way. To ensure that the body achieves the task, UN has established a global structure that oversee…

Exploring Violence within the Travel Narrative. Geoff Dyer travels to Cambodia, Emily Malone to Brazil, and Joan Didion to Las Vegas, Nevada. They all share a common experience - they are travellers, and authors, they come bearing a western perspective and they deal with the reality and effect of violence. When an author from a privileged background, defined in this instance as a background free from governmental or militarized violence, travels to a country or place affected by violence, do…

is located, also known as Jerusalem (Aviv and Shneer, New Jews, pp.4). The period before the zionism movement, the factors that contributed to the emergence of zionism and the aims of the movement have all been crucial in the development of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict in the Holy Land. Jews were without a homeland for a significant amount of time but there was still a sense of faith during this period. Many Jewish families persisted with their religion and…

Lebanon’s extensive history of foreign interventions which continue to this day are rooted in several factors including its history prior to independence, the formation of the state and society, and the nature of its modern political system. In order to understand Lebanon’s seeming predisposition to foreign intervention, it’s first necessary to understand it’s historical background and relationship with foreign powers under the Ottoman system and following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.…

Israel put this exact theory to the test. The randomized survey is titled “Does the Ethnicity of Offenders in Crime Scenarios Affect Public Perceptions of Crime Seriousness?” The study was based on a random sample of Israeli adult respondents that was collected from the most recent Israeli telephone directories that were available at the time that the study was being conducted. Eighteen crime scenarios which varied randomly in their dimensions were presented to each respondent. In the scenarios,…

“HADAD AND TAHPENES SISTER” Hadad was a biracial great grandson of Esau who was married to the black Hamitic Canaanites and Egyptian women and also Esau was the founder of the kingdom of Edom, and his great grandson, Hadad was of the royal lineage of kings and dukes of Edomite kingdom (Genesis 36:1-19, 35-36, 43; 1 kings 11:14). When David became the king of Israel, he invaded the kingdom of Edom with his captain named Joab, and they smote every male in Edom. At that time, the young king Hadad…

Arabic or some type of foreign alien. It was if the Arabic genes were overwhelmingly disproportionate to my white genetics. Also, from experiences over seas in Israel I have witnessed first hand the Palestinian Occupation. The color line that the Israelis draw is very oppressive and I feel personally effected by it. My family lives on a very low income over seas and even basic resources such as water are often withheld from them for days. This is similar to the colonies in Africa during the…

After reaching the summit of its greatness during the reigns of David and Solomon in X b.C, the ancient kingdom of Israel was increasingly more vulnerable to the will of its powerful neighbors and internal struggles. Divided its royal lineage in two main branches, north and south, the Assyrians took advantage of the situation to conquer the northern kingdom. The South with capital in Jerusalem, tried to maintain their independence making strongholds between Egypt and Babylon, the latter, at the…

back in 2000 B.C. However, the Egyptians used Fava beans instead of chick peas. Some theories even claim that the enslaved Jews learned from the Egyptians how to make Falafels. While another theory claims that an Egyptian merchant traveled through Israeli and shared Falafel with the natives. Falafels can be made into the shape of a ball or even flat like a burger and are traditionally deep fried in oil. People in the Middle east use Greek yogurt which is really strained yogurt, popular in…