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Pushing Boundaries: Smuggling Against Policy in Israel/Palestine
This paper investigates the development and current practices of smuggling networks operating between Israel and Palestine. Specifically, this study looks at the smuggling of food items and SIM cards which smugglers ... -
The Quran as a Literary Masterpiece within its Historical and Religious Milieus
(2013-07-23)This thesis is an attempt to study the Quran as a literary work using two of the recently proposed approaches: thematic coherence of the Quran, and Semitic rhetoric. To effectively conduct this study, surah structure and ... -
The World Turned Upside Down: a Comparative Study of the "Topsy-Turvy Motif" in Egyptian and Northwest Semitic Texts
For decades, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and Egyptian texts have identified occurrences of a textual motif using various terms: “topsy-turvy,” mundus inversus, “world upside down,” “social woe,” “national distress,” ... -
Translation as Rewriting: Yazıcızāde ‘Āli’s Political Use of Poetry in Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i Selçuk
“Translation as Rewriting” examines Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i Selçuk (hereafter TĀS), a history of the Anatolian Seljuks that Yazıcızāde ʿAlī composed in 1424 or 1436/7 by translating Persian chronicles into Turkic. Drawing on a ...