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revolution is part of the Palestinian revolution and the Palestinian revolution is part of the world revolution".l This awareness guided the path of the Palestinian women in real life, as early as 1925, when Mary Shehadeh, a journalist was quoted saying: "I was extremely interested in the question of
every situation of life and at every time of the day: when getting up, on the way to university, when tidying up, having dinner with friends or going to sleep. Th ey use music to relax and to motivate themselves. Sometimes music serves even as a substitute for a family in the form of background
pregnancies were carried to term, but that a significant number were ended by abortion. In Turkey, it is illegal to end pregnancies with abortion in cases other than where there is a threat to maternal life (health reason), or of deliver- ing a malformed child (eugenic reason). However, reality does not
, and cultural changes occur as part of longer or shorter processes of transformation. My focus will be on the third temporal aspect—that of individual events. Th is type of temporality, according to Braudel, does not have a lasting impact on cultural context. Although this chapter is motivated by
the life and works of Arab-American writers is part of a much broader attempt at free exploration into the nature of an intricate process of inter-relationships between creativity and exile. In a previous unpublished work in Arabic, I originally conducted such an inquiry focusing on literary
. Amongst cousins there are potential husbands and wives, and life-long peer relations. Cousins are the same generation but living in another space and what feels like another time. Marrying a cousin includes the experience of journeying with them across that space and time. Differentiated generation units
Whether one feels comfortable or happy being in a place is affected by many things: the ability to make a living, how one gets along with kin, the colour of one's skin, the sensual experience of the place, even the sun. A_ place, experienced as a totality, determines one's well being in numerous ways
): 55–70. Muslim women living a life in pardah developed their own idioms and expressions in the Urdu language. With social changes, especially access to new education, this language almost disappeared. However, it tells us a great deal about ‘the way Muslim women lived, thought and felt’ half a
Western Europe. A second wave of immi- gration came after the collapse of the Soviet system in 1990. Immigrant groups included Czechs living in Russia, and people from Ukraine, Greece and Arab countries. Then, more and more people have come from the Balkans, Afghanistan (war immigrants), Pakistan, and
traditional Jewish education in Bible and Talmud, the Arabic education of an adib or e failasuf. The polymath soon became an honoured figure in Andalusi Jewry. Hasday's Jewish circle joined the larger society by living as Arabicised a life as possible, within the limits imposed on the one hand by Islamic