Contributed by Anton Weigel on 27.02.2006:
Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar whose Cosmographia (1544; "Cosmography") was the earliest German description of the world and a major work - after the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 - in the revival of geographic thought in 16th-century Europe.
Contributed by Anton Weigel on 27.02.2006:
Printed in Nuremberg 1729 by map makers Adam Friedrich Zurner & Johann Christoph Weigel
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 25.02.2006:
This page of genealogy is just one example of what there is to be found in the handwritten book by Musa Sanad--a veritable compendium of almost every aspect of village life from crops to curses. For more information read: Musa Sanad 1949-2005: The Death of a Modern Palestinian Folk Hero."
Original Content C(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 25.02.2006:
This Week in Palestine
December 2005
By the Stars of Bethlehem
Project coordinator: Suzy Atallah
Director: Mohammad Awwad
Assistant: Reem Zaghmout
Cast: Grace Awwad, Randa Sleibi, Wala'a Ghabboun, Mays Nassar, Reem Baboun, Shirine Manneh, Nadine Baboun, Meera Naqawleh, Saja Dweik, Rozene Kara'a
This plays is performed by ten teenage students wh(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 25.02.2006:
This Week in Palestine
October 2005
By Zakaria Mohammed
Ten years ago a major archaeological event occurred in Palestine: the Ekron Inscription was unearthed. It is the first real Philistine inscription to be discovered until now. After 2,500 years of silence, the people who gave Palestine its name climbed the stage to speak again. They uttered two sentences of about 80 l(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 25.02.2006:
This Week in Palestine
October 2005
By Kevin Chamberlain
While the world’s media has been concentrating on the hardships suffered by the Palestinian people as a result of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, considerably less publicity has been given to the systematic destruction of Palestine’s rich cultural heritage resulting from the occupation.
Foll(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 18.02.2006:
Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate: Complete Transcript
Download MP3 audio
(Received through Sam Bahour's e-newsletter)
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to one of the longest running and most bitter conflicts in modern history: Israel and the Palestinians. Well over a decade has passed since the historic Oslo Accords that brought hopes (...)