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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting Overweight and Obesity Phenotypes for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Call to Action for the Middle East and Beyond

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although there are conflicting clinical data on the efficacy of weight reduction in reducing secondary events in patients with comorbid overweight and obesity (OAO) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), there is excellent epidemiological and biological evidence of a cause–effect relationship between OAO, CVD, and other systemic complications ...
Wael Almahmeed, Juan S. Barajas‐Gamboa, Mohammad Zubaid, Ebaa Al Ozairi, Abdullah Shehab, Khalid Al‐Rasadi, Charbel Abi Khalil, Noor Al Busaidi, Fahad Al Sindi, Zuhier Awan, Tomader Ali, Khaldoon Al‐Humood, Fatheya Al Awadi, Mohammed Al Hadad, Manal Al Kindi, Khalid Al Habib, Khalid Al Waili, Maryam Alsaeed, Adel Tash, Hani Sabbour   +19 more
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ADAPTING TO CONFLICT: IRAN’S PROXY WARFARE STRATEGY IN SYRIA AND YEMEN (2011–2020)

KAÜ-İİBF Dergisi
This research investigates how Iran employs proxy warfare in Syria and Yemen. Andrew Mumford’s quadrilateral framework is employed to analyze Iran’s use of proxy warfare in these cases, the focusing the provision of manpower, the provision military ...
Melih Kazdal
doaj   +1 more source

Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
wiley   +1 more source

Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee crisis (RC) after the Arab Spring (AS) and its impacts on Turkish tourism industry: The case of Istanbul

Journal of Tourismology, 2017
The Arab Spring began as social movements in Middle East and shortly after uprisings, regime changes and civil wars emerged. Apart from all, more than five million people are forced to refuge from Syria to neighbouring countries.
Füsun İstanbullu Dinçer, Eyüp Karayılan, Merve Aydoğan Çifçi   +2 more
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From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
wiley   +1 more source

Through the Sands of Time: Evolutionary History and Systematics of the Awl‐Headed Snakes (Colubridae: Lytorhynchus) in the Saharo‐Sindian Region

Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The psammophilous colubrid genus Lytorhynchus is widely distributed in the deserts of the Saharo‐Sindian region and adjacent areas. The taxonomy of the genus and the number of recognised species have remained unstable since the last taxonomic revision in 1970, with differing views on the taxonomic status of L. gaddi and L. kennedyi.
Lukáš Pola, Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor, Bassam Abu Afifeh, Roberta Graboski, Mohammad Abu Baker, Zuhair S. Amr, Ahmed Mohajja AlShammari, Avrajjal Ghosh, Salvador Carranza, Jiří Šmíd   +10 more
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The Affective Afterlife of the “Smelly Immigrant” Trope: Contested Scents, “Race,” and Olfactory Contact Zones in Berlin

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
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‘If You Don't Speak Up, It Will Eat You Up’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Voice and Silence in a Multicultural Clinical Healthcare System

Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite sustained efforts to promote speaking up in healthcare, improvements remain ephemeral. In diverse clinical learning and practice environments shaped by generational, cultural, professional and pedagogical plurality, speaking up operates as a situated social practice. Adopting an interpretive bricolage, we conducted a critical discourse
Shaista Salman Guraya, Farah Ennab, Hafidh Mohammad Khamis AlRajaby, Ibrahim Inuwa, Entesar Al Hammadi, Manal Al Halabi, Nabil Zary   +6 more
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