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Cognitive ability data for 393 sixth grade Arab students from the Negev region in southern Israel were collected using a nonverbal test (Raven's Progressive Matrices) and scores of scholastic achievement in three subjects: Arabic, English, and Mathematics. The study investigated…

This study analyses the utilization of modern and traditional mental health care systems by the Bedouin, with particular emphasis upon such patterns of dual use from the patients' perspectives. In addition, the study describes the patients' experiences through the course of the …

In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial identities were not significant for the self-definition of the res…

In 2003, the Israeli government announced plans to transfer a large army base from the centre of the country to the Negev (al-Naqab in Arabic), 8 kilometers downwind from the Ramat Hovav industrial zone and national hazardous waste treatment site. Since its creation in 1975, Ram…