An Israeli judge has dismissed a slander suit brought by five soldiers against the director of the film "Jenin, Jenin," but said the documentary did slander troops who took part in a 2002 military operation, media reported Monday. The court
Syrian archaeologists have unearthed a hieroglyph close to Damascus that dates back to the Pharaonic period around 1,300 years BC, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) says. "The Antiquities Department has discovered a hieroglyph 25 kilometers east [of the
Some 300 rare books confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein's regime have been secretly spirited into Israel, an Israeli newspaper says. The books include a 1487 commentary on the biblical Book of Job and another volume of biblical
He'd had the usual education at a Council School; starting and going right through the same school to the senior department before he left at 14. He had a sound education there and learned the basics of his engineering trade...
Artists have an ambivalent relationship with audiences. On one hand, it may be argued, a piece of art only fulfils itself in its reception and appreciation. On the other, the growing estrangement of "popular culture" and "high culture" in the
