<jats:p> In this article I argue that in Kingdom of Heaven Ridley Scott creates historical analogies between Saladin's taking of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade, on the one hand, and the Israeli-Palestinian question and American-led ‘War on Terror’, on the other hand. I...

Abstract Affect detection from text has captured the attention of researchers recently. This is due to the rapid use of social media sites (e.g. Twitter, Facebook), which allows users to express their feelings, emotions, and thoughts in textual format. Analyzing emotion...

Most of the literature on gender and forced migration has focused on vulnerability, highlighting a lack of agency among refugee women during periods of displacement. This paper takes a different ap...

Our field data from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Al-Ansab 1 (Jordan) and from a pollen sequence in the Dead Sea elucidate the role that changing Steppe landscapes played in facilitating anatomically modern human populations to enter a major expansion and consolidation...

<jats:sec> <jats:title>Introduction:</jats:title> <jats:p> Stemming is an important preprocessing step in text classification, and could contribute in increasing text classification accuracy. Although many works proposed stemmers for English language, few stemmers were ...

Contemporary art and engineering research are both at their best when things don't turn out as planned. I'll present selected examples based on artworks developed with students and other collaborators involving robots and networks over the past 20 years. These projects ...

Abstract The carrying capacity represents an important module in tourism planning; it is one of the mechanisms for establishing standards for sustainable tourism and cultural heritage preservation. This study evaluates the carrying capacity at the site of Jerash (Gerasa...

<jats:p>Abstract. The Baptism (El-Maghtas) site located north to the Dead Sea at the eastern bank of the Jordan River. There are many excavations in the surrounding area that revealed different archaeological remains which indicates the location John the Baptist. He liv...

Heritage cities are facing unprecedented pressure, due to the combination of climate change impacts, rapid urbanization and uncontrolled growth. Historic urban centres in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are particularly exposed. This paper discusses the be...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>To maintain the competitive edge and evaluating the needs of the quality app is in the mobile application market. The user’s feedback on these applications plays an essential role in the mobile application development industry. ...