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YHWH, considered too sacred to be uttered aloud, and frequently anglicized as Yahweh or Jehovah.
Islam there are ninety-nine names for God—ʾasmāʾu llāhi l-ḥusnā, meaning the Beautiful Names of Allah.
Costigin and the sailor hauled the wooden boat over the cliffs by rope.
pair arrived in Jericho by the Dead Sea in tatters.
final part of their journey in August of 1835. When
They launched onto the Dead Sea near the mouth of the Jordan. The
By the fourth day, their skulls had begun to burn.
Blisters and sores appeared on his face.
Their fresh water was completely gone after seven days,
A group of rescuers brought Costigin back through Bethlehem to Jerusalem strapped on horseback.
On the morning of Monday, September 7, 1835, Christopher Costigin was buried in a cemetery in the shade of Mount Zion
Point Costigan was named in 1848 when
led by the explorer William Lynch, heavily funded and equipped by the United States Navy—managed
The Ben Yehuda Street bombs went off in three-second intervals.
They arrived disguised as women.
Youssef Shouli’s was the last bomb to go off.
On the door of their apartment Nurit had put up a sticker: End the Occupation.
On hunger strike Bassam allowed himself salt tablets and water. The
March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set out
trek to the Arabian Sea in order to protest the British salt tax.
By the time he reached the coastal town of Dandi—241 miles away—tens of thousands of people had joined
he managed to defy British law by reaching down and picking up a small lump of natural salt from the mud flats.
—With this, he said, I am shaking the foundations of the British empire.
Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means.
lectures took place in the rear of the canteen. The prisoners gathered in a semicircle.
The way forward, he said, was nonviolence, a template for action and counteraction.
Gandhi’s idea of civil disobedience
broken into its original...
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civil element, he said, was just as important as the disobedience
contradictions had to be dismantled and jigsawed back together again. The
When you divide death by life you find a circle.
Abir, from the ancient Arabic, fragrance of the flower.
first century, the most extreme sect of Jewish zealots, the Sicarii, used stealth tactics against the Romans and Herodians.
long dark cloaks and carried sharp daggers hidden in their flowing robes.
The neck was their favorite target, followed by the heart and then the groin and lastly the stomach.
term sicario was adopted by South American drug cartels to describe their hit men in the 1980s and ’90s.
They came in cars of four or five. Bassam met the convoy at the checkpoint outside Anata.
Bassam counted them out: thirty-three men and women.
following weekend they returned. The concrete had hardened and the bricks had set. A soft prefabricated rubber flooring emerged from the back of the truck.
Their numbers had swollen to one hundred now:
basketball hoop was put in place.
plaque was screwed in place: Abir’s Garden.
After the second century Hebrew was deemed to be a holy language and was not spoken as a conversational mother tongue again until Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and others began, in the 1880s,
use it with their families and friends.
Ben-Yehuda, like Einstein, said that Jews and Arabs were mishpacha, a family, that they should share the land and live together.
The two were, he said, sister languages which, like the people, could live with and alongside one another.
bombs went off near the conjunction of Ben Yehuda and Ben Hilel Streets,
Hillel the Elder, author,
the ethic of reciprocity: That which is hateful to you, do no...
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Smadar had written: All the flowers you planted in the backyard died when you went away.
