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Deir Yassin massacre

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

The Deir Yassin massacre (Deir Yassin is also transliterated from Arabic as Dayr Yasin and frequently (mis)transliterated from Hebrew writings as Dir Yassin) refers to the killing of scores of Arab civilians at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine by Jewish irregular forces between April 9 and 11, [...]

The cave dwellers

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Working in a Mediterranean restaurant gives me a great opportunity to observe and analyze people’s perspective on issues such as cultural differences. But what amazes me the most in my observation is how incredibly varied the values of these cultures are. Based on customers conversation I realize how different people are in their interpretation of [...]