The purpose of this study is to shed light on the attitudes and the positions of the successive American administrations towards Jerusalem and its holy sites. It further aims at evaluating the events and reasons that influenced the overall American foreign policy toward Palestine in general and the Holy Land in particular. This is so by answering...

In light of the deteriorating economic situation in the Gaza Strip, women have decided to shift to cheaper items when they buy household cleaning detergents, without taking much care of the chronic effects of these detergents on both health and skin. More specifically, the daily exposure to the chemical detergents puts women at a high risk, which...

employed self-report questionnaires to 548 Palestinian Arab adolescents to examine the attitudes toward the potential risks of experimenting and regularly using psychoactive substances, family cohesion, parental and friends' attitudes toward the use of psych-active substances. It was hypothesized that the adolescents would attribute higher risk to...

This study was conducted during the season of 2017-2018 to estimate the changes that might occur in leaves covered with sooty mold in the Omer Al-Mukhtar University periphery, El-Beida, Libya. The results indicated that the disease caused significant reduction in the leaf’s area from 158, 28.8 and 10cm2 in healthy leaves to 126.5, 23 and 7.5cm2 in...

The study sought to explore the quality of the information circulated in social media platforms and the responsiveness of the government decision makers to using such platforms. Descriptive and analytical tools were utilized to handle and process the information collected from the published sources as well as using a questionnaire survey designed...

The experiment was carried out in the General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research in the nursery of Al-Adaway in 2014 and 2015 seasons to study the effect of foliar spraying with seaweed extract (Algaren, Seaweeds and Seaweed Products) on local red onion growth and the yield of dry bulbs and produce of seeds. Spray treatments: (control...

This study explores the features of the textual cohesion in “Sunset Garden’’ (hadiqat alghurub) poem by Dr. Ghazi Al- Qosaibi, the last before his death. It highlights the effect of cohesion on forming the poem’s language, which reflects his grief and sense of death. In addition, the study shows the connection between the semantic and syntactic...

The study aimed to use semiotics in teaching the holy Qur'an chapters and investigate the effectiveness of this teaching strategy on the development of the creative and critical thinking skills of Al-Aqsa University students in Gaza Governorate. Therefore, the researchers used Joseph’s Chapter (Yusuf’s Chapter) as the sample of the study. To...

This study addresses the issue of managing the public libraries in Palestine in the age of technological development and economic changes at the outset of the 21st century as perceived by the public libraries directors. This descriptive study examines the libraries’ directors’ awareness of their roles during these changes regarding the future of...

This study aims to bridge the research gap in the topic of the quality of public services in Palestine due to the importance of this issue locally and internationally and provide recommendations to the heads of the public service institutions to address the numerous obstacles and improve the quality of the services provided to the potential...