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يطير الحمام يحطّ الحمام أعدّي لي الأرض كي أستريح فإني أحبّك حتى التعب صباحك فاكهةٌ للأغاني وهذا المساء ذهب ونحن لنا حين يدخل ظلٌّ إلى ظلّه في الرخام وأشبه نفسي حين أعلّق نفسي على عنقٍ لا تعانق غير الغمام وأنت الهواء الذي يتعرّى أمامي كدمع العنب وأنت بداية عائلة الموج حين تشبّث بالبرّ حين اغترب وإني أحبّك، أنت بداية روحي، وأنت الختام يطير الحمام يحطّ الحمام أنا وحبيبي صوتان في [ Read More ]
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محمود درويش الابن الثاني لعائلة تتكون من خمسة ابناء وثلاث بنات ، ولد عام 1941 في قرية البروة في الجليل قرية فلسطينية مدمرة ، يقوم مكانها اليوم قرية احيهود ، تقع 12.5 كم شرق ساحل سهل عكا، وفي عام 1948 نزح الى لبنان وهو في السابعة من عمره وبقي هناك عام واحد ، عاد بعدها متسللا الى فلسطين ليجد أن البروة أزيلت من الوجود وأنه أصبح حاضرا غائبا في وطنه [ Read More ]
Posted by dyab on يناير - 29 - 2006 with
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وأنت تعدّ فطورك، فكّر بغيرك لا تنس قوت الحمام وأنت تخوض حروبك فكّر بغيرك لا تنس من يطلبون السلام وأنت تسدّد فاتورة الماء، فكّر بغيرك من يرضعون الغمام وانت تعود إلى البيت ، بيتك ، فكّر بغيرك لا تنس شعب الخيام وأنت تنام و تحصي الكواكب ، فكّر بغيرك ثمّة من لم يجد حيّزاً للمنام وأنت تحرّر نفسك بالاستعارات، فكّر بغيرك من فقدوا حقّهم في الكلام وأنت تفكّر بالآخرين [ Read More ]
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By publishing harrowing images of kidnapped hostages, media organisations could be inadvertently helping terrorists, psychologists have warned. Aarti Iyer and Julian Oldmeadow at Exeter University presented 26 men and 34 women with a description of Ken Bigley’s kidnapping, just days after news reports broke of his capture in Iraq. Half of the participants were also shown images of Ken Bigley that had been released by the kidnappers, and which had [ Read More ]
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When choosing a therapist, you’d be forgiven for wanting someone with plenty of experience. But then you might well be unaware of all the studies that, to psychotherapy’s embarrassment, have failed to find any association between therapist experience and the likelihood of a client getting better. However, Scott Leon and colleagues have suggested that crude measures of therapist experience – such as ‘years since graduation’ – have rendered past research [ Read More ]
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Whereas I might say a jumper is blue or red, female acquaintances of mine refer to all sorts of gradations in between, such as navy blue, shocking pink, and many others that I can’t even recall. But does the richness of their colour vocabulary mean they can actually see more colours than me? This is the issue at the heart of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis – the idea that our perception [ Read More ]
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Most of us have had that feeling of doubt as we leave the house – did I turn the gas off? Did I leave the lights on? Sadly, for some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) this anxiety can become debilitating. They keep checking over and over and over. Now a study suggests the very act of repeated checking could be fuelling their doubt and anxiety. Adam Radomsky and his collaborators [ Read More ]
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Financial incentives aren’t the only way to encourage people to be more environmentally friendly. According to Ellen Matthies and colleagues at the Ruhr-Universitat in Germany, many people do care about the environment, despite their polluting habits, and so an alternative approach is to invite them to commit themselves to a change in behaviour. They tested a two-pronged strategy that involved inviting a voluntary commitment on the one hand, paired with [ Read More ]
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Training to perform certain movements, even blindfolded, affects our subsequent ability to perceive those same movements when performed by others. That’s according to Antonino Casile and Martin Giese at the University Clinic Tubingen, who say their finding reinforces the notion of an intimate link between how we control our own body and how we perceive the movements of others. Casile and Giese tested participants’ ability to match images made up [ Read More ]
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“From the Archives”, first published in the Digest 15.09.03 How sociable you are affects your chances of catching a cold. That’s according to Sheldon Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and colleagues (Universities of Pittsburgh and Virginia, USA) who measured the sociability of 334 people and then exposed them to a cold virus. Intriguingly, the more sociable a person was, the less likely they were to contract a cold. It wasn’t [ Read More ]