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Hazard and risk assessment of pollution on the ground water resources and residents’ health of Salfit District, Palestine.
No full textCivil Engineering
Khatib,Issam
An innovative solar assisted anaerobic digester for biogas production from poultry manure in a Palestinian farm.
No full textA biogas is a technology that depends on microorganisms that converts fermentable organic matter into a combustible gas and matured organic manure. Anaerobic decomposition works in the absence of oxygen, yielding methane, carbon dioxide, and water. Biogas obtained through this biological process could be from several matters (animal or agricultural waste) that are available in surrounding environment. Beneficial uses of biogas entail direct heating and lighting process, and the effluent released from the biogas digester could be an excellent fertilizer. The production and utilization of biogas from anaerobic digestion provides many environmental and socio-economic benefits for the society as well as for the farmers. The utilization of the biogas enhances the local economic capabilities, provides employments and jobs in rural areas, decreases local purchasing power, and improves a living standard that contributes the economic and social development. Farmers also have many benefits from the biogas products include, the farmers can use the biogas plant effluent as fertilizers instead of chemicals one that affected the soil quality and fertility. The biogas utilization biogas reduces environmental impacts including the reduction of pollutants, minimization of odors, preserves natural resource, and abate climate change impacts, compared to other fuels. This research study aims at the construction of a biogas plant in “Matutuine District in Maputo, Mozambique” Province. Feed includes livestock manure (cow and chicken manure) and the agricultural waste that is available in the country, the expected biogas production will be used to generate electricity for lighting (of 50 households spread across the town) and to feed electricity and produce fertilizers for land application (250 ha) of Matutuine agricultural land.Thesis works through a scholarship from the Dean of Graduate Studies, Birzeit University. Attending and participation in the conference and Fair in Mozambique via the Islamic Development Ban
إختلاف الأصل الاشتقاقي في العربية : المواضع و البواعث : أمثلة جزئية و موجهات كلية
No full textمقال نشر في مجلة مجمع اللغة العربية، ع. 10، إبريل 2016، ص. 19-62المُلخَّص
هذِهِ مُباحَثَةٌ أُريدَ لَها أَنْ تَكونَ تَعريفًا بِظاهرةٍ لِسانيّةٍ في العَرَبِيَّةِ، وهي اختلافُ الأصلِ الاشتفاقِيِّ، وهي تَتَنزّلُ بَينَ مُستوَيَينِ، بَل ثَلاثةٍ: الصَّرفيّ، والمُعجميّ، والنّحويّ، وقَد ائتَلَفَتْ مِن خَمسةِ مَطالبَ رَئيسةٍ، أوّلُها: "مِهادٌ وتَأسيسٌ"، وثانيها: "في مَقاصدِ العُنوانِ"، وثالثُها: "اسْتِشْرافُ أَمْثِلَةٍ دالّةٍ عَلى هذِهِ الظّاهِرَة في العربيّةِ"، ورابعُها: "اسْتِشْرافُ أثرِ الظّاهِرَةِ في التّلقّي والتّحْليلِ في سِياقاتٍ كلاميّةٍ"، وخامِسُها: "المُوجِّهاتُ الكُلّيّة"، وقد جَهدَ الباحثُ في اسْتِشْرافِ أجلى مواضعِ هذِهِ الظّاهِرَةِ في العَرَبِيَّةِ دون التّعريجِ عَلى كلِّ مُثُلها بالحصرِ والاستِقْصاءِ، مُحاولاً –مِن وِجهةٍ أخرى- تَلمّسَ البَواعثِ المُفضيةِ إِلى تَخلّقِ ظاهِرَة اختِلافِ الأصْلِ الاشتِقاقيِّ في العَرَبِيَّةِ عامّةً، والمُعجمِ العربيِّ خاصّةً
Critical psychology in the Arab world Insights from critical community psychology in the Palestinian colonial context
No full textThe main argument of this paper is informed by the realization that, despite its significance
as critical alternative to colonial psychology, out of all branches of academic Western mainstream
psychology taught in Arab and Palestinian universities, community psychology as a
sub-discipline is noticeably marginalized and under-recognized. Community psychology has a
formative quality and the potential to make contributions to the emancipation and liberation of
marginalized communities, as opposed to many problematic forms of historical and contemporary
enactments of mainstream colonial psychology in the Arab World (Makkawi 2009; Soueif
and Ahmed 2001). Following a historical trend in postcolonial situations, universities in the Arab
World continue to import and uncritically apply Western constructions of knowledge, including
psychology, and the intellectual legacy of European colonialism continues to dominate these
academic institutions (Abouchedid 2006). This intellectual hegemony of colonial knowledge
in Arab universities renders the enactment of critical psychology in general and community
psychology in particular – both in academe and in community settings – a challenging undertaking.
In this paper, I draw upon an emerging program of critical community psychology at
Birzeit University in Palestine, arguing that envisioning critical psychology in the Arab World in
general is better conceived through critical community psychology as an emerging alternative
to colonial psychology.
There is no formally recorded history of the inception of community psychology in Palestine.
However, early manifestations of community psychology in the Palestinian colonial context
can be traced back to various phases of community grassroots organizing and action during
the anti-colonial struggle for self-determination. The vision and praxis of the newly established
master’s program in community psychology at Birzeit University evolved from and were
inspired by earlier forms of community grassroots action during the first Palestinian Intifada in
the occupied West Bank and Gaza (WBG) in 1987. While this paper highlights the recently
developed master’s program in community psychology as an exemplar of critical psychology in
the Arab World, I focus on the roots of community psychology in the Palestinian community
long before its formal academic inception.
I start by describing the colonial condition in Palestine with particular attention to the occupied
WBG, where this specific case of community psychology enactment is being implemented.
The focus is placed on academic psychology and the legacy of colonial knowledge inherite
