ADRIAN J BOAS

In 2018, the World Health Organisation included Gaming Disorder, the uncontrollable and persistent playing of video and computer games,...

As if they are off to some great meeting, flights of birds in groups silently cross the leaden Jerusalem sky, beyond the cypresses and...

Politics brings out the worst in people. I am sometimes amused and often saddened by the extremity of the reactions people display...

In the west Jerusalem suburb of Talbiyeh there is an attractive old house, abandoned for several years, but recently restored and now...

The English lawyer, social philosopher and statesman Thomas More (1478-1535), who lived in an age when clothing was more extravagant than...

When in the Middle East the topic of weather begins to be discussed as frequently as in less volatile parts of the world, the case for...

There have been endless attempts at mediation in the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. In recent times these have dwindled...

In some cultures, to speak directly is regarded as ill-mannered. Indeed, sometimes, to speak at all is frowned upon. When as a child,...

It has been claimed, perhaps without any factual basis, that the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff was encouraged by the appearance...

There is something about human resilience that has to be admired, even when it is entirely irrational. Anyone who has lived in a war zone...

Even the life-giving wood of the Cross of Salvation, on which our Lord and Redeemer hung, down whose trunk flowed the pious blood of...

Everyone wanted a piece of the Berlin wall, a signed baseball, a moon rock. British coronation mugs were treasured items. Some misguided...

"When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined...

Web sites, advertisements and brochures present the coastal city of Akko, medieval Acre in the north of Israel, in the usual touristic...

It really needed an artist of different calibre. And clearly, Bernardino Contino did not comprehend the significance of what he was...

In an essay in his 1957 book Mythologies, Roland Barthes made the delightful comparison of a car (specifically of the 1955 Citroën D.S....

My first encounter with the desert was in June 1969, the very month that two Americans set their feet in the dust of a far distant desert...

Rivers slash a path through history, forge political divisions, create disputes, even wars. Rivers can defeat campaigns - a river...

A child holds his father's hand under a night sky with a crescent moon high above. The child is pointing up at the moon. Underneath this...

High on the list of factors explaining how the crusader states managed to hold out for two centuries, despite the comparatively small...