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On Restoring... or Not
Late last year I received, with no great delight but without any deep despondency, a small, plastic, credit card-sized authorisation of...
Adrian J. Boas
May 18, 20203 min read
On Hattin. An Album
You cannot go to Hattin and come away feeling indifferent. It is like a vast stage setting. Perhaps you needs to know something of the...
Adrian J. Boas
May 15, 20203 min read
On the Inconsequence of Size
What is it about small things that captivates us? In some ways it is quite the same as what fascinates us about large things. On recently...
Adrian J. Boas
May 11, 20205 min read
On Unfulfilled Potential
When a person dies, it hardly matters at what age or under what circumstances, there is almost always a sense of the incomplete. What...
Adrian J. Boas
May 8, 20204 min read
On Industrial Espionage
Operation Shady RAT is the name given to a series of cyber espionage attacks widely assumed to have been carried out by the People's...
Adrian J. Boas
May 3, 20204 min read
On Celebrating National Days
Today Israel celebrates its Independence Day. The fifth of Iyar in the Hebrew calendar, which in 1948 fell on 14 May, was the day on...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 29, 20204 min read
On a Bridge over Troubled Water
On re-reading Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, I came across this sentence: "We were near the front line now, near enough to smell the...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 27, 20204 min read
On a Colourful Industry
Enter Jaffa Gate, walk straight down and turn left into Christian Street, and there among the shops and stalls is one selling cloths:...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 23, 20203 min read
On Imposing Restrictions
In an effort to save lives in the current health crisis many countries have introduced lockdowns, closing schools, most businesses and...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 20, 20204 min read
On Digging into the Past
Book titles can sometimes be a source of confusion. The title of the first book I wrote, "Crusader Archaeology", might be misleading,...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 17, 20204 min read
On the Difficulties of Decision-Making
Politicians who have made the attainment of leadership their lifework make bold statements of how they will conduct the country when they...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 13, 20204 min read
On Recreation and Predation
You know how some things are etched as if by a red-hot brand into your memory, and when little else can be recalled there is some sound,...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 10, 20204 min read
On Names Again
I was born at Windermere, a name that conjures up broad windswept vistas, farmlands, holiday villages and a majestic lake. But my...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 6, 20203 min read
On the Importance of Asking Questions
I once knew a fellow; all of us know someone like him; who, whenever he was asked anything inevitably knew the answer, or believed he...
Adrian J. Boas
Apr 2, 20203 min read
On Getting One’s Priorities Right
In the Gulf War between the coalition led by the United States and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, when Israel was in the firing line, people here...
Adrian J. Boas
Mar 30, 20204 min read
On the Uses and Abuses of a Dull Metal
As a former pencil-chewer, it is a great relief to know that the lead poisoning I got as a child came, not from the "lead" of the...
Adrian J. Boas
Mar 26, 20204 min read
On Reality or Misinterpretation
Map of Acre and detail by Pietro Vesconte [Public Domain, British Library, Add. MS 27376, ff.189v-190]; Akko harbour Emmanuel G. Rey...
Adrian J. Boas
Mar 23, 20205 min read
On Fear and Panic
A number of years ago, in one of those many periods of tension in this region that are sometimes identified as "wars", at other times...
Adrian J. Boas
Mar 20, 20204 min read
On Building a Nest
The isolation forced upon us by the pandemic has emboldened a pair of sunbirds (Cinnyris osea) and enabled me a delightful opportunity to...
Adrian J. Boas
Mar 20, 20203 min read
On the Role of the Sea
As a child, gazing out across Port Phillip Bay, I remember feeling that I was looking off the edge of the world. There was more land out...
Adrian J. Boas
Mar 16, 20202 min read
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