Indeed, even in Palestine the Babylonian corpus displaced its older rival and caused the study of Palestinian Talmudic literature to be confined to circles of legal specialists.
I wanted to shatter my intellectual comfort zone: I thought of it as an experiment in lived critical thought that might lead to me gaining access to circles of power.
They were by and large not organized, but many of them knew one another and belonged to circles of friends who ultimately developed conspiratorial solutions to individual, practical problems.
One previously unthinkable proposal being discussed is whether the government should arrest two men accused of orchestrating the campaign of rape, murder and pillage in Darfur that has left about 300,000 dead and scattered 2.5 million people from villages reduced to circles of ash.
Their big tires lie on blackened ground, reduced to circles of white ash, which crumbles when touched.
Seated at the kitchen table in her floor-length silk chuba dress and gold-and-coral jewelry, my grandmother showed me and my sisters and brother how to knead the momo dough, roll it out to circles of the perfect thickness, then put just the right amount of filling in each one.
