the questionnaire addressed five types of acts—both deviant and criminal—which we identified as the most prevalent in other research projects in Vaud as well as in the field: (1) theft; (2) physical assault; (3) sexual assault; (4) fraud by means of making the SW book an appointment...
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“Unwilling,” lit., “evil of eye,” is usually translated “stingy,” but the context suggests unwilling. In v. 8, the unwanted guest vomits up the food, thus destroying the desired good impression. Proverbs regards the uninvited banqueters as thieves who will suffer the consequences of ...
Strangers I KnowbyClaudia Durastanti, translated byElizabeth Harris: In her first novel to appear in English, Durastanti composes a riveting portrait of a woman’s eccentric family and her binational upbringing in America and Italy. The book begins with the narrator presenting two different version...
I USED to make fun of Ramadan and the notion of Islamic fasting. I used to ridicule those Muslims who torture their bodies by fasting,” said Marcos-now-turned-Ahmed Moamen, a Filipino. “I lived in the UAE for nine years as a traditional Christian who irregularly goes to Church. For ...
Abundance by Jakob Guanzon: This debut novel centers around a struggling Filipino-American father and son, Henry and Junior. Evicted from their trailer, they now live in their truck and are trying to scramble a life back together. The book’s formal innovation lies in its structure, which is...
Similarly, Studdert et al.’s (2001) survey of Jakartan mothers found that some terms—such as the term “balanced diet”—translated very poorly to that context. We should add a caution regarding over-interpretation of the correlation coefficients between the food security indicators, considering...