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• Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen) — Yemenite Jews en route to Israel from Aden Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (Hebrew: כנפי נשרים‎, Kanfei Nesharim), an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite… …   Wikipedia

• BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …   Universalium

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• Early Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East — are a group of Christian mosaics created between the 4th and the 8th centuries in ancient Syria, Palestine and Egypt when the area belonged to the Byzantine Empire. The eastern provinces of the Eastern Roman and later the Byzantine Empires… …   Wikipedia

• Palestinian costumes — are the traditional clothing worn by Palestinians. Foreign travelers to Palestine in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often commented on the rich variety of the costumes worn, particularly by the fellaheen or village women. Many of… …   Wikipedia

• Oankali — The Oankali are a fictional race of intelligent extraterrestrials in Octavia Butler s Xenogenesis book trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago, also published in an omnibus edition under the title Lilith s Brood). After the near extinction of… …   Wikipedia

• Mosaic — This article is about a decorative art. For other uses, see Mosaic (disambiguation). Irano Roman floor mosaic detail from the palace of Shapur I at Bishapur …   Wikipedia

• Yemenite Jews — Infobox Ethnic group group = Yemenite Jews population = c.400,000 region1 = flagcountry|Israel pop1 = 360,000 + region2 = flagcountry|USA pop2 = c. 30,000 + region3 = flagcountry|Yemen pop3 = 260 languages = Hebrew, Arabic, Yemenite Hebrew… …   Wikipedia

• ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, HEBREW — This entry is arranged according to the following outline: hebrew illumination in hellenistic times character of hebrew manuscript illumination materials and techniques oriental school spanish illumination french school german school italian… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Armenians — This article is about Armenians as an ethnic group. For people living in Armenia, see Demographics of Armenia. Not to be confused with Arminianism. Armenians Հայեր …   Wikipedia