About

Sparrow, "Dror" in Hebrew, which also means "freedom". Top: "Dror" in ancient Hebrew script. Bottom: "Anduraru" in Akkadian cuneiform.

The Hebrew word Dror, which means freedom and serves as my first name (among other things), is derived from the ancient Akkadian word Anduraru, which means setting a slave free.

I was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel. I studied Linguistics at the Tel Aviv University and also Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at Givat Haviva.

Articles About Tel Aviv

• ‘Green’ Tel Aviv (forbes.com)
• Tel Aviv Schools Introduce Program to Thwart Sexual Orientation Stereotyping (pinkbananaworld.com)
  
  

  Tel Aviv from Azrieli Towers (view to the west). Photographer: Manuel Schneider

Webpages about Akkadian and Hebrew

• Anduraru on an Akkadian-English/French dictionary(premiumwanadoo.com)
• Words in Hebrew of Akkadian origin (in Hebrew, safa-ivrit.org)

Websites, blogs and other stuff about Middle Eastern issues

• Middle-Easter Net – Tal Pavel’s multilingual site about Middle-Eastern issues (middleeast-internet-monitor.com)
• Gadi Taub’s blog (gaditaub.com)
• A Drive to Israel – The Egyptian writer Ali Salem describes his visit to the neighbors up north, “not out of love, but as a serious attempt to extricate myself from hatred“