The study examines three myths endemic to Western culture, autochthony (indigenousness), promised land, and exile, taking as figurative representations Athens for autochthony and Jerusalem for promised land. The myth of autochthony is found in ancient Greek literature and the my…
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This study seeks to assess the impact of architecture on identity and experience in pre- exilic Israel and argues that crucial to this assessment is an interdisciplinary treatment of the iconographic system of the Temple of Solomon. It begins with a look to theoretical approache…
Cities On Hills: Seeking the Holy Land is a collection of thirty-two vignettes and poems that chronicle a month-long cultural exploration and archaeological dig in Israel/Palestine in 2000, the year before 9/11. The stories are told by a narrator ten years after her journey, ref…
Scholars have often commented on the 'biblicization' of the Spanish Monarchy under Philip II (r. 1556–1598). In contrast to the predominantly neo-Roman image projected by his father, Charles I/V (r. 1516/9–1556), Philip presented himself as an Old Testament monarch in the image …
In August 1929, the Buraq Revolt began over control and access to one of the most contested and holiest sites in Palestine—the Buraq/Wailing Wall. This volatile and complicated episode marked a significant watershed moment in Mandate Palestine. The revolt fundamentally changed l…
This analytical ethnography provides the empirical and conceptual foundations for a theory of the emergence of social order through performative practice under conditions of uncertainty. Theoretically, the goal is to explicate ways in which uncertainty is integral to emergent so…
This thesis investigates the question of how Israeli policies have affected Palestinians urban behavior and along with it, political attitudes regarding the ongoing peace process, since the signing of Oslo Accords in 1993. Focusing on land and housing production, I explore how t…
The Dissertation utilizes the concept of "Sacred Global Cities" to analyze Rome (Italy), Mecca (Saudi Arabia), and Jerusalem (Israel). It expands the notion of national imagined communities to include global imagined communities epitomized by Islam and Christianity. Looked at in…
This dissertation explores the place of Jerusalem and its holy sites, under Jordanian control from 1948-1967, in the complex processes surrounding the formation of a distinct Jordanian national identity. After the 1948 war, with a large Palestinian population within its borders,…
This study examines the participation of different social groups at an Islamic festival in Jerusalem honouring the Prophet Moses (al-Nabi Musa ), during the period of British rule in Palestine, from 1917 to 1937. These different social groups included Arab nationalist leaders, I…
What has been done and what is being done in the misrepresentation of the Palestine question is, on the one hand, an attempt to establish territorial claims through a selective portrayal of historical chronology which lends maximum support to a particular argument, namely the ri…
This dissertation is a study of an Arab-Muslim family from Jerusalem during the early seventeenth century. It examines the life and times of the `Alami family, an 'ulama' family of long-standing social and cultural prestige that had been living in Jerusalem for many generations.…
My research examines the evolving nature of Jerusalem and its holy places in Late Antiquity, through the lenses of memory, history, and religion. The city was transformed in the fourth century into the Christian "Holy Land," and this dissertation examines how the imperially-driv…
The great prose epic La Gran Conquista de Ultramar is considered to be one of the greatest Spanish works of the thirteenth century, the century, which for all practical purposes saw the beginning of Spanish as a literary language.