This is an ethnographic study of the fraught and complex cultural politics of music making in Palestine-Israel in the context of the post-Oslo era. I examine the politics of sound and the ways in which music making and attached discourses reflect and constitute identities, and a…
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This paper explored the impact of adverse conditions imposed on Palestine's higher education system under Israeli Military Occupation with respect to the role of Palestinian university leadership and its management strategies. Toward this end, the research included a review of P…
This dissertation contributes to scholarly understandings of violent conflict as well as the Israeli-Palestinian fight for Jerusalem. I draw primarily on Veena Das's theory of violence, Hans-Georg Gadamer's dialogical hermeneutics, and Jacques Derrida's "différance" in order to …
The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the question: why do ostensibly similar ethno-national conflicts within a system of settler-colonial domination see such wide variation in their outcomes? How they emerge from conflict through power sharing and social integration ver…
Political violence and war severely impact mental health and quality of life for all parties involved in conflict (World Health Organization, 2013). Families living in the occupied Palestinian territories have been shown to have alarmingly high rates of Posttraumatic Stress Diso…
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is considered an intractable conflict. This thesis argues that this intractability stems from the presence of six conflict narratives which compete with one another. Through the use of case studies, this thesis seeks to prove that these narrative…
This dissertation traces the history of mathematics education in Palestine Hebrew secondary schools from the foundation of the first Hebrew secondary school in 1905 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The study draws on primary sources from archives in Israel…
This research project examines the extent to which delivery of services provided by grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can lead to progressive community change. While locally grounded in the socio-political context of Palestine, this research addresses broader ques…
I researched the mutual impact of Holocaust collective memory and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Jewish-Israeli understanding and experience of past and present. Two key questions I sought to answer were: How does meaning-making of past Holocaust collective memory affect Je…
Architecture is still, rather stubbornly, a discipline preoccupied with a mythological formulation of what architects have to offer the world - a world increasingly rife with fear, conflict, and violence. Whether they are grand visions for new urban districts, skyscrapers pushin…
My dissertation deals with the impact of colonialism on how LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, and queer) conceive of their identities and how this has shaped LGBTIQ activism in the Arab World. Current scholarship claims that Arabs in the pre-modern era con…
This dissertation provides a history from below of Palestinian national movement and Arab society during the tumultuous decade of the 1930s. It argues that the influence and authority of the small group of factionalized and disunited notable politicians that are conventionally u…
In the period of 1967 to 1993, Palestinian theatre became a major platform for the expression of the Palestinian identity. This dissertation asks the following question: Why and how did Palestinian theatre thrive in Jerusalem during this period? I begin this study by outlining a…
The received study of Zionist practices largely disregards a cardinal aspect of Jewish nationalism: the role of housing in producing and inhabiting the home-land. This research identifies housing as the key site for the formation of subjects (Zionists) and place (Zion) and offer…
This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of political culture and contemporary activism in Palestine. I illustrate the entangled processes that enabled the discourse of nonviolence to flourish in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) in the last ten years. I part…
This study began focused on the use of traditional knowledge in promoting sustainable development in crisis conditions. Presented the question: How have successful community- level sustainable development efforts undertaken under crisis conditions drawn upon indigenous knowledge…
The conflict conditions that afflict the livelihoods of Palestinian residents living in the West Bank are embedded within the population's ability to travel more so than any other routine activity. For Palestinian residents, domestic and international travel is a process of foll…
The aim of this study is to conduct an exploratory baseline survey of West Bank students to assess student attitudes and practices towards Human Rights and Democracy (HDR). To achieve the goal of this research, a survey of 3450 youth was conducted that included students from the…
This study investigates the interaction between wages and labor force participation in Palestine for the period of 2000 to 2011. This period has witnessed series of severe economic and political shocks and moderate recoveries. There are three areas of interest this dissertation …