This thesis discusses the public sphere in the Middle East and North Africa from the perspective of women's uses of information and communication technologies. I argue that the sociopolitical transformations unfolding in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa are not…
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In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, suicide bombings are one method of attack. Although men are regarded as the typical suicide bombers, hundreds of Palestinian women have attempted to carry out suicide bombings. Of these, ten have succeeded in their goal. These ten female Pale…
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…
This critical introduction and translation of seventeen poems by the contemporary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008) locates Darwish's lyrical voice outside of simply local, national, and regional propositions. This dissertation provides in its critical introduction a …
Frames are shortcuts or cognitive devices individuals use to understand social situations or activities. They play a particularly important role in protracted social conflict as a lens through which disputants interpret their situation and enemies. It is divergent frames that le…