This dissertation consists of three chapters that explore matters of distribution and growth in Palestine during the last 50 years. Rather than follow a limited neoclassical approach that merely explores mechanisms of markets, the dissertation applies a political economy approac…
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This text aims to contribute to the ever-shapeshifting futurity of Palestinians through the frames of temporality and spatiality, most notably through the archive and construction of language. This thesis works in the Palestinian condition, observing the use of what I call Pales…
This project investigates what led some Jews, beginning in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, to argue in favor of mass Jewish migration to Palestine on purely practical (rather than religious) grounds. Throughout the nineteenth century, especially from the 1840s onward, concr…
This dual case study of Marseille and Tel Aviv utilizes practice-based methods, digital ethnography and archival research to interrogate contemporary institutional, material, architectural and atmospheric/embodied conditions in the Belle de Mai and Joliette (Marseille) and Neve …
During the Great War many in British society started to utilize Crusading language and rhetoric to describe their experiences during the war. Those utilizing the rhetoric ranged from soldiers, journalists, politicians, to clergymen. The use of Crusading rhetoric tended to involv…
This dissertation combines affect, race, history and colonial studies to examine the process of Christian othering of Jews in Europe since the Protestant Reformation, with a focus on the narrative of honor that was used to depict European Jews as lacking it. While the ways Jews …
This dissertation attempts to displace contemporary approaches to the anthropological study of Islam and in so doing offers a historically more grounded conceptual alternative to the existing literature on Islam and women. This is achieved by focusing on the discourses and pract…
The closely related theories of democracy and democratic transitions provide a general framework for studying the Palestinian case of nation-state building and transition to democracy. By developing a theoretical framework from these theories, and testing the generated hypothese…
The Israeli military court system is an exemplary context to analyze the articulation of law, politics and identity in Israel and the occupied territories. As an institution, this system is part of the Israeli military administration over the territories. Its politico-legal func…
This dissertation builds on the insights of the “Italian school” (e.g., Liverani, Fales, Zaccagnini, Younger) concerning the ideological shaping of historical narratives. It engages in a literary-ideological analysis of nine West Semitic royal inscriptions from the ninth to the …
This dissertation on domestic architecture in Galilee and Golan during the Roman and Byzantine periods examines the archaeological data of the region in light of talmudic sources. The quality and quantity of archaeological and documentary evidence connected to the sites, the cit…
This dissertation explores the spatial construction of identity and the politics of difference in contemporary Jerusalem. I trace ethnographically what few studies have, heretofore, examined: namely, the multiple ways in which space, identity, and alterity are experienced, produ…
This thesis argues that activists in the Palestinian and international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement use three rhetorical strategies to claim moral legitimacy for the movement and to mobilize a non-Palestinian audience to support the movement by enacting boycotts, …
The Arab Peace Initiative (former Saudi Initiative) was officially proposed by Saudi Arabia and has been (re-)endorsed by all 22 member states of the Arab League since 2002. Israel has not officially responded to the API but rather has generally ignored and by default rejected i…
The question that motivates my dissertation is: Why do individuals participate in anti-regime movements? In contrast to previous approaches emphasizing private benefits, the dissertation argues that new group identities and goals, developed through prior membership in social org…
This dissertation is a historical analysis of politics of state building and health in Palestine and in Jordan. The study contributes to contextual studies of constructions of gender and health as a central aspect of modern nation-state building in the twentieth century. Process…
There are numerous explanations that attempt to convey why a person, specifically a Palestinian, makes the choice to resort to suicide terrorism. Suicide terrorism, a prevalent occurrence in the Middle East and beyond, can be attributed to many factors including: political, psyc…
This study addresses how nineteenth-century Americans perceived the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean. The project rests upon a detailed examination of American primary school geography textbooks that enjoyed widespread circulation during the century. The lack of an effective e…