Canada has long been known as a respected and responsible mediator who aimed for balance in its position with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. This reputation gave Canada credibility and allowed it to play a balanced role on the international scene. It is …
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This dissertation traces the textual development of Hekbalot Rabbati (“The Greater [Book of Celestial] Palaces”), one of the central documents of the early Jewish mystical and magical corpus known as Hekhalot literature. Because of the predominantly ritual-liturgical character o…
The Epipalaeolithic of Palestine, lasting from ca. 18'000 to 10'500 BP, spans a series of archaeological cultures characterized by tool kits dominated by microliths, whose various shapes are the basis of cultural classification. At the end of this period, agriculture - in partic…
Purpose. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the status of health conditions and services in the West Bank and Gara Strip since 1967 and to determine the needs of the Palestinian people. Methodology. The study utilized focused synthesis design to gather various data and to …
This is a study of the interpretation of archaeological data by Anglo-American Bible scholars, though the emphasis is primarily American, in scholarly and popular publications from 1900-1930. The major archaeological research interest for many Anglo-American biblical scholars wa…
This work represents an examination of the events and history surrounding the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The history revolves around the key relationship that was to develop between the Zionist movement, its representatives, and the British government during th…
During the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), development became an essential part of the strategic vision of containment in the Middle East. In 1953, Eisenhower attempted to use a plan created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations c…
This dissertation examines the relationship between selected Iron Age cultic sites found in the land of Canaan and their material cultures. The resulting data allows the creation of tentative paradigms reflecting the material culture found in Iron Age temples, chapels, votive sh…
Terrorism and political violence are not new phenomena. Terrorism and those who commit violent acts have been with us since the birth of civilization. As societies evolved from simple to complex, so did terrorism which took on the form of advanced technological warfare. Forms of…
I investigate the resilience of authoritarianism in the Arab world in three concentric circles, deepest in the middle, most inclusive on the margins. The most focused and intensively researched circle is Palestine, especially during the first Intifada and after the establishment…
The main goal of this dissertation consists of two major components. The first is to explore the situational conditions that led the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to change its objectives. The sequence of such change has been from a struggle to liberate the whole land …
Focusing on the more than 6,000 posters now on view at the Palestine Poster Project Archives Website ("Website"), I will outline its evolution from a (failed) class project to online resource for viewing the poster art of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict (1897 - Present). I will…
In an effort to better understand and investigate why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains both protracted and resistant to attempts at peaceful resolutionthis thesis seeks to highlight and examine previous official level negotiations and the selected peacebuilding efforts o…
This thesis argues that the elite and urban women leaders of the Palestinian women’s movement neglected to engage rural women and women living in refugee camps as their equals in a women’s movement. Further, despite women's active presence in the public sphere, the sphere remain…
Extant literature on the Palestinian-Israeli separation wall privileges the wall's function in border-making, while ignoring other discursive and spacial functions it fulfills. My thesis reaches beyond the border-making function of the wall, resituating it as a node among differ…
The situation in which the Palestinians are living, both within Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to worsen with little end in sight. The exact status of the Palestinians, however, has been the subject of much debate with terms such as 'disputed territori…
This study explores the historical evolution of the water situation in Palestine at a local level in the West Bank village of Zababdeh. The thesis examines Palestine's geography and the historical relationship of Zababdeh's people with this environment. A sudden shift in this re…
Cultural Zionism was an ideological position that both predated and contended with traditional political Zionism. Operating from the assumption that a national sense of identity had to be established before a physical state could flourish, cultural Zionism was less reliant than …