The Arab Istiqlal (Independence) Party in Palestine, established in 1932, was the first explicitly nationalist Palestinian Arab political association to undertake mass, populist political organization. A study of the Istiqlal Party thus provides a vehicle for answering the quest…
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This thesis discusses two exhibitions of contemporary Middle Eastern art held in 2006: Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking (Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Word Into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East (British Museum, London) in the context of postcolonial theory…
Inspired by the nonviolence work of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., civilian peacemakers have spent three decades developing third-party nonviolent intervention as a method for preventing the escalation of violence in conflict zones. "[T]hird-party nonviolent intervention...…
This thesis addresses the question of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by examining Zionism as a settler-colonial national movement, and it demonstrates that the realization of Zionism in both its Labor and Revisionist interpretations has inevitably led to continuous policies o…
The First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993) began on December 9, 1987 with riots protesting the killing of a young Palestinian man by the Israeli Defense Forces. The riots quickly grew into a much larger grassroots uprising-- Intifada --against Israeli occupation. In the followin…
This dissertation investigates the State of Israel's practices and policies aimed at excluding Palestinians from Jerusalem. It explores the legal, cultural, and physical policies used to sever Palestinians' long-standing connections to Jerusalem and highlights Palestinians' stra…
This research examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a new conceptual perspective that incorporates the psychology of threat into the study of inter-group conflict. The specific objective of the proposed work is to develop a better understanding of how inter-group percep…
In this dissertation I aim to advance political narrative theory by exploring the use of political narrative on Facebook and the possibility for Facebook to be used among Palestinian youth for political change. To examine the concepts of political narrative and political change,…
This study examines British strategies for social control during the Arab revolt in Palestine in 1936–39. It focuses specifically on the British discourse of criminality vis-à-vis the Arabs, and the ways in which this discourse related to British and Zionist representations of A…
The purpose of this study was to better understand why three teachers, one Christian, one Jewish, and one Muslim chose to teach in interreligious, intercultural schools in Israel and Palestine. Research has been conducted on peace education, as well as research about vocational …
This research examines the language and rhetoric of fear used to justify the walls and fences built by the American government along the U.S.-Mexico border, and by the Israeli government around the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It focuses specifically on the rhetoric used by…
As the Palestinian community in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has transitioned from having a political leadership in exile to the localized governing of the Palestinian Authority over the past twenty years, the relationship and conceptions of the role of the exile have s…
The Israel-Palestinian conflict is often analyzed in terms of international geopolitics, yet observing and debating the issues at the scale of competing states and nationalist forces hides the finer nuances of the conflict. This dissertation focuses instead at the geographic sca…
The primary purpose of this research is to present a successful model of a Palestinian EFL ICT-using teacher; through investigating the viability of a Palestinian EFL teacher to effectively use ICT as a medium in the classroom in a basic school. The research presents a pioneerin…
This paper is a critical analysis of the United States foreign policy over the past fifty years in the Middle East which is the most complex region on Earth. This dissertation serves to examine the political, religious, and social fabric of the Muslim world of the Modern Middle …
How do political party preferences change when voters are under threat of violence? When fatalities from terrorist attacks, civil war, and ethnic conflict reach unacceptable levels, do voters prefer parties with a hardline foreign policy that will respond with force or dovish pa…
During the 2008-2009 War on Gaza between Hamas and Israel, the Arab and American media published various sensational images of this terrorist event. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and examine the ethicality of the Arab and American sensational images when covering …
This dissertation accomplishes two primary goals: 1) according to the principles of critical pedagogy, articulate the Jewish position in the racially-structured world as understood through the theoretical lens of critical whiteness studies, particularly in the United States and …
The problem. This study investigated the role of multinational companies (MNCs) and their impact on sustainable socioeconomic development in Palestine. Integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into MNC's core business would improve the organization's financial and socia…