The purpose of the study was to contribute to the overall understanding of terrorist organizations' use of the Internet and to increase researchers' knowledge of Web site effectiveness. The methodological approach was evaluation of the perceived credibility of Web sites based on…
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This thesis addresses the subject of military riot control, in India, Egypt, and Palestine, between the World Wars. It examines how the British conducted these operations, and the structure of law and military doctrine that guided them. The thesis further attempts to gauge the f…
With the objective of outlining a decision-making process for the selection, evaluation, and application of films for invigorating Palestinian-Israeli dialogue encounters, this project researches, collates, and weaves together the historico-political narratives of the Israeli-Pa…
This study examines the construct of 'Hebrew labor' -as the ideological, philosophical and strategic underpinning of the Nationalist, Zionist, Socialist settlement in Palestine. The thesis proposes that 'Hebrew labor' was manifest in the institutional structures and buildings of…
This dissertation titled: "Capacity of the Governance Structure of Palestine to Undertake Local Economic Development" focused on two main areas of research, (1) the central-local government relationship (centralization vs. decentralization) and how this relationship affects the …
Recent world events, ranging from international violence to elections, have propelled academics and policymakers to examine Islamic resistance movements more closely. Previous studies of such movements, in both the English and Arabic literature, has been limited to historical ca…
This dissertation examines different processes of constructing, conveying, and the personal assimilation of Israeli and Palestinian narratives of the nation. I depart from other scholars who employ the term “national narratives” and use “narratives of the nation” as a way to emp…
This dissertation seeks to analyze, from an evangelical perspective, the different archaeological models used in Palestine since 1970. The approach of this dissertation is twofold. First, it will seek to explain and evaluate the archaeological models used in Palestine since 1970…
This dissertation investigates the question of why and how sectarianism emerged as a major feature of the modern Palestinian Arab political landscape. It follows the declining political fortunes of Palestinian Arab Christians during the mandate period, from a prominent and influ…
This thesis takes a formal approach to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by studying mechanisms of control within the West Bank. It is only through the overlapping of two separate political geographies that they are able to inhabit the same landscape. The Oslo Accor…
Forced population displacement is a worldwide phenomenon that can take place due to conflict, and natural or man-made disasters. Such displacement events usually have a sudden onset and a short duration, yet they cause the displaced populations pain and misery that lasts for a l…
Discourses of trauma are sometimes a prominent ingredient of genealogies of ascriptive identity and of their political articulations, both in Western democracies and in the Middle East. Moreover, trauma has recently become a recurrent category of analysis and of normative engage…
This dissertation introduces the human security variable into the study of peace education NGOs working within intractable, asymmetric conflicts. Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of conflict, the concept of security, and the approaches to peace processes have changed. W…
This dissertation offers two answers to the Palestinian Question. There is no question that the left must challenge the barriers to Palestinian sovereignty that Israel, under American cover, is daily throwing up, and before which international law appears to be powerless. Our cr…
The Zionist Hotel, built in British Mandate Palestine, was born in an age of burgeoning nationalism, blooming tourism, expansion, and ideological immigration. While mitigated modernism was utilized in interwar Palestine as an agent of cultural and national representation of Jewi…
This study examines the phenomenon of nonviolent resistance in the West Bank during and after the second intifada. The primary research question asks, to what extent does a space exist for the (re)emergence of a popular nonviolent movement in the post-Oslo context? Specifically,…
The Alhambra is a walled collection of structures built predominantly in the 14th Century by the last Islamic dynasty in Spain. Although previously considered in a variety of disciplines, the present work is a comparative interdisciplinary study of the archetype of the Islamic p…
This study investigates and analyzes the nature and extent of rural change in Palestine during the Mandate. It inquires into the changes in taxation, debt, land tenure, the techniques of production, and agricultural production. A unifying theme and emphasis, however, are on the …
This dissertation examines how urban space, Jewish Arab sociality and local/national identities are both represented and produced in ethnically mixed cities since the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Against the background of a century-long conflict between t…