The historiography on western European Holy Land pilgrimage effectively ends with the fifteenth century, giving the inaccurate impression that early modern western Christians either did not visit Jerusalem or, if they did, they were not true pilgrims. Though pilgrim numbers cert…
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This research focuses on how we should define the energy that empowers rebellion and generates appealing frames and imposes change, and whether one can claim some correlation between this bottom-up shift and weak leadership, institutional fatigue, public discontent, or social ma…
Cotton was the most important commodity in the economy of the industrialized Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, as vital then as petroleum is today. It was widely believed that a prolonged interruption of the cotton supply would lead not merely to a severe economic dep…
This dissertation attempts to conceptualize the on-the-ground memory and the spatial practices of the Palestinian Diaspora. The dissertation tries to answer the questions, how the Palestinian refugees remember their villages of origin, and how they use the space of the camp to s…
A dearth exists in the literature addressing the effectiveness of foreign aid on the furtherance of donor governments' goals. This study addressed this gap by investigating the effectiveness of U.S. nonmilitary aid on the advancement of U.S. policy objectives in a strategically …
Everyday Life: Spatial Oppression and Resilience under the Israeli Occupation. The case of the old town of Nablus, Palestine This research is an ethnographic-phenomenological interpretation of the inhabitants' traumatic experience of the 2002 Israeli invasion (Edjteyah) and the …
This is an ethnographic study of the fraught and complex cultural politics of music making in Palestine-Israel in the context of the post-Oslo era. I examine the politics of sound and the ways in which music making and attached discourses reflect and constitute identities, and a…
This paper explored the impact of adverse conditions imposed on Palestine's higher education system under Israeli Military Occupation with respect to the role of Palestinian university leadership and its management strategies. Toward this end, the research included a review of P…
This dissertation contributes to scholarly understandings of violent conflict as well as the Israeli-Palestinian fight for Jerusalem. I draw primarily on Veena Das's theory of violence, Hans-Georg Gadamer's dialogical hermeneutics, and Jacques Derrida's "différance" in order to …
The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the question: why do ostensibly similar ethno-national conflicts within a system of settler-colonial domination see such wide variation in their outcomes? How they emerge from conflict through power sharing and social integration ver…
Political violence and war severely impact mental health and quality of life for all parties involved in conflict (World Health Organization, 2013). Families living in the occupied Palestinian territories have been shown to have alarmingly high rates of Posttraumatic Stress Diso…
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is considered an intractable conflict. This thesis argues that this intractability stems from the presence of six conflict narratives which compete with one another. Through the use of case studies, this thesis seeks to prove that these narrative…
This dissertation traces the history of mathematics education in Palestine Hebrew secondary schools from the foundation of the first Hebrew secondary school in 1905 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The study draws on primary sources from archives in Israel…
This research project examines the extent to which delivery of services provided by grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can lead to progressive community change. While locally grounded in the socio-political context of Palestine, this research addresses broader ques…
I researched the mutual impact of Holocaust collective memory and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Jewish-Israeli understanding and experience of past and present. Two key questions I sought to answer were: How does meaning-making of past Holocaust collective memory affect Je…
Architecture is still, rather stubbornly, a discipline preoccupied with a mythological formulation of what architects have to offer the world - a world increasingly rife with fear, conflict, and violence. Whether they are grand visions for new urban districts, skyscrapers pushin…
My dissertation deals with the impact of colonialism on how LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, and queer) conceive of their identities and how this has shaped LGBTIQ activism in the Arab World. Current scholarship claims that Arabs in the pre-modern era con…
This dissertation provides a history from below of Palestinian national movement and Arab society during the tumultuous decade of the 1930s. It argues that the influence and authority of the small group of factionalized and disunited notable politicians that are conventionally u…
In the period of 1967 to 1993, Palestinian theatre became a major platform for the expression of the Palestinian identity. This dissertation asks the following question: Why and how did Palestinian theatre thrive in Jerusalem during this period? I begin this study by outlining a…