This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the “Arab Question” published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the impor…
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This essay investigates Edward Said's construction of a method of representation towards a political visibility of Palestinians in After the Last Sky . I argue that After the Last Sky comes to articulate possible sites of representability, specifically in the relationship betwee…
The Struggle for Sephardic-Mizrahi Autonomy chronicles the creation of a Sephardic-Mizrahi identity-literally, "Oriental" Jews-uncovering the ways that political and racial factors contributed to the emergence of this identity. My inquiry draws from an extensive body of archives…
Scope and Method of Study. The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences and similarities in the media coverage of the Israel and Palestine conflict in the United States and in France. The first part of the paper discussed the evolution of the news coverage and the cur…
The phenomenon of "suicide bombing" is not new, and yet the involvement of Muslim women in this violent political activity has received much media attention, especially since the Second Intifada. This dissertation challenges interpretations of female bombers in academic writing …
This dissertation questions the making of the Israeli distinction between Arabs and Jews through the eyes of 3-6 year old children in a bilingual preschool program in the city of Be'er Sheva. The primary method used is a year-long ethnography of the school, consisting of partici…
Drawing upon ethnographic research in Lebanon between 2007-2009, this dissertation presents a description and analysis of the `maps of meaning' of two young Palestinian exilic groups, both situated in Lebanon and exposed to the same official exclusionary practices, but in distin…
In recent decades, significant bodies of research have emerged with regard to understanding (a) Indigenous identities as “glocal” expressions (e.g., Minde 2008; Niezen 2003; Bigenho 2007), (b) Christian Zionism (e.g., Ariel 1991; Spector 2009), and (c) how ideology and power rel…
Pope Benedict XV's pontificate (1914-1922), misunderstood by his contemporaries and neglected by recent scholarship, coincides with the reshaping of the Middle East, from the beginning of World War One to the assignment of Mandates to France and Britain over Syria and Palestine.…
The purpose of this study is to examine the urban spatial development patterns of Palestinian communities by investigating how the Palestinian communities are growing and, to some extent, why they are growing the way they do. Although there are several studies suggesting that th…
This dissertation focuses on the history of the Palestinian Arab city of Nazareth from 1940 to 1966. It explores Palestinians' bids for citizenship in both British-ruled Palestine and Israel by tracing local politics and identity formation in this Arab urban center. Utilizing st…
Scholars have been divided over how to interpret the relationship between Palestinian Jews and the Roman Empire during the Herodian period (40 BCE-70 CE). This thesis attempts to understand this relationship through a model of Romanization based on theories of identity negotiati…
Due to the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most people who claim a Palestinian identity do so outside of Palestine. Therefore, the challenges and opportunities of Palestinians' local contexts condition their processes of identity and belonging. I examine Palestinians' expe…
Utilizing a heuristic methodology, this thesis examines the relationship of the Self with the Other in terms of the daily struggles of refugee children who are living in a protracted state of political conflict in the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank. This inquiry …
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…
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 …