With over 60 years of war and terrorism related to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, it is understandably difficult for present-day Jewish-Israeli adolescents and Palestinian adolescents in both Israel and the West Bank to imagine a peaceful future. The Artsbridge Institute …
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Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation is a comparative ethnography of one Muslim (Al-Jalil) and one Christian Palestinian refugee camp (D ̇bayeh) in Lebanon. It utilizes a ritual approach for understanding two contrasting patterns of social organization …
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted more than 60 years and persists not only in time but also in complexity. This thesis focuses on the Palestinian exile and particularly, the experience of exile of Palestinian women living in refugee camps in Lebanon. Palestinian memory…
This study examines the nationalist tendencies of Israeli archaeological policies and practices, but also that nation’s infringement on Palestine’s cultural patrimony claims and identity. Despite the international community’s continuous efforts to pose recommendations in support…
The purpose of this mixed-method research study was to identify the predictors of success of Palestinian Arab Tawjihi students in East Jerusalem schools. Three theories guided this research study and assisted in developing the conceptual framework; social disorganization theory,…
This dissertation draws attention to the interaction between insurgents and the target state as the appropriate context for explaining the motivations of suicide bombers, the rationales of the organizations that support them, and the popularity in certain societies of suicide bo…
The purpose of this study was to explore the process of collective-national identity development and related social psychological factors among Palestinian students in the Israeli universities with reference to the degree of their involvement in student activism (high, moderate …
This dissertation is an ethnomusicological study of the Palestinian dabke, a music and dance tradition that developed as an integral part of the Palestinian refugee experience. The focus is on Hanouneh, a dabke group in the majority Palestinian population of Amman, Jordan, where…
This dissertation is an ethnography of citizenship. It analyzes affect, political identity, moral structures and social organization among a non-assimilating minority community Palestinian citizens of Israel in Nazareth, the largest all-Arab city in Israel. This study elucidates…
This dissertation investigates the political and economic relationships among Assyria, the Syro-Palestinian states, and Egypt from the reign of Sargon II to the reign of Ashurbanipal; it does so by examining relevant Assyrian and Babylonian writings in a comprehensive and system…
This study is a three part examination of the Arabic short story as written in the Occupied Territories and Israel. The first part examines the early Palestinian short story collections. The analysis in this part is based on the morphology of the folktale as set forth by the Rus…
This dissertation surveys and analyzes rabbinic aggadic traditions on the fetus and its development. The primary focus is on aggadic traditions which appear in Palestinian documents of the 3rd to 6th centuries CE, but parallels from the Babylonian Talmud and later midrashic work…
Ceramic vessels decorated with the image of the Egyptian god Bes were widely disseminated throughout the ancient Near East, from Nubia in the south, through Upper, Middle and Lower Egypt, and northward to sites in Syria and Palestine, and even as far east as Persepolis in modern…
This project on the politics of women's protest in Israel aims to shed light on some of the complex circumstances surrounding women's organizing in zones of conflict. The research is based on a case study and extensive fieldwork of two women's movements in Israel, the Jerusalem …
The Jerusalem Question has remained an unresolved element in the Arab-Israeli conflict for more than fifty years. What part do identity and ideology play in preventing or promoting a resolution between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the final-status issue of Jerusalem? …
This study investigated relationships among the severity of symptoms of PTSD, emotional intelligence, and gender differences in refugee children from the Middle East after their exposure to war in their native countries (Iraq, Lebanon, or Palestine). Participants were 17 male an…
This study contributes to the theoretical and empirical analysis of protracted conflict. The study conceptualizes protracted conflict as a conflict between two nations in which the constant-sum stakes under contention are perceived by both adversaries to be significantly linked …
The thesis examines the role of popular memory in forging the Palestinian ‘nation’ and how the radical shift in Palestinian nationalist politics, symbolized by the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 13, 1993 is re-shaping memory and Palestinian identity. The fieldwork was …
As post-colonial theory notes, women's lived-experiences, particularly women of the “third world,” have not been present in the narratives of nation-states. By listening to and reading stories of decolonization, narratives of legitimacy, and narratives of the inheritance of cult…