In the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the reemergence of a specifically Palestinian nationalist movement coincided with an explosion in the popularity of the Arabic novel. The writers highlighted within these pages were deeply involved, from varying positions, in the struggl…
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This dissertation examines Palestinian nationalism in the West Bank and Gaza, focusing upon the role of students in political organizing. Palestinian students are an important adjunct to the nationalist struggle. They joined a complement of forces—including labor women's, profes…
This dissertation raises questions concerning a number of central theoretical assumptions that inform conventional conflict resolution scholarship on the Israeli-Palestinian confict. By introducing a wide range of feminist scholarship and by looking at the Israeli-Palestinian co…
This dissertation examines postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages: Palestinian Arabic and St'at'imcets Salish. In contrast to previous studies, it identifies two such harmonies for each language: pharyngealisation (tongue root retraction) harmony and uvularisation (tongue …
The first chapter explains the magnitude of human suffering from the intifada in the Palestinian Territories. Large numbers of people were killed during the intifada and most of them were in their productive years. The Israeli military incursions and policy of closures increased…
In June 1992, when Yitzhak Rabin was elected to head Israel's government, a window of opportunity was opened for establishing a self-rule regime in the West Bank and Gaza that would incorporate substantial elements of pluralism. The key to building such a regime was local elites…
This dissertation deals with the problem of transboundary common pool resources with applications to the Israeli-Palestinian Mountain Aquifer. Unrestricted access to resources and lack of individual accountability for overexploitation create the problem of free riding. Lack of c…
The purpose of this study was to investigate, analyze and classify the writing errors of Palestinian EFL university students and find out if these students and their instructors are aware of these errors. There were three sources of data: first, data were collected from written …
This comparative study explores the representation of history at a specific historical moment in selected poetry, fiction, and autobiography from Guyana and Palestine. To theorize the representation of history as one of the major tropes of Guyanese and Palestinian literatures, I…
This study is about the struggles, failures and triumphs of a nationalist movement in imagining the nation. All nationalisms are associated with iconic images, persons and narratives which articulate specific stories about the nation's past. I argue that the story of Palestinian…
The 1990 Gulf War disrupted the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan's secular nationalist trend. To the extent that Palestinian in Jordan, who constitute the majority, saw Saddam Hussein as a force willing to challenge Israeli regional hegemony, his defeat not only represented another A…
Media play a pivotal role in bringing home news of distant conflicts. Simultaneously, news media also construct normal/deviant dichotomies, making judgment calls on actors and acts involved in conflicts. This dissertation investigates the construction of Palestinian political vi…
Assuming a cultural psychology approach to the study of life-course development and a narrative approach to the study of identity, this dissertation examined adolescent identity development in the context of political conflict. From 2003 to 2006, fieldwork was conducted in two A…
The right of return is a central theme in the collective ethos and identities of Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. Discussions on the Palestinian right of return have constituted one of the main hurdles in reaching an agreement in the context of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotia…
The primary concern of this dissertation is to inquire into the possibility of de-structing the state-sovereignty-citizenship complex and its monopoly on the political by means of the camp—the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, and the camp as constituted by Giorgio Agamben. T…
Since the establishment of the State of Israel a body of literature has amassed that deals with the question of the Arabs in Israel. Most researchers start from the empirical reality that Palestinians and Jews in Israel are residentially segregated from each other. Many write of…
Little research was found available in the literature concerning the numerous challenges that refugee children and adolescents face in exile. Since access to educational opportunities is perhaps one of the most fundamental of these challenges, it was considered one worthy of fur…
Despite the difficulties of reaching the world of Islam with the gospel, individual Muslims do put their faith in Christ. Literature on the subject of Muslim conversions identifies a range of conversion factors. However, little detail is available on Palestinian converts. The au…