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This dissertation seeks to understand the role of women as political actors in the rise of Islamo-nationalist movement in Palestine. Using a historical and ethnographic approach, it examines the changing opportunity structures available to Palestinian women in the nationalist st…

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…