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This dissertation examines indigenous Arab Bedouin legal struggles for land ownership in the Negev area in Israel. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the question of land ownership has been central to relations between Negev Bedouins and the state. The courts have r…

In 1994 Israel passed the National Health Insurance Law (NHIL), guaranteeing universal and equal healthcare services to all citizens. Universal healthcare, while unprecedented in Israel, did not have a significant impact on the country's Jewish majority. Yet for minority citizen…

The Mahri language of Southeast Yemen is one of the few remaining indigenous languages of the Arabian Peninsula. The geographic isolation of the Mahri language has ensured its survival to the present time; this isolation has also caused it to be overlooked in Arab-Islamic formul…