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…
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As tensions between Israelis and Palestinians increase, erupting into violence on both sides, many U.S. Jews find themselves in a very difficult situation. On the one hand, they want to assure the safety and security of Israel, while on the other, they witness through the media …
In 1987, the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip significantly changed the nature of the Palestinian threat to Israel and pushed the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians into the forefront of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This study examines the emergence of the Palestinian …
On January 26, 2009, Hamas won a large majority in the new Palestinian Parliament, shocking the world and Hamas leadership. As the international community attempted to explain how the organization, classified by many as terrorists, could possibly have won the elections, Hamas me…
This thesis explores the evolution of the academic discourse of Israeli historians and social scientists in the context of the peace process, which began in 1993 and ended with the eruption of the second Intifada in September 2000. It outlines the dialectical relationship betwee…
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…
This study focuses on Seeds of Peace, a peace education program whose purpose is to bring together teenagers from conflict regions, train them to be future leaders, and promote conflict resolution, reconciliation, and coexistence. The experiences of the Palestinian, Israeli-Jewi…
The First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993) began on December 9, 1987 with riots protesting the killing of a young Palestinian man by the Israeli Defense Forces. The riots quickly grew into a much larger grassroots uprising-- Intifada --against Israeli occupation. In the followin…
The 1991 uprisings in Iraq's southern governorates following Operation: Desert Storm - and the decade of trauma that followed them - were the "Big Bang" that begat the modern era of Iraqi sectarianism and the Sunni-Shi'a divide. The memory of the 1991 intifada created new Iraqi …
Theories of violence against civilians in conflict have tended to view combatants in homogenous terms, as the obedient pawns of military elites, or as uniformly prone to violence due to passionate emotions or economic opportunism. In contrast, this study shows that combatant par…
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…
This study explored the dynamics of Palestinian families during a tumultuous and challenging time in the Middle East. The focus was on family role expectations in youth. The first objective was to test a model in which social class, parental socialization toward less traditional…
Hundreds of thousands of adolescents confronted war and political violence in many countries all over the world. Despite calls to refine and perform sophisticated studies on this special population had been made a decade ago, the knowledge base remained limited. This study was d…
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…
Senior Islamic authorities (`ulama ) have reached different levels of consensus when contesting their response to major international events in the 21st century, largely agreeing on the appropriate response in some cases while remaining strongly divided in others. This variation…