At the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War some 70,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the conflict entered Jordan. Among them included 4,000 refugee, who, in 1951, would settle in a 0.24 kilometer (0.15 mile) area in Irbid. Irbid, a small town which had mainly consisted of a trade an…
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This thesis uses social movement theory to examine how the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the Moroccan Justice and Development Party (PJD) frame their roles in the 2011 Arab uprisings and in the political shifts that followed. My primary theoretical lens is the concept of…
This paper will conduct a comprehensive case study of Iraq’s displaced Christians in Jordan. It will analyze the living standards of this vulnerable population in the context of Jordanian policies. It will also highlight the differences between Iraq’s displaced Christians and it…
This dissertation examines Sir John Glubb's contribution to Britain's informal empire in Iraq and Jordan between 1920 and 1949. An important theme is the relationship between knowledge, control and power. The research question is, did John Glubb contribute to strengthening Brita…
During the Iron Age II period of the Southern Levant, both the Central Negev Highlands and the Edomite Plateau experienced intensified settlement. Using excavation and recently published survey reports, this dissertation classifies the types of sites which have been discovered, …
This dissertation addresses a basic question of nonviolent, state-society interaction in the developing world: under what conditions do nascent civil associations in non-democratic or semi-democratic contexts successfully lobby the state yet maintain their autonomy and avoid coo…
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among the situational variables of perceived stress of the childbirth experience, perceived length and perceived difficulty of labor, selected personal variables, perceived nursing support, and postpartum depression in p…
Archaeological research of the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia depicts socio-cultural developments and proto-urban villages, resulting from an intensifying agro-economy, emerging simultaneously during the first 5,000 years of the Holocene (11,000 to 6,000 bp). Kholetria-Ortos…
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 …
This study presents the results of an analysis of mortuary practices as reflected in 637 burials from 19 Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis focuses on selected dependent variables such as primary or secondary state, position, orientatio…
The thesis examines why business people from various economic sectors in the Middle East and North Africa have continued to support authoritarian regimes in spite of the fact that these regimes failed to satisfy several of business' fundamental interests. Studies of business reg…
Site locations that provided essential geophysical resources including natural water sources, rock outcrops, arable land and a topographical regime that facilitated site drainage and water harvesting along with a strategic view of the surrounding area were available in limited n…
The goal of this dissertation is to identify and reconstruct activity areas in Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1200 BCE) temples and sanctuaries in the southern Levant by analyzing the ground stone artifacts found in them. Chapter 1 reviews the history of research of Middle…
The investigation of social collapse, an integral component of social evolutionary trajectories, has been hampered by difficulties in setting appropriate spatial and temporal scales for the resolution of demographic and socioeconomic change. This dissertation takes a diachronic …
Jordan emerged as a key component of American-Middle East diplomacy during the period from 1945–1969. Initially viewed as a liability because of the precarious nature of its monarchy, the perception of Jordan in the United States gradually evolved to that of a moderate, pro-West…
The geopolitical borders of the West Bank, specifically the Green Line with Israel and the bridges leading to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, shape inequalities in the lives of Palestinians. Inequalities of class, gender and nation have emerged among West Bank residents and bet…
For all archaeological research, chronological frameworks are the foundation on which any reconstruction or interpretation of historical process must rest. Both the resolution of a chronology and the research objectives of the archaeologist determine what questions can be asked …
The global trend of economic liberalization is yielding unexpected results. Instead of increasing cross-national uniformity and the development of formal civil and political organizations, international interdependence has been accompanied by the rise of a plethora of ascriptive…
Scope and method of study. The graduate programs at the University of Jordan were studied in terms of quantitative growth and development. They were studied according to: type of graduate programs introduced, number of graduate programs, growth in number of faculty and students,…