The purpose of this thesis was to examine if Palestinian Women in the Diaspora demonstrate political agency to preserve the Palestinian ethnic and nationalistic identities. Historical and modern-day accounts are analyzed in evaluating the motivations of Palestinian Women’s polit…
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This dissertation examines the rhetorical articulation of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. In their attempt to reconstitute the trope of home differently from its inherited configurations, the two writers recall moments of interruption in their literary heri…
This study explores the future Palestinian educational system as envisioned by the Palestinian leadership and educators in the new Palestinian self-ruled areas. The study provides a vision and a set of guidelines to develop an educational system and a broad-based curriculum phil…
With over 60 years of war and terrorism related to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, it is understandably difficult for present-day Jewish-Israeli adolescents and Palestinian adolescents in both Israel and the West Bank to imagine a peaceful future. The Artsbridge Institute …
Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation is a comparative ethnography of one Muslim (Al-Jalil) and one Christian Palestinian refugee camp (D ̇bayeh) in Lebanon. It utilizes a ritual approach for understanding two contrasting patterns of social organization …
This work treats the oral Palestinian poetry duel, a genre performed most commonly at weddings in Northern Palestine and Israel. It begins by tracing the history of poetry dueling both in Arabic generally and within the Palestinian dialect. The historical sketch is followed by a…
This study contributes to the theoretical and empirical analysis of protracted conflict. The study conceptualizes protracted conflict as a conflict between two nations in which the constant-sum stakes under contention are perceived by both adversaries to be significantly linked …
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 …
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 …
As post-colonial theory notes, women's lived-experiences, particularly women of the “third world,” have not been present in the narratives of nation-states. By listening to and reading stories of decolonization, narratives of legitimacy, and narratives of the inheritance of cult…
In this dissertation, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, I examine activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. I concentrate on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructio…
This study investigated relationships among the severity of symptoms of PTSD, emotional intelligence, and gender differences in refugee children from the Middle East after their exposure to war in their native countries (Iraq, Lebanon, or Palestine). Participants were 17 male an…
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…
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…
The Palestinian economy is a small open economy with poor endowments of natural resources and unmarked national borders. Almost 80% of its foreign trade is conducted with a single trading partner, Israel. It currently exports 17% of its output, which in turn finances only about …
This study presents the results of qualitative research of the experiences and attitudes of Palestinian Christian students concerning inter-faith discussions with their Muslim fellow students at Bir Zeit University. The aim of the research was to inform ministry to the Christian…
This is an ethnographic study of the lives of four generations of Palestinian refugees at Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem. The struggle began when Palestinians were exiled from their village home in 1948 and, since that time, have been forced to organize against the Israelis as a m…
This study examined the participatory development practice of international Northern NGOs in the context of the area governed by the Palestinian Authority. It was conducted in two phases. The first contained a two-round Delphi study to solicit the definitions and conceptualizati…
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…
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…