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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Since 1948, voices of Palestinian civil society have mostly been absent from the media as have debates about how to resolve their grievances and overall situation of life under the constraints imposed by Israel. This dissertation was intended to provide a venue for those voices …
High among the mountains and olive groves of Israel's Western Galilee, a group of Palestinian women regularly meet to do something unexpected. They play soccer. In Israel. Banāt Sakhnin is the only Palestinian women's soccer team in the Israeli league. The players, coaches, and …
This dissertation investigates how the Israeli state educational system reproduces and transforms the social structure of that country by reinforcing, modifying, and blurring ethnic, class, and gender hierarchies. Specifically, this project examines how the social inequalities o…
As a public intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate, Elie Wiesel has stressed the importance of Holocaust remembrance and solidarity with those who suffer oppression today. While Wiesel's work has been largely ignored by secular scholars in the social sciences, Jewish and Christia…
Purpose. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the status of health conditions and services in the West Bank and Gara Strip since 1967 and to determine the needs of the Palestinian people. Methodology. The study utilized focused synthesis design to gather various data and to …
This study attempts to investigate the variations among Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the territories occupied in 1967, in their tendencies toward normalizing their social relations with the Israeli Jews after the peace process, specifically after the Os…
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 …
This dissertation is based on the idea that reproduction is a central locus of contest in the Galilee. "Modernization"--in the interrelated forms of nationalism, economic transformations, medical regulation, new forms of social stratification, and changing gender relations--have…
A water resources and water demand management model has been developed applicable to locations which experience specific constraints such as rapid population growth, limited water resources and political disputes over water resources. The West Bank was chosen as a case study. Th…
Since the establishment of the State of Israel a body of literature has amassed that deals with the question of the Arabs in Israel. Most researchers start from the empirical reality that Palestinians and Jews in Israel are residentially segregated from each other. Many write of…
This dissertation asks two specific research questions: First, what explains the shift from a strategy of isolating nationalist terrorist groups to a strategy of engaging them? Second, under what conditions will engagement succeed at convincing these organizations to abandon vio…
My thesis is that the Oslo Process was an articulation of the discourse of Palestinian-Israeli relations. Furthermore, the general effect of this discourse was the same after the Oslo Process as before the process. I develop my thesis over the course of eight chapters. In chapte…
This dissertation provides a history from below of Palestinian national movement and Arab society during the tumultuous decade of the 1930s. It argues that the influence and authority of the small group of factionalized and disunited notable politicians that are conventionally u…
In the 1990s Palestinian refugees sought to secure a seat in negotiations alongside the PLO and Israel in talks to resolve their situation. Their efforts raise a number of basic questions concerning the right to political participation and the negotiation of durable solutions to…
What leads longstanding adversaries to pursue compromise? Examining the case of Israel's decision to seek peace with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leading to the 1993 Oslo agreement, I argue that states, like selves, possess a collective self-image, or role-identit…
This thesis sheds light on the struggle to define Jerusalem which is occurring through its growing tourist industry, land use issues, collective memory, and historical conflicts by studying the cultural and political struggles surrounding the Western Wall tunnel and the recently…
West Bank Palestinian immigrants to the United States transitioned from economic immigrants to exiles in the aftermath of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967. A portion of these exiles established a community across parts of New York and New Jersey. De…
The Arab community in Chicago consists of two segments, the Muslim-Palestinians and the Christian-Syrians. Although the outside world regards all Arabs as more or less alike, and although they speak the same language, spatial and psychological separation between the Muslim-Pales…