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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Palestinian identity"”.
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Communicative Construction and Maintenance of Palestinian Identity in Diaspora
… investigated the construction and maintenance of Palestinian identity in diaspora. It provided a synopsis of the political and cultural meanings behind concepts such as home, identity, diaspora, hybridity, culture and visions of return. The dissertation yielded the way in discovering the meaning …
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Palestine, Preschool, and Power: Palestinian Teacher Narratives Under Occupation
<p>Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem have been living under military occupation for over 50 years. While much scholarship has focused on the political facets of the occupation, far less is understood of the lives of Palestinian preschool teachers. The purpose of the research …
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Negotiating Belonging in a Divided City: Palestinian Experiences in Nicosia, Cyprus
<p>Due to the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most people who claim a Palestinian identity do so outside of Palestine. Therefore, the challenges and opportunities of Palestinians' local contexts condition their processes of identity and belonging. I examine Palestinians' experiences in …
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Creating War, Inventing Peace: the History Behind Oslo, Its Implications, and the Arab-Israel Conflict
… Arab-Israel conflict; the development of "Palestinianism;" and the Palestinian Arab-Israel conflict. The thesis concludes that the advent of an acquired Palestinian identity, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that propelled it forward, was a strategic element in the Arab war …
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"Who Am I?": The Development of a Male Palestinian Political Identity
<p>The Palestinian people have lived under numerous imperial rulers; first, the Ottoman Empire, then later the British. Today they live under the military occupation of the state of Israel as second class citizen millions more living abroad as refugees. Young Palestinian men have become the leaders …
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NGOs Embodying Decoloniality: Towards Emanticipatory Psychological Practice and Pedagogy in Palestine
<p>Abstract</p> <p>The Palestinian need for aid is entirely a result of a decades long conflict with Israel. Western funders to Palestinian NGOs working in psychological services may have good intentions, but their traditional approaches to therapy and well-being may be inconsistent with a …
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Breathing Archives: Art and Tacit Knowledge in the Post-Oslo Accords’ Palestine
… methodological tool for understanding Palestinian knowledge production and identity in post-Oslo Agreement Palestine (1993 - the present). The objective is to accumulate tacit knowledge emerging from the artistic practices of Palestinians living in and beyond historic Palestine, whose …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… ecological ‘otherness’ and interconnectedness in Palestinian and North African literature, exploring the entanglement of environmental degradation, colonial violence, and cultural memory. While ecocriticism has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab …
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Unsettled: A Memoir
… in Syria, to several years spent in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, to an exploration of the history of my grandparents farm in rural Minnesota, this memoir seeks to uncover some of the stories of home.
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Unsettled: A Memoir
… in Syria, to several years spent in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, to an exploration of the history of my grandparents farm in rural Minnesota, this memoir seeks to uncover some of the stories of home.