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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Palestinians"”.
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The proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel : a study of development and class formation.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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The Impact of Homeland Politics on the National Identity of Palestinians Reflected in the Diaspora
… administration. Select cases of Diaspora Palestinians are chosen and differentiated by the date of departure from the homeland, to compare the political situation during that period and its impact on national identity. The impact of homeland politics on constituent national orientation is …
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Intergenerational Psychosocial Effects of Nakbah on Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel: Narratives of trauma and resilience.
… prevention in the field of mental health among Palestinians in Israel. On the collective level, such a comprehensive approach may produce new insights on Palestinian national identity and its connections with experiences of victimhood and resilience due to past and present conditions of …
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Bridging Science and Sustainability: Palestinians’ Perspective on Examining the Role of STEM Education in the West Bank’s Development
<p>This dissertation examines the transformative potential of integrated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education as a catalyst for sustainable development in the West Bank, Palestine, amid the constraints of Israeli occupation. It explores how structural …
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Palestinian refugees in the Levant alternate theories for disparity in treatment
… before highlighting seven factors affecting the Palestinians. The factors of legal framework, economics, politics, space within the state, relationship of the PLO, Islamists, and Palestinians, and identity are evaluated to determine their relevance for the state's treatment of the Palestinians in …
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The Use of New Media by the UK's Palestinian Diaspora
… ‘stateless’ condition has a direct impact on Palestinians’ media consumption and media production. The reality in the region is harsh; conflicts within and without prevent journalists from operating freely. It is in this point that the problem lies: the Palestinians need for information is …
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Negotiating Belonging in a Divided City: Palestinian Experiences in Nicosia, Cyprus
… Therefore, the challenges and opportunities of Palestinians' local contexts condition their processes of identity and belonging. I examine Palestinians' experiences in everyday life in Nicosia, Cyprus by examining how networks of places, times, thoughts, ideas, and experiences shape belonging. …
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Queer Checkpoints: Sexuality, Survival, and the Paradoxes of Sovereignty in Israel-Palestine
… is an ethnography of the experiences of queer Palestinians. Simultaneously embraced (as victimized homosexuals) and rejected (as dangerous Palestinians) in the discourses of Israeli nationalism, queer Palestinians embody a set of paradoxes that exposes the constructedness of the nation and its …
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Humanitarian and Technical Assistance to the Palestinian Health Sector: Donors' Policy and Behavior Analysis
… in the Palestinian territories. I argue that Palestinians are much like other recipients of aid for the health sector. This thesis explores the high aid dependence of Palestinians and the great influence of donors. I highlight that donors used aid conditionality, in its different forms, to …
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Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Private Development and State Building in the Contemporary West Bank
… and political economic relationships between Palestinians, as well as between the West Bank and Israel. Organized around an ethnographic account of the process to create Rawabi, a $1 billion privately funded new city for 40,000 Palestinians, it argues that new political, economic, and social …
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Framing Absence: Visuals of the Wall and the Vanishing Landscapes in Palestine
… territory, the Wall has considerably shifted Palestinians relationships to the landscape. To them the landscape has become a visual field on which power dynamics and political structures are embodied and expressed. Moreover, for many Palestinians the Israeli construction of the Wall is visible …
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Why Refugees Rebel: Militarization in Jordan and Worldwide
… to in-depth case studies of two refugee groups, Palestinians and Iraqis in Jordan. Why did Palestinians militarize from 1964 to 1970, but not earlier or later? Why have Iraqis not militarized despite fears that they might? What are the implications for the likelihood of militarization by either …
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`Israel is an Apartheid State': An Examination of Israeli Policies in Comparison with South Africa and International Law
<p>The situation in which the Palestinians are living, both within Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to worsen with little end in sight. The exact status of the Palestinians, however, has been the subject of much debate with terms such as `disputed territories,' `occupied …
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Bourj al-Barajneh: the significance of village origin in a Palestinian refugee camp
Using information derived from interviews with Palestinians from Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp, Beirut, this thesis examines the importance of village origin in the camp and whether any role played by village origin is the result of deliberate actions by the Palestinians or purely accidental. The …
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Trust, fairness and cooperation in times of conflict : a behavioral economics approach to measuring intergroup norms of behavior in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
… using trust and dictator games with West Bank Palestinians and Israeli Jews in order to test prevalent assumptions in the literature on intergroup norms of behavior in times of conflict. The study, which was implemented in the weeks following the Gaza war, a time of high conflict saliency, goes …
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A Tainted Opportunity: Palestinian Practitioners Navigating Development Work in Occupied Jerusalem
… coercion. While continuing to demolish and evict Palestinians from their life-long homes in Jerusalem, in 2018 Israel enacted Resolution 3790 which allocated 2.1 billion NIS for a five-year project directed at the socioeconomic development of East Jerusalem. Recruiting dozens of Palestinian …
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Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return
… confiscate land, farming tools, and criminalizes Palestinians from foraging in an aim to disrupt any engagement with their knowledge practices and land. I argue that Palestinian interpersonal experience with ancestral knowledge recontextualizes a history of Palestine outside the simplistic …
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Al- 'Eizariyah and the Wall: from the quasi-capital of Palestine to an Arab Ghetto. The Impact of the Separation Wall on the Social Capital of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank
… and on the socio-economic resilience of the Palestinians trapped in the East Jerusalem's al-'Eizariyah area. The transformation of al-'Eizariyah since 2002 through the Israeli encroachment on Palestinian land by instrumental use of the Separation Wall policies was analysed and re-state …
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