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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Ramallah"”.
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Water, Conflict, & Cooperation: Ramallah, West Bank
Conclusions of this case study on Ramallah imply that an effective water management strategy will have a dual intent: incorporate "trickle-up" municipal level water management strategies and integrate conflict reduction measures. This study finds that Ramallah's cooperation with the Palestinian …
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Proposal to establish urban continuity and identity along the Jerusalem-Ramallah Road
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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The Paradox of Ramallah: An Investigation into Palestine’s Political and National Architecture and Urban Topography Since 1995
… has gradually concentrated itself in the city of Ramallah, considering it a temporary base whilst maintaining the hope and desire for an eventual return to Jerusalem as a capital. However, as the PNA began constructing its state institutions in Ramallah, the city became coined a ‘de-facto’ …
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Providing unity where there is division: Rethinking public space in the twin cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Palestine
… the everyday life inside the twin cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh. It looks beyond the physical materiality of public space to incorporate various forms of individual and collective processes that extend beyond the bounded space and connect it with other spaces, activities, and users. This …
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A review of antibiotic use and policy development before and during the Palestinian uprising "Intifada" in the Ramallah district.
… use in the public and private sectors in the Ramallah District of Palestine before and during the Intifada and to investigate the feasibility of implementing guidelines to promote the safe and effective use of antibiotics. The main sources of data were a record-based audit of 14,600 …
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Mobility Within Constraints: Gender, Migration, and New Spaces For Palestinian Women
… sometimes referred to collectively as binat Ramallah--Ramallah girls--generally a term with a disparaging connotation.This population navigates skillfully the dual spaces of home/household in their respective towns and villages throughout Palestine and the demands of work and the social and …
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An assemblage of affective sounds: resistance and power through the Palestinian electronic music scene
… and online analysis. I conducted fieldwork in Ramallah (Palestine), Amman (Jordan), Berlin (Germany), Athens (Greece) and London (Britain). Through this process, I developed a critical ‘anti-research’ epistemology that questions my positionality and generates an ‘affective’ epistemology: a way …
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Examining the perceived internal and external effectiveness of NGOs in the Palestinian Territories : the role of complexity, resilience, and job adaptability
… representing TMTs from 26 local NGOs based in Ramallah, West Bank working in various fields such as community development, children and youth, human rights, women empowerment, agriculture, health and psychological counseling, advocacy, education, and culture. Participants were asked to fill out …
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Teachers leading school improvement and education reconstruction in Palestine
… improve teaching and learning in one school in Ramallah, Palestine. The non-positional approach to teacher leadership was adopted as a means to mobilise all teachers in the drive towards bottom-up, participatory school change processes that increase teacher self-efficacy and collaboration, build …
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An analysis of water pricing and consumption variations within the occupied West Bank
… water resources, followed by Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah. It was also observed that those within lower income brackets bear a disproportionate share of pricing fluctuations and, not surprisingly, low consumption levels. Connection/non-connection to a water network indicates that not only is …
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Khirbet Nisya 1979-1986: a Report on Six Seasons of Excavation
… was an investigation of Khirbet Nisya (near Ramallah/El-Bireh) for six seasons to describe and interpret the excavation evidence. The excavation and analyses of finds were correlated with biblical data to help clarify certain problems relating to the Israelite settlement in the hill country …
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Haunted Homelands: The Ghosts of Partition in Pakistan, India and Palestine
… homelands. Looking at Mourid Barghouti’s I Saw Ramallah (1997) and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man (1988), I argue that these diasporic-at-home communities were spectrally liminal: entrapped in a purgatorial state between here-and-there-ness, now-and-then-ness. Chapter 3 discusses the archival …
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Redefining learning environments in conflict areas : a Palestinian case study
… special focus was given to three schools in Ramallah, which is a unique enclave that encompasses within it the socio-spatial realities of other enclaves in the West Bank. Taking from the lessons of each school system, it is concluded that new learning environments in the Occupied Palestinian …
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Reproductive health human rights : women's knowledge, attitude, and practices toward their reproductive health rights in Palestine
… cities in the West Bank: Jenin in the north, Ramallah in the center, and Hebron in the south. A total of 450 women (150 women in each site) in reproductive age (15-49) were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire assessed several issues related to reproductive health …