For the past 20 years, at least, Israelis, Palestinians, and peace sponsors have been implicated in a seemingly endless peacebuilding project—best known as the Middle East or the Israel-Palestine peace process. Indeed, much of the abundant
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In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 227–245 (19 total)
Mourning Palestine
Death and Grief Rituals
Aref Abu-Rabia and Nibal Khalil
This article presents various mourning rituals and death rites as they are practised in Palestine. It focuses on differences in the mourning experience among fellahin and Bedouin Arabs but also shows certain parallels in their mourning and grieving customs. The article provides information on the prescribed set of rituals that Palestinians perform, beginning with how the body is treated and the way that it is prepared for burial. Combinations of mourning practices, which vary from rending one's garments to throwing earth on one's head, provide socially sanctioned expressions of grief and sorrow. Mourning practices differ between women and men: the former lament loudly and scratch their faces, while among the latter tears are neither encouraged nor welcomed. Parallels can be seen in these rituals with mourning for Palestine.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2012
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- Research Article
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- 1–18 (18 total)
Kareem Rabie
Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork and documentary research, this article examines three shifts in national-scale planning in Palestine. In the period after the Oslo accords, Palestinian planners were tasked with the responsibility to create formal structures of governance and build for a future, eventual state there. Through that process and especially after the second intifada, national planning came to focus almost exclusively on market openness, privatization, and capitalistic development as part of a state and economy building project. Increasingly since 2015, planners have attempted to re-take some kind of formal authority. This article argues that such regimes show how Palestine is increasingly crafted at the state-scale as a node in wider global political economies in order to ostensibly stabilize the political situation, and in ways that have wide consequences for Palestine.
Samira Alayan and Naseema Al-Khalidi
This article analyzes history, civics, and national education textbooks used between grades seven to twelve of the Palestinian and Jordanian school systems from a gender perspective. It focuses on the ways in which men and women are presented within the context of the prevalent culture, which portrays men as the more superior, capable, creative, productive, and therefore dominant, and women as weaker, inferior, dominated, and thus unable to play more than minor roles. As culture affects the perceptions, desires, and ambitions of both males and females, it becomes a key factor in changing the role of women in modern society, and is developed and transferred from one generation to another. This study also emphasizes the need to identify the approaches toward gender adopted by the curricula of Jordan and Palestine, as well as the nature of the language they use. The results from the sample used in this study indicate that although the stereotyping of men and women in both the public and the private sectors varies according to school grade and subject, there is an obvious bias in favor of men.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 78–96 (19 total)
Embodied Agency
Creating Room for Maneuver through Dance in Palestine
Sara Christophersen
. (Nadir, 26 years old, 29 July 2019) The contrast between Nadir's 1 description of the experience of dancing and his experience of everyday life in Palestine is striking. For Nadir, dance creates freedom and the possibility of movement, both literally
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 227–241 (15 total)
Constructing Difference and Imperial Strategy
Contrasting Representations of Irish and Zionist Nationalism in British Political Discourse (1917–1922)
Maggy Hary
’s troops had conquered Jerusalem from the Ottomans in December 1917, Britain was officially awarded a League of Nations mandate over Palestine. 1 British actions in Palestine were subsequently guided by contradictory promises, originally contained in the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 29–47 (19 total)
Osnat Roth-Cohen and Yehiel Limor
, many Jews quickly chose Palestine as a destination. Interestingly, German Jews differed from other immigrants to Palestine by resisting assimilation and holding on to their cultural individuality. For example, they continued to speak German, published
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 126–145 (20 total)
The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness
Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire
Caroline Elkins
By the summer of 1938, the Arab Revolt in Mandatory Palestine had been raging for some two years and Britain had lost control of the situation. All sides of the imperial divide terrorized Arab villagers, and the rebels dominated the countryside
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–90 (13 total)
Beyond Colonial Tropes
Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine
Samer Al-Saber
time. This article proceeds from the position of having come through imperial rhetoric and out again. It explores the relationship between Shakespeare and Palestine through two productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that both took place within
Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra
of fact - it must be recognized that in Palestine the term ‘martyr’ is universally deployed to describe anyone (including suicide bombers) who die in support of the Palestinian cause. ‘Martyrdom’ therefore has in this context an active rather than