Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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1. Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

   Politics and Development

   By Maha Samman

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem

   Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967

   By Hillel Cohen

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   This book examines Palestinian politics in Jerusalem since 1967, and in particular since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, focusing on the city’s decline as an Arab city and the identity crisis among the Jerusalemite Palestinians. Principally concerned with Palestinian politics...

   Published January 23rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Palestinian Refugees

   Identity, Space and Place in the Levant

   Edited by Are Knudsen, Sari Hanafi

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle...

   Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
4. Palestinian Political Prisoners

   Identity and community

   By Esmail Nashif

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds. This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Esmail Nashif...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
5. Palestinian Civil Society

   Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude

   By Benoit Challand

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
6. International Assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo

   Political guilt, wasted money

   By Anne Le More

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Why has the West disbursed vertiginous sums of money to the Palestinians after Oslo? What have been donors’ motivations and above all the political consequences of the funds spent? Based on original academic research and first hand evidence, this book examines the interface between diplomacy and...

   Published June 22nd 2010 by Routledge
7. Reparations to Palestinian Refugees

   A Comparative Perspective

   By Shahira Samy

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   This book delves into the issue of reparations in relation to Palestinian refugees in their search for a solution to their displacement and dispossession. Highlighting the broad spectrum of reparations available as forms of remedy for a historical injustice, the author probes the reasons behind the...

   Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Political Right in Israel

   Different Faces of Jewish Populism

   By Dani Filc

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977, examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls. As such it demonstrates how populism has become a hugely...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
9. Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa

   Civil society and peace building in ethnic-national states

   By Amneh Badran

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful...

   Published August 9th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Jewish-Arab City

    Spatio-politics in a mixed community

    By Haim Yacobi

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both...

    Published March 16th 2009 by Routledge