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The NGO sector has burgeoned in recent years, leading the global development initiative. In the ... more The NGO sector has burgeoned in recent years, leading the global development initiative. In the Palestinian context, NGOs play a central role in the social and economic life of the occupied territories; this implicates them, despite assertions of neutrality, in a fundamentally political project and as such demands their contextualization within the larger national resistance movement. This dissertation seeks to understand the role NGOs have come to play in the occupied West Bank since the signing of the Oslo Accords and the creation of an embryonic state-building Palestinian Authority government by tracing the evolution of the NGO sector in the post-Oslo era in concert with the Palestinian national movement.
The central issue of this paper is deceptively simple: how did early Islam manifest itself in Jer... more The central issue of this paper is deceptively simple: how did early Islam manifest itself in Jerusalem? The simplicity of this question, though, belies the complexity of its answer insofar as the new Islamic faith interacted in a variety of manners with the preexisting communities: at times creating new, modifying old and even adopting wholesale aspects of the entrenched urban and religious culture. This paper looks at the Dome of the Rock -- the earliest extant example of Islamic piety in Jerusalem -- and connects a structure long standing with a social milieu and religious world long since passed; or, more aptly, it brings architecture alive as a character in its own creation narrative to uncover new perspectives on both the Dome of the Rock itself and the complex religious exegesis that has developed around it.
The NGO sector has burgeoned in recent years, leading the global development initiative. In the ... more The NGO sector has burgeoned in recent years, leading the global development initiative. In the Palestinian context, NGOs play a central role in the social and economic life of the occupied territories; this implicates them, despite assertions of neutrality, in a fundamentally political project and as such demands their contextualization within the larger national resistance movement. This dissertation seeks to understand the role NGOs have come to play in the occupied West Bank since the signing of the Oslo Accords and the creation of an embryonic state-building Palestinian Authority government by tracing the evolution of the NGO sector in the post-Oslo era in concert with the Palestinian national movement.
The central issue of this paper is deceptively simple: how did early Islam manifest itself in Jer... more The central issue of this paper is deceptively simple: how did early Islam manifest itself in Jerusalem? The simplicity of this question, though, belies the complexity of its answer insofar as the new Islamic faith interacted in a variety of manners with the preexisting communities: at times creating new, modifying old and even adopting wholesale aspects of the entrenched urban and religious culture. This paper looks at the Dome of the Rock -- the earliest extant example of Islamic piety in Jerusalem -- and connects a structure long standing with a social milieu and religious world long since passed; or, more aptly, it brings architecture alive as a character in its own creation narrative to uncover new perspectives on both the Dome of the Rock itself and the complex religious exegesis that has developed around it.