• Hebron under the Muslims
• Tamim al-Dari-a companion of the Prophet
• The concession granted by the Prophet to Tamim
• Mamluk period treatises concerning Tamim
• Biographies of the authors
• Quellenkritik-the structure of the Mamluk treatises
• Qissat Tamim al-Dari
• Hebron during the Mamluk era
• Simat Ibrahim
• Iqta' and waqf
• The motives behind the composition of the treatises
• Presentation of the manuscripts
• Al-Maqrizi's Daw' al-sari
• Ibn Hagar's al-Gawab al-galil
• al-Suyuti's al-Fadl al-amim.

The present book investigates three short late Mamluk treatises about land properties (waqf) in the Palestinian city of Hebron, which the prophet Muhammad granted to Tamim al-Dari. The treatise entitled Daw' al-sari li-ma'rifat habar Tamim al-Dari by al-Maqrizi (d. 845/1442) is the core of the book. It is edited here for the first time on the sole basis of the copy corrected by the author. A facsimile of the manuscript is also provided at the end of the book. In order to illuminate the discourse on property rights and donation that prevailed in the Mamluk period and al-Maqrizi's position, two additional treatises dealing with the same issue are included. The first is al-Gawab al-Galil 'an hukm balad al-Halil by Ibn HaGar al-'Asqalani (d. 852/1448). The second is al-Fadl al-'amim fi iqta' Tamim by al-Suyuti (911/1505). The three texts are fully translated and annotated and preceded by a thorough introduction.
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• The Canadian tourists
• Village of the sheiks
• The tap dancer from Amman
• The education of a terrorist
• "Have you guys lost your minds?"
• Arafat's circus
• The Palestinian project
• The bearded engineer in a New York cell
• Violence is the only weapon
• A little obscurity is good
• They used a bizarre instrument
• Mishal must not die
• "And who the hell is Khalid Mishal?"
• Pulling a rabbit from the king's threadbare hat
• The price Bibi paid
• The legendary image of Mossad
• Brother against brother
• Handcuffed and deported
• Dead men walking
• Follow the money
• Government from the trenches
• "No gold bars left"
• Everything is not as it seems
• An eye for an eye
• Taking the Holy Land to court
• The man who wouldn't die.

"[P]roviding a fly-on-the-wall vantage of the rising diplomatic panic that sent shudders through world capitals" (Toronto Star), Kill Khalid unfolds as a masterpiece of investigative journalism. In 1997, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad poisoned Hamas leader Khalid Mishal in broad daylight on the streets of Amman, Jordan. As the little-known Palestinian leader slipped into a coma, the Mossad agents' escape was bungled and the episode quickly spiraled into a diplomatic crisis. A series of high-stakes negotiations followed, which ultimately saved Mishal and set the stage for his phenomenal.

• Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Disengaged Generation; The Second Intifada Generation; The Oslo Generation; The first Intifada generation; The Thawra Generation; The 1967 (Naksa) Generation; The Nakba Generation; The 1936 Generation; Postscript: In Your Eyes a Sandstorm; Glossary; Selected Bibliography and Further Reading; Photo Captions.

Who are the Palestinians? In this compelling book of interviews, Arthur Neslen reaches beyond journalistic cliches to let a wide variety of Palestinians answer the question for themselves. Beginning in the present with Bisan and Abud, two traumatized children from Jenin's refugee camp, the book's narrative arcs backwards through the generations to come full circle with two elderly refugees from villages that the children were named after. Along the way, Neslen recounts a history of land, resistance, exile, and trauma that begins to explain Abud's wish to become a martyr and Bisan's dream of a.

An account providing a human face to the realities of life in Palestine. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the most widely reported and long standing struggles in the world, yet for many, misunderstanding is rife about its most basic issues. Hilda Reilly volunteered to work at An-Najah University in Nablus in order to spend time among many ordinary people, living under extraordinary circumstances. She lives among students, and relates the many conversations she has with a wide range of Palestinians about their thoughts on Hamas and Fatah, Yasser Arafat, bin Laden and Hussein, Blair and Bush, bringing readers an insight to the people behind the politics.

• Introduction
• The jinn
• Women and the jinn
• Zahia and her Jewish jinn
• Men and the jinn
• Social geography and the jinn
• Marriages in Artas.

"The Palestinian Muslim village of Artas is cradled in the lap of four mountains in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although Artas has experienced the violence of Israeli occupation, Spirits of Palestine does not focus exclusively on the villagers' experiences of violence, terrorism, or loss. This ethnography looks instead at the daily lives of Palestinian women and men and how they relate to tragedies and difficulties both large and small. Through stories of possession by the jinn, spirits that appear throughout the Koran, anthropologist Celia Rothenberg takes the reader past the dramatic, violent world of street battles and stone-throwing to more intimate realms of power - in homes and prisons, family and neighborhood relations, and personal experiences of migration and diaspora." "Spirits of Palestine is a truly original ethnography and an essential addition to scholarship on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East that will be of interest to cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and women's/gender studies scholars."--Jacket.

• Introduction: Normalizing the Occupation: the Making of the Jewish West Bank Settlements / Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel and Erez Maggor Part I - Across the Green Line: Suburbanization, Privatization and the Settlements
• 1. The Settlements and the Relationship between Privatization and the Occupation / Daniel Gutwein
• 2. Settlement as Suburbanization: The Banality of Colonization / David Newman
• 3. "Outside Jerusalem-yet so Near": Ma'ale Adumim, Jerusalem, and the suburbanization of Israel's settlement policy / Marco Allegra
• 4. Educating Architecture (photo essay) / Miki Kratsman and Ruthie Ginsburg Part II - Between Cities and Outposts: the Heterogeneity of the Settlements and the Settlers
• 5. Embedded Politics in a West Bank Settlement / Hadas Weiss
• 6. Informal Outposts in the West Bank: Normality in Gray Space / Erez Tzfadia
• 7. From Ghetto-politics to Geo-politics: Ultra-Orthodox Settlements in the West Bank / Lee Cahaner
• 8. "A Blessed Deviation in Jewish History": On Contemporary forms of Messianism among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the West Bank / Assaf Harel Part III - Forced Co-existence: Palestinians and Jewish Settlers
• 9. From Kubniya to Outpost: A Genealogy of the Palestinian Conceptualization of Jewish Settlement in a Shifting National Context / Honaida Ghanem
• 10. Integrated or Segregated? Employment Relations in the Settlements / Amir Paz-Fuchs and Yael Ronen
• 11. Jerusalem's Colonial Space as Paradox: Palestinians Living in the Settlements / Wendy Pullan and Haim Yacobi.
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Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of Jewish residents. Considering a wider range of historical and structural factors in which the colonization of the West Bank developed it allows placing its origins and everyday reality into a wider perspective. The works collected consider the transformation of the landscape, the patterns of relationships shared by the region's residents, Palestinian and Jewish alike, and the lasting effects of Israel's settlement policy. Stressed in particular are such factors as urban planning, rising inequality and the retreat of the welfare state, and the changing political economy of industry and employment. In doing so, the authors collected here provide new insight into the integration and segregation processes that are an integral part of the broader historical trends shaping Israel/Palestine.
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• A political geography of law and conflict
• Legal discourses and the conflict in Israel/Palestine
• Going to court
• The face and arms of military justice
• The politics of language
• Cause lawyering and national conflict
• Political subjects, legal objects
• A suq of deals.

Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians - including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators - about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions, and how its functioning has affected the conflict. Her lucid, richly detailed, and theoretically sophisticated study highlights the array of problems and debates that characterize Israel's military courts as it asks how the law is deployed to protect and further the interests of the Israeli state and how it has been used to articulate and defend the rights of Palestinians living under occupation.
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• A political geography of law and conflict
• Legal discourses and the conflict in Israel/Palestine
• Going to court
• The face and arms of military justice
• The politics of language
• Cause lawyering and national conflict
• Political subjects, legal objects
• A suq of deals.

Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians - including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators - about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions, and how its functioning has affected the conflict. Her lucid, richly detailed, and theoretically sophisticated study highlights the array of problems and debates that characterize Israel's military courts as it asks how the law is deployed to protect and further the interests of the Israeli state and how it has been used to articulate and defend the rights of Palestinians living under occupation.
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• Contents and Abstracts1When Instagram Went to War: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age chapter abstractThis chapter provides the historical and theoretical parameters of the book, defining the term "digital militarism" and outlining the ways it has changed during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It sketches the relationship between the changing Israeli political playfield of these years and the growth of the national culture in social networking and digital literacy. Through a focus on the Instagram accounts of Israeli soldiers during Israel's 2012 assault on the Gaza Strip, the chapter studies the ordinary ways that patriotic militarism can be translated into social media grammars (e.g., selfies, hashtags, "likes").
• 2"Another War Zone": The Development of Digital Militarism chapter abstractThis chapter traces the growth of digital militarism in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, chiefly the ways that social media have been incorporated into the toolbox of the Israeli state during times of war and military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories. It focuses on the use of social media by numerous Israeli and pro-Israeli actors - civilians and military users - during two Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip (2008-9 and 2012), and during the Flotilla affair of
• 2010. The chapter also traces the rise of personalized militarism by means of social media and the ways it functions to obscure and excuse Israeli violence.
• 3Anatomy of a Facebook Scandal: Social Media as Alibi chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on a landmark case in the history of digital militarism: the 2010 exposure of a Facebook album of former Israeli soldier Eden Abergil, containing her joyful self-portraits with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees. The chapter traces the social life of this scandal, with a focus on the varying strategies used by Israeli publics to manage the event's dangerous virality by turning away from matters of military occupation onto questions of social media.
• 4Palestinians Who Never Die: The Politics of Digital Suspicion chapter abstractThis chapter studies the digital doctoring charges that proliferated on Israeli social networks during the 2012 Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip. Israeli social media users took aim at images of Palestinian dead and injured, using digital forensics and everyday modes of what we term "digital suspicion" to assert forgery claims. This is a study of the ways that Israeli and pro-Israeli social media users have employed doctoring charges as a tool of digital militarism. This study is framed within the much longer history of Israeli suspicion of Palestinian political claims and associated evidence.
• 5Selfie Militarism: The Normalization of Digital Militarism chapter abstractThe book's final chapter reflects on the development of Israeli digital militarism from 2008 to 2014, tracking key shifts in this formulation. It focuses on the changing ways that soldiers have used selfies-the popular genre of mobile self-portraiture, images shared on photo-sharing platforms such as Instagram-to document their experience of life in the Israeli armed forces. The chapter proposes that digital militarism began as an aberrant phenomenon, the activity of marginalized Israeli youth, and has since become an ordinary Israeli practice, an everyday way of living with and representing Israeli military rule.
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Israel's occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world's most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens.Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global context-both the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupation's impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
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• Prologue : the first year of the occupation
• part 1. A short history of the occupation regime. The first decade
• The second decade
• Uprisings, separations, and subjugations
• part 2. Ruling the noncitizens. The order of violence
• Abandoning Gaza
• part 3. The Israeli regime. The conceptual scheme
• Structural divisions and state projects
• Civil recruitment
• Conclusion : toward a new regime.

Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule-both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates-as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief. Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the ruling apparatus-the technologies an.

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Of Dowries and Brides
• 1. The Infrastructure of Control
• 2. "The Invisible Occupation"
• 3. Of Horses and Riders
• 4. Identification Trouble
• 5. Civilian Control
• 6. The Intifada
• 7. Outsourcing the Occupation
• 8. The Separation Principle Epilogue
• Appendix 1: Structure of the Civil Branch of the West Bank's Military Government
• Appendix 2: West Bank Settlements According to Year Established Notes Index.
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This first complete history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip allows us to see beyond the smoke screen of politics in order to make sense of the dramatic changes that have developed on the ground over the past forty years. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education as well as surveillance and torture, Neve Gordon's panoramic account reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life - when, for instance, Israel helped Palestinians plant more than six-hundred thousand trees in Gaza and provided farmers with improved varieties of seeds - to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths.Drawing attention to the interactions, excesses, and contradictions created by the forms of control used in the Occupied Territories, Gordon argues that the occupation's very structure, rather than the policy choices of the Israeli government or the actions of various Palestinian political factions, has led to this radical shift.
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