Lisa Taraki
Biographic Data
| ID | 349231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Taraki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Taraki |
| SIGNATURE | TARAKI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birzeit University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ordinary Lives: A Small-town Middle Class at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This essay explores the emergence of a middle class in a small town in the Palestinian highlands at the turn of the twentieth century, a class that was of a different order and character than that developing in the cities.The article traces the emergence of an embryonic middle class in the town of Ramallah at the turn of the twentieth century in several factors that came together at particular moments, one reinforcing the other.A confluence of fo…
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
Enclave Micropolis: The Paradoxical Case of Ramallah/al-Bireh
Among the consequences of the consolidation of the Israeli closure regime have been the contraction of Palestinians' social worlds and the emergence of new forms of localism. Unlike the more parochial West Bank towns of Nablus, Hebron, and Jenin, Ramallah/al-Bireh has taken on many of the cosmopolitan aspects of larger metropoles——Beirut, Cairo, Tunis——because of a combination of historical influences, present-day migration patterns, and politica…
Urban Modernity on the Periphery
The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated in the centers of Arab modernity, the metropolitan cities. This new imagination, a hybrid construct crafted by the new urban middle classes in the age of globaliz…
Question: How Have Internet Developments Changed What—or How—You Study about the Middle East? Pensée 1: The Excessive Charms of the Internet
The most obvious answer to this question would be to underline the huge impact of the Internet on research on the Middle East: the speed with which material is circulated among colleagues, reviewers, and editors; the increasing availability of documents and materials; the ease of access to scholarly work through online databases; the availability of scholarly forums (such as H-Net) for exchanging information and views; and a long list of other be…
"Even-Handedness and the Palestinian-Israeli/Israeli-Palestinian "Conflict
Gaza Strip within the Green Lines borders. At the time, this was considered by the Jews to be subversive idea. However, nowadays it is adopted by most mainstream Jews and parties, except the controversial question of how much territory (settlement blocs) should be annexed by Israel, if any. Some parts of the Palestinian people are ready to accept such a transaction, but only within the 1967 lines and with proper solution of the refugees' rights o…
Occupation: A theatre of the absurd
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
G ender , P olitics and the S tate: W hat D o M iddle E astern W omen W ant
The essays that follow are drawn from invited presentations of the Conference Group on the Middle East, which meets annually in conjunction with the American Political Science Association. The essays published here were presented in San Francisco, August 29‐September 1, 1996, on one of three panels dealing with gender, politics and the state. Thanks to the continuing generosity of the Ford Foundation, five scholars from the Middle East were able …
To Rule Jerusalem
Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance
Jordanian Islamists and the agenda for women: Between discourse and practice
The resurgent Islamist movement in Jordan2 presents itself as a movement with a clear vision of what constitutes a society based on Islamic principles. Islamist activism and institution-building projects are presented as part of a grand strategy for the reconstruction of an Islamic society and the repossession of an Islamic heritage long denied to the Muslims due to colonialism and the alienation of ordinary Muslims from their own religion and tr…
Islam Is the Solution: Jordanian Islamists and the Dilemma of the 'Modern Woman
During the past decade, the issue of gender relations and women's conduct and dress has been occupying an increasingly prominent place in the discourse of Islamist movements. This article attempts to situate Arab Islamists' preoccupation with women within the legacy of colonialism and social transformations relating to gender and class. With regard to Jordan, the author links the urgency of the issue with social transformations at the level of ge…
The Islamic Resistance Movement in the Palestinian Uprising
Enclave Micropolis: The Paradoxical Case of Ramallah/al-Bireh
Among the consequences of the consolidation of the Israeli closure regime have been the contraction of Palestinians' social worlds and the emergence of new forms of localism. Unlike the more parochial West Bank towns of Nablus, Hebron, and Jenin, Ramallah/al-Bireh has taken on many of the cosmopolitan aspects of larger metropoles——Beirut, Cairo, Tunis——because of a combination of historical influences, present-day migration patterns, and politica…
Islam Is the Solution: Jordanian Islamists and the Dilemma of the 'Modern Woman
During the past decade, the issue of gender relations and women's conduct and dress has been occupying an increasingly prominent place in the discourse of Islamist movements. This article attempts to situate Arab Islamists' preoccupation with women within the legacy of colonialism and social transformations relating to gender and class. With regard to Jordan, the author links the urgency of the issue with social transformations at the level of ge…
Urban Modernity on the Periphery
The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated in the centers of Arab modernity, the metropolitan cities. This new imagination, a hybrid construct crafted by the new urban middle classes in the age of globaliz…
Jordanian Islamists and the agenda for women: Between discourse and practice
The resurgent Islamist movement in Jordan2 presents itself as a movement with a clear vision of what constitutes a society based on Islamic principles. Islamist activism and institution-building projects are presented as part of a grand strategy for the reconstruction of an Islamic society and the repossession of an Islamic heritage long denied to the Muslims due to colonialism and the alienation of ordinary Muslims from their own religion and tr…
"Even-Handedness and the Palestinian-Israeli/Israeli-Palestinian "Conflict
Gaza Strip within the Green Lines borders. At the time, this was considered by the Jews to be subversive idea. However, nowadays it is adopted by most mainstream Jews and parties, except the controversial question of how much territory (settlement blocs) should be annexed by Israel, if any. Some parts of the Palestinian people are ready to accept such a transaction, but only within the 1967 lines and with proper solution of the refugees' rights o…
G ender , P olitics and the S tate: W hat D o M iddle E astern W omen W ant
The essays that follow are drawn from invited presentations of the Conference Group on the Middle East, which meets annually in conjunction with the American Political Science Association. The essays published here were presented in San Francisco, August 29‐September 1, 1996, on one of three panels dealing with gender, politics and the state. Thanks to the continuing generosity of the Ford Foundation, five scholars from the Middle East were able …
The Islamic Resistance Movement in the Palestinian Uprising
Islam Is the Solution: Jordanian Islamists and the Dilemma of the 'Modern Woman
During the past decade, the issue of gender relations and women's conduct and dress has been occupying an increasingly prominent place in the discourse of Islamist movements. This article attempts to situate Arab Islamists' preoccupation with women within the legacy of colonialism and social transformations relating to gender and class. With regard to Jordan, the author links the urgency of the issue with social transformations at the level of ge…
Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance
Jordanian Islamists and the agenda for women: Between discourse and practice
The resurgent Islamist movement in Jordan2 presents itself as a movement with a clear vision of what constitutes a society based on Islamic principles. Islamist activism and institution-building projects are presented as part of a grand strategy for the reconstruction of an Islamic society and the repossession of an Islamic heritage long denied to the Muslims due to colonialism and the alienation of ordinary Muslims from their own religion and tr…
G ender , P olitics and the S tate: W hat D o M iddle E astern W omen W ant
The essays that follow are drawn from invited presentations of the Conference Group on the Middle East, which meets annually in conjunction with the American Political Science Association. The essays published here were presented in San Francisco, August 29‐September 1, 1996, on one of three panels dealing with gender, politics and the state. Thanks to the continuing generosity of the Ford Foundation, five scholars from the Middle East were able …
To Rule Jerusalem
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
Occupation: A theatre of the absurd
"Even-Handedness and the Palestinian-Israeli/Israeli-Palestinian "Conflict
Gaza Strip within the Green Lines borders. At the time, this was considered by the Jews to be subversive idea. However, nowadays it is adopted by most mainstream Jews and parties, except the controversial question of how much territory (settlement blocs) should be annexed by Israel, if any. Some parts of the Palestinian people are ready to accept such a transaction, but only within the 1967 lines and with proper solution of the refugees' rights o…
Question: How Have Internet Developments Changed What—or How—You Study about the Middle East? Pensée 1: The Excessive Charms of the Internet
The most obvious answer to this question would be to underline the huge impact of the Internet on research on the Middle East: the speed with which material is circulated among colleagues, reviewers, and editors; the increasing availability of documents and materials; the ease of access to scholarly work through online databases; the availability of scholarly forums (such as H-Net) for exchanging information and views; and a long list of other be…
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
Enclave Micropolis: The Paradoxical Case of Ramallah/al-Bireh
Among the consequences of the consolidation of the Israeli closure regime have been the contraction of Palestinians' social worlds and the emergence of new forms of localism. Unlike the more parochial West Bank towns of Nablus, Hebron, and Jenin, Ramallah/al-Bireh has taken on many of the cosmopolitan aspects of larger metropoles——Beirut, Cairo, Tunis——because of a combination of historical influences, present-day migration patterns, and politica…
Urban Modernity on the Periphery
The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated in the centers of Arab modernity, the metropolitan cities. This new imagination, a hybrid construct crafted by the new urban middle classes in the age of globaliz…
Ordinary Lives: A Small-town Middle Class at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This essay explores the emergence of a middle class in a small town in the Palestinian highlands at the turn of the twentieth century, a class that was of a different order and character than that developing in the cities.The article traces the emergence of an embryonic middle class in the town of Ramallah at the turn of the twentieth century in several factors that came together at particular moments, one reinforcing the other.A confluence of fo…
Political science (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works)