Ghazi Falah

Biographic Data

ID3721153
NAMEGhazi Falah
GIVEN NAMESGhazi
FAMILY NAMEFalah
SIGNATUREFALAH G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0002-7126-8632
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS320
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX12

  • The Portrayal of Palestinian and Israeli Suffering and Violent Incidents in Selected US Daily Newspapers

    Open AccessGhazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLEJournal of Holy Land and…2023

    This paper argues that editors of newspapers in the US, in their capacity to select and arrange news related to tragic events in Palestine/Israel, tend to follow an underlying political agenda largely conforming with US foreign policy towards Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab or Moslem world more generally. This is part of a popular American geopolitical imaginary, now being reconfigured through the primacy of ‘terror’ as the enemy number one…

  • Geographies of Silence: The ‘Missing Chain’ in the Writing of Palestine’s Historical Geography

    Open AccessGhazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLEJournal of Holy Land and…2022

    This paper provides a critical reading of (1) the ways in which Palestine’s cultural landscape and the indigenous people of Palestine have been represented in the eyes of Western and specifically European travelers and explorers in the 19th century; (2) how various such representations subsequently ‘filtered’ into Israeli geographical texts and writing, and were utilised by Israeli writers and others to (re) write a so-called ‘modern’, but distor…

  • The (Im)possibility of Achieving a Peaceful Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Open AccessGhazi FalahARTICLEHuman Geography2021Cited by: 1References: 10

    This paper has a two-fold objective: (a) It aims to provide a critical analysis of the constraints and obstacles that hindered possibilities for implementing the Oslo Accord, 1993-1994 signed by Israel and the Palestinians; and (b) examines the extent to which the U.S. administration was involved in mediating between the two parties with a view to removing such constraints and obstacles through drafting territorial and security arrangements for I…

  • How should one read Trump’s map of the ‘deal of the century’

    Ghazi FalahARTICLEThird World Quarterly2021References: 14

    The article provides a critical analysis of the two maps that were included in the ‘Deal of the Century’ (DoC) which delineates the territory of the so-called ‘State of Palestine’. It examines in detail the proposed new partitioning of historic Palestine among Israelis and Palestinians and defines rules and constraints over who will be living where and aspects of mobility in the area between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. The paper a…

  • Does a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Help in Ending Israel's Military Occupation of Palestinian Territories

    Open AccessGhazi Falah, Ghazi‐walid FalahARTICLEGeographical Review2016Cited by: 1

    In fact, the defenders of Israel on campus are in deep trouble, not because student well-being is at risk but because the rickety assemblage of distortions and myths used to justify support for Israeli policies can't withstand scholarly scrutiny. Having lost the actual arguments, Israel's defenders have now declared war on argument itself.--Saree Makdisi, 2015 I begin below with a brief personal anecdote that seeks to answer the title's question …

  • Growing up in rural Galilee, Palestine: Memories of Childhood Geographies

    Open AccessGhazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLECultural Geographies2013Cited by: 6

    This paper reconstructs the author's geographies of childhood growing up as a Palestinian in a small village in the Galilee in the early 1950s. It seeks to narrate his experience as a 'shepherd boy and a schoolboy' at a certain phase of his life. This type of duality in performance of tasks in everyday life - being a schoolboy but also a shepherd/goatherd contributing to the family's work, and the maintenance of the household and home from a youn…

  • Geography in Ominous Intersection with Interrogation and Torture: Reflections on detention in Israel

    Ghazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLEThird World Quarterly2008Cited by: 4References: 4

    This paper describes and reflects on the author's detention as a prominent Palestinian geographer in an Israeli prison for 23 days by the Israeli Security Police (Shin Bet) in July 2006, and the nightmare of abuse, debasement and physical coercion, amounting to torture, he was subjected to during this ordeal. The author argues that the detention was political, punishment for the way he has ‘done the geography of Palestine’ and has documented Isra…

  • Just War and Extraterritoriality: The Popular Geopolitics of the United States' War on Iraq as Reflected in Newspapers of the Arab World

    Ghazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi Falah et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2006Cited by: 13References: 19

    As with all wars, the U.S. military invasion of Iraq in 2003 needed to be portrayed as a just war in an attempt to garner support and legitimacy, domestically and internationally. The United States was acting as hegemonic power in the international state-system and, in light of this role, had imperatives and tools in creating the argument for a just war that differed from those used by nonhegemonic states. The United States acted extraterritorial…

  • The geopolitics of ‘Enclavisation’and the demise of a two-stateSolution to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict

    Ghazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLEThird World Quarterly2005Cited by: 14References: 15

    This paper argues that Israel's military strategy since the outbreak of the second Intifada, in September 2000, has been one not merely of ‘security’ or ‘counter-terror’ but part of a longer-term strategy of spatial demolition and strangulation. This strategy seems predicated on two aims: unilateral separation from the Palestinian population, and its concomitant territorial dismemberment. Withdrawal from a totally controlled and isolated Gaza, in…

  • Speaking the Truth to Power: Jim Blaut, Counter-Memory and Justice in Palestine

    Open AccessGhazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLEAntipode2005Cited by: 1References: 4

  • War, peace and land seizure in Palestine's border area

    Ghazi Falah, Ghazi‐walid FalahARTICLEThird World Quarterly2004Cited by: 2References: 10

    This paper describes a key aspect of the Israeli seizure and incorporation of Palestinian Arab lands that has been little examined to date, namely the dynamics of the Judaisation of Palestinian land as a result of circumstances of war, peace and conjunct agreements. I argue that this process has capitalised on a dynamics of disorder concomitant with armed hostilities. And, during peace negotiations, a policy of land takeover was pursued grounded …

  • How the United States justified its war on terrorism: Prime morality and the construction of a ‘just war’

    Courtney Flint, Colin Flint et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly2004Cited by: 14

    Just war theory has a long established reputation in the social sciences for evaluating the morality of the military actions of states. However, this analysis has rested upon assumptions of territorial sovereignty and the equal rights of states. The actions of hegemonic powers violate these twin assumptions through their expression of extra‐territorial reach. To avoid charges of immoral behaviour hegemonic powers must use the just war rhetoric of…

  • Truth at War and Naming the Intolerable in Palestine

    Open AccessGhazi Falah, Ghazi‐walid FalahARTICLEAntipode2004Cited by: 5References: 2

  • Dynamics and patterns of the shrinking of Arab lands in Palestine

    Open AccessGhazi-Walid Falah, Ghazi FalahARTICLEPolitical Geography2003Cited by: 30References: 15

  • Intifadat al-Aqsa and the Bloody Road to Palestinian Independence

    Open AccessGhazi FalahARTICLEPolitical Geography2001Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Co-existence in Selected Mixed Arab-Jewish Cities in Israel: By Choice or by Default

    Open AccessGhazi Falah, Michael Hoy et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2000Cited by: 13References: 9

    In this paper, we use a data-set based on a survey of the perceptions about co-existence between Arabs and Jews as held by the inhabitants of five mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel: Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Lydda and Ramla. Our main purpose is to determine the relative importance of various factors which contribute to the level of satisfaction with co-existence in Israel as perceived by the inhabitants themselves. Our choice of explanatory variables …

  • Welfare Geography of a Peripheralized National Minority: The Case of Israel's Arab Population

    Ghazi FalahARTICLEUrban Geography1999Cited by: 3References: 8

    This paper examines three interrelated issues concerning several aspects of minority well-being and social justice: (1) the way in which Israel's Arab citizens have been marginalized systematically from social, economic, and development programs within the state's peripheral regions; (2) the scope of housing constraints on Arab households in five mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel; and (3) how Arabs and Jews in these ethnically mixed cities asses…

  • Re‐envisioning Current Discourse: Alternative Territorial Configurations of Palestinian Statehood

    Open AccessGhazi FalahARTICLECanadian Geographies /…1997Cited by: 4References: 27

    This paper explores seven scenarios of Palestinian state formation and attempts to propose a suitable peaceful territorial solution to the Israel‐Palestine conflict. The ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ features of each scenario are examined against the backdrop of recent geopolitical developments and the complex geographic and demographic realities of the region. Some of these scenarios suggest that a peaceful territorial arrangement should involve incorpor…

  • Ethnic Perceptual Differences of Housing and Neighbourhood Quality in Mixed Arab-Jewish Cities in Israel

    Open AccessGhazi FalahARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…1997Cited by: 2References: 8

    Over the period of March-May 1991, 1170 Arab and Jewish households in five ethnically mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel were surveyed. This fieldwork has involved the delivery of two questionnaires, on the basis of which generalisation for this paper became possible. From the analysis of data pertaining to people's assessment of life quality in their residential environment, that is housing and neighbourhood, perceptual differences between the A…

  • Living Together Apart: Residential Segregation in Mixed Arab-Jewish Cities in Israel

    Open AccessGhazi FalahARTICLEUrban Studies1996Cited by: 36References: 22

    This paper examines features of residential segregation in five mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel; the role of ideology and state politics among the charter group—i.e. the Jewish population—is considered to be a dominant factor in this social process. Utilising available Israeli census data supplemented by the author's own field survey, the study indicates that all five cities have experienced a continuous trend of high indices of segregation an…

  • State Formation and the Geography of Palestinian Self‐determination

    Open AccessGhazi Falah, David NewmanARTICLETijdschrift voor Economische en…1996Cited by: 2References: 17

    The implementation of the first stages of the peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has generated a dynamics with the potential for the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a ‘state in formation’. At the present writing (September 1995), it would appear to be well on its ‐way to achieving limited sovereignty and the threshold to eventual full independence. Concepts …

  • The 1948 Israeli-Palestinian War and its Aftermath: The Transformation and De-Signification of Palestine's Cultural Landscape

    Ghazi FalahARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…1996Cited by: 37References: 18

    Violence against persons and places may result in profound and radical transformations in the cultural landscape. In Palestine, political processes during war and its aftermath resulted in radical changes in culturescape. While the 1948 plight of some three-quarters of a million Palestinian refugees has been the subject of considerable analysis and controversy, far less attention has been paid to the physical destruction of the spatial world they…

  • Facing the new world order: Middle East geopolitics and Palestinian peace strategies

    Open AccessGhazi FalahARTICLEGeoJournal1995Cited by: 3References: 18

  • Small State Behaviour: On the Formation of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

    Open AccessDavid Newman, Ghazi FalahARTICLECanadian Geographies /…1995Cited by: 3References: 29

    The current Israel‐Palestine peace process is expected to result in a final territorial solution and the ultimate formation of a separate Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. By all definitions, such a state would be small in terms of its population size, its areal extent, and its economic capacity. Given existing conditions, a West Bank and Gaza state would suffer from problems of structural scarcity as experienced by many other sm…

  • The spatial manifestation of threat: Israelis and palestinians seek a 'good' border

    Open AccessGhazi Falah, David Newman et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography1995Cited by: 21References: 33