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Suicide In Palestine
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Author : Nadia Taysir Dabbagh
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2005
Suicide In Palestine written by Nadia Taysir Dabbagh and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Psychology categories.
This book is a pioneering anthropological study of suicide in the contemporary Arab world. It discusses the effects of life under the Israeli occupation on the mental health of young Palestinians, using selected case studies of men and women who attempted suicide in the West Bank, above all in the city of Ramallah, but also in Jenin. This is not a book about martyrs, or those who gain so much media attention by dying for a 'holy cause'; rather it concerns those who wish to die for entirely private reasons. Contrary to wider expectations, fatal suicide levels in Palestinian society remain low compared with Western norms, notwithstanding the many stress factors that have been shown to contribute to suicidal behaviour in the West, including unemployment and social deprivation. Above all, suicide is found to be contrary to the concept of Palestinian identity, of a people under siege for whom resistance is paramount, rather than succumbing to depression or despair.
Suicide In Palestine
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Author : Nadia Taysir Dabbagh
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2005
Suicide In Palestine written by Nadia Taysir Dabbagh and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
"This book is the first anthropological study of suicide in the Arab world today. It discusses the effects of life under Israeli occupation on the mental health of young Palestinians, using selected case studies of men and women who have attempted suicide in the West Bank, above all in the city of Ramallah, but also in Jenin. The book is not about martyrs, or those who gain so much media attention by dying for a 'holy cause'; rather it concerns those who wish to die for entirely private reasons. Contrary to what might be expected, fatal suicide levels in Palestinian society remain low compared with Western norms, despite the many stress factors that have been shown to contribute to suicidal behaviour in the West, including unemployment and social deprivation. In particular, suicide is found to be contrary to the concept of Palestinian identity, of a people under siege for whom resistance is paramount rather than giving in to depression or despair." "Above all, Nadia Dabbagh's findings confirm the importance of what she calls 'the ripple effects of war'. Her research was carried out after the first intifada, during a so-called 'peace-building' period, but it clearly reveals the trauma suffered by Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories. The stories she tells mirror the disillusionment of those who had hoped that their lives would improve once fighting subsided and the Palestinian National Authority had been established." "The book aims to foster an understanding of suicide in the Islamic world more generally, looking at current and historical attitudes to death and self-killing in Islamic and Arab thought. The distinction between suicide and martyrdom is explored in detail, as are current perceptions of these phenomena in the Muslim world."--BOOK JACKET.
Suicide Bombings In Israel And Palestinian Terrorism
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Author : Michael V. Uschan
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2005-12-15
Suicide Bombings In Israel And Palestinian Terrorism written by Michael V. Uschan and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the rise of suicide bombers in the Middle East, the reasons behind many suicide bombings, and the history of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
Army Of Roses
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Author : Barbara Victor
language : en
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Release Date : 2003-10-10
Army Of Roses written by Barbara Victor and has been published by Perseus Books Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-10 with History categories.
Army of Roses When Yasser Arafat in January 2002 called on Palestinian women--his "army of roses"--to join in the struggle against Israeli occupation, even he was surprised by their swift and devastating response. Later that same day, Wafa Idris would become the first female suicide bomber of the Intifada. Tragically, she wasn't the last. In Army of Roses, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Barbara Victor profiles Wafa Idris and the other young women who have followed her violent lead toward a martyr's Paradise paved with personal desperation and deadly political maneuvering. In this astonishing exposé of the political and cultural forces now pressing Palestinian women into martyrdom, investigative journalist Victor identifies what she calls "a new level of cynicism" that has destroyed normal, everyday existence in the Middle East, along with the possibility for lasting peace. Tracing the roots of the women's resistance movement back to so-called personal initiative attacks and a brief period of empowerment in the 1980s before religious leaders clamped down, Victor shows how the current generation of Palestinian women has been courted and cajoled into committing these self-destructive and murderous acts. By presenting the intimate personal histories of the first five female bombers who have succeeded in blowing themselves up, as well as the troubling stories of some of those who've tried and failed, the author reveals not only the crushing poverty and religious zealotry that one might suspect as motivating factors in their fall, but also a startling emotional component to their death wishes: their broken dreams and blighted inner lives. Victor shows, without dismissing or diminishing the horror of their actions, how far a person can be pushed when she is convinced she has nothing to lose. Barbara Victor has covered the Middle East for CBS Television and U.S. News and World Report. She was a contributing editor to Elle USA, Femme magazine, Madame Figaro, and Elle France, and is the author of A Voice of Reason, a biography of Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Getting Away with Murder, which called for a change in laws concerning domestic violence; and The Lady, a biography of Burmese Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. A frequent lecturer on women's issues as well as on the Middle East, Victor divides her time between New York and Paris.
Erased In A Moment
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Author : Joe Stork
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 2002
Erased In A Moment written by Joe Stork and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Arab-Israeli conflict categories.
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The Making Of A Palestinian Suicide Bomber
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Author : Mitri I Musleh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Making Of A Palestinian Suicide Bomber written by Mitri I Musleh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with categories.
My interest in this book is to explore the making of a suicide attempt driven by political occupation, humiliation and oppression. While political suicide bombing is not a new phenomenon, it became quite conspicuous in the Middle East from 1980 and 2006. It is in that part of the world and during those years that I will examine the causes that prompt someone, male or female from taking someone else's life as well as their own. The focus of my discussion will be mainly based on the making of a Palestinian suicide bomber.
The Making Of A Human Bomb
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Author : Nasser Abufarha
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-24
The Making Of A Human Bomb written by Nasser Abufarha and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-24 with Social Science categories.
In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have experienced and perceived the broader conflict. During the Intifada, many of the martyrdom operations against Israeli targets were initiated in the West Bank town of Jenin and surrounding villages. Abufarha was born and raised in Jenin. His personal connections to the area enabled him to conduct ethnographic research there during the Intifada, while he was a student at a U.S. university. Abufarha draws on the life histories of martyrs, interviews he conducted with their families and members of the groups that sponsored their operations, and examinations of Palestinian literature, art, performance, news stories, and political commentaries. He also assesses data—about the bombers, targets, and fatalities caused—from more than two hundred martyrdom operations carried out by Palestinian groups between 2001 and 2004. Some involved the use of explosive belts or the detonation of cars; others entailed armed attacks against Israeli targets (military and civilian) undertaken with the intent of fighting until death. In addition, he scrutinized suicide attacks executed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad between 1994 and 2000. In his analysis of Palestinian political violence, Abufarha takes into account Palestinians’ understanding of the history of the conflict with Israel, the effects of containment on Palestinians’ everyday lives, the disillusionment created by the Oslo peace process, and reactions to specific forms of Israeli state violence. The Making of a Human Bomb illuminates the Palestinians’ perspective on the conflict with Israel and provides a model for ethnographers seeking to make sense of political violence.
Hamas And Suicide Terrorism
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Author : Rashmi Singh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Hamas And Suicide Terrorism written by Rashmi Singh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with History categories.
This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period. This volume adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and its individual operatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It uses extensive fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews in order to delve beneath the surface and understand why and how suicide operations were adopted as a sustained mechanism of engagement within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Three core factors fuelled Hamas’s suicide bombing campaigns. First, Palestinian suicide operations are a complex combination of instrumental and expressive violence adopted by both organisations and individuals to achieve political and/or societal survival, retaliation and competition. In other words, suicide bombings not only serve distinct political and strategic goals for both Hamas and its operatives but they also serve to convey a symbolic message to various audiences, within Israel, the Palestinian territories and around the world. Second, suicide operations perform a crucial role in the formation and consolidation of Palestinian national identity and are also the latest manifestation of the historically entrenched cultural norm of militant heroic martyrdom. Finally, Hamas’s use of political Islam also facilitates the articulation, justification and legitimisation of suicide operations as a modern-day jihad against Israel through the means of modern interpretations and fatwas. This approach not only facilitates a much needed, multifaceted, holistic understanding of suicide bombings in this particular region but also yields policy-relevant lessons to address extreme political violence in other parts of the world. This book will be of much interest to students of Hamas, terrorism, Middle East politics and security studies.
The Road To Martyrs Square
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Author : Anne Marie Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-27
The Road To Martyrs Square written by Anne Marie Oliver and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with Political Science categories.
Don't expect to find here the usual clichés about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refugee family in Gaza at the beginning of the intifada, and offer a gritty, poetic portrait of the time. They also provide an unrivalled documentary of the underground media they collected during the course of six years in the area. Although they could not have surmised as much at the beginning, they soon found themselves led through these media into the world of the suicide bomber. Their early study, notably, anticipated the spread of suicide missions years in advance. Dispensing with the platitudes and dogma that typify discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the authors show that the suicide bomber is a complex, contradictory construction, and can be explained neither in terms of cold efficacy nor sheer evil. Theirs is the only book on the subject to illustrate the ecstatic, intoxicating aspects of suicide missions, and provide extensive access to materials that have remained largely unseen in the West despite the fact that they have served as indispensable tools in the construction and propagation of the suicide bomber. The book contains 86 illustrations drawn from the authors' archive as well as numerous conversations with leaders and followers of Hamas, including a rare interview with a suicide bomber whose bomb failed to explode on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem. Here is an important and timely work that will challenge the way we think about the intifada, suicide bombers, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Manufacturing Human Bombs
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Author : Mohammed M. Hafez
language : en
Publisher: 成甲書房
Release Date : 2006
Manufacturing Human Bombs written by Mohammed M. Hafez and has been published by 成甲書房 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Suicide bombings have become a terrifyingly familiar feature of contemporary warfare and insurgency. But explanations of such attacks are typically either too narrow or too superficial to enable us to understand'and thus combat'this complex and deadly phenomenon.In this slim but remarkably balanced, informative, and insightful volume, Mohammed Hafez delves beneath the surface as he explores the case of Palestinian suicide bombers during the al-Aqsa intifada that began in 2000. Drawing on extensive research in the West Bank and Israel, Hafez reveals an intricate web of factors that fueled the campaign of suicide attacks. To understand the bombings, he argues, we must examine the interrelation among the motives of the individual ?martyrs, ? the calculations of the organizations that deployed them, and the attitudes of a victimized society. This approach yields not only a penetrating look at suicide bombers but also policy-relevant lessons for dealing with extreme political violence in places such as Iraq, Chechnya, and Afghanistan.Highly readable, wonderfully concise, and packed with useful information, "Manufacturing Human Bombs" offers students an excellent introduction to its subject; for readers already well versed in terrorism and the Middle East, the volume offers a rare combination of rich empirical data, considerable analytical breadth and depth, and refreshing evenhandedness.