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Culture and Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities for Southwest Asia and North Africa
Southwestern Asia and North Africa (SWANA) is a region experiencing a multilevel digital transformation in the last few decades, with a surge in adopting new technologies and innovative ways of creating content, communicating, and doing business across all sectors. Digital transformation has reshaped how the private sphere, governments, non-governm...
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Rooted in Palestine: Palestinian Christians and the Struggle for National Liberation 1917-2004
The book research the role of the Palestinian Christians in the struggle for national liberation from WWI through WWII and especially after the Israeli occupation in 1967. The role of the Palestinian Christians in resisting the Britisch mandate and Israeli occupation is highlighted. The contribution of the Christian churches in Palestine to diploma...
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A Palestinian Armenian: The Intertwine between the Social and the Political
This book tells the story and history of a 1,600-year-old Christian community in Palestine. The Armenian community is one of the oldest - if not the oldest- communities in Jerusalem with an interrupted presence. Armenia was the first Christian country to adopt Christianity as the religion of the state, thereby making national and religious identity...
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Mapping of Christian Organizations in Palestine: Social and Economic Impact
This study is a testimony to the vital role played by Christian churches and church-related organizations in Palestinian society, especially in the areas of education, health, development, and culture. This role is not new but dates back to the early church that was born in no other place than Jerusalem. The study reflects the continuing service an...
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We Choose Abundant Life
Christians in the Middle East: Towards Renewed Theological, Social, and Political Choices
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Towards Inclusive Societies: Middle Eastern Perspectives Paperback
Inclusive societies based on equal citizenship rights and dignity remain unfulfilled following the so-called Arab Spring. After years of turmoil, people in the Middle East seem to have opted for “state security” versus “human security”, while exclusive identities, be they ethnic, national, or religious such as the Sunni-Shiite divide, seem to push...
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Tawfiq Canaan: An Autobiography
Autobiographies give a unique, eyewitness account of historical events experienced by one particular person, an account of a life with all its ups and downs, struggles and failures, successes and setbacks. Canaan autobiography recounts a very rich life of one of Palestine’s leading ethnographers, medical doctor, public figure and one of the most pr...
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Middle Eastern Women: The Intersection of Law, Culture and Religion
Women in the Arab world suffer from a lack of equality in most rights, duties and within all areas of society, including the criminal justice court, economy, healthcare, media, politics, religion, family law and civil status law. International reports document the systematic gender gap that is based on discrimination, the prevalence of male traditi...
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Bethlehem: A Sociocultural History
Bethlehem has a unique setting spanning a fertile landscape to the west and desert to the east. Its diverse environment made it a center for Baal and Adonis on the one hand, and the perfect setting for desert monasteries on the other. Its historical and religious significance turned it into a place for pilgrimage and a tourist destination, while it...
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