This article describes an interactive video installation that was developed to inform and engage people about one of the most upsetting geopolitical issues of our time: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several layers of maps information have been employed into a computer application, which was programmed with the open source tool Processing. The video installation was chosen as a medium, to ac...

TEL AVIV, July 17—Two Palestinian suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a convenience store on a busy pedestrian walkway in an immigrant neighborhood of Tel Aviv tonight, killing themselves and three other people. The bombings, which also injured 40, marked the second Palestinian attack against Israeli civilians in two days after a hiatus of nearly a month. The bodies of the bombers, one...

Studies of the relationship between nationalism and localism have brought evidence that these orientations might maintain either relations of opposition or congruence. By conceiving of localism mainly as a strategy, this paper argues that localism can be used alternately as an anchor of nationalist narrative or as an alternative to nationalism by the exact same community. This argument is illus...

This study explores women's experiences of breast cancer in the occupied Palestinian territory. We use an inductive qualitative design with a thematic analytical approach for conducting and analyzing 35 semi-structured interviews with breast cancer patients. The interviews focused on diagnosis, experiences and coping with breast cancer, social support and care needs, and the impact of illness o...

Children have been affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for several generations. Recent reports state that they are subject to a number of grave violations, ranging from killing and maiming to detention and ill-treatment. The monitoring and reporting mechanism (MRM) for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1612 (2005), although not formally mandated in Israel and the occupied Pale...

The Israeli / Palestinian conflict is a long complex unedifying story of lost opportunities, fragile truces, dashed expectations and broken agreements. In this paper I offer a social psychological lens to this conflict that complements the IR perspective, and may help to explain its intractable nature. I focus on humiliation and how it helps to define both the Israeli and Palestinian sense of i...