Papers by Nour Balousha/Albobali
Stockholm University, 2025
This study explores how historians account for the events of 1948 in Palestine. With a specific f... more This study explores how historians account for the events of 1948 in Palestine. With a specific focus on the complex events surrounding the Tantura incident, it highlights the differing approaches of two Israeli historians who revisit Tantura (and the larger Nakba) in order to provide an account of events that reflects the new dynamics Israel faced in the larger world. Ilan Pappé and Benny Morris, who are part of this so-called generation of “New Historians,” became famous for their rival attempts at correcting earlier Israeli historical accountings of events in Tantura. By the time of the public relations’ disaster of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s what had been an official historic accounting of the first years of the Israeli state were no longer sustainable; decades of official distortions (even silences) about the events of Tantura within the broader context of an acknowledged history of Palestinian displacement and expulsion needed revision.This thesis explores the possible added value to examining the context out of which the “New Historians” emerged in Israel, their reception by Western and Palestinian scholars and most crucially, how the narratives of thesehistorians’ have influenced contemporary discussions regarding the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The primary area of debate will prove in this study to be the attempt to determine what are legitimate sources to retell that history.
The impact of Framing the laws of President Mahmoud Abbas and its relation to the Palestinian woman. A discourse study on banners in photographs published on the ﺳﯿﺪاو ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ‘Against CEDAW Convention’ Facebook page regarding the Framing of President Mahmoud Abbas’ laws., 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the Framing which appears on the banners which were
used ... more The aim of this study is to investigate the Framing which appears on the banners which were
used in two protests in west bank / Palestine 12 October 2020 and 31 August 2020, and which
ﺿﺪ appeared in photographs published in
’Against CEDAW Convention‘ ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ﺳﯿﺪاو اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ
[My translation] Facebook page. (From the hereon, these will refer to as ‘the banners’)
The banners targeted the draft of The Family Protection Laws. The laws related to CEDAW
that the Palestinian Authority represented by President Mahmoud Abbas approved in 2020.
As the United Nations has declared:
The Family Protection Bill is expected to provide measures to prevent and combat violence, as
well as due protection, reparation, and empowerment of survivors of violence, while holding
perpetrators accountable for their acts (United Nations, 2018)
Through Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Theory and by applying a gendered
perspective in addition to the Framing Theory by Entman. I analysed the banners that were used
by ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ﺳﯿﺪاو ‘Against CEDAW Convention’ Facebook page (Hereafter referred to
as Facebook page) in two demonstrations, one in August 2020 and the other in October 2020,
to frame The Family Protection Laws related to the CEDAW Convention that President
Mahmoud Abbas passed.
The primary sources for this analysis are 18 banners which were published in the Facebook
page. I have found Four main themes that reoccur in the banners visible through terms used
repeatedly: "Feminist institutions"
,
"The west", and "Islamic Law", in addition to "Woman’s
body"
.
Uploads
Papers by Nour Balousha/Albobali
used in two protests in west bank / Palestine 12 October 2020 and 31 August 2020, and which
ﺿﺪ appeared in photographs published in
’Against CEDAW Convention‘ ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ﺳﯿﺪاو اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ
[My translation] Facebook page. (From the hereon, these will refer to as ‘the banners’)
The banners targeted the draft of The Family Protection Laws. The laws related to CEDAW
that the Palestinian Authority represented by President Mahmoud Abbas approved in 2020.
As the United Nations has declared:
The Family Protection Bill is expected to provide measures to prevent and combat violence, as
well as due protection, reparation, and empowerment of survivors of violence, while holding
perpetrators accountable for their acts (United Nations, 2018)
Through Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Theory and by applying a gendered
perspective in addition to the Framing Theory by Entman. I analysed the banners that were used
by ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ﺿﺪ اﺗﻔﺎﻗﯿﺔ ﺳﯿﺪاو ‘Against CEDAW Convention’ Facebook page (Hereafter referred to
as Facebook page) in two demonstrations, one in August 2020 and the other in October 2020,
to frame The Family Protection Laws related to the CEDAW Convention that President
Mahmoud Abbas passed.
The primary sources for this analysis are 18 banners which were published in the Facebook
page. I have found Four main themes that reoccur in the banners visible through terms used
repeatedly: "Feminist institutions"
,
"The west", and "Islamic Law", in addition to "Woman’s
body"
.