Publications
Handmaker, J., ‘Challenging apartheid, claming humanity’, Haq Al-Awda, Badil: Bethlehem, Vol. 21, 2007, p. 8.
Nieuwhof, A. and Handmaker, J., ‘Verloren Onschuld: Schending van de Rechten van palestijnse kinderen’ (transl: ‘Loss of Innocence: Violations of Palestinian Children’s Rights’), Tijdschrijft voor de Rechten van het Kind, 16e jaargang, nummer 3, Oktober 2006, pp. 11-14.
Handmaker, J. and Nieuwhof, A., ‘Leven in de hel: administratieve detentie in Israël’, Wordt Vervolgd (transl. Life in hell: administrative detention in Israel), Amnesty International (Dutch Section): Amsterdam, Jaargang 39, Editie 125, February 2006, pp. 6-9.
Handmaker, J. and Nieuwhof, A., ‘No man’s land: Government mistreatment of Palestinian asylum seekers, in Musalo, K., Moore, J. and Boswell, R. (editors) Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, Third Edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2006, pp. 41-43.
Handmaker, J., ‘Civil society and international law: protecting and promoting human rights in the light of the July 2004 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice’. In: United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine. Implementing the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - the role of Governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society. United Nations Office at Geneva, 8 and 9 March 2005. New York: United Nations [2005]. pp. 75-82.
Handmaker, J., ‘Societe civile et droit international: protection et promotion des droits de l’homme a la lumiere de l’avis consultatif rendu par la Cour international de Justice en juillet 2004’. Reunion internationale des Nations Unies sur la question de Palestine. Application de l’avis consultatif de la Cour internationale de Justice sur les consequences juridiques de la construction d’un mur dans le territoire palestinien occupe - role des gouvernements, des organisations non gouvernamentales et de la societe civile. Office des Nations Unies a Geneve, 8 et 9 mars 2005. New York: Nations Unies [2005]. pp. 90-98.
Handmaker, J., ‘Responsibility to protect when international authorities fail, with particular reference to Palestinian refugees’, in S. Asfaw, G. Kerber and P;. Weiderud (eds.) The Responsibility to Protect: Ethical and Theological Reflections, World Council of Churches: Geneva, 2005, pp. 70-82.
Handmaker, J., ‘Human rights in the holy land’, Newsletter of the School of Human Rights Research, Volume 9(3), Utrecht University, September 2005, pp. 7-9.
Handmaker, J. and Boerefijn, I., ‘Een jaar verder … de Nederlandse overheid moet Israël ter verantwoording roepen’ (transl. One year further … the Dutch government must hold Israel accountable), Nederlands Juristenblad, jaargang 80, nr. 27 van 29 juli 2005, pp. 1398-1399.
Handmaker, J., ‘Palestine Does Not Have to Bargain to Obtain its Human Rights: The Role of Civil Society in Ensuring Adherence to International Law’, Al-Majdal, Badil: Bethlehem, Spring 2005, 19-23.
(forthcoming 2007) A Song for Humanistic Education: Pedagogy and Politics in the Middle East. In Teachers College Record.
(2006) What’s New About Youth? A Review Essay. In Development and Change Forum 2006: 1425-1434.
(2006) with Carlos Alberto Torres (Editors) Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt. New York: State University of New York Press.
(2006) Higher Education in the Arab World. In James J. F. Forest and Philip Altbach (Editors) International Handbook of Higher Education. Springer Publishers: 409-421.
(2004) Education, Islam, and Modernity: Beyond Westernization and Centralization. Comparative Education Review. Vol. 48 (3): 318-326.
(2003) (Editor) “Stand-up! Sit Down!” Cultures of Education in Egypt [Qiyam! Julus! Thaqafat al-Ta’alim fi Misr] Cairo: Population Council (in Arabic)
(2003) Islamization and Education: Between Politics, Culture and the Market. In John Esposito & François Burgat (Editors) Modernizing Islam: Religion and the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe. London: Hurst & Company: 167-189.
(2003) Participation in School Upgrading: Gender, Class and (in)Action in Egypt. International Journal of Educational Development. 23(2): 187-199.
(2003) The Colors of Change: Participation in School Upgrading in Egypt, Cairo and New York: The Population Council.
(December 2003) with Annelies Moors. Banning Face Veiling: The Boundaries of Liberal Education. In ISIM Newsletter No.13. Leiden: 16-17.
(2002) The Soul of a Nation: Abdallah Nadim and Educational Reform in Egypt (1845-1896). Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies. Vol. 7 (1): 1-24.
Karim Knio
(2007) Macroeconomic management and the European Mediterranean Partnership (EMP): Is it Time for Discretionary fiscal and monetary policies? Paper submitted to Journal of Common Market Studies, January.
(2007) The EU Mediterranean Policy: Model or Muddle?, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke (UK), in preparation. (Forthcoming)
(2007) Can Hezbollah join the Cedar Revolution? An Analysis from a Nested Games perspective. Paper submitted to Democratization, December (Forthcoming)
(2006) Theorising the state of affairs in the Lebanese State: Is Lebanon a Failed State? Development Issues Vol 8, no 2. December
(2005) Lebanon: Cedar Revolution or Neo Sectarian partition? Mediterranean Politics, 10 (2), pp225-231
Mahmood Messkoub (2007) ‘Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty the MENA Region’ Paper commissioned by the ILO for a special conference on Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction: Linkages and Policies in the MENA, jointly organised by the ILO and UNDP: Cairo 21-23 November 2006. (Final draft submitted in April 2007)
(2006) ‘Social Policy in Iran in the 20th Century’ Iranian Studies. Vol. 39, No. 2, June.
(2006) ‘Constitutionalism, Modernization and Islamization: A Political Economy of Social Policy in Iran’ in V. Moghadam and M. Karshenas (eds.) Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Macmillan and UN Research Institute for Social Development.
Nahda Shehada (Forthcoming) ‘Fathers, Mothers and Children: Whose Rights Prevail’, in Law and Society Review.
(Forthcoming) ‘Equity vs. Predictability: The role of the qadi in the Shari’a courts of the Palestinian Territories’ (with Conte, É.) in an edited collection by Fribourg University/Switzerland.
(Forthcoming) Codified Islamic law and the question of flexibility in Islamic Law and Society.
(2006) ‘Religious Mediators in Palestine’, ISIM Review, Leiden 34-35
(2005) ‘Le paradoxe du mariage précoce à Gaza’, in B. Botiveau and É. Conte, eds., Palestine, Études rurales 173-174, Paris, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, pp. 153-182.
(2005) Justice without Drama: the Enactment of Family Law in the Gaza City Shari‘a Court. Maastricht: Shaker Publications.
(2005) ‘Women’s Experience in the Shari‘a Court of Gaza City: The Wife’s Right to Maintenance’, in J. Heiss, ed., Norms and Values in Muslim Societies. Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, pp. 201-225.
(2005) ‘Justice without Drama: Observations from Gaza City Shari’a Court’, in I. M. Okkenhaug and I. Flaskerud, eds., Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: 1800-2000. Oxford: Berg, pp. 13-29. (2004) ‘Uncodified Justice: Women negotiating family law and customary practice in Palestine’, Development Journal 47 (1): 103-8.
(2004) ‘The Rise of Fundamentalism and the Role of the State in the Specific Political Context of Palestine’, in I. Imam, J. Morgan and N. Yuval-Davis (eds.) Warning Signs of Fundamentalism. London: WLUML, pp. 5-15.
(2004) ‘The Model Parliament Experience: Women Confronting Fundamentalism’, in I. Imam, J. Morgan and N. Yuval-Davis (eds.) Warning Signs of Fundamentalism. London: WLUML, pp. 135-41.
(2003) ‘The Palestinian Women’s Movement: New Realities, Old Concerns’ in F. Reysoo and Ch. Verschuur, eds., On m’appelle à régner. Geneva: Institute of Development Studies, pp. 177-187.
(2002) ‘Gender and Politics in Palestine’, International and Comparative Law Review 11: 3-75. (University of Miami, Special Issue on Islam). Co-editor, UNDP Report on the Status of Youth in Palestine. (In Arabic)
(2000) Gender and Politics in Palestine’, M.A. thesis published as an ISS Working Paper no. 307, The Hague, Institute of Social Studies.