The West Bank Palestinian Family (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1986 The West Bank Palestinian Family presents the reader with the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Palestinian family in the West Bank. The main focus of the work was to identify what changes, if any, the Palestinian family has undergone over the last three generations of its evolution, an evolution partly spent under Israeli occupation of the West Bank since 1967. The samples used in the research for the book were taken from towns, villages, and refugee camps and were subsequently divided into sub-samples of three uniform age groups. The results of the research give a unique and informative view of who is changing, what is changing and at what rate and in what direction. It also shows the differences and uniformities in the attitudes and lifestyles of three generations of the Palestinian families studied. An important historical document, this book is a must read for scholars of Middle east studies and Middle east politics.

Abe W Ata is an Australian citizen of Palestinian Lebanese Lutheran background, born in Bethlehem. He graduated in social psychology at the American University of Beirut, gained his PhD at Melbourne University, and was thereafter nominated as a delegate to the United Nations World Youth Assembly in New York; and as “Australian of the Year” in 2015 and 2011. His publications include 154 journal articles, 20 books, and 23 entries in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Religions (CUP), the Encyclopedia of the Australian People (CUP) and the Encyclopaedia of Melbourne (CUP). These include Attitudes of Interfaith Students in the West: Educational Insights from Australia, New Zealand and Germany (Brill 2024/5); Muslim Minorities and Social Cohesion: Cultural Fragmentation in the West (Routledge); Islam in the West: Perceptions and Reactions (OUP); Educational Reciprocity and Adaptability (Routledge); Us and Them (Australian Academic Press; The West Bank Palestinian Family (Routledge); Catholics and Catholicism in Contemporary Australia ( D. Lovell Publishing); Intermarriage between Christians and Muslims (D. Lovell Publishing). Professor Ata is at both Victoria University and Latrobe University. He was a Visiting Professor at Freiburg University in Germany during 2018–2020.