Holy Land Studies

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies (formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal) was founded in 2002 as a fully refereed international journal.

It publishes new, stimulating and provocative ideas on Palestine, Israel and the wider Middle East, paying particular attention to issues that have a contemporary relevance and a wider public interest.

The journal draws upon expertise from virtually all relevant disciplines: history, politics, culture, literature, archaeology, geography, economics, religion, linguistics, biblical studies, sociology and anthropology.

The journal deals with a wide range of topics: ‘two nations’ and ‘three faiths’; conflicting Israeli and Palestinian perspectives; social and economic conditions; religion and politics in the Middle East; Palestine in history and today; ecumenism, and interfaith relations; modernisation and postmodernism; religious revivalisms and fundamentalisms; Zionism, Neo-Zionism, Christian Zionism, anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism; theologies of liberation in Palestine and Israel; colonialism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, post-colonialism and decolonisation; ‘History from below’ and Subaltern studies; ‘One-state’ and Two States’ solutions in Palestine and Israel; Crusader studies, Genocide studies and Holocaust studies.

Conventionally these diversified discourses are kept apart.

This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal brings them together.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Remembering the Palestinian Nakba: Commemoration, Oral History and Narratives of Memory

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Masalha

• A House is Not A Home: Permanent Impermanence of Habitat for Palestinian Expellees in Lebanon

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Rosemary

• Palestinian Education in Israel: The Legacy of the Military Government

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Ismael

• The Post-Zionist Discourse in Israel: 1990–2001

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Ilan

• Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Shaw

• The Armageddon Lobby: Dispensationalist Christian Zionism and the Shaping of us Policy Towards Israel-Palestine

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Rammy M.

• Nakba Memoricide: Genocide Studies and the Zionist/Israeli Genocide of Palestine

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Haifa, Damien, John

• PRESENT ABSENTEES: THE ARAB SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN ISRAEL AS A TOOL FOR DE-EDUCATING INDIGENOUS PALESTINIANS

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Professor ISMAEL

• Pedagogy under Siege in Palestine: Insights from Paulo Freire

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Najwa, Peter

• Onward Christian Soldiers: American Dispensationalists, George W. Bush and the Middle East

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Nilay