Promotional Information

Winner of the 1997 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association.

Table of Contents

Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian IdentityCultural Life and Identity in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Place of JerusalemCompeting and Overlapping Loyalties in Ottoman JerusalemElements of Identity I: Peasant Resistance to Zionist SettlementElements of Identity II: The Debate on Zionism in the Arabic PressThe Formation of Palestinian Identity: The Critical Years, 1917-1923The "Disappearance" and Reemergence of Palestinian Identity

About the Author

Rashid Khalidi is professor of history and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, and past president of the Middle East Studies Association.

Reviews

[Khalidi's] historiographic method is pathbreaking. Library Journal A major contribution to historical Palestinian nationalism. Foreign Affairs An impressive, thoughtful, layered, and well-documented study of key aspects of the evolution of modern Palestinian nationalism. Kirkus Reviews

[Khalidi's] historiographic method is pathbreaking. Library Journal A major contribution to historical Palestinian nationalism. Foreign Affairs An impressive, thoughtful, layered, and well-documented study of key aspects of the evolution of modern Palestinian nationalism. Kirkus Reviews