The Great War and the remaking of Palestine by Tamārī, Salīm

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Rafiq Bey's public spectacles -- Arabs, Turks, and monkeys : the ethnography and cartography of Ottoman Syria -- The sweet smell of holy sewage : urban planning and the new public sphere in Palestine -- A scientific expedition to Gallipoli : the Syrian-Palestinian intelligentsia divided -- Two faces of Palestinian orthodoxy : Hellenism, Arabness, and the Osmenlilik -- The farcical moment : narratives of revolution and counter-revolution in Nablus -- Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism in WWI -- Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze : the war photography of Khalil Raad.…”

Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective essays in honour of Albert Hourani

Table of Contents: “…Albert Hourani : an appreciation --The establishment and dismantling of the province of Syria, 1865-1888 / Butrus Abu-Manneh --From consciousness to activism : feminist politics in early twentieth century Egypt / Margot Badran --Continuity in modern Egyptian history : the Wafd and the Muslim Brothers / Marius Deeb --Women and conflict in Lebanon / Leila Fawaz --Nizam ma fi : discourses of order, disorder and history in a Lebanese context / Michael Gilsenan --Taha Husayn : the critical spirit / Ibrahim Ibrahim --Society and ideology in late Ottoman Syria : class, education, profession and confession / Rashid Khalidi --Abd el-Kader and Arab nationalism / Yohn King --The Jewish-Zionist and Arab-Palestinian national communities : the transposing effect of a century of confrontation / Moshe Maʻoz --Revolutionaries, fundamentalists and women : alternative groups in the Arab world / A. …”