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1 Towards a Visualisation of the Zionist Sabra 1930-1967 JC Torday
Towards a visualisation of the Zionist Sabra 1930-1967 JC Torday A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Brighton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy February 2014 1 Declaration I declare that the research contained in this thesis, unless otherwise formally indicated within the text, is the original work of the author. The thesis has not been previously submitted to this or any other university for a degree, and does not incorporate any material already submitted for a degree. Signed JC Torday Dated February 2014 2 Abstract (page 3) Introduction (page 5) Research Approach (page 16) Arab Villages and colonisation (page 24) Cultural Memory and collective memory (page 31) Chapter 1: Theoretical considerations and influences on Zionist photographs (page 39) Critics of and theories about photographs (page 39) Influences on Israeli photography (page 45) Chapter 2: Zionism and colonialism (page 71) The rise of Zionism (page 71) The Iron Wall (page 76) A view from 1947 (page 81) Zionism and anti-Semitism (page 84) Zionism and Fascism (page 87) Zionism and nationalism (page 90) Colonialism (page 93) Colonialism and Zionism (97) Three waves of Jewish immigration (page 102) The Sharon Plan (page 105) Colonialism and photographs (108) Biblical archaeology (page 113) Ethnocentric myth (page 119) Chapter 3: Photography in the Holy Land and beyond (page 121) Beginnings (page 121) Photographs in the Yishuv (page 130) Photographs in Israel (page 147) Chapter 4: The Sabra (page 174) The myth of the Sabra (page -
'A Grave for New York' and 'New York
A Grave for New York and New York 80: Formulating an Arab Identity through the Lens of New York Michelle Hartman From the skyscrapers of mid-town Manhattan to the Brooklyn Bridge, from the Statue of Liberty to the prostitutes of Time Square, from Harlem to Wall Street, images of New York City are some of the most potent representations of the United States around the world. This paper explores how two Arab authors use New York City as a lens through which they for- mulate an Arab identity in and for their literary texts and I am concerned in particular with the way in which gender and race are used in these formulations. The two works I discuss are Adonis’s Qabr min ajl new york (A Grave for New York)1 and Yusuf Idris’s New York 802, published in Arabic in 1971 and 1980 respectively, and both written in Arabic, for an Arab audience. There is no doubt that either work is anything but a scathing critique of New York, used as a metonym for the United States, and in particular its claim to technology and ‘advancement.’ Both pieces clearly advocate resistance to American hegemony in the world and harshly condemn the capitalist greed with which the United States has become syn- onymous throughout the world thus manifesting the political commitment of their authors and conveying a message of Third World solidarity. Michelle Hartman, Assistant Professor Institute of Islamic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Canada 223 Works that deal with relationships between Arabs and Europeans or Arabs and Americans (assumed of course to be distinct categories) are discussed by scholars of Arabic litera- ture as part of the large body of literature dealing with what is usually referred to as the ‘east-west encounter.’ A Grave for New York and New York 80 both certainly fall into this cate- gory and both can also be read more specifically as works that deal with the United States. -
{FREE} an Introduction to Arab Poetics
AN INTRODUCTION TO ARAB POETICS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Adonis,Catherine Cobham | 108 pages | 01 Sep 2003 | SAQI BOOKS | 9780863563317 | English | London, United Kingdom Read Download An Introduction To Arab Poetics PDF – PDF Download In , Adonis fled Syria for Beirut , Lebanon. Adonis's poems continued to express his nationalistic views combined with his mystical outlook. With his use of Sufi terms the technical meanings of which were implied rather than explicit , Adonis became a leading exponent of the Neo-Sufi trend in modern Arabic poetry. This trend took hold in the s. Adonis received a scholarship to study in Paris from — From he was professor of Arabic literature at the Lebanese University. In , he was a visiting professor at the University of Damascus. In , he emigrated to Paris to escape the Lebanese Civil War. In —81, he was professor of Arabic in Paris. In he moved with his wife and two daughters to Paris, which has remained their primary residence. While temporally in Syria, Adonis helped in editing the cultural supplement of the newspaper Al-Thawra but pro government writers clashed with his agenda and forced him to flee the country. His name appeared as editor from the magazine's fourth edition. Poetry, he argued, must remain a realm in which language and ideas are examined, reshaped, and refined, in which the poet refuses to descend to the level of daily expediencies. Adonis later started another poetry magazine, titled Mawaqif English: "Positions" ; the magazine was first published in , considered a significant literary and cultural quarterly. A number of literary figures later joined and contributed to Mawaqif , including Elias Khoury , Hisham Sharabi and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish among others. -
The Arms & GACHAL Ship 'Altalena'
1 The Arms & GACHAL Ship ‘Altalena’ By: Yehuda Ben-tzur From Hebrew: Aryeh Malkin Before the outbreak of WW II and while it was going on, from August 1934 until December 1944, three groups were active in clandestine Aliya (“Aliya Bet”) from Europe: (1) The Ha'chalutz movement and the Mossad Le’Aliya Bet (30 voyages); (2) The Revisionist movement (23 voyages until October 1940); (3) Private individuals (26 voyages). Towards the end of the war the Mossad renewed its activity, which concentrated on saving survivors of the Holocaust in Europe and even expanded its work to North Africa. The Revisionist movement and the private individuals did not renew their activities in this field, arguably for lack of funds (in the past, most of the immigrants had to pay for their trip to Palestine, but the Holocaust survivors had no money). All the 66 Aliya Bet voyages after the end of WW II were carried out by the Mossad Le’Aliya Bet except for one voyage that was organized by the American branch of the Revisionist movement. This branch operated under the leadership of Hillel Kook who used the pseudonym Peter Bergson (see the story of the “Ben Hecht” under Aliya Bet/Aliya Bet Stories). In a conversation that took place between Menachem Begin, the Etzel (the Irgun) commander and Yitzchak Ben-Ami, one of its top commanders and a member of the Bergson Group (the name used to refer to all the members of Kook's immediate circle), which took place in January of 1947, the attitude of Etzel towards Aliya was made clear: that was to be left to the Hagana - Mossad Le’Aliya Bet. -
POL 612 Arab Contributions to Political Thought
Course Outline | Fall Semester 2015 POL 612 Arab Contributions to Political Thought Program Core Compulsory Course Course Teacher/s: Dr. Mark Farha and Team Credit Value: 3 Pre-requisites: No pre-requisites Co-requisites: SOSH 601, POL 611 Course Duration: 14 weeks; Semester 1 Total Student Study Time: 126 hours, including 42 contact hours of lectures and seminars. AIMS This course has a dual aim: 1) to introduce students to major Arab contributions to political thought across history, and 2) to temper (if not transcend) the Eurocentrism of most modern courses in political thought. It also seeks to challenge and inspire students to aspire to make their own contributions to political thought, first by providing role models who have made significant contributions. No less important, however, is to provide students with a critical view of Arab political thought and pointing out the gaps and shortcomings that remain to be overcome. The course starts by highlighting major contributions to political thought in the classical age, including by figures like al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, and moveson to the contributions and debates in the era of Nahda by the likes of Tahtawi, Afghani, Abduh, Farah Anton, and Taha Hussain, among others. It then moves to modern intellectual contributions by figures like Edward Said, Sadiq al Azm, Adunis, Samir Amin, Anouar Abd al-Malki, Aziz al Azmeh, Hisham Sharabi, Nazih Ayubi, and Fouad Ajami, among others. The course also covers major themes which preoccupied modern Arab political thought, including the theme of political identity, nationalism, Arab unity, liberation, religious revivalism and secularization, sectarianism, democracy, social justice, etc. -
Land Reform and Bounded Rationality in the Middle East
Domestic Conquest: Land Reform and Bounded Rationality in the Middle East Matthew E. Goldman A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington 2015 Reading Committee: Reşat Kasaba, Chair Elizabeth Kier Clark Lombardi Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Near & Middle Eastern Studies ©Copyright 2015 Matthew E. Goldman University of Washington Abstract Domestic Conquest: Land Reform and Bounded Rationality in the Middle East Matthew E. Goldman Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Reşat Kasaba Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies This dissertation examines the rise and fall of projects for land reform - the redistribution of agricultural land from large landowners to those owning little or none - in the Middle East in the mid 20th century, focusing on Egypt, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Syria, and Turkey. Following the end of World War II, local political elites and foreign advisors alike began to argue that land reform constituted a necessary first rung on the ladder of modernization, a step that would lead to political consolidation, development, industrialization, and even democratization. Unfortunately, many land reform projects resulted in grave disappointments, leading to reduced agricultural output, increased rural poverty, political conflict, and more authoritarian rather than more democratic forms of government. As many policymakers and development experts themselves came to understand, an underlying cause of these problems was their failure to adjust land reform models to account for crucial variations in local political, economic, and ecological conditions. Using a method of similarity approach, this project asks why land reform projects so often sought to apply imported models in vastly different local contexts and then failed to adequately adjust these policy models to suit local realities. -
1 Introduction the Palestine Liberation Organization Has Been Extensively Studied in the Social Sciences and Humanities Particul
This is the accepted version of an article that will be published by Duke University Press in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: https://www.dukeupress.edu/comparative-studies-of-south-asia-africa-and-the-middle- east/?viewby=journal Accepted version downloaded from SOAS Research Online: http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24506/ PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts Dina Matar, Centre for Global Media and Communications, SOAS University of London [email protected] Abstract This paper addresses the PLO's cultural activism, in other words, its investment in diverse spheres of popular culture, at the beginning of the revolutionary period 1968- 1982 in its history. Drawing on archival research of the main spheres of the PLO's cultural output, it traces how the PLO strategized popular culture to enhance its image, create a new visibility for the Palestinians and mediate a Palestinian-centric liberation aesthetic rooted in real experiences of, and participation in, the Palestinian revolution. As such, the PLO's cultural activism combined an agential understanding of what it means to be Palestinian with popular armed struggle, language and image to conjure power in grassroots action, turn attention to the Palestinians themselves and evoke enduring affective identifications with the organization despite various setbacks and the passage of time. The argument is not intended to romanticize the role of the PLO or popular culture in a golden age of liberation politics. Rather it underlines -
Modernism and After: Modern Arabic Literary Theory from Literary Criticism to Cultural Critique
1 Modernism and After: Modern Arabic Literary Theory from Literary Criticism to Cultural Critique Khaldoun Al-Shamaa Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies 2006 ProQuest Number: 10672985 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10672985 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 2 DECLARATION I Confirm that the work presented in the thesis is mine alone. Khaldoun Al-Shamaa 3 ABSTRACT This thesis aims to provide the interested reader with a critical account of far-reaching changes in modem Arabic literary theory, approximately since the 1970s, in the light of an ascending paradigm in motion , and of the tendency by subsequent critics and commentators to view litefary criticism in terms of self-a elaborating category morphing into cultural critique. The first part focuses on interdisciplinary problems confronting Arab critics in their attempt “to modernize but not to westernize”, and also provides a comparative treatment of the terms, concepts and definitions used in the context of an ever-growing Arabic literary canon, along with consideration of how these relate to European modernist thought and of the controversies surrounding them among Arab critics. -
The Yemeni, Mizrahi, and Balkan Children Affair: Lost Infants, Shattered Motherhoods
The Yemeni, Mizrahi, and Balkan Children Affair: Lost Infants, Shattered Motherhoods The Yemeni, Mizrahi, and Balkan Children Affair: Lost Infants, Shattered Motherhoods Ruth Amir, Yezreel Valley College, Israel Abstract Between 1948 and 1954, at least 1,500 children between 0-4 years had disappeared from childcare facilities and hospitals in tent camps, transit camps, and hospitals in Israeli towns. About two-thirds were of Yemeni origin. Although these disappearances follow a shared pattern, the Yemeni case stands out due to a directive issued by the cabinet that ordered the forcible removal of Yemeni infants to infants’ homes in the immigrants’ camps. Three commissions of inquiry investigated this ethnically-based child- removal policy, yet its dire consequences were never challenged or reviewed. What remains missing from the accounts is a gendered and intersectional perspective of the involvement of women’s organizations and the mothers’ experiences. I The Yemeni, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair (hereinafter the Affair) permeates the Israeli public agenda in a tenacious cyclicality for nearly 80 years. Three commissions of inquiry that investigated the children’s whereabouts have not only left many open questions but generated new ones. Questions such as the number of disappeared children and the temporal framework remain uncertain and contested, and so are the grim outcomes. Nevertheless, beyond these important questions, other queries keep accumulating. Who ordered the removal of children from their parents? Why were the children forcibly removed? How was it justified? Were children of other ethnicities also targeted? Moreover, there is a need for a gendered perspective for construing women and feminist organizations’ involvement on the one hand and the victims’ intersectionality on the other. -
Al-Quds Book
JERUSALEMJERUSALEM The issue of Jerusalem have constituted, both in the far and near past, a basic pivot in determining the future and realities of the surrounding region. The POPULATION & URBANIZATION special importance of conducting a study on the Jerusalem issue rises from the current attempts to define the future of the region in the context of the ongoing political process and the accompanying conflicts, which are in some cases bloody and in other cases peaceful. Because of the importance of Jerusalem for both the Arab Palestinian side and the Zionist Jewish side, the From 1850 - 2000 determination of the future of the region, whether in terms of war or peace, depends on the method in which the issue is dealt with. The Zionist Movement has attempted from the start of its emigration to Palestine to impose new realities in order to decide the issue of Jerusalem for its benefit. The attempts were not restricted to physical realities, but included the creation of an impression and conviction through media and lots of books and publications that worked on forging the past and present history of the city, thus concealing the reality and truth behind a curtain of false propaganda and history forging. Thus, this contribution from the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center came to highlight the events that took place during the historical epoch between 1850 and 2000. We do hope that we can succeed in raising discussion over this issue and highlight the facts and truth and encourage others inside Palestine and abroad to contribute in this discussion and enrich this attempt towards reinforcing a conviction that any solution that does not guarantee the historical, political, national and religious rights of the Arab Palestinian people in Jerusalem will never be a just, comprehensive and permanent solution. -
Gouverner Ou Être Gouverné? Une Approche Par Les Échelles De La
Gouverner ou être gouverné ? Une approche par les échelles de la transformation du pouvoir et de l’autorité de l’État à travers de la politique publique d’immigration et d’intégration de quatre villes frontières en Israël Amandine Desille To cite this version: Amandine Desille. Gouverner ou être gouverné ? Une approche par les échelles de la transformation du pouvoir et de l’autorité de l’État à travers de la politique publique d’immigration et d’intégration de quatre villes frontières en Israël. Géographie. Université de Poitiers; Tel Aviv university, 2017. Français. NNT : 2017POIT5007. tel-02094509 HAL Id: tel-02094509 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02094509 Submitted on 9 Apr 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. THESE Pour l’obtention du Grade de DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS (Diplôme National - Arrêté du 25 mai 2016) U.F.R. : Géographie Ecole Doctorale : Sociétés et Organisations Laboratoire : Migrinter Présentée par : Amandine Desille Governing or being governed? A scalar approach of the transformation of State power -
The Unexplored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State
Penn State International Law Review Volume 25 Article 4 Number 1 Penn State International Law Review 7-1-2006 The nexU plored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State David Morris Philip Follow this and additional works at: http://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr Recommended Citation Philip, David Morris (2006) "The nexU plored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State," Penn State International Law Review: Vol. 25: No. 1, Article 4. Available at: http://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr/vol25/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Penn State Law eLibrary. It has been accepted for inclusion in Penn State International Law Review by an authorized administrator of Penn State Law eLibrary. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Unexplored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State David Morris Phillips* I. Introduction The withdrawal of Israeli settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip in August and September 2005 inevitably focused both Israeli and world attention upon the fate of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.' World focus only intensified with formation of a new Israeli government led by the Kadima party and its head, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,2 following Hamas' victory in the Palestinian National Authority elections.3 In accord with prior campaign pledges,4 0 lmert announced his intention to * Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law. This article was presented at faculty seminars at Touro Law School and Northeastern University School of Law. The author would like to thank Darleen Cantelo, Sholom Fine and Stacey Dippong, Northeastern University law students, and Sue Zago, Sharon Persons, and Alfreda Russell, Northeastern University law librarians, for their invaluable research assistance.