Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid KhalidiWalid Khalidi, Kamīl Manṣūr, Leila Tarazi Fawaz This collection of essays addresses, from varying perspectives, issues that have preoccupied Middle East scholars as well as twentieth-century Arab intellectuals: debates and struggles from the modern history of the Arab East that foreshadow those occurring today, the Ottoman legacy and its assessment over time, Palestinian Arab dynamics resulting from the cataclysm of the Palestine war, and their linkage with the everlasting imperial intervention. The volume is dedicated to Walid Khalidi, one of the most influential Palestinian intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, whose impact has been felt in scholarship, institution building, and politics. The essays are written by an impressive group of internationally recognized scholars, friends, former students, and colleagues of Khalidi. Contributors: Butrus Abu-Manneh, Laurie A. Brand, Jamil Hilal, Michael C. Hudson, Rashid Khalidi, Philip S. Khoury, Wm. Roger Louis, Adel Manna, Camille Mansour, Issam Nassar, Abdul-Karim Rafeq, André Raymond, Eric Rouleau, Sara Roy, May Seikaly, Salim Tamari. |
Contents
A Palestinian Shaykh Resisting French | 19 |
Challenging Traditional Views of Middle East History | 61 |
Rereading the 1834 Revolt against Muhammad | 83 |
The Great War and the Erasure of Palestines Ottoman Past | 105 |
Photography as Source Material for Jerusalems Social History | 137 |
Oral History and the Case of Suhmata | 159 |
Palestine and the Middle East after the Nakba | 175 |
The Birth and Evolution of Palestinian Statehood | 197 |
Waiting for an Elusive Statehood | 231 |
A Comparative Study | 249 |
The Middle East in the International Arena | 273 |
From Vienna to Washington | 299 |
Americas Palestine Fatigue | 317 |
Beyond Palestine | 335 |
Biography of Walid Khalidi | 349 |
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