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.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Foreshadowing Present Debates and Struggles: Three Lives
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'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi: Religious Tolerance and 'Arabness' in Ottoman Damascus
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Badr al-Din al-Maqdisi: A Palestinian Shaykh Resisting French Occupation in Late Eighteenth-century Cairo
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'Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar: An Independence Leader of Interwar Syria
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Challenging Traditional Views of Middle East History
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The Later Tanzimat and the Ottoman Legacy in the Near Eastern Successor States
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Rereading the 1834 Revolt against Muhammad 'Ali in Palestine and Rethinking Ottoman Rule
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The Great War and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past
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Photography as Source Material for Jerusalem's Social History
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Excavating Memory: Oral History and the Case of Suhmata
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Palestine and the Middle East after the Nakba
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Abd al-Nasser and the Palestinian National Movement: Chronicle of a Stormy Affair
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The Birth and Evolution of Palestinian Statehood Strategy, 1948–82
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Palestinian Elites: Waiting for an Elusive Statehood
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State, Citizenship, and Diaspora: A Comparative Study
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The Middle East in the International Arena
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Palestine and the Consequences of the Suez Crisis, 1957–67
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Palestine and the Middle East: From Vienne to Washington, 1815-2008
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America's "Palestine Fatigue"
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Beyond Palestine
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On Dignity and Dissent: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
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Biography of Walid Khalidi
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Publications by Walid Khalidi
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Contributors
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