1st Edition
From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity
Foreword
Introduction
1. How do you say Arabic in Hebrew? Hebrew’s modern ‘revival’ and the place of Arabic
2. What’s in a symbol? Deconstructing Israeli national symbols
3. Digesting the nation: Arab ingredients in the making of the ‘Israeli kitchen’
4. The creation of an Arab non-Arab culture: between the Arab other and the Israeli self
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Yonatan Mendel is a researcher at the Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He also serves as the Director of Projects of the Mediterranean Unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel. He is the author of The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Political and Security Considerations in the Making of Arabic Language Studies in Israel.
Ronald Ranta is a Lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Human Rights at Kingston University and Honorary Research Associate at UCL where he teaches a course on Israel and the Occupied Territories. He is the author of Political Decisions Making and Non Decision: The Case of Israel and the Occupied Territories, and co-author of Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics.
‘From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self provides a pathbreaking, probing and critical look into the processes of mobilization and articulation of elements of Palestinian culture in the construction of Israeli identity. This is an accessible, yet insightful and thought-provoking contribution to an under-researched area that I unreservedly recommend to anyone who wants to understand the complexity of identity politics in this contested land.’ Spyros A. Sofos, Lund University, Sweden
