...This chapter makes the case for conceptualising the Palestinian national movement through the prism of hybrid sovereignty. It starts by discussing on works that have shown that the ideal of sovereignty as a full control over territory and wielding legitimate violence does not do justice...

...The Introduction describes how the recent developments in various branches of Palestinian and Arab-Jewish cultures and identities may be analysed throughout the recent theoretical contributions on identity and the issue of inessential solidarities by major cultural theorists and sociologists...

...The chapter deals with the emergence of Palestinian drama and theater in particular and its connection with Palestinian nation-building. The cultural activities in Palestine prior to the First World War lacked any political strand in the form of a Palestinian consciousness. In this sense...

...The chapter follows the history of Palestinian cinema, and divides it into four periods echoing the various stages of the national Palestinian struggle: the Beginning 1935–1948; the epoch of silence 1948–1967; cinema in exile 1968-1982; the return home: from 1980 to the present. It surveys...

...Late twentieth-century Palestinian literature is divided into two periods: between 1948 to 1967 and after 1967. Of these two major divisions, the period of the early 1960s stands out. It is during this period that the idea of returning to Palestine was given narrative form: in the first visible...

... to 2005). The first pole demonstrates the way translations from Arabic into Hebrew were used to consolidate Jewish identity during the earliest stage of Jewish nation building in Palestine. The second demonstrates the earliest stage of recognition of the Palestinian national identity by Israeli Jewish...

...This chapter investigates whether the structures put in place by Great Britain for the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship favoured Jewish immigrants in any way, and demonstrates how and why Great Britain felt the dual administration structure necessary to preserve its own sovereignty from 1918...

...This chapter chronicles the changes to the various meanings of citizenship and civic identity during the three years of the Palestinian Arab Revolt. Effectively, citizenship claims became rather ‘stalled’ in Palestine upon the outbreak of the nationwide revolt against the British. Rural rebels...

...In 1911, Jerusalem was shaken by a British archaeological team’s search for treasures within the holy compound of the Haram al-Sharif. In the aftermath of the affair, Palestinians united not only against the British team’s desecration of the holy site, but also against the local Ottoman...

... discipline Foucault Michel one way mirrors Palestinian Authority panopticism surveillance Allenby Bridge Kotef Hagar language Qalandia checkpoint West Bank mise en scène screens fantasy ‘Joi’ song soundtracks surrealism Mattar Karim utopianism Arafat Yasser balloon kūfiyya Palestinian...

...This chapter focuses on space as an instrument of everyday violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explores how the cinematic use of space reveals social divisions and enables us to perceive the conflict differently from how news media presents it. It shows how the trauma narrative invoked...

...This chapter addresses the question of subjectification, which is a central aspect of a democratic politics. The particular subjectification considered in this chapter is that of the Palestinian rights movement during the first Palestinian intifada, which started in December 1987. It concentrates...

.... Following an overview of Rancière's thought, the author considers the following groups: the Algerian refugee movement in Montreal for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality and identity politics in relation to the Zapatista movement, a local food co-op in South Carolina...

... practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). In this current time analysis, the OPT appears to be a stable system of repression unshaken by developments in Israel, such as the political havoc marking the state of emergency of the Covid-19 global pandemic, which coincided with a severe political...

... Islamist Foreign Policy Islamism and the Palestinian Cause In this chapter on the international relations of the Moroccan legalist Islamic current, in this case the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), we formulate the following hypothesis: The more institutionalized this party’s actors become...

...This chapter examines the development of the recently-founded museum at Birzeit, the West Bank, by documenting the political, ideological, material and cultural challenges associated with the project of curating a narrative of Palestinian history. Drawing on original interviews with the museum’s...

...This chapter asks, with specific reference to Hong Kong, whether a national cinema can be produced in the absence of a nation-state. Comparisons with Palestinian cinema, which is disconnected from an independent nation state, help to shed light on the specificities of the New Hong Kong Cinema...

...This article, written by Muhammad Amara, analyses the names given to the different wars – from 1948 hitherto – on both the Israeli and Arab sides. Amara surveys and analyses the names given to six wars (in the years 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and 2006), two Palestinian intifāḍas (1987 and 2000...

... and the early stages of the development of the political project of Palestinian nationalism through the articulated appeals, discussions, ideologies and demands for a political, as opposed to simply legal, identity. It traces how, and to what extent, citizenship became politically linked to nationality...

...This chapter analyzes the ways in which Palestinian citizenship became bureaucratised after the 1925 Citizenship Order-in-Council through the early 1930s. This process of bureaucratization allowed local and imperial officials to use nationality and citizenship as tools to classify, categorize...