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This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of
political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Written by historians, political scientists, and sociologists of
the region, the book provides a pertinent analytical framework to
understand the often complex and turbulent histories of these
political parties, their role within the region, and their
prospects in the wake of the post-2011 Arab Uprisings. The authors
explore a rich and varied range of case studies including Iran,
Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. This book examines
where political parties and organizations have been crucial to
shaping contemporary historical events and political contestation,
but also highlights their shortcomings and failures to deliver on
the ambitions and hopes they had often evoked amongst their
supporters. Furthermore, it looks at how political parties and
their activities have intersected with important issues and themes
such as gender, human rights, international solidarity, revolution
and social transformation, and sectarian identity. This book will
be of great interest to students and researchers of political
science, particularly within the MENA region. It was originally
published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies.
This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of
political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Written by historians, political scientists, and sociologists of
the region, the book provides a pertinent analytical framework to
understand the often complex and turbulent histories of these
political parties, their role within the region, and their
prospects in the wake of the post-2011 Arab Uprisings. The authors
explore a rich and varied range of case studies including Iran,
Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. This book examines
where political parties and organizations have been crucial to
shaping contemporary historical events and political contestation,
but also highlights their shortcomings and failures to deliver on
the ambitions and hopes they had often evoked amongst their
supporters. Furthermore, it looks at how political parties and
their activities have intersected with important issues and themes
such as gender, human rights, international solidarity, revolution
and social transformation, and sectarian identity. This book will
be of great interest to students and researchers of political
science, particularly within the MENA region. It was originally
published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies.
Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation
of citizenship in mandate PalestineIn the two decades after the
First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became
less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like
meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil
life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This
book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state
formation under the quasi-colonial mandate administration in
Palestine. It emphasises the ways in which British officials
crafted citizenship to be separate from nationality based on prior
colonial legislation elsewhere, a view of the territory as divided
communally, and the need to offer Jewish immigrants the easiest
path to acquisition of Palestinian citizenship in order to uphold
the mandate's policy. In parallel, the book examines the reactions
of the Arab population to their new status. It argues that the
Arabs relied heavily on their pre-war experience as nationals of
the Ottoman Empire to negotiate the definitions and meanings of
mandate citizenship.Key featuresCovers the overlapping social,
administrative and political eras in the creation of Palestinian
citizenship, from the final decades of the Ottoman imperial age
through the first two decades of the mandateExplores a transitional
period in Palestine's history that has seen little nuanced
historical researchPlaces the development of the changing status of
citizenship in mandate Palestine in its historical
contextApproaches the 'invention' of citizenship in Palestine
through a number of frameworks: the wider British imperial project,
the development of Arab populist politics and civil society, and
the circulation of ideas to and from the Palestinian Arab
diasporaIncorporates a number of under-used and un-used Arabic
press and other documentary sources
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