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Summer 2010, Issue 42 |
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Editorial |
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This issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly ranges from the intimacies of cinema to the non-places of checkpoints, to new perspectives on Mandate history, including the unsettling of a Palestinian hero, an innovative reading of a Palestinian newspaper, and a revealing look at urban planning in Lydda.
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Features
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Sakakini Defrocked
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Nadim Bawalsa
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Khalil al-Sakakini was a fascinating man. His diary survives him and bespeaks an individual of countless thoughts, sentiments, and ambitions. Writing with tremendous detail for nearly half a century (1907-1952), Sakakini and his diary have been unsu
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Qalandia Checkpoint: The Historical Geography of a Non-Place
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Helga Tawil-Souri
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Qalandia. The name evokes a village, a refugee camp, a women’s handicraft cooperative (run through the refugee camp), a used-to-be airport. And now a formidable checkpoint. In the old days, Qalandia was a small village off the main Ramallah-Jerusale
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Projection: Three Cinemas in Ramallah & Al-Bireh
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Inas Yassin
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Commuting from Nablus to work in Ramallah in the late 1990s, I had never noticed the abandoned Al-Walid Cinema next to the central bus station on Al-Nahda Street. But several years later, when I passed the cinema, I noticed that its entrance was str
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Arabness, Turkey and the Palestinian National Imagination in the Eyes of Mir’at al-Sharq
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Zachary J. Foster
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The historical study of various things “Palestinian” tends to dwell on the Palestinian reaction to and engagement with Zionism. Abu-Lughod first brought attention to this phenomenon many years ago, writing that “the Palestine of 1948 was a very diff
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The Language of Modernity: Urban Design in Mandatory Lydda
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Haim Yacobi
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From which historical point should a study of the spatial transformation of a given city begin? Such a question stands at the core of all research that aims to study the interelation between politics, urban design and space. In the context of this a
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