Nationalism, minorities and diasporas : identities and rights in the Middle East

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Nationalism, minorities and diasporas : identities and rights in the Middle East

edited by Kirsten E. Schulze, Martin Stokes and Colm Campbell

(Library of modern Middle East studies, v. 8)(Tauris academic studies)

I.B. Tauris, 1996

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Bibliography: p. 233-245

Includes index

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Description

This compilation focuses on the way in which the rise of hegemonic nationalisms in the Middle East has affected communities as diverse as the Druze, the Kurds, the Jews of Lebanon and the Koreans of Kazakhstan.

Table of Contents

  • Minorities and peoples in international law
  • the Kurds in Turkey
  • the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and international humanitarian law
  • problems for Palestinian state building
  • the Palestinian factor in Jordanian foreign policy
  • the origins and development of trans-Jordanian nationalism
  • demonizing a minority - the case of the Kurds
  • jewish-Muslim relations in Iraq
  • the Jews of Yemen
  • the role of the Druze in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
  • Maronite and Israeli nationalism
  • female circumcision and homicide for family honour in cultural minorities in Israel
  • ritual, identity and the state
  • music and contending identities in the Maghreb
  • Koreans in Kazakhstan
  • ethnic and religious minorities in Central Asia.

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