Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

Salim Tamari is Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine, Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and the author of Mountain against the Sea and Year of the Locust.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1 • Introduction: Rafiq Bey’s Public Spectacles2 • Arabs, Turks, and Monkeys: The Ethnography and Cartography of Ottoman Syria3 • The Sweet Aroma of Holy Sewage: Urban Planning and the New Public Sphere in Palestine4 • A “Scientific Expedition” to Gallipoli: The Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia Divided5 • Two Faces of Palestinian Orthodoxy: Hellenism, Arabness, and Osmenlilik6 • A Farcical Moment: Narratives of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nablus7 • Adele Azar’s Notebook: Charity and Feminism8 • Ottoman Modernity and the Biblical GazeNotesBibliographyIndex

"In The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, Salim Tamari extends his already significant contributions to the historiography of late Ottoman Palestine. In a collection of linked essays, he covers topics from sewage and city planning, to a nearly forgotten early Palestinian feminist, to Ottoman cartography and ethnography of Palestine. This diversity alone makes the point that Palestine is a site in which a vast array of historical subjects can be explored."