Overthrowing Geography

Mark LeVine is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Culture, and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of the forthcoming book Why They Don't Hate Us: Islam and the World in the Age of Globalizaiton (2004), and co-editor of Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation (2003) and Religion, Social Practice and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies.

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Modern Cities, Colonial Spaces, and the Struggle for Modernity in the Eastern Mediterranean 2. From Cedars to Oranges: A History of the Jaffa--Tel Aviv Region from Antiquity to the Late Ottoman Period 3. Taming the Sahara: The Birth of Tel Aviv and the Last Years of Ottoman Rule 4. Crossing the Border: Intercommunal Relations in the Jaffa--Tel Aviv Region during the Mandate Period 5. A Nation from the Sands? Images of Jaffa and Tel Aviv in Palestinian Arab and Israeli Literature, Poetry, and Prose 6. Ceci N'est Pas Jaffa (This Is Not Jaffa): Architecture, Planning, and the Evolution of National Identities in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1880--1948 7. Planning to Conquer: The Role of Town Planning in the Expansion of Tel Aviv, 1921--1948 8. The New-Old Jaffa: Locating the Urban, the Public, and the Modern in Tel Aviv's Arab Neighborhood Notes Bibliography Index

"Well-crafted, eminently readable." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)