Translating Late Ottoman Modernity in Palestine: Debates on Ethno-Confessional Relations and Identity in the Arab Palestinian Newspaper Filastin (1911

by Evelin Dierauff

Filastin was published from 1911 onwards in the coastal town of Jaffa by the cousins Yusuf and Isa al-Isa, Arab Palestinians of Greek Orthodox confession. Soon, it had established itself as a 'forum of debate' in late Ottoman Palestine, serving a pool of authors from different ethnic and confessional but similar educational backgrounds and moral values as a public medium to which they contributed through publishing articles, protest letters, petitions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3847110667
• ISBN13: 9783847110668
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"