Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military sup
Countering the widely held view that many Egyptians were enamored of fascism during the years leading up to World War II, historians Gershoni (U. of Tel Aviv) and Jankowski (U. of Colorado-Boulder) dr
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimatel
First emerging in the 1920s, the Palestinian Arabic-language press played an increasingly influential role in shaping the development of the Palestinian National Movement until its peak in the Great S
This book deals with the development of the Palestinian Arabic press during the years 1929-1939, years in which the national identity of the Palestinian Arab public was formalized and shaped and chara
The authors examine the emergence of nationalism among the Egyptian middle class during the l930s and l940s, and its growing awareness of an Arab and Muslim identity. The authors demonstrate how the g
This is the second installment of a series that grew out of the December 1991 Workshop on Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The issues employ cultural stu
Explores features of Arab nationalism since World War I in terms of the new analytic approaches that have been suggested in recent decades. The 14 essays, from a September 1994 workshop at the Univers
The fourteen original essays in this volume explore the psychological, political, and cultural bases of Arab nationalism since World War I and are arranged around broad themes of study: academic cons
