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The disenchantment of the Orient : expertise in Arab affairs and the Israeli state / Gil Eyal.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eyal, Gil.
- Standardized Title:
- Hasarat ha-ḳesem min ha-Mizraḥ. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Historiography.
- Middle East specialists.
- Orientalism.
- Jewish-Arab relations--Historiography.
- Jewish-Arab relations.
- Palestine--History--1917-1948--Historiography.
- Palestine.
- Israel--Historiography.
- Israel.
- Orientalism--Israel.
- Middle East specialists--Israel.
- Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- A historical narrative of how Israeli expertise in Arab affairs has contributed to the creation of cultural separatism between Jews and Arabs, a separatism that exacerbates the conflict between the two peoples.
- Contents:
- What is mizrahanut? a methodological introduction
- The Jews underneath the Arab's mask: the experience of the Orient in the prestate period
- The field of Orientalist expertise before 1948
- The struggle over jurisdiction, 1948-1953
- The discourse about the Arab village
- Military intelligence and Middle Eastern studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804754039
- OCLC:
- 62290466
- Publisher Number:
- 9780804754033
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