Zionism in Arab discourses /

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Author / Creator:Shavit, Uriya, author.
Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11910075
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Other authors / contributors:Winter, Ofir, author.
ISBN:9781526109439
1526109433
9781784998141
1784998141
9781784992972
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-206) and index.
Uriya Shavit is an Associate Professor at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Program for Religious Studies, Tel Aviv University. Ofir Winter is a Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv.
In English.
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Summary:Zionism in Arab discourses presents a ground-breaking study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late-nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played a dual function of an enemy and a mentor. Islamists and liberals alike discovered, respectively, in Zionism and in Israeli society qualities they sought to implement in their sown homelands. Focusing on Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian political discourses, this study uncovers fascinating and unexpected Arab points of views on different aspects of Zionism; from the first Zionist Congress to the First Lebanon War; from gardening in the early years of Tel Aviv to women's service in the Israeli Defence Forces; from the role of religion in the creation of the state to the role of democracy in its preservation. This study presents the debates between and within contesting Arab ideological trends on a conflict that has shaped, and is certain to continue and shape, one of the most complicated regions in the world.--
Other form:Print version: Shavit, Uriya. Zionism in Arab discourses. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 1784992976
Standard no.:10.7765/9781526109439