| ID | 139908 |
| Title Proper | Impossible in not Ottoman |
| Other Title Information | Menashe Meirovitch, 'ISA Al-'ISA, and imperial citizenship in Palestine |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dolbee, Samuel ; Hazkani, Shay |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article explores a covert partnership between a prominent Zionist agronomist, Menashe Meirovitch, and the Christian Arab editor of the newspaper Filastin, ʿIsa al-ʿIsa, a founding father of Palestinian nationalism. Under the literary guise of an Arab Muslim peasant called Abu Ibrahim, the two men produced a series of Arabic-language columns in 1911–12 that exhibited imperial citizenship par excellence, demanding political and agrarian reforms in Palestine in the name of strengthening the Ottoman Empire. The article explores their short-lived political alliance to interrogate historiographical uses of the press as a source for social history. Moreover, it challenges the portrayal of cooperation between Jews and Arabs as “collaboration” in its pejorative sense. Far from a simple story of betrayal or corruption, the partnership between the two men demonstrates how a shared commitment to Ottoman modernism brought them together more than nationalism, language, or religion pulled them apart. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 47, No.2; May 2015: p.241-262 |
| Journal Source | International Journal of Middle East Studies 2015-06 47, 2 |
| Key Words | Palestinian Nationalism ; Menashe Meirovitch ; Zionist Agronomist ; Political and Agrarian Reforms ; Ottoman Modernism |