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Calendars, martyrs, and Palestinian particularism under British / Sorek, Tamir

Sorek, Tamir	Journal Article
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2014.

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This article explores how political calendars and shared martyrology provided important markers of identity and symbolic tools for political mobilization in Mandate Palestine. The dates on the emerging Palestinian calendar grew out of the politicization and nationalization of traditional holy days, as well as the commemoration of politically significant events of the period, including those involving local Palestinian martyrs.

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Palestine ; Identity ; British Rule ; Politicization ; Political Mobilization ; Nationalization ;
Martyrology ; Palestinian Particularism

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Sports column as a site of Palestinian nationalism in the / Sorek, Tamir

Sorek, Tamir	Journal Article
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2007.

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This article analyzes the discourse of the sports columns of Filastin, a major Arab newspaper during the British Mandate period in Palestine. Between 1944 and 1947, Filastin published an almost daily sports column that was dedicated to spreading a nationalist ideology. In this period Filastin strove to promote the idea of a cross-religious modern national identity and its writing drew a direct line between the strengthening of the individual body and the strengthening of the 'national body'. It described sports as an integral part of the Arab heritage and called on the Palestinian leaders to adopt the Egyptian, Zionist andWestern attitudes toward sports in order to make it a tool of modernization and nation building

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Nationalism ; Israel ; Middle East ; Nation Building

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