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126873
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2011.
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The article presents the author's views concerning the political issue over the archaeological excavations and studies in Jerusalem. The author cites the decision of the city government to demolish 22 Palestinian dwellings in Silwan in order to construct the "Garden of the King" archaeological park. The author denotes how archaeology can mend the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. The archaeology's implication on culture is also noted.
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ID:
101421
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ID:
126853
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2011.
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If there is one area in the country where state control should develop, plan, manage and preserve, it is this area of the historic City of David." That is what the Israeli Antiquities Authority wrote in a letter to the attorney general. And they were not alone in this opinion. The City of David is located a few dozen meters from the Temple Mount, in the heart of the crowded Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan
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ID:
106287
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2011.
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In this article, contemporary Silwan is a micro-locus for considering complex narratives of individual and communal identity rooted in Jerusalem. The focus is historical and largely outside Silwan itself, framed within a theme of longing for boundaries of the state when borders are elastic and the object of longing exists outside them. An anecdote told by an Amman-based archaeologist gets directly to the heart of shared and contested identities in Silwan, and is used to open a discussion about the City of David and the predominant discourses of national identity and conflict at work there. But it is also a means of considering individual narratives of identity tied to the ancient past that are more nuanced and complex. Individuals' identification with the tradition imbued in locales such as Silwan, it is argued, was crucial to Hashemite narratives espousing both qawm i yya and wa t an i yya, particularly when Jerusalem was Jordanian, from 1950 to 1967. There were two primary means of promoting Hashemite qawm i yya and wa t. an i yya that were not mutually exclusive: 'Arab-izing' ancient history and 'Hashem-izing' Islamic and modern history. Analyzing the discourse of these processes, especially as disseminated to children through school textbooks, demonstrates that a particular issue for Jordan's Hashemite monarchs is that the ancient history they used to legitimate their position of leadership, both at the national and transnational levels, cannot be disconnected from Abrahamic scripture. In this way, the modern story spun for them by ancient history most closely resembles that of the state of Israel.
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ID:
101422
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