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3 - Relationships with the Rural Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Yuval Ben-Bassat  and
Johann Buessow
Yuval Ben-Bassat
Affiliation:
University of Haifa, Israel
Johann Buessow
Affiliation:
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
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Summary

This chapter focuses on the complex relationships between Gaza’s urban elite and the rural population around the city, especially the network of villages in the Subdistrict (kaza) of Gaza. It discusses the composition of the rural population and the ethnic, social, and economic barriers between them including peasants, Bedouins and Egyptians, the involvement of the rural population in urban politics and its alignment with rival coalitions within the city, and the complex relationships with Bedouin groups in the city’s vicinity and farther away.

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Subdistrict of GazaBedouinspeasantsregional identitylocal festivalsmuhtarsinvolvement of rural population in Gaza’s politics
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Late Ottoman Gaza
An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation
 , pp. 97 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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