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Cautious Commemoration: Localism, Communalism, and Nationalism in Palestinian Memorial Monuments in Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2008

Tamir Sorek
Tamir Sorek
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University of Florida
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In March 1998, the political leadership of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel was looking for ways to commemorate al-Nakba (“The Disaster,” in Arabic), referring to the war of 1948, during which about 700,000 Palestinians were uprooted and hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed. This leadership, organized in the Follow-Up Committee (FUC), nominated a Nakba and Steadfastness Committee (NSC) chaired by the author Muhamad Ali Taha. Among the Committee's several initiatives, one gained front-page headlines in the Arabic media: a call for Arab municipalities to establish memorial monuments for the Palestinian martyrs (shuhada) of 1948.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 337 - 368
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Copyright © Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History 2008

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