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Truman Shelves WHY I LEFT SCHOOL Voices of Palestinian Dropouts in East Jerusalem by Laila Abed Rabho According to data published in 2012, nearly 40% of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem do not complete 12 years of study. Comparatively, the dropout rate is a mere 3% amongst the overall Jewish population of Jerusalem. This study examines the factors that lead to such high dropout rates in East Jerusalem, and possible ways to contend with them. It includes extensive in-depth interviews with 26 youth who agreed to disclose their personal stories under condition of anonymity, as well as interviews with principals, teachers and advisors. A LOCAL HABITATION AND A NAME A Literary and Cultural Reading of the Arabic Geographical Names of the Land by Amer Dahamshe The book examines the meaning of the Arab names of places in Israel, their subjects, the reasons for their existence, and the practices of Arab-Palestinian society, as evidenced by local stories and community memoirs that were recorded by the Galilee Arabs. The book relates not only to names of settlements, but also to names of natural features such as springs, caves, tracts of land, roads and more. This is the first academic forum in which Arabic place names are analyzed as a cultural and narrative creation whose deep structure contains cultural and ideological messages relating to the perception of land and place, and the perception of names in Palestinian Arab society. HOMELAND Zionism as a Housing Regime, 1860-2011 by Yael Allweil This book reveals how housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. The author highlights how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the histories of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day. She discusses the formation of nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 and examines housing as a means of claiming rights over the homeland. MEMORY ACTIVISM Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel- Palestine by Yifat Gutman Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnographic study offers an innovative analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It explores practices of "memory activism" among three groups of Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian citizens--Zochrot, Autobiography of a City, and Baladna—and shows how they appropriated the global model of truth and reconciliation while utilizing local cultural practices such as tours and testimonies. FREEDOM IN THE ARAB WORLD Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century by Wael Abu-’Uksa This book examines the development of the concept of freedom (hurriyya) in nineteenth-century Arab political thought, its ideological offshoots, their modes, and their substance as they developed the dynamics of the Arabic language. The author traces the transition of the idea of freedom from a term used in a predominantly non-political way, to its popularity and near ubiquity at the dawn of the 20th century. He also analyses the importance of associated concepts such as “liberalism”, “socialism”, “progress,” “rationalism,” “secularism,” and “citizenship.” 24 TRUMAN NEWSLETTER 2017
New Books by Truman Scholars REFLECTIONS ON MY MISSION AS ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRIA, SLOVENIA AND SLOVAKIA by Yosef Govrin These reflections are based on the author's activities in developing relations with Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia, in substance and in quantity. They include his discussions with the heads of these states and their discussions with their Israeli counterparts, surveying their internal and external policies, and describing the local Jewish communities and their activities to foster relations with them and to strengthen their national status. These reflections have a documentary nature and constitute a unique and important source for research regarding the history of Israel's relations with these from the beginning of the 1990.. THE MALE BODY IN JEWISH LITHUANIAN ULTRA-ORTHODOXY by Yakir Englander How does ultra-Orthodox literature describe the male body? What does the body represent? What is the ideal male body? This book is a philosophical-theological journey through the different images of the male body in ultra-Orthodox literature after the Holocaust. It focuses on the body as the center of its research because the body is the axis by which this community tries to understand its meaning and its role in life. The book begins by examining the “problem of the body” and the different ways that ultra-Orthodox theology confronts it. A STUDY OF ANAPHORA IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE by Yu Lingbo Anaphora is an important approach for article connection and extension, playing an indispensable role in article construction. This thesis discusses “anaphora in Arabic,” its functions in text and how it is constructed. It also utilizes comparative study of Arabic and Chinese texts. ISRAEL AND ITS ARAB MINORITY, 1948–2008 Dialogue, Protest, Violence by Gadi Hitman This study takes a balanced approach to providing a comprehensive picture of the Arab sector in Israel over six decades. It examines when and why the Arab minority chooses to negotiate with the government, or turn to protest or violence in order to change the status quo. The book offers a unique framework for enabling policy makers to identify the best policy for implementing toward national minorities in order to reduce the possibility of tensions, violence and escalation in any given situation. POPULAR CONTENTION, REGIME AND TRANSITION The Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective Edited by Eitan Alimi, Avraham Sela and Mario Sznajder Why is it that, in spite of undeniable similarities and time coincidence among Middle Eastern and North African countries, there are such different trajectories and outcomes of popular contention? And, why is it that, despite unquestionable differences between MENA and non-MENA revolts, there are striking similarities in the actual dynamics of popular contention? This book moves beyond a sole focus on root-causes and structural conditions to focus on dynamics of contentious politics. TRUMAN NEWSLETTER 2017 25
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