"This book examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as the crusader and Canaanite challenges and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism"-- "We claim that Zionism as a meta-narrative has been formed through contradiction to two alternative…
In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociolo…
Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on inte…
Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israel's sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the & quot;New Historians & quot;, & quot;post-Zio…
Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on inte…
Introducing a new Israel? -- Power, knowledge and the nation: shaping, writing, knowing -- Triumphs, territories and troublemakers -- The emergence and works of the new historians -- The promise of post-Zionism -- Neo-Zionist responses?: Seizing history, shaping policy.
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Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israels sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians", "post-Zionists" and "neo-Zion…
Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israel?s sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians", "post-Zionists" and "neo-Zio…
