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Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, focuses instead on the process of "normalization" in the life of Jewish residents. The works collected consider the transformation of the landscape, the patterns of relationships shared by the residents, and the lasting effects of Israel's settlement policy. They stress, in particular, such factors as urban planning, rising inequality and the retreat of the welfare state, and the changing political economy of industry and employment. In doing so, the authors provide new insight into the suburbanized areas which they argue are an integral part of the broader historical trends shaping Israel/Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs --- Jews --- Land settlement --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social conditions.

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When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new country, controlled by a military regime that restricted their movement and political expression. For two decades, Palestinian citizens of Israel were cut off from friends and relatives on the other side of the Green Line, as well as from the broader Arab world. Yet they were not passive in the face of this profound isolation. Palestinian intellectuals, party organizers, and cultural producers in Israel turned to the written word. Through writers like Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim, poetry, journalism, fiction, and nonfiction became sites of resistance and connection alike. With this book, Maha Nassar examines their well-known poetry and uncovers prose works that have, until now, been largely overlooked. The writings of Palestinians in Israel played a key role in fostering a shared national consciousness and would become a central means of alerting Arabs in the region to the conditions—and to the defiance—of these isolated Palestinians. Brothers Apart is the first book to reveal how Palestinian intellectuals forged transnational connections through written texts and engaged with contemporaneous decolonization movements throughout the Arab world, challenging both Israeli policies and their own cultural isolation. Maha Nassar reexamines these intellectuals as the subjects, not objects, of their own history and brings to life their perspectives on a fraught political environment. Her readings not only deprovincialize the Palestinians of Israel, but write them back into Palestinian, Arab, and global history.

Palestinian Arabs --- Politics and literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Intellectual life --- Ethnic identity --- History --- Political aspects --- Sociology of minorities --- Internal politics --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Israel --- Palestine --- Arab countries --- Relations --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Holy Land

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How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation.

Refugee property, Palestinian --- Right of property --- Refugee camps --- Palestinian Arabs --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Camps, Refugee --- Displaced persons camps --- Refugees --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Civil rights --- Property --- Palestinian refugee property --- Claims. --- Housing --- Law and legislation

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Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the landscape of Israel-Palestine was radically transformed. Breaking from conventional focus on explicit sites of violence and devastation, Noam Leshem turns critical attention to 'ordinary' spaces and places where the intricate and often intimate engagements between Jews and myriad Arab spaces takes place to this day. Leshem builds on interdisciplinary studies of space, memory, architecture and history and exposes a rich archive of ideology, culture, political projects of state-building and identity formation. The result is a fresh look at the conflicted history of Israel-Palestine: a spatial history in which the Arab past isn't in fact separate, but inextricably linked to the Israeli present.

Urban renewal --- Palestinian Arabs --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- History --- Kefar Shalem (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- Kfar Shalem (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- Kefar Shalem (Israel) --- Salamah (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- Salameh (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- Kufr Salem (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- Salama (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- History. --- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Social aspects. --- Tel Aviv (Israel) --- Ethnic relations. --- Arab-Israel War, 1948-1949 --- Jewish-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Palestine War, 1948-1949 --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Tel Abūbi (Israel) --- Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel) --- Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Israel) --- Tell Abīb (Israel) --- Tell Afif (Israel) --- Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel) --- Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel) --- ʻIriyat Tel-Aviv-Yafo (Israel) --- Tel-Aviv-Yafo Municipality (Israel) --- Tall Abīb (Israel) --- Tall Āvīv (Israel) --- Tel-Aviv (Palestine) --- תל-אביב (Israel) --- تل أبيب (Israel) --- تل أبيب-يافا (Israel) --- Tall Abīb-Yāfā (Israel) --- Τελ Αβίβ (Israel) --- Тель-Авив (Israel) --- תל־אביב-יפו (Israel)