Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948
ISBN: 9780748684304
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Edinburgh University Press
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Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945) Middle Eastern History;

Shows how Arab Christians struggled to balance religious and nationalist identities in Palestine between 1917 and 1948. Noah Haiduc-Dale focuses on the relationship between Arab Christians and the nationalist movement in Palestine as the British Mandate unfolded throughout the first half of the 20th century. Evidence of individual behaviours and beliefs, as well as those of Christian organizations (both religious and social in nature), challenges the prevailing assumption that Arab Christians were prone to communalism. Instead, they were as likely as their Muslim compatriots to support nationalism. When social pressure led Christians to identify along communal lines, they did so in conjunction with a stronger dedication to nationalism.


Noah Haiduc-Dale is Assistant Professor in Department of History at the Waynesburg University. He earned his doctoral degree at New York University and also holds graduate degrees from the University of Arizona and Central Michigan University. His interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has led him to Israel/Palestine on a few occasions for study and research, and he has also spent time in Syria. His current research interest is Middle Eastern environmental history. This is his first book.

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