Title: Recovered histories and contested identities : Jordan, Israel, and Palestine /
Authors: Nasser, Riad M., 1950-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: National characteristics, Israeli.; National characteristics, Palestinian.; National characteristics, Jordanian.; Jews Israel Identity.; Palestinian Arabs Ethnic identity; Citizenship Israel.; Citizenship Jordan.; Nationalism and collective memory.; Israel Ethnic relations; Jordan Ethnic relations.
Contents: Part 1. Identity from a theoretical and historical perspective: 1. Modernity and the question of identity -- 2. Arab and Jewish national ideologies -- Part 2. Recovered histories and myth of origins: 3. The Jewish myth of origin -- 4. The Palestinian myth of origin -- 5. Rulers and ruled: myth of origin in Jordan -- Part 3. Between nation and citizenship: 6. Citizenship in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine -- 7. Conclusions.