Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: Toward Twilight Nationalism 1
5. PART I: SUNSET
6. 1. Besieged Nationalism: Fakhri Jday and the Decline of the Elites 27
7. 2. Worn-Out Nationalism: Rabbi Avraham Bachar and the Community’s Betrayal 45
8. 3. Surviving Nationalism: Isma‘il abu-Shehade and Testimony amid the Ruins 63
9. PART II: DUSK
10. 4. Circumventing Nationalism: The Hakim Sisters and the Cosmopolitan Experience 91
11. 5. Domesticated Nationalism: Nazihah Asis, a Prisoner of Zion 111
12. 6. Dissolved Nationalism: Subhiya abu-Ramadan and the Critique of the Patriarchal Order 126
13. 7. Overlooking Nationalism: Talia Seckbach-Monterescu In and Out of Place 149
14. PART III: NIGHTFALL
15. 8. Suspended Nationalism: Moshe (Mussa) Hermosa and Jewish-Arab Masculinity 175
16. 9. Masking Nationalism: Amram Ben-Yosef on a Tightrope 190
17. 10. Speechless Nationalism: Abu-George on the Edge 211
18. Conclusion: From Identity Politics to Politics of Existence 223
19. Epilogue: Earth to Earth: Posthumous Nationalism 233
20. Notes 237
21. Bibliography 251
22. Index 261