2. The Mountain Against The Sea? Cultural Wars Of The Eastern Mediterranean

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Introduction: Palestine’S Conflictual Modernity 1
6. 2. The Mountain Against The Sea? Cultural Wars Of The Eastern Mediterranean 22
7. 3. From Emma Bovary To Hasan Al-Banna: Small Towns And Social Control 36
8. 4. Bourgeois Nostalgia And The Abandoned City 56
9. 5. A Musician’S Lot: The Jawhariyyeh Memoirs As A Key To Jerusalem’S Early Modernity 71
10. 6. Lepers, Lunatics, And Saints: The Nativist Ethnography Of Tawfiq Canaan And His Circle 93
11. 7. Sultana And Khalil: The Origins Of Romantic Love In Palestine 113
12. 8. The Last Feudal Lord 133
13. 9. Ishaq Shami And The Predicament Of The Arab Jew In Palestine 150
14. 10. The Enigmatic Bolshevik From The Holy City 167
15. 11. The Vagabond Café And Jerusalem’S Prince Of Idleness 176
16. Notes 191
17. Bibliography 215
18. Index 223