Books by Najat Abdulhaq
Book Reviews by Najat Abdulhaq
Yair Wallach's review of my book in Journal of Levantine Studies
Papers by Najat Abdulhaq
Punctum Books, Jul 21, 2020
Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt, 2016
Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies, 2020
M , in particular Jewish communities, have attracted distinguished scholarly interest in the last... more M , in particular Jewish communities, have attracted distinguished scholarly interest in the last several years. e Jews of Libya have been on the margins of this interest compared to other Jewish communities in the region, and remain absent in several anthologies on North African and Middle Eastern Jews. 1 Nevertheless, a few works on Jewish Libyans in particular have been published in the last few decades, including Italian historian Renzo De Felice's Jews in
Over the last ten years, a topic that had been previously skirted in the public sphere of Arab co... more Over the last ten years, a topic that had been previously skirted in the public sphere of Arab countries has been broached, namely, the expulsion and departure of the Jewish population from these countries.When writers had addressed this phenomenon in the past, they did so only in the context of the Palestinian/ Arab-Israeli conflict. The history of the Jews living in Arab countries (Arab Jews)2 has been dominated by an official nationalistic discourse that has rarely been questioned (Abdulhaq 2016, 7–48). This discourse consists of two parts, one Arab and the other Zionist. Both reject considering Jews as an organic component of the society in which they live. Arab discourse connects Jewish life to Israel and hence to the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict. A new generation of authors and film makers is questioning this discourse, through novels mainly and, to a lesser degree, through non-fiction works, with consequences extending beyond the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict. The ce...
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Books by Najat Abdulhaq
Book Reviews by Najat Abdulhaq
Papers by Najat Abdulhaq