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Porath: “Social Aspects of the Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement”

By Yehoshua Porath, 1973

Historian Yehoshua Porath wrote “Social Aspects of the Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement” as a chapter for the book Society and Political Structure in the Arab World, Menachem Milson (ed.), Jerusalem: Van Leer Foundation (1973). It runs from Page 93 to Page 144.

Porath examines the process in which the national movement that emerged among Palestinian Arabs broke down the generations of Arab leadership based on land ownership and family connections. Instead, traits such as militancy and education moved to the forefront. Click below to read or download the PDF.

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