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SUMMARY:“Empire\'s Orphans, Nation\'s Stepchildren: Jews and Others in the Inter
war Middle East and North Africa”
DESCRIPTION:\nThis project examines the fragile and contradictory Jewish
and Christian experiences of interwar citizenship in the Middle East an
d North Africa (MENA). It takes as its starting point the incomplete but
dynamic political and social struggles of the imperial Ottoman milieu t
hat were then transferred onto the mandatory\, colonial\, newly independ
ent\, and decolonizing states in the MENA. Boundaries around political m
embership\, rights of citizenship\, and collective identity were reshape
d in the interwar period against the backdrop of rising nationalism\, an
ticolonialism\, and the tensions between Islamism and secularism\, on th
e one hand\, but also alongside new modes of liberalism\, socioeconomic
transformation\, and urban participation\, on the other. As a result\, M
ENA communities navigated belonging and unbelonging with at times violen
t and tragic for its Jewish and other non-Muslim communities.\n\nFor mor
e details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/empires-orphans/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This project ex
amines the fragile and contradictory Jewish and Christian experiences of
interwar citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It tak
es as its starting point the incomplete but dynamic political and social
struggles of the imperial Ottoman milieu that were then transferred ont
o the mandatory, colonial, newly independent, and decolonizing states in
the MENA. Boundaries around political membership, rights of citizenship
, and collective identity were reshaped in the interwar period against t
he backdrop of rising nationalism, anticolonialism, and the tensions bet
ween Islamism and secularism, on the one hand, but also alongside new mo
des of liberalism, socioeconomic transformation, and urban participation
, on the other. As a result, MENA communities navigated belonging and un
belonging with at times violent and tragic for its Jewish and other non-
Muslim communities.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/empires-o
rphans/
LOCATION:124 Sparks Building
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