• DOI:10.2307/2535866
• Corpus ID: 154824548

Arab Cultural Nationalism in Palestine during the British Mandate

@article{AbuGhazaleh1972ArabCN,
  title={Arab Cultural Nationalism in Palestine during the British Mandate},
  author={Adnan Mohammed Abu-Ghazaleh},
  journal={Journal of Palestine Studies},
  year={1972},
  volume={1},
  pages={37-63}
}

• Adnan Mohammed Abu-Ghazaleh
• Published 1 April 1972
• Sociology
• Journal of Palestine Studies

The Arab world of the nineteenth century witnessed a marked cultulal and national revival. With Beirut and Cairo as its centres, there arose a new climate of Arabic literature, journalism, cultural societies and increasingly nationalistic ideas. This atmosphere left its mark upon the young elite of a number of Arab regions, inicluding Palestinians who were later to become exponents of cultural nationalism in their country. Among those involved in Arab cultural and nationalist activities in their pre-1914 student days abroad were a number of the most influential older writers and scholars of Mandatory Palestine, including the historians Mohammed Rafiq al-Tamimi and Arif al-Arif, and Adil Zu'aitir, the translator whose works later introduced many Palestinians to Western ideas.1 Arabs from Palestine took part in some of the better known nationalist episodes of the time; in 1904, for instance, Najib Azuri of Jerusalem launched a campaign from Paris for Arab independence through his Ligue de la patrie arabe, with fiery appeals to the Arabs of Syria and Iraq to overthrow their Ottoman oppressors. The Arab Revolt of 1915 numbered Palestinians in its ranks, and the memoirs of Arif al-Arif vividly express one nationalist's feelings when they tell of the author's escape from a Siberian prison camp, along with twenty other Ottoman Arab captives all of them