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Heritage and tHe Cultural Struggle for PaleStine Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Chiar a De Ce sari H e r i t a g e a n d t H e C u l t u r a l S t r u g g l e f o r P a l e S t i n e stanforD University Press • stanforD, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, elec- tronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: De Cesari, Chiara, author. Title: Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine / Chiara De Cesari. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019. | Series: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018047094 (print) | LCCN 2018049210 (ebook) ISBN 9781503600515(cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503609389 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503609396 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: West Bank--Cultural policy. | Cultural property—West Bank. | National museums—West Bank. | Historic sites—Conservation and restoration—West Bank. | Palestinian Arabs—Politics and government—1993. Classification: LCC DS110.W47 (ebook) | LCC DS110.W47 D4 2019 (print) | DDC 363.6/90956942—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047094 Cover design: Rob Ehle Cover art: “Hassan on a Bicycle,” from the book Hassan Everywhere, 2007, by Hassan Hourani. Courtesy of the Hourani family. Typeset by Newgen in 10/15 Minion Pro For Ada, Angela, and Anna This page intentionally left blank ContentS Note on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Stakes of Heritage and the Politics of Culture 1 1 A Political History of Palestinian Heritage 36 2 Government Through Heritage in Old Hebron 78 3 Heritage, NGOs, and State Making 116 4 Palestinian National Museums Post-Oslo 156 Conclusion: Cultural Governmentality and Activist Statehood 195 Notes 209 References 239 Index 261 This page intentionally left blank no te on tranSliteration In transliterating Arabic words and names, I have used a simplified version of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) system, excluding diacritical marks and long vowels. Common English forms of Arabic names that are often found in the scholarly literature are used, for example in the case of authors such as Tawfiq Canaan or Nazmi al-Jubeh, or the name of organiza- tions such as Inash al-Usra. I have used a single opening quotation mark to transliterate the ‘ayn (‘), and a single closing quotation mark for the hamza (’). In several cases, the transliteration reflects the colloquial Levantine Arabic spo- ken in Palestine rather than the standard literary language: the transliteration of dialect therefore can deviate from the IJMES system. This page intentionally left blank
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