Beersheba Region, Southern Ottoman Palestine: Land, Society, and State

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  • Mansour Nasasra

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Beersheba, Ottoman Palestine, Southern Palestine, Land, Society

Abstract

Ahmad Amara, Beersheba Region, Southern Ottoman Palestine: Land, Society, and State (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2024), pp. 344.

References

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  2. Aref al-Aref, Tārīkh Biʾr al-Sabaʿ wa-Qabāʾilihā (Cairo: Maktabat Madbouli, 1999). Press, 2018).
  3. These include: Mansour Nasasra, The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018); Alexandre Kedar, Ahmad Amara & Oren Yiftachel, Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev (Stanford: Stanford University
  4. Ahmad Amara, Diyār Biʾr al-Sabaʿ, Janūb Filasṭīn al-ʿUthmānī: al-Arḍ wa-l-Mujtamaʿ wa-l-Dawla (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2024).
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  7. The conferences resulted in a book and several studies, notably: Mansour Nasasra et al. (eds.), The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2014); Sophie Richter-Devroe, Mansour Nasasra & Richard Ratcliffe, “The Politics of Representation: The Case of the Naqab Bedouin,” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies , vol. 15, no. 1 (2016), pp. 1-6.
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  13. Mansour Nasasra & Bruce Stanley, “Assembling Urban Worlds: Always–Becoming Urban in and Through Bir al-Saba,” Urban History , vol. 51, no. 2 (2024).
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