DS125.T29

1 • Introduction: Rafiq Bey’s Public Spectacles 2 • Arabs, Turks, and Monkeys: The Ethnography and Cartography of Ottoman Syria 3 • The Sweet Aroma of Holy Sewage: Urban Planning and the New Public Sphere in Palestine 4 • A “Scientific Expedition” to Gallipoli: The Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia Divided 5 • Two Faces of Palestinian Orthodoxy: Hellenism, Arabness, and Osmenlilik 6 • A Farcical Moment: Narratives of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nablus 7 • Adele Azar’s Notebook: Charity and Feminism 8 • Ottoman Modernity and the Biblical Gaze

This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere. New urban sensibilities, schools, monuments, public parks, railways, and roads catalyzed by the Great War and described in detail by Salim Tamari show a world that challenges the politically driven denial of the existence of Palestine as a geographic, cultural, political, and economic space.