S3E44: Palestine's People - 1,400 Years of Pluralism and Connection to the Land

Nov 8 2023 • 1 hr 9 mins

This is the history of Palestinians from the rise of Islam to now.

In this episode, I ask my guest, Dr. Maha Nassar, the following questions:

Did Palestinians have a distinct identity prior to the dominance of this region by Arab rulers?
Were they called Palestinians? Was their homeland called Palestine?
Were they called Arabs?
What was the religion of Palestinians before Islam?
Were the Palestinians who converted to Islam different ethnically than those who adhered to Christianity?
From what period was the area called Palestine?
Was Gaza a distinct subset of the province of Palestine?
When and in what form did Palestinians establish a polity in this area?
Was Palestine a province of other kingdoms or empires?
How is Americans' notion of nationhood and peoplehood different than Palestinians?
Are there Jewish Palestinians?
Is there anything about the Crusades that you think changed the religious dynamic of this region?
Do the Crusades provide us with any lessons for our current moment?
Do we have the same amount of scholarship into the history of the Palestinian people?
If you wanted our audience to remember just one point about “the history of the Palestinian people”, what would it be?

Dr. Nassar is a professor of Middle Eastern history and Islamic Studies at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies of the University of Arizona.

Her first monograph is titled Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab, and her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Palestine's People.

Middle East Series: This episode is part of our Middle East Series, in which we have already had several conversations about the amazing history of the Jewish people - when they identified themselves as Jewish and when they adopted Judaism, the long history of their coexistence with Muslims, and the fascinating history of how they preserved their Jewish identity during more than 2,000 years of diaspora. we have also analyzed politics in Israel, specifically Mr. Netanyahu's attempts at judicial overhaul and the mass protests in opposition to it.

Our Middle East Series also includes several episodes about the histories of Iran, Tukiye and Lebanon.

I hope you enjoy these episodes.

Adel, host & producer

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