CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Note on Transliteration ix
1. Introduction: The Case Study of Palestine during the Young Turk Era 1
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Eyal Ginio
Part I Citizenship, Election and Social Change
2. Making Citizens, Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine 17
Michelle U. Campos
3. Elections in Late Ottoman Palestine: Early Exercises in Political Representation 35
Mahmoud Yazbak
4. Children of the Revolution: Youth in Palestinian Public Life, 1908–14 55
Johann Büssow
Part II The ‛Civilizing Mission’ and Center-Periphery Relationships
5. Jerusalem and Jaffa in the Late Ottoman Period: The Concession-Hunting
Struggle for Public Works Projects 81
Yasemin Avcı
6. Understanding the 1911 Ottoman Parliament Debate on
Zionism in Light of the Emergence of a ‛Jewish Question’ 103
Louis Fishman
7. Jerusalem under the Young Turks: A Study Based on Local Sources 125
Issam Nassar
Part III Intellectual Responses
8. Arab-Ottomanists’ Reactions to the Young Turk Revolution 145
Butrus Abu-Manneh
9. Jews Writing in Arabic: Shimon Moyal, Nissim Malul and the Mixed
Palestinian/Eretz Israeli Locale 165
Abigail Jacobson
10. The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 as Reflected in the Media of the Jewish
Community in Palestine 183
Ruth Kark and Nadav Solomonovich
Part IV Inter- and Intra-Communal Relationships
11. Administrating the Non-Muslims and the ‛Question of Jerusalem’ after the Young
Turk Revolution 211
Bedross Der Matossian
12. The Zionist Struggle as Reflected in the Jewish Press
in Istanbul in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution, 1908–18 241
Yaron Ben Naeh
13. The Young Turks and the Baha’is in Palestine 259
Necati Alkan
Bibliography 279
Index 299