A professor of Sociology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Author of numerous publications on the relationship between national identity, citizenship, women's identity and political socialization in public schools. Currently, conducting two new research projects. the first focuses on the multi-facet nature of racism in the USA, and the second, the representation of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in high education textbooks. Address: Whippany, New Jersey, United States
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13537110490467685, Aug 16, 2010
... DOI: 10.1080/13537110490467685 RIAD NASSER a pages 221-249. ... 30. See Said al-Durrah, Abbas... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13537110490467685 RIAD NASSER a pages 221-249. ... 30. See Said al-Durrah, Abbass al Kird, and Muhammad Ali al-Shami, Tarikh al-Haddarah al-Arabyyahal-Islamyyah [The Arab-Islamic History](Amman, Jordan: Mattabi'a al-Sharikah al-Thulathyyah, 1967 ...
... for Palestinian Israelis, who now comprise 20% of the population, and the other for Jewish Is... more ... for Palestinian Israelis, who now comprise 20% of the population, and the other for Jewish Israelis. ... The officer acted as the deputy to the general director of the Arab Education Division ... memory and identity of each national group but, more significantly, may shape inter‐group ...
This study examines the notion of citizenship as a form of political identity in a multi-national... more This study examines the notion of citizenship as a form of political identity in a multi-national and multi-ethnic state such as Israel. In an effort to understand the strategies by which citizenship of Palestinians and Jews in Israel is defined, this research analyses civic studies textbooks currently used in Israeli public schools. The study asks whether the notion of citizenship is drawn from universal or particularistic- ethnic principles; what the boundaries of the demos are, and how citizens’ economic, social, political and civil rights are defined. It focuses on the analysis of the ethos of citizenship and the internal Logos that sustainitasacoherentdiscourseincivicstudiestextbooks.Theoretically,thestudy examines basic concepts of citizenship and nationhood in a multi-ethnic society such as Israel. It re-examines ethnic groups’ right to self-determination against individual and collective minority rights based on universal principles. This case adds to the understanding of the complex relationship between the particularistic and the universal forms of political identity, nationalism and citizenship.
This study analyzes school history textbooks to discuss how the Jordanian national narrative cons... more This study analyzes school history textbooks to discuss how the Jordanian national narrative constructs the nation through exclusion. It argues that the Jordanian identity is achieved dialectically by simultaneously advocating for multiple identification with pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism; a strategy that makes it possible for that narrative to exclude the majority of Jordan's population, the Palestinians. Theoretically, the article argues that national identity is polycentric; it is not unidimensional. It applies the polycentric approach to expand the theoretical scope of the study of Arab nationalism. In addition, the article offers a practical analytical tool to the analysis of identity in history school textbooks.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13537110490467685, Aug 16, 2010
... DOI: 10.1080/13537110490467685 RIAD NASSER a pages 221-249. ... 30. See Said al-Durrah, Abbas... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13537110490467685 RIAD NASSER a pages 221-249. ... 30. See Said al-Durrah, Abbass al Kird, and Muhammad Ali al-Shami, Tarikh al-Haddarah al-Arabyyahal-Islamyyah [The Arab-Islamic History](Amman, Jordan: Mattabi'a al-Sharikah al-Thulathyyah, 1967 ...
... for Palestinian Israelis, who now comprise 20% of the population, and the other for Jewish Is... more ... for Palestinian Israelis, who now comprise 20% of the population, and the other for Jewish Israelis. ... The officer acted as the deputy to the general director of the Arab Education Division ... memory and identity of each national group but, more significantly, may shape inter‐group ...
This study examines the notion of citizenship as a form of political identity in a multi-national... more This study examines the notion of citizenship as a form of political identity in a multi-national and multi-ethnic state such as Israel. In an effort to understand the strategies by which citizenship of Palestinians and Jews in Israel is defined, this research analyses civic studies textbooks currently used in Israeli public schools. The study asks whether the notion of citizenship is drawn from universal or particularistic- ethnic principles; what the boundaries of the demos are, and how citizens’ economic, social, political and civil rights are defined. It focuses on the analysis of the ethos of citizenship and the internal Logos that sustainitasacoherentdiscourseincivicstudiestextbooks.Theoretically,thestudy examines basic concepts of citizenship and nationhood in a multi-ethnic society such as Israel. It re-examines ethnic groups’ right to self-determination against individual and collective minority rights based on universal principles. This case adds to the understanding of the complex relationship between the particularistic and the universal forms of political identity, nationalism and citizenship.
This study analyzes school history textbooks to discuss how the Jordanian national narrative cons... more This study analyzes school history textbooks to discuss how the Jordanian national narrative constructs the nation through exclusion. It argues that the Jordanian identity is achieved dialectically by simultaneously advocating for multiple identification with pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism; a strategy that makes it possible for that narrative to exclude the majority of Jordan's population, the Palestinians. Theoretically, the article argues that national identity is polycentric; it is not unidimensional. It applies the polycentric approach to expand the theoretical scope of the study of Arab nationalism. In addition, the article offers a practical analytical tool to the analysis of identity in history school textbooks.
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