"This volume originated in a conference held at the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University in 2013, Minorities of the Modern Middle East."--Acknowledgments page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-300) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Conceptualizing Minorities -- 1. From Millet to Minority -- Another Look at the Non-Muslim Communities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Peter Sluglett -- 2. Across Confessional Borders -- Microhistory of Ottoman Christians and Their Migratory Paths / Jacob Norris -- 3. Becoming a Sectarian Minority -- Arab Christians in Twentieth-Century Palestine / Laura Robson -- 4. Egypt and Its Jews -- Specter of an Absent Minority / Joel Beinin -- pt. TWO Minorities, Nationalism, and Cultural "Authenticity" -- 5. When Anticolonialism Meets Antifascism -- Modern Jewish Intellectuals in Baghdad / Aline Schlaepfer -- 6. Assyrians and the Iraqi Communist Party -- Revolution, Urbanization, and the Quest for Equality / Alda Benjamen -- 7. Struggle over Egyptianness -- Case Study of the Nayruz Festival / Hiroko Miyokawa -- 8. From Minority to Majority -- Inscribing the Mahra and Touareg into the Arab Nation / Samuel Liebhaber -- pt. THREE Minorities in the Transnational Were -- 9. Tunisia's Minority Mosaic -- Constructing a National Narrative / David Bond -- 10. Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East -- Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine / Liora R. Halperin -- 11. Chaldean Church between Iraq and America -- Transnational Social Field Perspective / Yasmeen Hanoosh -- 12. Permanent Temporariness in Berlin -- Case of an Arab Muslim Minority in Germany / Lucia Volk.

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