The Palestinian diaspora currently comprises roughly five and a half million people. Dollar, Dove, and Eagle, based on historical and ethnographic research in Honduras, Israel, and the West Bank, is the first full-length description of Palestinian immigration to Latin America.

This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The experiences in the region of these two groups have never been the subject of joint and comprehensive scrutiny. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews. Their arrival was largely unexpected, and in some cases frankly undesired and practically banned. br br Negotiating national identity was never easy, and many of this volume's multidisciplinary cast of authors examine discrimination and prejudice as a component of Arab and Jewish life in the region. These cultural, economic and political (public) negotiations left neither side unchanged: while Latin American society and post-migratory immigrant identities have been in a constant state of flux, the elite's desired homogenization of national or cultural identity has been precluded to this day.

This study addresses the Palestinian emigration from Ottoman and British Palestine to Latin America, with a focus on the Diaspora created in Honduras. Through migration, diaspora and acculturation theory it analyzes the diaspora and the migration itself. A historical approach analyzes the factors that led to the emigration while field research allows for an in-depth analysis of the Diaspora today and how it has evolved. It hypothesizes that the Palestinian Diaspora in Honduras has enjoyed great economic success at the cost of deteriorating relations with the non-Palestinian population. Additionally, it hypothesizes that these Palestinians have no intentions on returning to their homeland, and thus will remain in their host country. The study also compares the Palestinian Diaspora in Chile with that of Honduras. Furthermore, through a comparative analysis it draws differences and similarities between the Jewish and Palestinian migration and subsequent Diasporas in both Chile and Honduras. Through surveys, interviews and focus-groups, it concludes that the hypotheses are correct and that while Palestinians have enjoyed economic success, their image within Honduran society has suffered. Additionally they do not intend to return to their homeland. It also introduces the difference between Honduras' two main cities; Tegucigalpa, the capital, and San Pedro Sula, economic and commercial center of the country. Relations between the Palestinian Diaspora and the native population are strained in San Pedro Sula more so than in Tegucigalpa.

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.

"Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of these experiences."--From p. [4] of cover.

Inventing the national and citizen in Palestine : Great Britain, sovereignty and the legislative context, 1918-1925 -- The notion of 'rights' and the practices of nationality and citizenship from the Palestinian Arab perspective, 1918-1925 -- The diaspora and the meanings of Palestinian citizenship, 1925-1931 -- Institutionalising citizenship : creating distinctions between Arab and Jewish Palestinian citizens, 1926-1934 -- Whose rights to citizenship? Expressions and variations of Palestinian mandate citizenship, 1926-1935 -- The Palestine revolt and stalled citizenship -- Conclusion. The end of the experiment : discourses on citizenship at the close of the mandate.