Palestine

Professor Nur Masalha is a Palestinian writer, historian and academic. He is currently a member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is editor of the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. His books include: Expulsion of the Palestinians (1992); A Land Without a People (1997); The Politics of Denial (2003); The Bible and Zionism (Zed 2007); The Palestine Nakba (Zed 2012); and An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (with Nahla Abdo, Zed 2018).

[Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History] delves into the rich heritage of Palestine and Palestinians, revealing cultures and societies with remarkable depth and continuity … Eloquently presented and argued.

• Introduction1. The Philistines and Philistia as a Distinct Geo-political Entity: Late Bronze Age to 500 BC2. The Conception of Palestine in Classical Antiquity and During the Hellenistic Empires (500?135 BC)3. From Philistia to Provincia ‘Syria Palaestina’ (135 AD?390 AD): The Administrative Province of Roman Palestine4. The (Three in One) Provincia Palaestina: The Three Administrative Provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th?Early 7th Centuries AD)5. Arab Christian Palestine: The Pre-Islamic Arab Kings, Bishops and Poets and Tribes of Provincia Palaestina (3rd?Early 7th Centuries AD)6. The Arab Province of Jund Filastin (638?1099 AD): Continuities, Adaption and Transformation of Palestine under Islam7. Between Egypt and al-Sham: Palestine during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods8. Palestinian Statehood in the 18th Century: Early Modernities and Practical Sovereignty in Palestine9. Being Palestine, Becoming Palestine: Rediscovery and New Representations of Modern Palestine and their Impact on Palestinian National Identity10. Settler-colonialism and Disinheriting the Palestinians: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place Names by the Israeli State