Rereading the British mandate in Palestine: Gender and the urban-rural divide in education

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 338-342

  Jad, Islah ^a  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FOREIGN POLICY; GENDER IDENTITY; POLITICAL HISTORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE;

EID: 34547651090     PISSN: 00207438     EISSN: 14716380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002074380707047X     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Abdel-Latif al-Tibawi, Arab Education in Mandatory Palestine: A Study of Three Decades of British Administration (London: Luzac, 1956), 270-71.
2. A Survey of Palestine Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the Information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, vol. II (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1991), 635.
3. Al-Tibawi, Arab Education, 27-28.
4. Ibid., 37.
5. Ibid., 80.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., 160-62.
8. Ibid., 229.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., 24-25.
11. Ibid., 82.
12. It is particularly striking to note that mostly Muslim rural schools were teaching female students to embroider St. George (England's patron saint) killing the dragon with his long spear. To this day, it is common to see embroidery of this and other Christian saints hanging on the walls of peasants' houses.
13. Al-Tibawi, Arab Education, 89.
14. Ibid., 173.
15. Ibid., 34.
16. Ibid., 50.
17. Ibid., 60.
18. Ibid., 64.
19. Ibid.
20. Personal interview with Im Salim, n.d.
21. Wadi'aa Khartabil, Bahthan 'an al-Amal wa-l-Watan (In Search of Hope and Homeland), Wadi'aa Qadoura Khartabil's Dairy, 1936-1990 (Lebanon: Bissan Publication, 1995), 39.
22. Sa'ida Jarallah cited in Ellen Fleischmann, The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement 1920-1948 (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2003)