Abstract
“Palestinians” refers to the inhabitants of the corridor between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean before the 1948 Palestinian dispossession and the birth of the state of Israel. For much of the twentieth century, Palestinian identity revolved around this mass exodus. However, the roots of Palestinian national identity go back at least as far as the second half of the nineteenth century. People in Ottoman lands were experimenting with different ideas of nationhood and citizenship. Today as in the past, Palestinian nationhood is challenged by competing ideas from within, but at the same time by the encounter with Jewish nationalism.
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