The naming of streets is part of the ongoing process of mapping the boundaries of the nation. The authors examine three datasets of Arab-Palestinian street names (pre-1948 Haifa and Jerusalem, and post-1948 Umm el Fahm) to illustrate locally constructed ‘texts of identity’ in the historical and political context of their official creation. The authors plot the ideological orientations represented and the political messages entailed in these three different textual manifestations of Arab-Palestinian national identity, and focus on notions of historical and cultural heritage as expressed in the choice of street names. The authors offer an interpretative evaluation of this process, by placing it within broader ideological and historical contexts. contexts.
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