2017/05/01 by Camelia Suleiman · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Multilingual Education and Policy #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Arabic #Hebrew #Politics #Ethnography #Semitic languages #Political science #Arabic languages #Linguistics #Sociology #Anthropology #Law #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420860.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2017/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Arabic became a minority language in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalise Arabic on the one hand, and secutise it on the other. The book delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis. It combines qualitative methods not commonly used together in the study of Arabic in Israel, including ethnography, interviews with journalists and students, media discussions, and analysis of the production of knowledge on Arabic in Israeli academia.