A Political Ontology of Land: Rooting Syrian Identity in the Occupied Golan Heights

What is it about?

In the occupied Golan Heights, the native Arab population has resisted Israeli efforts to marginalise them. They identify themselves as 'Jawlani' (Syrian Golani) in opposition to the Israeli lack of recognition of their culture and territory. This Jawlani identity is promoted through an idea of steadfastness ('sumud'), by which the Jawlani people participate in collective land and water management, particularly apple growing.

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