Le retour de l’arabité: Arab-Jewish Métissage and Maghrebian Jewish Identity

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Notes

Notes

1. for the purposes of this essay, I understand by métissage very generally any cultural or ethnic mixture, regardless of regional or racial specificity, whether between two or many poles. I understand the term métis as the human individual embodying this concept: an offspring pulling together two or more ethnicities and/or cultures.

2. All translations from the novels are my own.

3. An individual born in Israel, or pre-1948 Palestine.

4. for an exhaustive exposé on this phenomenon, see the documentary Forget Baghdad which documents the cultural life of the Iraqi community in Israel, by Lebanese director Samir.