4 Complex patterns of cultural allegiances: The ethnic identity of Palestinian Christian Arab adolescents in Israel

Gabriel Horenczyk and Salim Munayer

M. lives in a large city in the north of Israel. He defines himself as a Palestinian Christian Arab with Israeli citizenship. As a Palestinian, he shares the fate of his people in Israel, in the West Bank, and in the Palestinian Diaspora, striving for some type of national self-determination. As a Christian, M. is historically and theologically connected to Christians all over the world, and especially to Christianity in the Western world. On the other hand, M. speaks the Arab language and considers himself part of the Arab culture, particularly of the local Arab culture, shared by Muslim and ...

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