Nationality in the Arab World, 1830-1960: Negotiating Belonging and the Law

Algerians who were annexed to a state but had to imagine a nation of their own; Palestinians who consider themselves members of a nation but do not belong to an internationally recognized state: these two cases may seem extreme but they constitute only a few of the multiple configurations brought out by the question of nationality in the Arab world from the 1830s (the beginning of the slow fragmentation of the Ottoman empire) to the 1960s (the disappearance of colonial authorities in North Af...