An Arab population, essentially absent of a national consciousness prior to the twentieth century, forged a collective identity as the Palestinian people spurred conjointly by the forces of modernization and Zionism. The British mandate and

Sonia Sotomayor, a daughter of the Bronx, pledged on Monday to serve as an impartial justice if she is confirmed for a post on the U.S. Supreme Court. She would become the first Hispanic to

The clash of divergent nationalisms within the same territory culminated in the establishment of a sovereign state by one nation, but rendered the other a splintered population devoid of a nation-state. After centuries of