The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Political and Security Considerations in the Making of Arabic Language Studies in Israel, by Yonatan Mendel

The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Political and Security Considerations in the Making of Arabic Language Studies in Israel, by Yonatan Mendel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 321 pages. $110.00 cloth, $79.99 e-book.

REVIEWED BY MUHAMMAD AMARA

Muhammad Amara, head of the graduate studies at Beit Berl College, is the author of Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian Border Villages (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1999), and, together with Abd al-Rahman Mar’i, is coauthor of Language Education Policy: The Arab Minority in Israel (New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).