Scouting in Mandate Palestine

Abstract

AbstractDrawing on unpublished documents held in the Israel State Archives (Jerusalem), the National Archives (Kew) and the Middle East Centre Archive (Oxford), this article examines the history of the Arab boy scout movement in Palestine under British rule. Using scouting as a case study in the history of imperial education, it charts the development of the movement from the immediate post-war period, when British officials encouraged it to flourish as a cornerstone of mandatory educational policy, to the later 1920s and 30s, when Palestinians began to put scouting to radically different uses.