Alex Winder
Brown University, Middle East Studies, Faculty Member
- New York University, MEIS: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Graduate Studentadd
- History, Police and Policing, Social Banditry, Banditry, Palestine, Palestinian Studies, and 30 moreBritish Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), British Empire, Criminal Law, Law and Society, Colonial and Imperial (British) Legal History, Colonialism, Imperialism, Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism, Post Colonial Theory, Nationalism and Decolonization, Belonging and Citizenship, Ethnicity and Nationality, Nation building and State making, Governance and Democracy, Conflict and security, Police History, Crime, Criminal Justice, Middle East Studies, Ottoman Empire, Israel/Palestine, Ottoman History, Jerusalem, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Middle East History, The Palestine Police, British Mandate, Palestine, Legal Pluralism, and Informal Justiceedit
Write-Minded: Jerusalem in Literature Guest Editor: Carol Khoury Join us in exploring the literary legacy of Jerusalem and unravelling the city’s manifold narratives through the lenses of literature. Submit a proposal abstract by 15... more
Write-Minded: Jerusalem in Literature
Guest Editor: Carol Khoury
Join us in exploring the literary legacy of Jerusalem and unravelling the city’s
manifold narratives through the lenses of literature. Submit a proposal abstract by 15 September 2023.
The Jerusalem Quarterly, a leading journal dedicated to the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of Jerusalem, is pleased to announce a call for contributions for a special issue titled “Write-Minded: Jerusalem in Literature.”
A city of immense historical, cultural, and religious significance, Jerusalem has inspired countless literary works, spanning various genres, periods, and
perspectives. JQ invites academic contributions that illuminate the multifaceted representations of Jerusalem in literature, fostering an understanding of the city’s evolving identity as portrayed by writers worldwide.
By exploring the intersections of literature and Jerusalem, this issue aims to delve into the profound literary tapestry woven around Jerusalem, offering a platform for scholarly examination of how literary minds have shaped, challenged, and reimagined the city’s essence, reshaping its symbolism and significance through the power of the written word.
Scope
We encourage authors to delve into the themes, motifs, and symbols through which writers, poets, and intellectuals have represented the city, capturing its complexity and spiritual significance.
“Write-Minded” is seeking to:
1) foster an understanding of how Palestinian and Arab writers have engaged with the city, its heritage, and its struggles, enriching our comprehension of Jerusalem’s central role in Palestinian identity; and
2) highlight the complexities of Jerusalem as experienced, imagined, and
documented through the lens of writers, poets, storytellers, and intellectuals, across time and borders.
We invite innovative and thought-provoking essays that analyse the significance of Jerusalem as a site of and metaphor for human experiences, both collective and individual. Submissions may also explore literary figures associated with the city.
The scope of this special issue is open in terms of historic era, genre, and language of the literary works being studied.
Potential Topics include (but are not limited to):
* Homeland: Examining how Palestinian literature portrays Jerusalem as a symbolic homeland, capturing the city’s emotional and cultural significance for Palestinians.
* Resilience and Resistance: Examining how literature reflects the resilience and resistance of Palestinians in the face of historical and ongoing challenges to Jerusalem’s integrity.
* Memoryscapes and Nostalgia: Reflecting on the city’s influence on personal and collective consciousness, by examining literary representations that preserve and reclaim the collective memory and cultural heritage and how literature reflects the transformation of Jerusalem’s physical and symbolic landscape over the years.
* Personal Journeys: Investigating individual experiences and emotions related to Jerusalem, as depicted in autobiographical or fictional accounts.
* Diaspora: Investigating how writers in the diaspora have connected with and depicted Jerusalem in their works, exploring themes of longing, belonging, and displacement.
* Poetry, Songs, and Chants: Unravelling the poetic expressions that encapsulate the essence of Jerusalem in Palestinian poetry, songs, and chants, reflecting on the city’s beauty, pain, and hope.
* Myth and Legend: Unravelling the mythical and legendary dimensions of Jerusalem’s representation in literature, examining how stories have transcended time and space.
* Sacredness: Examining the portrayal of Jerusalem’s religious and spiritual significance in literary texts from various traditions.
* Fictional and Historical Characters of Jerusalem: Analysing iconic literary characters related to Jerusalem and their impact on shaping the city’s image, and the role the city played in shaping their works.
* Jerusalem and National Identity: Understanding how literature contributes to shaping Palestinian national identity through Jerusalem’s historical and political context.
* Jerusalem as a Character: Analysing the portrayal of Jerusalem as a character in literature, observing its impact on plot development and thematic exploration.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original articles, essays, or pieces for JQ’s permanent sections that align with the theme of the special issue. JQ is particularly interested in submissions that address Jerusalem in non-
Anglophone literature.
The editors encourage collaborative proposals. The digital format of JQ has the advantage of allowing published articles to include audio and video sources, as well.
Research articles will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, ensuring academic rigor and originality.
Authors are requested to adhere to JQ’s Submission Guidelines, available at:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jq/how-to-submit
Process and Deadlines
Please send a proposal abstract of 300–500 words to the managing editor: jq@palestine-studies.org; and to the guest editor: ckhoury@palestine-studies.org.
The abstract should give a clear sense of the scope and argument of the proposed manuscript, and its connection to the issue’s themes.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2023
Accepted proposals will be asked to submit a full manuscript draft by: 12
November 2023
The Jerusalem Quarterly plans to publish the special issue in 2024. For inquiries or further information, please contact the guest editor of the special issue, Carol Khoury, at ckhoury@palestine-studies.org.
Guest Editor: Carol Khoury
Join us in exploring the literary legacy of Jerusalem and unravelling the city’s
manifold narratives through the lenses of literature. Submit a proposal abstract by 15 September 2023.
The Jerusalem Quarterly, a leading journal dedicated to the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of Jerusalem, is pleased to announce a call for contributions for a special issue titled “Write-Minded: Jerusalem in Literature.”
A city of immense historical, cultural, and religious significance, Jerusalem has inspired countless literary works, spanning various genres, periods, and
perspectives. JQ invites academic contributions that illuminate the multifaceted representations of Jerusalem in literature, fostering an understanding of the city’s evolving identity as portrayed by writers worldwide.
By exploring the intersections of literature and Jerusalem, this issue aims to delve into the profound literary tapestry woven around Jerusalem, offering a platform for scholarly examination of how literary minds have shaped, challenged, and reimagined the city’s essence, reshaping its symbolism and significance through the power of the written word.
Scope
We encourage authors to delve into the themes, motifs, and symbols through which writers, poets, and intellectuals have represented the city, capturing its complexity and spiritual significance.
“Write-Minded” is seeking to:
1) foster an understanding of how Palestinian and Arab writers have engaged with the city, its heritage, and its struggles, enriching our comprehension of Jerusalem’s central role in Palestinian identity; and
2) highlight the complexities of Jerusalem as experienced, imagined, and
documented through the lens of writers, poets, storytellers, and intellectuals, across time and borders.
We invite innovative and thought-provoking essays that analyse the significance of Jerusalem as a site of and metaphor for human experiences, both collective and individual. Submissions may also explore literary figures associated with the city.
The scope of this special issue is open in terms of historic era, genre, and language of the literary works being studied.
Potential Topics include (but are not limited to):
* Homeland: Examining how Palestinian literature portrays Jerusalem as a symbolic homeland, capturing the city’s emotional and cultural significance for Palestinians.
* Resilience and Resistance: Examining how literature reflects the resilience and resistance of Palestinians in the face of historical and ongoing challenges to Jerusalem’s integrity.
* Memoryscapes and Nostalgia: Reflecting on the city’s influence on personal and collective consciousness, by examining literary representations that preserve and reclaim the collective memory and cultural heritage and how literature reflects the transformation of Jerusalem’s physical and symbolic landscape over the years.
* Personal Journeys: Investigating individual experiences and emotions related to Jerusalem, as depicted in autobiographical or fictional accounts.
* Diaspora: Investigating how writers in the diaspora have connected with and depicted Jerusalem in their works, exploring themes of longing, belonging, and displacement.
* Poetry, Songs, and Chants: Unravelling the poetic expressions that encapsulate the essence of Jerusalem in Palestinian poetry, songs, and chants, reflecting on the city’s beauty, pain, and hope.
* Myth and Legend: Unravelling the mythical and legendary dimensions of Jerusalem’s representation in literature, examining how stories have transcended time and space.
* Sacredness: Examining the portrayal of Jerusalem’s religious and spiritual significance in literary texts from various traditions.
* Fictional and Historical Characters of Jerusalem: Analysing iconic literary characters related to Jerusalem and their impact on shaping the city’s image, and the role the city played in shaping their works.
* Jerusalem and National Identity: Understanding how literature contributes to shaping Palestinian national identity through Jerusalem’s historical and political context.
* Jerusalem as a Character: Analysing the portrayal of Jerusalem as a character in literature, observing its impact on plot development and thematic exploration.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original articles, essays, or pieces for JQ’s permanent sections that align with the theme of the special issue. JQ is particularly interested in submissions that address Jerusalem in non-
Anglophone literature.
The editors encourage collaborative proposals. The digital format of JQ has the advantage of allowing published articles to include audio and video sources, as well.
Research articles will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, ensuring academic rigor and originality.
Authors are requested to adhere to JQ’s Submission Guidelines, available at:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jq/how-to-submit
Process and Deadlines
Please send a proposal abstract of 300–500 words to the managing editor: jq@palestine-studies.org; and to the guest editor: ckhoury@palestine-studies.org.
The abstract should give a clear sense of the scope and argument of the proposed manuscript, and its connection to the issue’s themes.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2023
Accepted proposals will be asked to submit a full manuscript draft by: 12
November 2023
The Jerusalem Quarterly plans to publish the special issue in 2024. For inquiries or further information, please contact the guest editor of the special issue, Carol Khoury, at ckhoury@palestine-studies.org.
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Arabic Literature, Literature, Literary Criticism, Israel/Palestine, and 13 morePalestine, Palestinian Literature, Modern Arabic Literature, Palestinian Culture, Jerusalem, History of Palestine and Israel, Palestinian Studies, Palestinian Cinema, Lebanese Cinema, Arab Cinema, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cultural Studies, Ethnology, Cultural Production, Film, Art, Theatre, Social Media, Art and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians in Israel, and Arabic Language and Literature
A special issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly: Palestinian Food and Foodways Guest Editor: Christiane Dabdoub Nasser The Jerusalem Quarterly, a leading journal dedicated to the past, present, and future of Jerusalem and its environs, and to... more
A special issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly: Palestinian Food and Foodways
Guest Editor: Christiane Dabdoub Nasser
The Jerusalem Quarterly, a leading journal dedicated to the past, present, and
future of Jerusalem and its environs, and to Palestinian society and culture within and beyond Palestine’s borders, is pleased to announce a call for contributions for a special issue dedicated to food and foodways. Please submit proposal abstracts by 15 September 2023 (see below for details).
Food is a core element of Palestinian culture, linked to individual memories of people and places and central to communal gatherings and collective identity. Food reflects both material and psychological or imaginative dimensions of Palestinian life—from local food production to the trade routes and economic networks that bring ingredients to and from Palestine, from the preservation of traditions to the innovation of new culinary trends. Food plays a central role in practices associated with hospitality, charity, ritual, and celebration. It is associated with local and regional identities, with particular places (regions, cities, neighborhoods, restaurants) and times (times of the day, festivals or holidays, seasons), and thus illuminates the diversity and texture of Palestinianness.
We encourage contributors to explore the variety of cultural, historical, political, and economic dimensions of food and foodways of Palestine and Palestinians, though special consideration will be given to topics related to Jerusalem and its environs.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
* Palestinian cuisine within Greater Syria, including the impact of trade routes and regional and imperial influences from the Ottoman era to the present.
* Urban versus rural practices in the evolution of Palestinian cuisine
* The impact of the Nakba on Palestinian food, including the rupture of displacement and dispossession and the recreating of Palestinian cuisine in “refugeedom.”
* Food as a way of storing the past and Palestinian diaspora cuisine as an avenue for creating food memories, recreating home, preserving identity, and asserting Palestinianness.
* Palestinian food practices within the dialectic of immigration and assimilation, whether as a means of narrative construction or a search for identification, self-understanding, and commonality.
* The role of gender in Palestinian cuisine and changes in foodways, in which women serve as primary carriers of culinary traditions, and men as claimants to the title of chef.
* The emergence of Palestinian cuisine on the world scene, as a cultural phenomenon or a form of resistance.
* Processes of claiming and reclaiming Palestinian cuisine, including transformations and processes of inclusion/exclusion or re-imagining ethnic identity/integration.
* Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian cuisine as a material manifestation of a form of regional acculturation and indigeneity (sabra culture) or a form of erasing the Palestinian past.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit proposals for original articles, essays, or pieces for JQ’s permanent sections that align with the theme of the special issue. The editors encourage collaborative proposals as well as proposals that take advantage of JQ’s digital format to include audio or video sources.
Authors are requested to adhere to JQ’s Submission Guidelines, available at:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jq/how-to-submit. Research articles will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, ensuring academic rigor and
originality.
Process and Deadlines
Please send a proposal abstract of 300–500 words to the managing editor: jq@palestine-studies.org; and to the guest editor: chriae@gmail.com. The abstract should give a clear sense of the scope and/or argument of the proposed manuscript and its connection to the issue’s themes.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2023
Accepted proposals will be asked to submit a full manuscript draft by: 15 January 2024
The Jerusalem Quarterly plans to publish the special issue in 2024.
For inquiries or further information, please contact the guest editor of the special issue, Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, at chriae@gmail.com.
Guest Editor: Christiane Dabdoub Nasser
The Jerusalem Quarterly, a leading journal dedicated to the past, present, and
future of Jerusalem and its environs, and to Palestinian society and culture within and beyond Palestine’s borders, is pleased to announce a call for contributions for a special issue dedicated to food and foodways. Please submit proposal abstracts by 15 September 2023 (see below for details).
Food is a core element of Palestinian culture, linked to individual memories of people and places and central to communal gatherings and collective identity. Food reflects both material and psychological or imaginative dimensions of Palestinian life—from local food production to the trade routes and economic networks that bring ingredients to and from Palestine, from the preservation of traditions to the innovation of new culinary trends. Food plays a central role in practices associated with hospitality, charity, ritual, and celebration. It is associated with local and regional identities, with particular places (regions, cities, neighborhoods, restaurants) and times (times of the day, festivals or holidays, seasons), and thus illuminates the diversity and texture of Palestinianness.
We encourage contributors to explore the variety of cultural, historical, political, and economic dimensions of food and foodways of Palestine and Palestinians, though special consideration will be given to topics related to Jerusalem and its environs.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
* Palestinian cuisine within Greater Syria, including the impact of trade routes and regional and imperial influences from the Ottoman era to the present.
* Urban versus rural practices in the evolution of Palestinian cuisine
* The impact of the Nakba on Palestinian food, including the rupture of displacement and dispossession and the recreating of Palestinian cuisine in “refugeedom.”
* Food as a way of storing the past and Palestinian diaspora cuisine as an avenue for creating food memories, recreating home, preserving identity, and asserting Palestinianness.
* Palestinian food practices within the dialectic of immigration and assimilation, whether as a means of narrative construction or a search for identification, self-understanding, and commonality.
* The role of gender in Palestinian cuisine and changes in foodways, in which women serve as primary carriers of culinary traditions, and men as claimants to the title of chef.
* The emergence of Palestinian cuisine on the world scene, as a cultural phenomenon or a form of resistance.
* Processes of claiming and reclaiming Palestinian cuisine, including transformations and processes of inclusion/exclusion or re-imagining ethnic identity/integration.
* Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian cuisine as a material manifestation of a form of regional acculturation and indigeneity (sabra culture) or a form of erasing the Palestinian past.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit proposals for original articles, essays, or pieces for JQ’s permanent sections that align with the theme of the special issue. The editors encourage collaborative proposals as well as proposals that take advantage of JQ’s digital format to include audio or video sources.
Authors are requested to adhere to JQ’s Submission Guidelines, available at:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jq/how-to-submit. Research articles will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, ensuring academic rigor and
originality.
Process and Deadlines
Please send a proposal abstract of 300–500 words to the managing editor: jq@palestine-studies.org; and to the guest editor: chriae@gmail.com. The abstract should give a clear sense of the scope and/or argument of the proposed manuscript and its connection to the issue’s themes.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2023
Accepted proposals will be asked to submit a full manuscript draft by: 15 January 2024
The Jerusalem Quarterly plans to publish the special issue in 2024.
For inquiries or further information, please contact the guest editor of the special issue, Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, at chriae@gmail.com.
Research Interests: Foodways (Anthropology), Material Culture Studies, Diasporas, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, and 15 moreCulture, Diaspora Studies, History of Cuisine, Palestinian Culture, Food Security, History of Palestine and Israel, Foodways, Palestinian Studies, Palestinian Cinema, Lebanese Cinema, Arab Cinema, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cultural Studies, Ethnology, Cultural Production, Film, Art, Theatre, Social Media, Cuisine, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians in Israel, Palestine Gaza, and Middle Eastern Arab cuisine, its history and culture
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Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Indigenous Peoples, Palestinian Studies, Indigenous Justice, and 13 moreAbolitionism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Revolts and protests, Uprisings, Global Indigeneity, Palestinian Sulha, Palestine studies, Decolonial and Anticolonial Research, Postcolonial and Anticolonial Studies, Popular Uprising, Indigenous Criminal Justice, Alternative Justice, and Police Abolition
This article examines the strategies, structures, and practices that allowed for the emergence of communities without police institutions during two Palestinian uprisings, the 1936–39 revolt and the 1987–91 intifada. For each period, the... more
This article examines the strategies, structures, and practices that allowed for the emergence of communities without police institutions during two Palestinian uprisings, the 1936–39 revolt and the 1987–91 intifada. For each period, the article identifies efforts to disengage from and disempower the state police, to establish alternative systems of anticolonial justice, and to employ disciplinary violence to serve the imperatives and enforce the decisions of Palestinian nationalist bodies. In particular, Palestinian systems of anticolonial justice drew on communal reconciliation (sulh) and other preexisting local iterations of communal justice. These local forms relied on discourses of egalitarianism and consensus, which produced stability in periods of upheaval but also obscured the inequalities they reproduced. Ultimately, the anticolonial structures that Palestinians established proved unable to withstand intense internal and external pressure, and some elements of the coercive forces that served them were absorbed into state police institutions.
[For full article, go to: read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2020/137]
[For full article, go to: read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2020/137]
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Police, Restorative Justice, Customary Law, and 15 moreConflict Resolution, Customary Laws, Social movements and revolution, Police History, History of Palestine and Israel, Policing, Palestinian Studies, Police and Policing, Abolitionism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Tribal and customary laws, Peace & Reconciliation, and Customary Law and Islamic Law
This paper argues that diaries are in themselves a kind of historical writing—individual in scale and scope, but wide-ranging in content and style. Reading diaries as histories rather than as historical documents, offers new perspectives... more
This paper argues that diaries are in themselves a kind of historical writing—individual in scale and scope, but wide-ranging in content and style. Reading diaries as histories rather than as historical documents, offers new perspectives from which to understand Palestinians’ experiences of the Nakba. In particular, this paper draws on the Nakba-era diaries of Khalil al-Sakakini and Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Shrouf, to suggest potential contributions of reading diaries as history rather than texts from which fragments can be mobilized to augment, confirm, or illuminate narrative histories. Khalil al-Sakakini was one of the giants of Palestinian intellectual and political life in the twentieth century, and his diaries encompass nearly half a century, extending from 1907 to 1953. Meanwhile, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Shrouf (1913–1994) was of a different generation and a different milieu than Sakakini. Though far less prominent, and less prolific, than Sakakini, Shrouf’s diaries nevertheless provide an extensive record of the life of a Palestinian villager and subaltern during a crucial period of social, political, and economic transformation. Overall, the assessment of these two works will place Sakakini’s and Shrouf’s diaries within the context of Palestinian and Arab diaries, discussing their generic distinction from other kinds of personal accounts and even other published diaries, before discussing what in particular may be gained by reading these diaries as Nakba histories.
Research Interests: History, Refugee Studies, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Social History, and 14 moreDiary Studies, History of Palestine and Israel, Diary, Palestinian Studies, History of historical writing, Biography and Life-Writing, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Palestinian refugees, Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, Nakba, Displacement, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Autobiography and life writing studies, and History of Israel Palestine Conflict
Seventy years after the Nakba, what does it mean to commemorate 1948? This introduction to three articles drawn from the 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies workshop at Brown University, “The Shadow Years: Material Histories of... more
Seventy years after the Nakba, what does it mean to commemorate 1948? This introduction to three articles drawn from the 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies workshop at Brown University, “The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life,” examines the emergence of 1948 as the primary focus of Palestinian commemorative practices and guiding star of future political possibilities, as well as the promise and limitations of the settler-colonial framework. It argues that widening our lens to include the material histories of everyday life in the context of a generational struggle for survival contextualizes moments of great trauma and violence within the larger dynamics of Palestinian society, and recasts the time/space architecture of narratives about Palestine and the Palestinians.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Refugee Studies, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Indigeneity, and 15 moreCommemoration and Memory, Palestinian Literature, Urban Ruins, Memory and materiality, Material Culture, Settler Colonial Studies, Everyday Life, Palestinian Studies, Materiality, Settler colonialism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Nakba, Gaza Strip, Social Life of Things, and History of Israel Palestine Conflict
Introduction to a special issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly with a focus on policing, incarceration, and securitization in and around Jerusalem.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Visual Studies, Middle East Studies, Law and Society, Governance, and 12 moreIsrael/Palestine, Necropolitics, Palestine, Police, Policing Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Comparative Public Policy, Jerusalem, Punishment and Prisons, Imperialism, Palestinian Studies, and Police and Policing
This chapter discusses the rise to prominence of Ahmad Hamad al-Mahmud Abu Jilda, a bandit from Tammun, Palestine, in the early 1930s. It explores the popularity of Abu Jilda as a figure of resistance to British Mandate rule and sees in... more
This chapter discusses the rise to prominence of Ahmad Hamad al-Mahmud Abu Jilda, a bandit from Tammun, Palestine, in the early 1930s. It explores the popularity of Abu Jilda as a figure of resistance to British Mandate rule and sees in his actions and the discourse around him a foreshadowing the widespread 1936-1939 Revolt. In so doing, it addresses questions of popular versus elite nationalism in Mandate Palestine.
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Najati Sidqi (1905–1979) was a leading figure in Arab and Palestinian communism. A leader of the trade union movement in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s, he represented the Palestine Communist Party in the Comintern and was one of... more
Najati Sidqi (1905–1979) was a leading figure in Arab and Palestinian communism. A leader of the trade union movement in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s, he represented the Palestine Communist Party in the Comintern and was one of the very few Arab socialists – despite his claims below – to join the antifascist struggle in Spain. He contributed significantly to the political and cultural journalism of the Left in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. Sidqi’s description of his experiences in Spain was published in the Beirut-based journal al-Tali‘a (The Vanguard) in June 1938, under the title “Five Months in Republican Spain: The Memoirs of an Arab Fighter in the International Brigades.” It seems that this was to be the first of several pieces written by Sidqi for the journal, but no further installments
exist. However, a full account can be found in Sidqi’s memoirs (Mudhakkirat Najati Sidqi), published in Arabic by the Institute for Palestine Studies in 2001. Sidqi’s 1938 article, translated and annotated here by Alex Winder, remains valuable as a record of the time, uninfluenced by the knowledge of the outcome of the Spanish Civil War or by Sidqi’s experiences in the Communist party afterward. Based on the situation as it stood in August 1936, two months after the formation of the United Socialist party, Sidqi’s assessment is rather idealistic and reflects the optimism that prevailed in the early days of the war among the ranks of the International Brigades. No mention is made of the deadly factionalism of the Leftist forces, which contributed to the eventual defeat of the Republicans. The only critique he makes of the opposition is a well-mannered attack on the anarchist forces and their “divisive role” in the trade union movement; as he puts it, “they are barking up the wrong tree . . . and the future is a guarantee to solve their problems.”
exist. However, a full account can be found in Sidqi’s memoirs (Mudhakkirat Najati Sidqi), published in Arabic by the Institute for Palestine Studies in 2001. Sidqi’s 1938 article, translated and annotated here by Alex Winder, remains valuable as a record of the time, uninfluenced by the knowledge of the outcome of the Spanish Civil War or by Sidqi’s experiences in the Communist party afterward. Based on the situation as it stood in August 1936, two months after the formation of the United Socialist party, Sidqi’s assessment is rather idealistic and reflects the optimism that prevailed in the early days of the war among the ranks of the International Brigades. No mention is made of the deadly factionalism of the Leftist forces, which contributed to the eventual defeat of the Republicans. The only critique he makes of the opposition is a well-mannered attack on the anarchist forces and their “divisive role” in the trade union movement; as he puts it, “they are barking up the wrong tree . . . and the future is a guarantee to solve their problems.”
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Communism, Spanish Civil War, Memoir and Autobiography, and 14 moreSpain (History), Inrernational Brigades - Spanish Civil War, Spain, Anti-Fascism, History of Palestine and Israel, History of Communism, Palestinian Studies, International Brigades, Memoir, Communist International, History of Spanish Civil War, International Brigades Spanish Civil War, Women and the Spanish Civil War, and Palestinian and Arab Left
This article uses diary entries recorded by a Palestinian villager from outside Hebron to explore individual Palestinian subjectivities and experiences in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 war; tropes of village life and displacement in... more
This article uses diary entries recorded by a Palestinian villager from outside Hebron to explore individual Palestinian subjectivities and experiences in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 war; tropes of village life and displacement in Palestinian national narratives; and the difficulties and possibilities presented by diaries in approaching Palestinian history and life writing.
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Autobiography, Diary Studies, Memoir and Autobiography, and 12 moreLife-writing, Life Writing, Borders and Frontiers, Diary, Palestinian Studies, Biography and Life-Writing, Palestinian refugees, Nakba, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Diary research, Autobiography and life writing studies, and 1948 War
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This article analyzes the outbreak of the deadly 1929 riots in Palestine. Focusing on Jerusalem, Safad, and Hebron, the cities most significantly affected by the events, the article sees the violence as attempts to reinforce, redefine, or... more
This article analyzes the outbreak of the deadly 1929 riots in Palestine. Focusing on Jerusalem, Safad, and Hebron, the cities most significantly affected by the events, the article sees the violence as attempts to reinforce, redefine, or reestablish communal boundaries. It argues that patterns of violence in each city can help us under- stand how these boundaries had been established and evolved in the past, as well as the ways in which new forces, in particular the economic, political, and social influence of the Zionist movement and the rise of nationalist politics among the Palestinian Arabs, had eroded older boundaries.
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This is a review of the 2016 book "From Ambivalence to Hostility: The Arabic Newspaper Filastin and Zionism, 1911–1914," by Emanuel Beška (published by Slovak Academic Press), which addresses coverage of Zionism in the Jaffa-based Arabic... more
This is a review of the 2016 book "From Ambivalence to Hostility: The Arabic Newspaper Filastin and Zionism, 1911–1914," by Emanuel Beška (published by Slovak Academic Press), which addresses coverage of Zionism in the Jaffa-based Arabic newspaper Filastin in the late Ottoman period.
Research Interests: Ottoman History, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Newspaper History, Zionism, and 10 moreIsrael and Zionism, Press and media history, Palestinian Studies, Arab nationalism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Ottoman History of Palestine, Newspaper, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, HIstory of Zionism and Jewish Nationalism, and Ottoman Jaffa
Review of Yael Berda, Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the West Bank (Stanford University Press, 2018)
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This is a review of the exhibition "Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People under Heaven" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 2016 to January 2017, and its accompanying catalog, edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie... more
This is a review of the exhibition "Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People under Heaven" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 2016 to January 2017, and its accompanying catalog, edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb.
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Review essay of: Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917–1948, by Noah Haiduc-Dale; The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904–1948, by Wasif Jawhariyyeh, edited and... more
Review essay of: Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917–1948, by Noah Haiduc-Dale; The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904–1948, by Wasif Jawhariyyeh, edited and introduced by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar, translated by Nada Elzeer; Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi, by Anbara Salam Khalidi, translated by Tarif Khalidi; and “This Is Jerusalem Calling”: State Radio in Mandate Palestine, by Andrea L. Stanton
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, Radio, Palestine, Autobiography, Arab Christian Studies, and 11 moreFeminism, Islamic feminism, Memoir and Autobiography, British Mandate, Palestine, Arab feminism, Mandate Palestine, Arabic music, British Mandate Palestine, Feminism In the Arab World, Palestinian Christianity, and Arabic autobiography in the Middle East
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تنتمي "يوميات الشروف" إلى سلسلة من السير الشخصية تصدرها مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية عن تاريخ فلسطين الاجتماعي، وأصبحت تعرف بـ "دراسات التابع" (subaltern studies)، أي الرؤية البديلة من كتابات النخبة. وكان الهدف من هذه السير استشراف الحياة... more
تنتمي "يوميات الشروف" إلى سلسلة من السير الشخصية تصدرها مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية عن تاريخ فلسطين الاجتماعي، وأصبحت تعرف بـ "دراسات التابع" (subaltern studies)، أي الرؤية البديلة من كتابات النخبة. وكان الهدف من هذه السير استشراف الحياة الاجتماعية لكتاب من أوساط شعبية، انتمى أصحابها إلى خلفيات متباينة من المهن والمدارك، وقد شملت سابقاً مذكرات كل من: خليل السكاكيني (مربّ)؛ واصف جوهرية (موسيقي)؛ نجاتي صدقي (كاتب ومناضل)؛ إحسان الترجمان (جندي عثماني).
تعالج مدونات محمد عبد الهادي الشروف حياته في أربع مراحل: عمله ضابط شرطة في منشية يافا والبلدة القديمة وقرية يازور خلال العقد الأخير من الانتداب البريطاني؛ حرب 1948 مع بداية الاشتباكات في يافا وجبل الخليل بين المليشيات الصهيونية والمقاومة العربية بعد قرار التقسيم؛ عودته إلى بلدته نوبا، حيث انغمس في إعادة بناء ما تبقى من أرضه بعد أن استولت إسرائيل على الأغلبية العظمى من أراضي ما أصبح يسمى القرى الأمامية (خاراس، نوبا، بيت أولا) في منطقة الخليل؛ وأخيراً، انتقاله بعد النكبة إلى العمل المضني في مناجم الفوسفات في الأردن على غرار عشرات الآلاف من أهالي فلسطين.
تعالج مدونات محمد عبد الهادي الشروف حياته في أربع مراحل: عمله ضابط شرطة في منشية يافا والبلدة القديمة وقرية يازور خلال العقد الأخير من الانتداب البريطاني؛ حرب 1948 مع بداية الاشتباكات في يافا وجبل الخليل بين المليشيات الصهيونية والمقاومة العربية بعد قرار التقسيم؛ عودته إلى بلدته نوبا، حيث انغمس في إعادة بناء ما تبقى من أرضه بعد أن استولت إسرائيل على الأغلبية العظمى من أراضي ما أصبح يسمى القرى الأمامية (خاراس، نوبا، بيت أولا) في منطقة الخليل؛ وأخيراً، انتقاله بعد النكبة إلى العمل المضني في مناجم الفوسفات في الأردن على غرار عشرات الآلاف من أهالي فلسطين.