2018 Workshop
People
Presenters
Nasser Abourahme
PhD Candidate, Columbia University
“Nothing to Lose but our Tents”: The Camp, the Revolution, the Novel
Charles Anderson
Assistant Professor of History, Western Washington University
The Suppression of the Great Revolt and the Destruction of Everyday Life in Palestine
Nimrod Ben Zeev
PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Many Lives of Cement: Construction, Economy, and Emotions in Mandate Palestine
Muna Dajani
PhD Candidate in Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE)
Sahl al-Battuf: A Site of Protest and Contestation Against the National Water Carrier (1954–1964)
Basma Fahoum
PhD Candidate in Middle East History, Stanford University
Tobacco Cultivation in Palestine – Peasant Households, Zionist Farmers and the Global Market
Dotan Halevy
PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Mandatory Gaza Recovered: Towards a Palestinian History of Ruins
Frances S. Hasso
Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Documenting the Non-Archival Reproductive Subject: Intimate Palestinian Life during the British Mandate
Adel Manna
Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Resistance and Survival in the Center of the Galilee (July 1948–July 1951)
Fredrik Meiton
Assistant Professor of World History, University of New Hampshire
The Non-Electrification of Nablus
Ilan Pappe
Professor of History, University of Exeter
Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter
The Open Archive of the Hidden History: The Open Sources of the Zionist Policy, 1920–1950
Silvia Pasquetti
Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University
Negotiating Stigma among Ruins: Histories of Displacement and Control from Lydda to West Bank Refugee Camps (and Back)
Mezna Qato
Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Middle East, King's College, Cambridge
Schooling Stories across a New Terrain
Dima Saad
Researcher and Writer, Amman, Jordan
Materializing Palestinian Memory: Objects of Home and the Everyday Eternities of Exile
Omar Imseeh Tesdell
Assistant Professor of Geography, Birzeit University
Territoriality and the Technics of Drylands in Palestine
Faedah M. Totah
Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Finding Refuge in the Courtyard House: Palestinians in the Old City of Damascus
Discussants
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, University of Oslo
Beshara Doumani
Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University
Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University
Ilana Feldman
Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, George Washington University
Gary Fields
Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Salim Tamari
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Birzeit University
Attendees
Ariella Azoulay
Shahzad Bashir
Joel Beinin
Amahl Bishara
Emily Drumsta
Kareem Estefan
Leila Farsakh
Malay Firoz
Julia Gettle
Anaheed Al-Hardan
Sarah Ihmoud
Eileen Kane
Joseph Leidy
Zachary Lockman
Shamiran Mako
Penelope Mitchell
Sreemati Mitter
Amir Moosavi
Adi Ophir
Keisha-Khan Perry
Shira Robinson
Kate Rouhana
Nadim Rouhana
Sherene Seikaly
Christian Sorensen
Samee Sulaiman
Maia Tabet
Meltem Toksoz
Hanan Toukan
Marshall Watson
Organizers
Beshara Doumani
Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University
Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University
Alex Winder
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestinian Studies, Brown University