Palestinian Studies

2014 Workshop

People


Presenters


Ahmad Amara
PhD Candidate in History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
From the Negev to the Bi'r Al-Sabi Region: a New Reading of Property Relations


Samia Al-Botmeh
PhD Candidate, Director of Center for Developmental Studies, Birzeit Universit
The Political Economy of Palestinian Women's Labour Supply, 1920–2010


Martin Bunton
Professor of History, University of Victoria
Frames of Reference for the Study of Land in Palestine: The 1928 Land Settlement Ordinance


Leena Dallasheh
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College
Working for Palestine: Nazareth Labor Mobilizaton in the 1940s


Munir Fakher el-Din
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Birzeit University
The Heterogenous Space of Property: Structural and Theoretical Notes on the Beisan Land Settlemnet in British-rules Palestine, 1921–1948


Leila Farsakh
Department Chair, Professor of Political Science University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Meaning of Palestinian Economic Development: Paradigm Shifts in Understanding the Palestinian Economy


Shir Hever
Economic Researcher, Alternative Information Center
Privatization of the Occupation: The Core Masked as the Periphery


Jamil Hilal
Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University
Palestinian Class Formation under Settler Colonialism


Raja Khalidi
Economist, Center for Development Studies, Birzeit University
Economies at the Peripheries- Reconnecting the Fragmented Economic System of Palestine


Susynne McElrone
PhD Candidate in the Joint History/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program, New York University
Qadā Hebron: Life and Livelihoods in the Late-Ottoman Rural Sphere


Sreemati Mitter
PhD Candidate, Harvard University
A History of Money in Palestine: The Case of the Frozen Bank Accounts of 1948


Mezna Qato
PhD Candidate, Oxford University
New Directions in Palestine Studies Symposium on Political Economy and the Economy of Politics


Kareem Rabie
PhD Candidate, The City University of New York
New Directions in Palestine Studies: Political Economy and the Economy of Politics


Omar Jabary Salamanca
PhD Candidate, Ghent University
Hooked on Electricity: the Charged Political Economy of Electrification in Palestine


Sherene Seikaly
Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo
Social Man: Palestinian Capitalists and Economy


Mtanes Shihadeh
Program Coordinator of Israeli Studies and Senior Researcher at Mada El-Carmel
The Israeli Policy toward the “Arab Economy"


Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bard College
Infrastructure in Palestine Studies


Alaa Tartir
PhD Candidate, London School of Economics; Director of al-Shabaka
Failing Aid: Towards a Viable Resistance Economy Model


Omar Tesdell
PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
Territory, Nature Reserves, and the Question of Palestinian Cultivation


Discussants


Sa'ed Atshan
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies, Brown University


Beshara Doumani
Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University


Jo Guldi
Assistant Professor of History, Brown University


Manal Jamal
Assistant Professor of Political Science, James Madison University


Rashid Khalidi
Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University


Zachary Lockman
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, New York University


Ilan Pappe
Professor of History,  University of Exeter


Mayssun Succarie
Cogut Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities and Modern Arab Culture and Society, Brown University


Special Guests


Nadia Abu El-Haj
Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College


Lila Abu-Lughod
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University


Lama Abu-Odeh
Professor of Law, Georgetown University


Joel Beinin
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University


Bassam Haddad
Director of Middle East Studies, George Mason University


Elias Khoury
Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University


Brinkley Messick
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University


Nadim Rouhana
Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University