2025 Workshop
People
Presenters
Heba Alnajada
Assistant Professor of Global Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Boston University
(Re)inscribing the Ruins of ‘Informality’ with Palestinian Tahjir and its Camps
Fady Asleh
Ph.D. candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director, Khazaaen Social Archive
Documenting the War: Archiving as a Tool for Survival in Gaza
Liat Ben-Moshe
Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Resisting Carceral Eugenics and Forging Palestinian Futures
Lucy Garbett
Ph.D. Candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE
‘Bits and Pieces Planning’: Palestinian modalities of housing in Jerusalem
Julia Gettle
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Brown Unuversity
Catastrophe as crucible: The regeneration of Palestinian politics through Nakba-era student political life
Weeam Hammoudeh
Assistant Professor at Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University
Sumud and Resistance Through Healthcare Provision: A History of Popular Mobilizations in Healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory (co-authored with Layth Hanbali)
Layth Hanbali
MD and Ph.D. candidate in History at the Free University of Brussels
Sumud and Resistance Through Healthcare Provision: A History of Popular Mobilizations in Healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory (co-authored with Weeam Hammoudeh)
Freja Howat
Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary History, University of Sussex
Beyond the Networked Archive: The Many ‘Sites’ of Future Palestine
Atwa Jaber
Ph.D. candidate in International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute
“Amman-Nuseirat-Jericho”: Forced Displacement, Erasure, and the Forgotten Story of Clandestine Return to the Occupied Jordan Valley, 1967.
Falestin Naili
Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland
Resistant archives against the (f)utility of history
Dima Saad
Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan
Clothing and the Palestinian Refugee Experience, 1948-1968
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Global South Visiting Scholar in the department of Anthropology at Princeton University
Ashlaa' and the Genocide in Gaza
Samee Sulaiman
Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology at Brown University
Disability and the Reconstruction of Life in Gaza: Present Realities and Future Speculations
Orwa Switat
Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace, Harvard University
Palestinian Urban Steadfastness, Regeneration, and Insurgency: The Case of Haifa
Marlaina Yost
Ph.D. student in the department of history at Yale University
“From Gaza, With Love”: Floriculture in Post-Oslo Palestine
Discussants
Charles Anderson
Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University
Amahl Bishara
Professor of Anthropology and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University
Khaled Fahmy
Professor of History and the Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University
Mack Scott
Visiting Assistant Professor, Ruth J. Simmons Center, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), CNAIS, Brown University
Kirsten Weld
Professor of History at Harvard University
Attendees and Guests
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Columbia University
Nadje Al-Ali, Brown University
Adey Almohsen, Grinnell College
Samer al-Saber, Williams College
Aboud Ashhab, Brown University
Devin Atallah, UMass Boston
Kate Creasy, Brown University
Leila Farsakh, UMass Boston
Ilana Feldman, George Washington University
Katharina Galor, Brown University
Ellis Garey, Brown University
Wassim Ghantous, Tampere University
Sarah Ihmoud, College of the Holy Cross
Penelope Mitchell, Palestinian American Research Center
Elias Muhanna, Brown University
Mahmoud Nowara, Freelance Journalist, Writer, Middle East Specialist
Maru Pabón, Brown University
Hilary Rantisi, Harvard Divinity School
Sherena Razek, Brown University
Meltem Toksoz, Brown University
Alex Winder, Brown University
Suvaid Yaseen, Brown University
Organizers
Beshara Doumani
Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies and Professor of History, Brown University
Loubna Qutami
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestinian Studies, Brown University