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Conceptualizing Modern Palestine: Exemplars of Liberating Knowledge (2)
Contributors :
Supervised and edited by
:
Abdul-Rahim al-Shaikh
Copyedited by
:
Sanaa Hammoudi
Publisher: 
Institute for Palestine Studies
Publication Year: 
2023
Language: 
Arabic
Number of Pages: 
370
TABLE OF CONTENT
Abstract: 

The second volume of the series, titled "Conceptualizing Modern Palestine: Exemplars of Liberating Knowledge 2" (2023), has been released following the publication of the first part, titled " Conceptualizing Modern Palestine: Exemplars of Liberating Knowledge 1" (2021). 

This publication is the result of collaborative efforts between Birzeit University and the Institute of Palestine Studies. The volume comprises nine academic articles that examine the elements of Palestinian national identity: the land, the people, and the narrative, across three levels: imaginary Palestine, field Palestine, and cultural Palestine. The articles are authored by eight candidates from Ph.D. Program in Social Sciences at Birzeit University, along with the editor, as a contribution to the discussion of the meanings of Palestine as an identity and a cause. In the imagination domain, the first part of the book discusses the religious understanding of Palestine by exploring levels of interaction between religious imagination components in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam through the study of the religious texts, historical experiences, and political discourse. In the field domain, the second part of the book reconsiders the conceptualization of the Charter Palestine, examining three moments related to founding, interpretation, and restoration of Charter meanings of Palestine through the study of different modes of resistance, be it in solidarity, organized, or individual. In the cultural domain, the third part of the book aims at culturally conceptualizing Palestine through three patterns of media, literary, and social discourses, hence sheding light on the "new Palestine" over the last quarter-century of Palestinian history. Building on the first volume of the book, the chapters of this second volume provide insights from within occupied Palestine aiming at further conceptualizing modern Palestine through diverse field and methodological approaches. The contributions address Palestine—fragmented in terms of geography, demography, and culture—employing tools ranging between post-colonial studies, indigenous studies and militant research. These field and methodological orientations allow for a dual critique of the ideological stability of the Zionist settler colonial project and the transformation inflicted upon the Palestinian national liberation project on political, social and cultural levels.

ISBN
978–614–448–109–7
Edition
First
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh is a poet, professor of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University, and senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. His work is focused on poetics, theory, and translation, with a special emphasis on representations of Palestinian identity in prison, camp, and cemetery. His latest publications include: The Drawer of the Circle (2024), Conceptualizing Modern Palestine II (2023), and The Other Voice: An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Metamorphosis (2021), all in Arabic. Currently, he is working on two ongoing projects: “The Palestinian Living Cemetery” and “Parallel Consciousness: Walid Daqqah's Prison.”

E-mail: [email protected]

Orouba Othman: A PhD candidate in Humanities and Social Sciences at Birzeit University and a lecturer at social sciences department in Bethlehem University. Her scholarly work focuses on futurity and anthropology of hope and destiny, settler colonialism and Zionism, post-colonialism and cultural studies. She was granted Elias Khoury prize for excellence and creative research in 2016 in Masters' degree in Israeli studies at Birzeit university. She contributed in a text titled "The Confiscation of the Bedouin Tent: The Violence of Museumization and Representation" in "Regarding Pictures of Others" book issued by Qattan foundation. She writes her PhD thesis on "The Dynamics of Hope in the Gazan's Life of Pain: Multiple Futurities and temporalities."

E-mail: [email protected]

Natalie Salameh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Social Science at Birzeit University, and an MA graduate in Contemporary Arab Studies form the same university. Her current research interests are in the field of Political economy and dependency studies on the countries of the Global South, especially the unequal trade relations between the major trading powers and the countries of the South. Among her published works: “A Reading in Authoritative Writings on Revaluation (Fenech Revolution as A Model)  Omran (2015), and “Eastern Christianity in Academic Research between the Colonial and Post–Colonial State” in Omran (2023).She writes her PhD thesis on “The Palestinian Bourgeoisie and the Colonial System: Major Food Merchants as a Model”.

E-mail: [email protected]

Mohammed Sherbini: A PhD Candidate in social sciences at Birzeit University. A researcher in the history of ideas, interested in philosophy and Islamic thought, traditional and contemporary, with a special focus on studying Salafi discourse, its composition, and manifestations in general, the phenomenon of violence among Salafi jihadists, and the religious discourse among Palestinian Islamic political movements. He completed two master's degrees: the first in philosophy in Islam, and the other in intellectual and cultural studies. He published a book entitled: The Intellectual Roots of Violence in Jihadi Salafism and their Impact (2019). He also published studies on the violent fatwas of jihadi Salafism, in addition to critical reviews of Salafism.

E-mail: [email protected]

Bilal Shalash is historian, PHD candidate in social sciences at Birzeit University, and Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. His works special emphasis on the history of Palestinian armed resistance.  His latest publications include: Yāfā dam ʻalá Ḥajar (Jaffa: Blood on a Stone)... The Garrison of Jaffa and its Military Action: Study and Documents (2019), Inside the Old Wall... Qāsim al-Rīmāwī’s Texts on al-Jihād al-Muqaddas, (2020), and Shayʼ ʻābir (A Passing Thing)... Nablus Under Occupation (June 1967 - March 1969): Memoirs and Documents of Ḥamdī Ṭāhir Kanʻān. he is working on Project “Fighters of Occupied Palestine (June 1967-September 1970)”.

E-mail: [email protected]

Yasmeen Qadan: PhD candidate in Social Sciences at Birzeit University, she holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the same university. She is a social researcher whose interests lie in the sociology of art, sociology of colonialism, urban sociology, and their intersections. Currently, she is working on her doctoral dissertation titled "The Ecological Ontology in the Temporality of the Palestinian Peasant: Tracks of Movement in Daily life”. In addition to her research on the concept of liminality and manifestations of violence in Palestine. Her publications include "The Concealment of Death in the Architecture of Palestinian Social Space" (2017), and " Motion Flow policy in Ramallah: A one-way street in the architecture of contemporary Palestinian space" (2023).

E-mail: [email protected]

Rola Sirhan: A PhD candidate in social sciences at Birzeit University. She is a poet and journalist.  In 2006, she earned a master's degree from the same uninversity in International Studies for her thesis titled "The Texts of the Oslo Accords and the failure of implementation 1993-2000". With a focus on Memory Studies, Media Sociology's role in framing narratives, the impact of communication practices, and the influence of media policies, her research investigates how these elements contribute to the shaping of nationalism and memory.She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hadath, which she co-established in 2013. The newspaper initially focused on economic, social, and cultural topics, but later expanded to include news and media coverage with a network of correspondents throughout historic Palestine.

E-mail: [email protected]

Suhaila Abdel Latif: A PhD candidate in Social Sciences and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Arab Studies from the same university. Her research interest is focused on the sociology of literature and literary and cultural criticism. Her thesis focuses on studying the Palestinian fiction of the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, written from 1948 to 1967, from the perspective of Disasters Studies. She has published The Central Character in Fiction: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Jorge Amado (2019) and The Book of Creation (A Novel) (2018), and translated The Limits of Knowledge by Jamal Daher (2018). She previously worked as Projects Coordinator and Financial Officer at Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit University. 

Email: [email protected]

Muntaha Abed: A PhD Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences program at Birzeit University, and a lecturer in gender studies. She holds a Master's degree in Gender and Sexuality Studies from SOAS University in London. Her research interests revolve around gendered cultural studies, colonial roles and attempts to marginalize bodies through the production of imperial, Orientalist and local discourses, which work to increase societal oppression and violence. She is interested in gender dynamics in East Asia, and her current research interests focus on understanding masculine cultures and their intertwining with social movements, through a comparative research that seeks to examine the student and feminist movements in South Korea and Palestine as revolutionary cases from the Global South.

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