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Camera Palӕstina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
Contributors :
Translated by
:
Saoud el-Mawla
Copyedited by
:
Samir el-Deek
Publisher: 
مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية
Publication Year: 
2024
Language: 
Arabic
Number of Pages: 
309
TABLE OF CONTENT
Abstract: 

This book is an attempt at a critical-optical examination of 7 photographic albums collected and arranged by a Jerusalemite, Wasif Jawhariyya (1904-1972) under the title The Illustrated History of Palestine. These albums contain some 900 photographs that display the rich cultural and political environment in Palestine in the late Ottoman and the British Mandate periods. The three authors, Nassar, Sheehi and Tamari, regard this archive as a turning point where the history of photography in the Arab world intersects with Palestine’s social history. By highlighting a novel interpretation of this seminal period, the book’s authors trace not solely the principal historical events and the shapes of urban life but also a social vision of the life of the Palestinian people as exemplified by Jerusalem society. By tracing the interplay between the photographs, the authors offer evidence for continuity in the field of material, historical and societal patterns as between the living past of Arab Palestine and its living present.

ISBN
978-614-448-117-2
Edition
First
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Isam Nassar: Chairman of the History Department, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and former editor of The Jerusalem Quarterly. With Salim Tamari, he coauthored several works among which are Ottoman Jerusalem in the Jawhariyya Memoirs and Mandate Jerusalem in the Jawhariyya Memoirs.

Stephen Sheehi: Sultan Qabus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William and Mary in the USA.  His publications include Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine co-authored with Dr. Lara Sheehi, and The Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography 1860-1910.

Salim Tamari: Fellow of the Institute for Palestine Studies and director of the Jerusalem Studies division at that Institute. He is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bir Zeit University and author of Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past and Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture.