Jerusalem Quarterly

📣Issue 93 of the Jerusalem Quarterly is OUT NOW: We are happy to present this issue guest edited by Francesca Biancani and Maria Chiara Rioli.
The present issue of JQ is the first of two special issues that focus on the UN agency for Palestinian refugee relief and its troubled history, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach, engaging and connecting historical, anthropological, and sociological methods. This first part concentrates on the history of the UNRWA archives from their creation to the present; the trajectories and various placements of the written, oral, and visual collections; the politics behind their material and digital preservation policies; their appearance, dispersion, or cessation; conditions of access or denial; and intertwining curatorial practices, critical archival theory, and politics.
Read it here: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1653824

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ARCHAEOLOGY (PART 1), is out now!

It focuses in part, on the materiality of the archaeological enterprise from a unique and under-represented angle. As guest editor Salim Tamari notes in his introduction, we bring into focus “the hidden army of site diggers – the men, women, and children – as well as foremen, surveyors, builders, and labor contractors who were oftenphotographed as the background setting for sites but whose voices are rarely heard.”

Read it here: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1653286

In ' Surveillance and ,' published in Issue 89 of the Quarterly, Zureik and Lyon examine the long-term consequences of Israeli mass surveillance following the outbreak of coronavirus.
Follow the link to read more about the implications for civil liberties and data privacy in Israel/Palestine: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1652782

Last week, the Israeli government attempted to apply new rules to foreigners who fall in love with Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank. These included informing the Israeli defence ministry within 30 days of starting any romantic relationship with a Palestinian. This was the latest in a long list of attempts to fragment and separate the Palestinian population, including the separation of families. In ‘Marriage, Split Residency, and the Separation Wall in Jerusalem,’ al-Labadi and Hardan’s study examines how Israeli policies deny Palestinian Jerusalemites their right to a family life among other rights violations. Read the entire article, published in the Jerusalem Quarterly, here: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/198348

Two marginalized communities living within the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, the Dom (who self-identify in English as Gypsies) and the African Community (who self-identify in English as African Palestinians), have long suffered from racism from the Israeli authorities and wider Israeli public as well as from within Palestinian society. Yet despite sharing some similarities in their historic exclusion, they live with recent experience that is very different: The African Palestinians are, broadly speaking and despite persistent racism, accepted into Palestinian society, and granted status and dignity, while the Dom remain excluded and widely vilified.
In this article, published in the latest issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly (Issue 89) Matthew Teller presents voices from both communities and offers some ideas as to why their experience differs. Read it here:

The Dom and the African Palestinians: Platforming Two Marginalized Jerusalem Communities The Dom and the African Palestinians: Platforming Two Marginalized Jerusalem Communities Author: Matthew Teller Digital Section: Essays Keyword: Minorities in JerusalemDomDomariGypsiesAfrican PalestiniansBlack culture in Jerusalemracism in palestinian societyracism in Israeli society Download Abs...

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"Who Owns Palestine?" Celebrating the Release of the Two-Part Special Issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ 88 & JQ 89) Join us for a webinar launch of issues 88 and 89 of the Jerusalem Quarterly, themed "Who Owns Palestine?" Date: Wednesday June 29, 2022Time: 9am CT | 10am ET | 3pm UK | 4pm Belgium | 5pm Palestine "Who Owns Palestine?" addresses the past, present, and future of ownership and what it means to "own" P...