PARC Panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meetings

Since 2000 PARC has sponsored eleven remarkable panels on Palestine bringing together prominent scholars to address a diversity of topics. (An asterisk after a name indicates a current or former PARC board member, director, or fellow.)

2011

Theorizing the Palestinian Colonial: Segregation and Subjects

Organized by Rochelle A. Davis,* Georgetown University
Chair: Penny Johnson,* Birzeit University
Discussant: Jennifer Olmsted,* Drew University

Lena Meari, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis and faculty member, Institute of Women's Studies, Birzeit University - Re-structuring the Self and Politics: The Experience of Palestinian Political Activists Under Interrogation
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law & School of Social Work and Social Welfare at Hebrew University, and Gender Studies Program Director, Mada al-Carmel - Trapped Bodies, Confined Lives and the Politics of Everydayness
Penny Johnson, Institute of Women's Studies, Birzeit University - 'Strange to Palestinian Society:' Young People Talk About Urfi Marriage, Moral Crimes and the Colonial Present
Hadeel Qazzaz,* Palestinian American Research Center - 'The Ultimate Frontier:' Cyber space defies isolation and closure
Aitemad Muhanna, Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, London - Israeli Spatial Control, Women's Reliance on Humanitarian Aid, and the Distortion of Gendered Subjects in Gaza

2010

Perspectives on Islam and Politics in Palestine, Part I

Organized by Nathan J. Brown,* George Washington University
Chair: Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman University
Discussant: Glenn Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School

Moussa Abou Ramadan, Birzeit University - Shari'a and Politics in Israel
Ghada AlMadbouh,* University of Maryland, College Park - The Subject of Opposition: Lessons from the 'Repressive Accommodation' of Hamas in 2006-2007
Helga Baumgarten, Birzeit University - Ruling Gaza: A Critical Look at the Performance in Government of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, 2006/7-2010
Mouin Rabbani,* Institute for Palestine Studies - Fatah, Hamas and the Struggle for the Palestinian Soul

Perspectives on Islam and Politics in Palestine, Part II

Organized by Nathan J. Brown,* George Washington University
Chair: Nathan J. Brown,* George Washington University
Discussant: Laurie Brand,* University of Southern California

Holger Albrecht, American University in Cairo - Islamist Movement in an Authoritarian Proxy-State: Hamas between Governance, Opposition and Resistance
Loren Lybarger,* Ohio University - 'Deterritorialization' and the Politics of Islam among Palestinian and Somalis in the United States
Nathan J. Brown,* George Washington University - Hamas as a Muslim Brotherhood Movement

2009

Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Growing Crisis

Organized by Penelope Mitchell,* Palestinian American Research Center
Chair: Sara M. Roy, Harvard University
Discussant: Jay Schnitzer, Boston Scientific Corporation

Rita Giacaman, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit - Health Status and Health Services in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Marwan Khawaja, Yale University - The Transition to Lower Fertility and Childhood Mortality in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Graham Watt, University of Glasgow - Medical Aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
Awad Mataria, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit - The Health Care System in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Assessment and Agenda for Reform

60 Years On: A Critical Revisiting of UNRWA for Palestine Refugees

Organized by Linda Tabar* & Mezna Qato*
Chair: Penny Johnson,* Birzeit University
Discussant: Randa R. Farah, University of Western Ontario

Ilana Feldman,* George Washington University - UNRWA and the Challenge of Refugee Kinds
Mezna Qato,* University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College - Pedagogical Erasures: Curriculum and the Formation of the UNRWA/UNESCO School System
Linda Tabar,* University of Oriental and African Studies - The Reconstruction of Jenin Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Intervention and Rational Violence
Ala Alazzeh, Rice University - Negotiating Rights: Contention and Cooperation between UNRWA and Popular Service Committees in Palestinian Refugee Camps
Rochelle Anne Davis,* Georgetown University - UNRWA's Education Programs and Palestinian Commemorations of the Nakba

2008

New Studies in Palestinian Society and Economy: A Panel in Honor of Rosemary and Yusif Sayigh

Organized by Rochelle Davis,* Georgetown University, Jennifer Olmsted,* and Beshara Doumani*

PART I
Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: Jennifer Olmsted,* Drew University

Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts, Boston - Revisiting the Palestinian Economy after 40 Years of Occupation - The Legacy of Yusef Sayigh's Works
Basel Saleh, Radford University - An Analysis of the Palestinian Fiscal Situation: Challenges and Consequences
Samia al-Botmeh, Birzeit University - Labour Market Gender-differentiated Impact of Israeli Movement Restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

PART II
Chair: Julie Peteet,* University of Kentucky, Louisville
Discussant: Beshara Doumani,* University of California, Berkeley

Randa Farah, University of Western Ontario - Refugee Camps and the Shifting Political Landscape
Isabelle Humphries,* St. Mary's College, University of Surrey, UK - Homeless in the Homeland: Survival Narratives of Internal Refugees under Military Rule in Nazareth 1948-1966
Diana Allan,* Harvard University - From Peasants to Revolutionaries to ...? Economic Subjectivity in Post-Revolution Shatila
Rosemary Sayigh, Independent Scholar - Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement: A Web-based Voice Archive

2007

The Palestine Police and the End of the Mandate: British, Arab, and Jewish Perspectives

Organized & Chaired by Eugene Rogan,* St. Antony's College, Oxford

John L. Knight, University of Oxford - Securing Zion? Public Security in Mandate Palestine
Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv University - Treading a Fine Line: The Jewish Segment of the Palestine Police
Adel Yahya, PACE, Ramallah - Arab Policemen in Mandate Palestine: Conflict of Loyalties
Eugene Rogan,* St. Antony's College, Oxford - The British in the Palestine Police: Narratives of Adversity

2006

Palestinians Inside Israel Revisited

Organized by Isis Nusair* & Rhoda Kanaaneh*
Chair: Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
Discussants: Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara and Rebecca Torstrick, Indiana University, South Bend

Samera Esmeir, University of California, Berkeley - Abandoned by Whom?: A Palestinian Story of Return
Honaida Ghanim, Harvard University - Crossing the Border: Confrontation Strategies
Lena Meari, University of California, Davis - The Roles of Palestinian Peasant Women 1930-1960: Al-Birweh Village as Model
Isis Nusair,* Denison University - Gendered Politics of Location of Three Generations of Palestinian Women in Israel, 1948-1998
Leena Dallasheh, New York University - Al-‘Ard, a Pan-Arab Nationalist Movement in Israel from 1959 until 1965
Shira Robinson,* University of Iowa - Guns, Coffee and Tractors: The Making of Non-Jewish Folklore in 1958 Israel
Rhoda Kanaaneh,* Columbia University - A Good Arab in a Bad House? Unrecognized Villagers in the Israeli Military
Amal Eqeiq, University of Washington - Louder than the Blue I.D.: Palestinian Hip-Hop in Israel
Ibtisam Ibrahim, Washington College - Immigration Patterns among Arab Palestinians in Israel

2005

The Multiple Economies of Palestine: Survival or Development?

Organized & Chaired by Sara Roy, Harvard University

Jennifer Olmsted,* Drew University - Examining the Palestinian (and Israeli) Economies within the Framework of Sanctions
Claude Bruderlein, HPCR, Harvard School of Public Health - Gaza 2010: A Prospective Assessment of Palestinians’ Livelihood in the Gaza Strip
Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts, Boston - The Multiple Economies of Palestine: Survival or Development?
Dennis J. Sullivan,* Northeastern University & PARC - Prospects for Egypt-Palestine Free Trade and Economic Cooperation: A Policy Analysis
Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman University - Neoliberalism & Palestinian Economic Development Strategies (1993-2003)

2004

New Perspectives on Mandate Palestine

Organizer/Moderator: Martin Bunton,* University of Victoria

Ilana Feldman,* Columbia University
Penny Johnson,* Palestinian American Research Center
Salim Tamari, Institute of Jerusalem Studies
Sherene Seikaly,* New York University
Mahmoud Yazbak, University of Haifa

2003

Palestine Today: The Possibilities and Limits of Life under Occupation

Chair and Discussant: Ibrahim Dakkak,* Chair, Advisory Committee, Palestinian American Research Center

Penny Johnson,* Palestine Director, Palestinian American Research Center - A Father's No Shield for His Child: Crisis and Change in Palestinian Families and Gender Dynamics in the Second Palestinian Intifada
Lori Allen,* University of Chicago - The Banalization of Violence and the Nationalization of Emotions: Towards and Ethnography of the Palestinian Intifada
Manal Jamal,* McGill University - 'Popular' and 'Not So Popular': Responses to Donor Assistance in Palestine
Khalid Furani,* Graduate Center, City University of New York - Secular Prayers: An Ethnographic Encounter with Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
Carol Malt,* Independent Scholar - Museums: Cultural Survival under Occupation

2002

Views of the Other in Israeli and Palestinian Textbooks

Chair: Philip Mattar,* United States Institute of Peace

Fouad M. Moughrabi, Qattan Foundation - The Politics of Palestinian
Issam Nasser, Institute for Jersusalem Studies - Overview of Palestinian Textbooks
Nathan Brown,* George Washington University - Debating Palestinian Democracy: The Effort to Write a New National Curriculum
Ruth Firer, Hebrew University - A Comparative Study of Israeli and Palestinian Social Studies Textbooks
Ilan Pappé, Haifa University - The Silencing of Critique: The Case of History Textbooks in Israel

2001

Contemporary Social Science Research on Palestine

Chair: Ann Lesch,* Villanova University

Judith Tucker, Georgetown University - Writing the History of Palestine
Glenn Robinson, Naval Post Graduate School - Current Political Science Theory and Method in the Study of Palestine
Julie Peteet,* University of Louisville - Beyond and Within the Political: Gender and Scholarship on Palestine
Mouin Rabbani,* Palestinian American Research Center - Social Science Research in Palestine

2000

The Legacy and Impact of British Rule from 1922-1948

Chair: Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Discussant: Roger Owen, Harvard University

Ellen Fleishmann,* University of Dayton - Unnatural Vices or Unnatural Rule?: Sex Surveys During the British Mandate in Palestine
Sandy Sufian, Center for Health Research/Oregon Health Science University - Mapping the Marsh - Malaria and the Sharing of Medical Knowledge in Mandatory Palestine
Martin Bunton,* University of Victoria - Palestine's Land Registers: Imperial Authority or Empirical Truth?
Michael Fischbach,* Palestinian American Research Center - Mandatory Land Records, the U.N. and Palestinian Refugee Property Rights
Salim Tamari, Institute for Jerusalem Studies - Post-British Records: the UNWRA Archives