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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Nur Masalha
Citizenship: British (of Palestinian Arab origin) Date of birth: 4 January 1957
CURRENT POSITION:
*Reader in Religion and Politics, St Mary's University College, University of Surrey (since October 2006)
*Director of the Centre for Religion and History, St Mary's University College (since January 2007)
*Director of the Holy Land Research Project, St Mary's University College (since January 2001)
*Editor, Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal (a fully refereed international journal published by Edinburgh University Press) (since 2004). A Spanish-language edition, Estudios de Tierra Santa: Una Revista Multidisciplinaria, is published by Editorial Cana?n, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
*Member of Postgraduate Peer Review, Panel 8: 'Philosophy, Law and Religious Studies', Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK (2004-2008)
*Member of the Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK (since 1 September 2008)
*Programme Director, MA in Religion, Politics & Conflict Resolution, St Mary's University College (2005-2008)
Languages: Tri-lingual: I speak, read and write in three languages: Arabic-mother tongue, Hebrew and English. I also have some French.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
*Ph.D. Middle Eastern Politics: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, March 1988. The thesis was on the making of Modern Iraq, 1921-1933
*MA Politics: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1983. First Class with distinction
*BA International Relations and Politics: Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1979. First Class
ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS AT ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE:
*Director of Postgraduate Programme in Religion, Politics & Conflict Resolution (formerly 'Postgraduate Programme in Religion and Conflict', since September 2005)
*Director of the Centre for Religion and History (since January 2007)
*Director of the Holy Land Research Project (since February 2001)
*Chair of the Exam Board, Undergraduate Programme, Drama (since September 2007)
*Representative of the School of Theology, Philosophy & History on the College Research and Scholarship Committee (2002-2005)
*Member of the College Sub-Committee on Research Students Progress (2002-2005)
*Member of the College Sub-Committee for Research Funding (2002-2005)
*Member of the School Research Committee (since February 2001)
CAREER:
*Senior Lecturer and Main Researcher: AHRC-funded Research Project on Jerusalem: School of Theology, Philosophy & History, St. Mary's College (September 2002-September 2005)
*Research Fellow: Department of Theology & Religious Studies, St. Mary's College (February 2001-August 2002)
*Visiting Lecturer: Department of Theology & Religious Studies, St. Mary's College (September 2000-January 2001)
*Lecturer: in Middle East Politics, Richmond American International University, London (1997-2000)
*Research Associate: Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, University of London, UK (2000-2004)
*Constantine Zureik Research Fellow: Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington D.C., US (1989-1994)
*Honorary Fellow: in the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, UK (1993-1997)
*Visiting Lecturer: MSc in International Development, University of Bristol, UK (1994)
*Assistant Professor: Middle Eastern Political History and Politics, Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine (1994-1995)
*Part-time Lecturer: in Middle East Politics, Department of Politics, SOAS, University of London (1985-1986)
*Teaching and Research Assistant: Department of Politics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1979-1982)
MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP:
*Human rights in Palestine-Israel
*The Palestinian Refugee Problem
*Varieties of Modern Fundamentalism
*The Religious Politics of Jerusalem in Comparative Perspective
*Maimonides' Theology and Philosophy
*Islamic Revivalism since 1967
*New Palestinian and Israeli Historiography
*Palestinian Nation-Building
*Beyond the Text: Oral History and Collective Memory
*The Middle East Peace Process
*The Making of Modern Iraq
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT:
"Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Communities and the Nakba: Oral History, Collective Memory and the Struggle for Return, 1948-2008"
GRANTS/AWARDS/BURSARIES:
" British Academy: 2006 (for two workshops, one in London and the other at Birzeit University, Palestine, on ' The Politics of Elections and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East: Perspectives from Within and Below'. The workshops are part of a collaborative project with Department of History, University of Northampton, UK, and the Graduate Programme on Democracy and Human Rights, Birzeit University, Palestine
*Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), 2002-2005 (?167,000) (Holy Land Research Project, working on the religious politics of Jerusalem)
*Jerusalem Fund (Washington DC), 2002-2003
*Palestine Studies Trust (UK), 1995, 1998, 2001
*British Academy: 1999
*Institute of Historical Research (University of London), 1999
*Jerusalem Fund (Washington DC), 1984
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS (IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND ARABIC)
1. | The Palestinian Nakba, Oral History and Collective Memory (forthcoming).
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2. | The Bible & Sionism (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, forthcoming 2008 [Spanish]), 350 pp. |
3. | La Expulsion De Los Palestinos (Madrid and Buenos Aires: Bosforo Libros and Editorial Canaan, 2008), 265pp.
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4. | The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel (London: Zed Books, 2007), 366 pp.
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5. | (ed.), Catastrophe Remembered: Essays in Memory of Edward W. Said (London: Zed Books, 2005), 300 pp.
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6. | Politicas De La Negacion: Israel Y Los Refugiados Palestininos (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2005 [Spanish]), 350 pp.
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7. | (ed.), The Nakba, Memory and Identity (Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine: Madar-Palestinian Centre for Israeli Studies, forthcoming, 2008 [Arabic]), 330 pp.
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8. | The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (London: Pluto Press, October 2003), 298 pp.
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9. | Israeel wa-Siyasat al-Nafi (Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine: Madar- the Palestinian Centre for Israeli Studies, 2003 [Arabic]), 320 pp.
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10. | Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, 1967-2000 (London: Pluto Press, August 2000) (Reprinted 2002 and 2003), 279 pp.
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11. | Teorias De La Expansion Territorial (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2002), 321 pp.
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12. | Israeel al-Kubra wal-Filistiniyyun: Siyasat al-Tawasu' [Greater Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, 1967-2000] (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2001 [Arabic]), 399 pp.
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13. | A Land Without a People (London: Faber and Faber, 1997), 246 pp.
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14. | Ard Akthar wa-Arab Akal [More Land, Less Arabs] (Beirut: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1997 [Arabic]), 331 pp.
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15. | Tard al-Flistiniyyun [The Idea of 'Transfer' in Zionist Thinking and Planning, 1882-1948], (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992 [Arabic]), 293 pp.
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16. | Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992) (Reprinted in 1993, 1999, and 2001), 235 pp.
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17. | The Palestinians in Israel ((Translated and edited), (Haifa: The Galilee Centre for Social Research, 1993), 106 pp.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
1. | 'On Recent Hebrew and Israeli Sources for the Palestinian Exodus, 1947-1949' , Journal of Palestine Studies (Autumn 1988), pp. 121-137.
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2. | 'Israeli Revisionist Historiography of the Birth of Israel and its Palestinian Exodus', Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives (March 1990), pp. 71-97.
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3. | 'Faysal's Pan-Arabism, 1921-1933', Middle Eastern Studies (October 1991), pp. 679-693.
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4. | 'Debate on the 1948 Exodus: A Critique of Benny Morris', Journal of Palestine Studies (Autumn 1991), pp. 90-97.
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5. | 'Operation Hafarferet and the Massacre of Kafr Qassem, October 1956', The Arab Review (Summer 1994), pp. 15-21.
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6. | 'Sovereignty over Jerusalem: The Status of the City under International Law', Middle East International , 6 January 1995, pp. 17-18.
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7. | 'Who Rules Jerusalem ?' Index on Censorship (September-October 1995), pp. 163-166.
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8. | 'The Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Israeli-PLO Agreements', The Arab Review (Autumn 1995), pp. 28-31.
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9. | 'wei bestuurt Jeruzalem?' in Robert Soeterik (ed.), 50 jaar Israel (Amsterdam, 1998), pp. 97-100.
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10. | 'The 1956-57 Occupation of the Gaza Strip: Israeli Plans to Resettle the Palestinian Refugees', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 23, No.1 (1996), pp. 55-68.
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11. | 'A Different Peace', Index on Censorship (May-June 1996), pp. 18-21.
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12. | Yosef Weitz and Operation Yohanan, 1949-1953 , Occasional Paper no.55, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, August 1996, 31 pp.
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13. | 'Jewish Religious Fundamentalism, the West Bank and the Palestinians: Gush Emunim's Ideology and Practical Politics', Al-Siyasah Al-Filastiniyya (Summer 1996), pp. 86-98 (Arabic).
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14. | '1967: Why Did the Palestinians Leave?' Shaml (Ramallah, West Bank, July 1997), pp. 2-5.
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15. | 'Transfer', in Philip Mattar (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Palestinians (New York: Facts on File, 2000), pp. 401-404.
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16. | 'The 1967 Palestinian Exodus', in Ghada Karmi and Eugene Cotran (eds.), The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1998 (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1999), pp. 63-109.
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17. | 'A Galilee Without Christians?' in Anthony O'Mahony (ed .), Palestinian Christians: Religion, Politics and Society in the Holy Land (London: Melisende, 1999), pp. 190-222.
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18. | 'A Critique on Benny Morris', in Ilan Pappe (ed.), The Israel / Palestine Question: Rewriting Histories (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 211-220.
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19. | 'Israel: History;' and 'Emerging Palestinian Autonomous Areas-Recent History', in The Middle East and North Africa 2000: Regional Surveys of the World , 46th Edition (London: Europa Publications, 1999), pp. 607-637 and 666-671.
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20. | 'Israel: History'; and 'Emerging Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History', in The Middle East and North Africa 2001: Regional Surveys of the World , 47th Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2001), pp. 631-667 and 697-705.
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21. | 'Een Land Zonder Volk', Soemoed (Amsterdam) 27, No. 3 (June 1999), pp. 21-25.
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22. | 'The Historical Roots of the Palestinian Refugee Question', in Naseer Aruri (ed.), The Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (London: Pluto Press, July 2001), pp. 36-67.
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23. | Ariel Sharon: A Political Profile, Occasional Paper (London: Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, 2001).
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24. | 'Israel: History;' 'Jordan: History;' and 'Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History and Economy' in The Middle East and North Africa 2002, Regional Surveys of the World, 48th Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2001), pp. 486-529, 562-589 and 850-875.
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25. | 'The PLO, Resolution 194 and the 'right of return': Evolving Palestinian attitudes towards the refugee question from the 1948 Nakba to the Camp David summit of July 2002', Eugene Cotran (ed.), Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 7 (2002), pp. 127-155.
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26. | 'Reinventing Maimonides: From Universalist Philosopher to Religious Fundamentalist (1967-2002)', Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 1, No.1 (September 2002), pp. 85-117.
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27. | 'Le Concept De 'Transfer' Dans La Doctrine Et Dans La Pratique Du Mouvement Sioniste', in Farouk Mardam-Bey and Elias Sanbar (eds.), LE DROIT AU RETOUR: LE PROBLEME DES REFUGIES PALESTINIENS (Sindbad, Paris, 2002), pp. 15-59.
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28. | 'Israel 's Moral Responsibility Towards the Palestinian Refugees', Eclipse (Sussex University), 8, 15 May 2002, pp. 7-8.
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29. | 'Israel and the Palestinian Refugees', La Vanguardia (Barcelona), (July 2002).
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30. | 'Israel-History', 'Jordan-History' and 'Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History', in The Middle East and North Africa 2003, Regional Surveys of the World , 49th Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2002), pp. 503-552, 587-617, 891-908.
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31. | 'The Palestinian Nakba', Global Dialogue (Nicosia, Cyprus), Vol. 4, No.3 (Summer 2002), pp. 77-91.
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32. | 'La responsabilita morale di Israele verso rifugiati palestinesti', Afriche e Orienti (Italy), Vol. 4, No.3 (2002), pp. 106-109.
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33. | 'From Propaganda to Scholarship: Dr Joseph Schechtman and the Origins of the Israeli Polemics on the Palestinian Refugees', Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 2, No.2 (March 2002), pp. 188-197.
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34. | 'La importancia historica de la comunidad palestinin en libano', Vanguardia Dossier (Barcelona), No. 8 (October/December 2003), pp. 55-60.
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35. | 'Jordan-History' and 'Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History', in The Middle East and North Africa 2004, Regional Surveys of the World, 50th Edition (London: Europa Publications, London, 2003), pp. 609-641 and 903-924.
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36. | 'Jordan-History' and 'Palestine: Recent History and Economy', in The Middle East and North Africa 2005, Regional Surveys of the World, 51st Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2004), pp. 632-666 and 930-960.
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37. | 'Sectarianism and the Rejection of Tawteen: Lebanon and the Palestinian Refugees', in Eugene Cotran and Martin Lau (eds.), Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004), pp. 110-130.
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38. | ''Dissolvere' il problema dei rifugiati palestinesi: Proposte israeliene di 'reinsediamento' 1948-1957)', in Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappe (eds.), Parlare co il Nemico: Narrazioni Palestinesi e Israeliane a Confronto [Talking to the Enemy: Palestinian and Israeli Narratives], (Torino: Bollati Boringghieri editore, 2004), pp. 169-215 [Italian].
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39. | 'Edward W. Said and Rethinking the Question of Palestine', The Arab World Geographer (University of Akron, US), Vol. l7 (Spring/Summer 2004), pp. 4-21.
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40. | 'Jewish Fundamentalism and the 'Sacred Geography' of Jerusalem in Comparative Perspective (1967-2004): Implications for Inter-faith Relations', Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 3, No.1 (May 2004), pp. 29-67.
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41. | 'Present Absentees and Indigenous Struggle', in Nur Masalha (ed.), Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees, Essays in Memory of Edward W. Said (London: Zed Books, 2005), pp. 23-55.
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42. | 'Introduction', in Nur Masalha (ed.), Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees, Essays in Memory of Edward W. Said (London: Zed Books, 2005), pp. 1-20.
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43. | 'Jordan-History', and 'Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History and Economy', in The Middle East and North Africa 2006, Regional Surveys of the World , 52nd Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2006), pp. 590-625 and 894-938.
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44. | 'Prologo: Leyendo la Biblia con los ojos de los cananeos, En homenaje al profesor Michael Prior', in Michael Prior, La Biblia y el colonialismo: Una critica moral [The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique] (Buenos Aires: Editorial Canaan, 2005), pp. xi-xxiv [Spanish].
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45. | 'Jordan-History', and 'Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History and Economy', in The Middle East and North Africa 2007, Regional Surveys of the World , 53 Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2007), pp.579-606 and 884-913.
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46. | (with Michael Hayes), 'A Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Fundamentalist Perspectives on Jerusalem: Implications for Inter-faith Relations', Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal , Vol. 5, No.1 (May 2006), pp.97-112.
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47. | 'El fundamentalismo judio y la 'geografia sagrada' de Jerusalem en una perspectiva comparativa (1967-2004): implicaciones para las relaciones inter-fes', Estudios de Tierra Santa: Una Revista Multidisciplinaria 1(1) (mayo 2006), pp. 37-81.
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48. | 'Jordan-History' and Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History and Economy', in The Middle East and North Africa 2007, Regional Surveys of the World, 54 Edition (London: Europa Publications, 2008), pp. 610-639 and 911-948.
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49. | 'Die Nakba, Die Katasrophe von 1948', INAMO (Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten) (Berlin) 54 (Summer 2008), pp.4-7.
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50. | 'Indigener Wilderstand und israelische Politik w?hrend der post-Nakba Zeit', INAMO (Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten), (Berlin) 54 (Summer 2008), pp.20-22.
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51. | 'Notas de investigacion: Estudio comparativo de perspectivas fundamentalistas judias, cristianas e islamicas sobre Jerusalen: implicaciones para las relaciones interreligiosas', Estudios de Tierra Santa: Una Revista Multidisciplinaria, vol.2, no.2 (Noiembre 2007), pp. 251-267.
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52. | '60 Years after the Nakba', Third World Resurgence (Penang, Malaysia), Issue 214 (June 2008), pp.13-25.
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53. | 'Dis-solving the Palestinian Refugee Problem', in Ilan Pappe and Jamil Hilal (eds.), Talking to the Enemy: Palestinian and Israeli Narratives (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming, 2008)
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54. | 'Jordan-History' and Palestinian Autonomous Areas: Recent History and Economy', in The Middle East and North Africa 2008, Regional Surveys of the World, 54 Edition (London: Europa Publications, forthcoming, 2009).
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55. | Die Nakba, Die Katasrophe von 1948', INAMO (Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten) (Berlin) 54 (Summer 2008), pp.4-7.
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56. | 'Remembering the Palestinian Nakba: Commemoration, Oral History and Narratives of Memory', Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol.7, No.2 (November 2008), pp.123-156.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Over 40 review articles and book reviews in academic journals and current affairs magazines, including International Affairs; British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Journal of Palestine Studies; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies; Interventions: Journal of Post-Colonial Studies; International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Middle East International; Global Dialogue; and Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya.
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
1. | May 1990: presenting a paper to a conference on 'New research on the founding of Israel', Department of Politics, University of Exeter
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2. | April 1990: giving a lecture on the 'new historiography of Israel and Palestine', New England College, Arundel, England
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3. | April 1993: a lecture on 'Israel and the origins of the Palestinian refugee problem', the House of Commons, Westminster Palace
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4. | February 1996: giving a paper on 'the Palestinian refugees and Israeli resettlement plans', Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine.
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5. | September 1996: giving a lecture on 'Israel, the Palestinian Refugees', Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford, and Lebanese Centre, Oxford
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6. | November 1996: giving a paper on 'The Palestinian Refugees and the Peace Process: Restitution of Property and Rehabilitation', Department of Politics, University of Oslo, Norway
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7. | July 1997: chairing a panel on 'Human Rights, Civil Society, Citizenship and the State: Israel and the Palestinian Territories', British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford
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8. | May 1998: giving a paper on 'The New Historiography and the Palestine-Israel Conflict', Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris
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9. | July 1998: presenting a paper on 'the Palestinians, 1947-1951', Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel
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10. | 7-8 December 1998: presenting a paper on 'The Impact of the British Palestine Mandate on Arab and Jewish Societies', The Jewish-Arab Centre, University of Haifa, Israel
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11. | 12-15 December 1998: presenting a paper on 'Patterns of Organisation and the Search for Great Power Sponsorship: Zionist International Politics from the Basle Congress to the Palestine Mandate', Institute for Palestine Studies, Nicosia, Cyprus
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12. | 29 November 1999: giving a talk on 'The Final Status Peace Talks and Palestinian Statehood', University of Brussels, Brussels
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13. | 2 December 1999: giving a lecture on 'The Palestine Mandate, 1920-1948', the Multi-Cultural Programme, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
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14. | 17-18 December 1999: giving a lecture on 'The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem', an international conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris
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15. | 6-8 September 2000: giving a paper to an international conference entitled: 'The Formation of Prejudices and Stereotypes in the Arab-Israeli Conflict', organised by the Centre for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Berlin Technical University, Germany
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16. | 8 November 2000: giving a paper on 'The Middle East Peace Process After Assad', at Manchester Metropolitan University
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17. | 24 November 2000: giving a lecture on 'the al-Aqsa intifada', organised by the Oxford University Arab Cultural Society, held at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
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18. | 8 January 2001: giving a lecture on the 'Impact of the al-Aqsa Intifada on Israel and Palestine', at SOAS, University of London
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19. | 7 April 2001: giving a paper on 'The 1948 War and the Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem', at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
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20. | 12 May 2001: presenting a paper on 'New Research on 1948 and Palestinian Right of Return', at a day conference organised by the Holy Land Research Project, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, St Mary's College, and Living Stones, London
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21. | 23 January 2003: presenting a paper on Palestine-Israel at a conference organised by the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, Washington DC
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22. | 21 February 2004: presenting a paper to a London conference on 'Christian Zionism and the Challenge to the Churches', organised by Living Stone Trust for the Holy Land (UK), and Friends of Sabeel (UK)
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23. | 14 May 2004: giving a paper at 'Edward Said and Rethinking the Question of Palestine', an international conference in Memory of Edward Said, University of Sussex
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24. | October 2004: chairing a panel on 'Edward Said and the Question of Palestine', an international conference on the Legacy of Edward Said, SOAS
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25. | 27 April 2005: speaking on 'Perspectives on Jerusalem', an international conference (AHRC project on Jerusalem and Sabeel), East Jerusalem
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26. | 27 October 2006: giving a paper on 'The New Policies of the European Union', at the annual conference of the Palestine Center, Washington DC, conference entitled: ' The Palestine Question since Oslo: Current Options and Future Strategies'
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27. | 29-30 June 2007: keynote speaker at a two-day conference organised by Friends of Sabeel (Palestinian Liberation Theology Centre) UK, entitled 'Re-encountering the Bible: A Conversation with Nur Masalha', to be held at St Mary's University College (University of Surrey)
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28. | 2 September 2007: co-organiser of a joint Workshop, entitled: 'The Politics of Elections and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East: Perspectives from Within and Below'; sponsored by the British Academy and held at Birzeit University, Palestine
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29. | 8 December 2007: Co-organiser of a joint Workshop, entitled: 'The Politics of Elections and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East: Perspectives from Within and Below'; sponsored by the British Academy and held under the auspices of the London Middle East Institute, SOAS, London
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30. | 12 February 2008: 'Historical Truth, New Historiography and Ethical Obligations: The Challenge of the Palestinian Nakba', Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS), St Andrews University, Scotland
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31. | 16 February 2008: chairing a panel on 'Law as mechanism of violence', Nakba60, London School of Economics, London
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32. | 27 February 2008: 'Is the Bible Historical? The Invention of Tradition and the Challenge of Archaeology for Biblical Scholarship and Nationalist Historiography', Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England
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33. | 29 March 2008, giving a talk at the Land Day event in Paris; event organised by the General Union of Palestinian Students (France)
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34. | 15 May 2008: lecture on the 'Palestinian Refugee Problem', Nakba Day Conference, Refugee Research Centre, and Matrix East Research Lab, University of East London
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35. | 24 May 2008: lecture at the 'Palestine Symposium: Contrapuntal Themes in History, Religion, and Culture', organised by Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
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36. | 29 May 2008: lecture on 1948 Palestine , Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
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37. | 9 June 2008: 'Justice and Peace: One State for Israel/Palestine' panel, Amnesty International Group, Southampton University , England
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38. | 12 July 2008: 'Palestinian Nakba: A 60-Year Catastrophe', Islam Expo, Olympia (London)
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39. | 1 November 2008: paper at a conference entitled, 'Nakba: 60 Years of Hurt and Hope', University of Nottingham, England
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40. | 12-16 December 2008: a speaker at two international workshops in Japan; the first in Tokyo on 12 December (Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women's University); the second in Hiroshima, 14 December; and the third in Kyoto on 16 December
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41. | late April 2009: speaking at a book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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