Salim Tamari

Salim Tamari is Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine, Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and the author of Mountain against the Sea and Year of the Locust.

Books

Camera palaestina: photography and displaced histories of palestine

Author(s):

Salim Tamari , Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi

Publisher:

University of California Press

Published:

August 2022

Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate...

The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

2018 winner

Author(s):

Salim Tamari

Publisher:

University of California Press

Published:

August 2017

This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography,...