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Sherene Seikaly
An Apocalyptic Air of Approaching Peril: Zionism at the United Nations
![[Scene from I, Crocodile, by Fred Marcellino (Michael Di Capua Books, 1999)]](/content_images/3/sm_12345croc.jpg "[Scene from I, Crocodile, by Fred Marcellino (Michael Di Capua Books, 1999)]")
Bibi sauntered. He swaggered. He spoke freely, seemingly unguided by any text. He irreverently made circles with his fingers. He called the group of diplomats and interns assembled in front of him actors in “a theater of the absurd.” He proudly modeled his thick coat of indifference just as he called the United Nations, a “house of lies.” Indeed, so capable was the UN in presenting the false as true, Bibi gestured assuredly, they could go so far to declare ...
Keep Reading »At the Table: Sharif Waked's Khumus
![[Sharif Waked, Khumus (2008). Image from artist's archive]](/content_images/3/sm_(K)HUMUS_5-1m.jpg "[Sharif Waked, Khumus (2008). Image from artist's archive]")
Just outside a Palestinian restaurant, named “al-Bayt” in the recently recognized village of Ayn Hawd southeast of Haifa, a table and two chairs stand precariously balanced on a steep slope. From a distance it is a pretty scene that promises the serenity of a picnic. On closer look, there is deformity and fragility. Together they offer an incisive reflection on those many moments when the Palestinian everyday in Israel meets the persistent apprehension and restlessness of ...
Keep Reading »To Stay Modern
On 4 August, after more than five million barrels of oil battered the Gulf of Mexico for over 100 days, BP proclaimed the success of its “static kill strategy.” Pumping the blown out well with mud and cement was working to stop what BP calls the “leak” or alternatively, “the Gulf of Mexico incident.” The company, its website explained, was “doing everything we can to make this right.” In the meantime, the environmental and economic devastation of the worst spill in US ...
Keep Reading »More than a stain
The Israeli Army’s recent killing of nine activists on the Gaza Flotilla has sparked a wave of contemplation on Israel’s morality. These questions are not new. Since the inception of the Zionist enterprise in the late nineteenth century, intellectuals such as Asher Ginsberg, known by his pen name Ahad Ha’am, fretted over how European Jews could realize their national project with the presence of a majority Palestinian population on the land they understood as ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of History at the American University in Cairo and co-Editor of the Arab Studies Journal. She was the Qatar Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University (2007-2008) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Middle East in Europe Program at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2008-2009). Sherene is co-founder of Jadaliyya Ezine.
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