Authors

Mustafa Kabha and Nahum Karlinsky

Mustafa Kabha is full professor of history, philosophy, and Judaic studies and the head of Middle Eastern studies at the Open University of Israel. Kabha is also the head of the Palestinian Center for Heritage and Memory in Nazareth, and the President of the Arabic Language Academy, Israel. He is the author of several books and many articles in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Among his books are The Palestinian People: Seeking Sovereignty and State (Lynne Rienner, 2013); Prisoners without Bayonets: The Palestinian Prisoners and the First Israeli Detention Centers, 1948-1949 (Beirut: Institute of Palestinian Studies, 2013 [Arabic]). Mustafa is currently working on the toponymy of Palestinian locations and places, examining their geographical, social, and linguistic histories.

 

Nahum Karlinsky is a visiting associate professor at Boston University’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. From 1996-2021 he was a faculty member at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author and editor of several books. Among them are Counter History: The Hasidic Epistles from Eretz-Israel – Text and Context (1998, Hebrew), California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939 (SUNY Press, 2005), and (editor) The Modern Israeli, Palestinian, and Other Diasporas in Comparative Perspective (under review). He is currently working on Israeli Decolonization: Political, Social and Cultural Consequences, 1973 to Today and on the history of the scholarly field of Israel studies.

ARTICLES BY Mustafa Kabha and Nahum Karlinsky