The book project emerges out of two affinities. The first was our affection for and admiration of Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s seven volume photographic albums in Beirut and Athens tracing the modernity of Jerusalem and Palestine from the 1870s to 1948.
Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, and Salim Tamari
Issam Nassar is Professor of History and program Chair at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar. He is the author numerous books, articles, and book chapters on the social history of Palestine with particular attention to the photographic archives. His books include لقطات مغايرة، 1850 - 1948: التصوير المحلي المبكر في فلسطين (Different Snapshots: Early Local Photography in Palestine, 1850-1948) and Photographing Jerusalem: The Image of the City in Nineteenth-Century Photography. He is also co-editor of The Storyteller of Jerusalem, with Salim Tamari, and most recently co-author of Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories, with Salim Tamari and Stephen Sheehi.
Stephen Sheehi (اسطفان شيحا-he/him) is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and a member of the faculty of the Asian and Middle East Studies Program (AMES), Modern Languages and Literatures Department, and Asian and Pacific Islander Studies Program (APIA) at William & Mary, Pamunkey Confederacy Territory USA. He is most recently co-author of Palestine: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Lara Sheehi (Routledge, 2022), which has won the Palestine Book Award for Best 2022 Academic Book on Palestine; and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories, co-authored with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar (University of California Press, 2022). He and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian are co-editors of “Settler-Colonialism As State-Crime: Abolitionist Perspectives,” a special issue of State Crime Journal (forthcoming in December 2023). His current book project is Guerilla Intellectuals and Slutty Methodologies.
Salim Tamari is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Birzeit University and a Research Associate at the Institute for Palestine Studies. He is the outgoing Editor of The Jerusalem Quarterly. He is the recipient of the Palestine Prize for Achievement in the Social Sciences and Humanities and the Middle East Monitor Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Among his many books and publications, his recent books are Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine, co-authored with Issam Nassar and Stephen Sheehi (University of California Press, 2022) and al-Madinah al-Falistiniyah: Qadaya fil-tahawalat al-hadariyah (The Palestinian City: Issues in Urban Transformation) edited with Majdi Malki, in Arabic (IPS, Beirut, 2021).