Authors

Kareem Rabie

 

Kareem Rabie is Harper Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was Senior Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at the Center on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), and Research Associate at the Oxford Program on the Future of Cities at the University of Oxford. Kareem received his PhD in anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and his BA in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He is currently working on a manuscript based on dissertation research on new town development and the state building project in the West Bank, as well as beginning a new project on geographies of globalization under occupation, and the political economy of Palestine/China trade.

ARTICLES BY Kareem Rabie

  • What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Political Economy?

    What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Political Economy?

    Mandy Turner and Omar Shweiki, editors, Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy: De-Development and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

    Anyone who visited Ramallah in 2013 would have heard a lot of talk about seatbelts. Everyone there—everyone—was talking about them,..

  • Ramallah’s Bubbles

    Ramallah’s Bubbles

    Recently there has been a proliferation of talk about Ramallah’s “bubble.” Based on the seeming contradiction between the quality of life there versus elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, popular accounts are rife with descriptions of bubbles emerging and bursting. 

    The bubble languag..