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Palestine in the World Roundtable with Michelle Campos “Unmixing the Holy City: Religion, Politics, and Neighborhood Segregation in 19th-20th Century Jerusalem” and Charles Anderson "The Palestinian National Movement between Constitutionalism and Revolt, 1929-1939."

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Culture and Society, Center for Advanced Studies
Location
Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
Date
May 2, 2025   9:00 am - 12:30 pm  
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Michelle Campos is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. The author of Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth Century Palestine, Campos is currently completing a book on neighborhood life and intercommunal relations in 19th and early 20th century Jerusalem. She co-edited the translated memoirs of a Sephardi Jewish public figure in Palestine (Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930: A Memoir by Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche, forthcoming with Brandeis University Press) and is co-editing a collaborative volume on “Reimagining Jewish Life in the Modern Middle East.”

Charles Anderson is associate professor of history at Western Washington University and senior editor at Arab Studies Journal. His scholarship has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryJerusalem Quarterly, and elsewhere. His 2017 article in the Journal of Palestine Studies was honored by the journal during its 50-year anniversary celebration and his 2018 piece in Middle Eastern Studies won the journal’s Elie Kedourie prize for the best article of the year. A recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim fellowship, he is currently finishing his first book manuscript, a history from below of the “Great Revolt” (1936-39) in Palestine.

 

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