Liat Kozma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1008972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liat Kozma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liat |
| FAMILY NAME | Kozma |
| SIGNATURE | KOZMA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2071-2155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959
Between the Temporary and Permanent: The International Red Cross and the Palestinian Refugee Camps, 1948–1950
This article focuses on the formation and transformation of the first Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank from late 1948 to early 1950. It analyzes this process as a product of an uneven interaction between Palestinian refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It demonstrates how experts’ design, ICRC delegates’ plans, refugees’ expectations, and challenges posed by climate and the terrain shaped the camp’s physical…
Monopoly on doubt: Post-mortem examinations in Israel, 1950s–1980s
This article examines the durability of high post-mortem examination rates in Israel between the 1950s-1980s. Previous studies overlooked the issue of medical authority and the social history of autopsy, focusing on policy, technological development, and conflict between science and religion. By contrast, our analysis brings together the medical interest in unlimited research of dead bodies and the power relations between doctors and subaltern gr…
Introduction: Medical Mobilities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
This themed section contributes to efforts to conceptualize medical mobility. It does so by observing medical histories within the Middle East while following concrete movements. This focus on what moves and how, rather than on largely static and fixed units of analysis on where to, is central to the studies in this issue. The location of the Middle East, as a crossroad for imperial mobilities-is ideal for exploring transnational medical movement…
Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Historians of the professionalization of medicine in colonized regions, including the Middle East, have mostly focused on male practitioners, whereas histories of women in the medical professions are mostly centered in Western societies. The present issue examines histories of female medical practitioners by looking at case studies spanning the twentieth century from Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Iraq. The introduction to this issue offer…
Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?”
The article analyzes the gendered experience at Hebrew University Medical School in its first two decades, 1950–70. Contrary to earlier studies on women in medicine, which focused on immigrant doctors to late Ottoman and mandatory Palestine, gendering the future cadre of doctors in post-1948 Israel has not been discussed. Based on archival documents, newspapers of the period, and interviews with the school’s graduates, the article argues that the…
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century
The selection of nineteenth-century Arabic texts on medical education, medicine and health demonstrates the significant link between the revival of the Arabic language and literary culture of the nineteenth century, known as the nahda , and the introduction of medical education to the Ottoman Empire. These include doctor Ibrahim al-Najjar's autobiographical account of his studies in Cairo (1855), an article by doctor Amin Abi Khatir advising on t…
Politics of Hospitality: African Students at the Hebrew University Medical School in the 1960s
From 1961-1965, the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem taught four cohorts of medical students from developing countries, mostly African. This article explores the program through the theory of hospitality. First, we find that hospitality is constructed and enabled by international interests. Second, those interests build a status which has unexpected consequences that reveal sorts of hosts, welcoming and xenophobic. Third, as a…
J ennifer L. D err . The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Jennifer L. Derr’s The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt is a masterful, multilayered history of Egypt’s gradual transition to perennial irrigation, from the macro level of global economy and colonial relations to the micro level of a peasant’s skin and bloodstream. The book’s main argument is that perennial irrigation has created a new kind of body affected by pellagra and parasites as well as new kinds of …
Palestinian Doctors Under the British Mandate: The Formation of a Profession
During the final years of Ottoman rule and the three decades of British rule, Palestine witnessed the emergence of a community of professionally trained Palestinian Arab doctors. This study traces the evolution of the medical profession in Palestine against the background of the shifting cultural and symbolic capital of an expanding urban middle class and the educational possibilities that enabled this development. Palestinian Arab doctors are ex…
Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca
Between Colonial, National, and International Medicine: The Case of Bejel
In the 1920s and 1930s, doctors stationed in the Middle East and North Africa debated whether bejel, a form of endemic syphilis, was an Arab version of syphilis, or a separate disease altogether. Using their clinical experience in the region, they tried to weave this unfamiliar phenomenon into a civilizational narrative, which placed European civilization at the top of a hierarchy. The assumption was that there was something inherent to Islamic s…
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Reading Sex and the Citadel brought back many memories of my visits and then my year in Egypt: the warning not to leave home with wet hair, because that advertises that you’ve just had sex; my evening at After 8 club, in which a gay couple took the dance floor as well as a beautiful tall transgender woman; and the young policeman who thought he could seduce me, was unfazed by the ultimate “I am married,” and instead retorted that “for you people …
Beyond borders: The Egyptian 1947 epidemic as a regional and international crisis
This article examines the post-Second World War regionalization and internationalization of public health by focusing on the 1947 cholera epidemic in Egypt. We argue, first, that for the Egyptian medical profession, the epidemic served as an opportunity for both anti-colonial critique and soul-searching and self-criticism: it attested to the poor medical condition of the Egyptian countryside and the work required to ameliorate it. Second, we plac…
Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East
The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues: Visions, Endeavours and Experiments
This edited volume offers a fresh look into the history of the League of Nations. It uses the League of Nations' involvement in social issues as a unique prism for understanding the League's development, as well as the development of interwar international relations more generally. Off the beaten path of diplomatic history, this perspective allows the authors to trace less familiar actors and unexpected alliances. It enables contributors to reass…
Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies
Middle East gender studies is a lively and fascinating field. With two very different journals ( Hawwa and Journal of Middle East Women Studies ) and dozens of panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference and the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, we have come a long way over the last two decades. Women's, queer, and masculinity studies are now part of how we understand gender studies in the region. Middle East gender s…
A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940
“The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East. These transformations, brought about by the emergence of the modern state system and an increasing interaction with a more globalized economy, irrevocably altered the political and social structures of the Middle East, even as the region itself left its mark on the processes of globalization themselves. As a result of these changes, there was an in…
Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity, written by Kent F. Schull, 2014
“We, the Sexologists …”: Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879-1943
White Drugs in Interwar Egypt
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin. Kozma’s article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse on the topic voiced social concerns about class, gender, colonialism, and social change. It explores both medical and popular discourses of drug consumption, foc…
Wandering About as She Pleases: Prostitutes, Adolescent Girls, and Female Slaves in Cairo’s Public Space, 1850–1882
This paper examines how women who “wandered about” public spaces were perceived in police and court records of Khedival Egypt, in the period from 1850–1882. In the context of growing cities, rural immigration and manumission of slaves, the Egyptian authorities sought to monitor the urban streets and clear them of “undesirables.” Such control measures, this paper argues, were dictated by gender. By examining cases involving runaway and manumitted …
The League of Nations and the Debate over Cannabis Prohibition
In the years 1934–1939, a League of Nations’ sub‐committee was founded to review the international prohibition on traffic in cannabis. Most of the experts invited to testify were medical officers stationed in the Middle East and North Africa. This article examines the deliberations of this sub‐committee in light of recent scholarship on drugs, empire, colonial medicine and the League of Nations, and argues that international discussions of the ca…
Cannabis Prohibition in Egypt, 1880–1939: From Local Ban to League of Nations Diplomacy
This article examines Egypt's stance on cannabis prohibition, from the 1870s ban on cultivation and consumption, to the role Egypt played in the international ban on traffic in cannabis, in the 1924–25 International Opium Conference. Relying on Egyptian polemic writing, British correspondences and League of Nations documentation, this article argues that elite concerns with national modernity, rather than merely British colonial interests, motiva…
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East
Cannabis Prohibition in Egypt, 1880–1939: From Local Ban to League of Nations Diplomacy
This article examines Egypt's stance on cannabis prohibition, from the 1870s ban on cultivation and consumption, to the role Egypt played in the international ban on traffic in cannabis, in the 1924–25 International Opium Conference. Relying on Egyptian polemic writing, British correspondences and League of Nations documentation, this article argues that elite concerns with national modernity, rather than merely British colonial interests, motiva…
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
Sexology in the Yishuv: The Rise and Decline of Sexual Consultation in Tel Aviv, 1930–39
This article examines the assimilation of sexology and sexual reform in the Yishuv of the 1930s. Prominent German sexologists visited Palestine, texts they authored were translated to Hebrew and Yiddish, and members of the Yishuv community traveled to central Europe to learn sexual-reform ideas. In 1931 and 1932, three consultation centers were opened in Tel Aviv, accompanied by Q&A columns in the general and medical press. In these centers and c…
Palestinian Doctors Under the British Mandate: The Formation of a Profession
During the final years of Ottoman rule and the three decades of British rule, Palestine witnessed the emergence of a community of professionally trained Palestinian Arab doctors. This study traces the evolution of the medical profession in Palestine against the background of the shifting cultural and symbolic capital of an expanding urban middle class and the educational possibilities that enabled this development. Palestinian Arab doctors are ex…
Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Research Article| May 01 2004 Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt Liat Kozma Liat Kozma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 57–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-57 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
White Drugs in Interwar Egypt
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin. Kozma’s article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse on the topic voiced social concerns about class, gender, colonialism, and social change. It explores both medical and popular discourses of drug consumption, foc…
Wandering About as She Pleases: Prostitutes, Adolescent Girls, and Female Slaves in Cairo’s Public Space, 1850–1882
This paper examines how women who “wandered about” public spaces were perceived in police and court records of Khedival Egypt, in the period from 1850–1882. In the context of growing cities, rural immigration and manumission of slaves, the Egyptian authorities sought to monitor the urban streets and clear them of “undesirables.” Such control measures, this paper argues, were dictated by gender. By examining cases involving runaway and manumitted …
Moroccan women's narratives of liberation: A Passive Revolution
Remembrance of Things Past: Leila Abouzeid and Moroccan National History
Journal Article Remembrance of Things Past: Leila Abouzeid and Moroccan National History Get access LIAT KOZMA LIAT KOZMA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 388–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.3.388 Published: 01 October 1999
Politics of Hospitality: African Students at the Hebrew University Medical School in the 1960s
From 1961-1965, the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem taught four cohorts of medical students from developing countries, mostly African. This article explores the program through the theory of hospitality. First, we find that hospitality is constructed and enabled by international interests. Second, those interests build a status which has unexpected consequences that reveal sorts of hosts, welcoming and xenophobic. Third, as a…
Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies
Middle East gender studies is a lively and fascinating field. With two very different journals ( Hawwa and Journal of Middle East Women Studies ) and dozens of panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference and the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, we have come a long way over the last two decades. Women's, queer, and masculinity studies are now part of how we understand gender studies in the region. Middle East gender s…
The League of Nations and the Debate over Cannabis Prohibition
In the years 1934–1939, a League of Nations’ sub‐committee was founded to review the international prohibition on traffic in cannabis. Most of the experts invited to testify were medical officers stationed in the Middle East and North Africa. This article examines the deliberations of this sub‐committee in light of recent scholarship on drugs, empire, colonial medicine and the League of Nations, and argues that international discussions of the ca…
Remembrance of Things Past: Leila Abouzeid and Moroccan National History
Journal Article Remembrance of Things Past: Leila Abouzeid and Moroccan National History Get access LIAT KOZMA LIAT KOZMA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 388–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.3.388 Published: 01 October 1999
Moroccan women's narratives of liberation: A Passive Revolution
Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Research Article| May 01 2004 Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt Liat Kozma Liat Kozma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 57–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-57 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics Edited by Beth Baron
Sexology in the Yishuv: The Rise and Decline of Sexual Consultation in Tel Aviv, 1930–39
This article examines the assimilation of sexology and sexual reform in the Yishuv of the 1930s. Prominent German sexologists visited Palestine, texts they authored were translated to Hebrew and Yiddish, and members of the Yishuv community traveled to central Europe to learn sexual-reform ideas. In 1931 and 1932, three consultation centers were opened in Tel Aviv, accompanied by Q&A columns in the general and medical press. In these centers and c…
The League of Nations and the Debate over Cannabis Prohibition
In the years 1934–1939, a League of Nations’ sub‐committee was founded to review the international prohibition on traffic in cannabis. Most of the experts invited to testify were medical officers stationed in the Middle East and North Africa. This article examines the deliberations of this sub‐committee in light of recent scholarship on drugs, empire, colonial medicine and the League of Nations, and argues that international discussions of the ca…
Cannabis Prohibition in Egypt, 1880–1939: From Local Ban to League of Nations Diplomacy
This article examines Egypt's stance on cannabis prohibition, from the 1870s ban on cultivation and consumption, to the role Egypt played in the international ban on traffic in cannabis, in the 1924–25 International Opium Conference. Relying on Egyptian polemic writing, British correspondences and League of Nations documentation, this article argues that elite concerns with national modernity, rather than merely British colonial interests, motiva…
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
Wandering About as She Pleases: Prostitutes, Adolescent Girls, and Female Slaves in Cairo’s Public Space, 1850–1882
This paper examines how women who “wandered about” public spaces were perceived in police and court records of Khedival Egypt, in the period from 1850–1882. In the context of growing cities, rural immigration and manumission of slaves, the Egyptian authorities sought to monitor the urban streets and clear them of “undesirables.” Such control measures, this paper argues, were dictated by gender. By examining cases involving runaway and manumitted …
“We, the Sexologists …”: Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879-1943
White Drugs in Interwar Egypt
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin. Kozma’s article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse on the topic voiced social concerns about class, gender, colonialism, and social change. It explores both medical and popular discourses of drug consumption, foc…
A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940
“The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East. These transformations, brought about by the emergence of the modern state system and an increasing interaction with a more globalized economy, irrevocably altered the political and social structures of the Middle East, even as the region itself left its mark on the processes of globalization themselves. As a result of these changes, there was an in…
Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity, written by Kent F. Schull, 2014
The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues: Visions, Endeavours and Experiments
This edited volume offers a fresh look into the history of the League of Nations. It uses the League of Nations' involvement in social issues as a unique prism for understanding the League's development, as well as the development of interwar international relations more generally. Off the beaten path of diplomatic history, this perspective allows the authors to trace less familiar actors and unexpected alliances. It enables contributors to reass…
Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies
Middle East gender studies is a lively and fascinating field. With two very different journals ( Hawwa and Journal of Middle East Women Studies ) and dozens of panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference and the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, we have come a long way over the last two decades. Women's, queer, and masculinity studies are now part of how we understand gender studies in the region. Middle East gender s…
Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca
Between Colonial, National, and International Medicine: The Case of Bejel
In the 1920s and 1930s, doctors stationed in the Middle East and North Africa debated whether bejel, a form of endemic syphilis, was an Arab version of syphilis, or a separate disease altogether. Using their clinical experience in the region, they tried to weave this unfamiliar phenomenon into a civilizational narrative, which placed European civilization at the top of a hierarchy. The assumption was that there was something inherent to Islamic s…
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Reading Sex and the Citadel brought back many memories of my visits and then my year in Egypt: the warning not to leave home with wet hair, because that advertises that you’ve just had sex; my evening at After 8 club, in which a gay couple took the dance floor as well as a beautiful tall transgender woman; and the young policeman who thought he could seduce me, was unfazed by the ultimate “I am married,” and instead retorted that “for you people …
Beyond borders: The Egyptian 1947 epidemic as a regional and international crisis
This article examines the post-Second World War regionalization and internationalization of public health by focusing on the 1947 cholera epidemic in Egypt. We argue, first, that for the Egyptian medical profession, the epidemic served as an opportunity for both anti-colonial critique and soul-searching and self-criticism: it attested to the poor medical condition of the Egyptian countryside and the work required to ameliorate it. Second, we plac…
Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East
J ennifer L. D err . The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Jennifer L. Derr’s The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt is a masterful, multilayered history of Egypt’s gradual transition to perennial irrigation, from the macro level of global economy and colonial relations to the micro level of a peasant’s skin and bloodstream. The book’s main argument is that perennial irrigation has created a new kind of body affected by pellagra and parasites as well as new kinds of …
Palestinian Doctors Under the British Mandate: The Formation of a Profession
During the final years of Ottoman rule and the three decades of British rule, Palestine witnessed the emergence of a community of professionally trained Palestinian Arab doctors. This study traces the evolution of the medical profession in Palestine against the background of the shifting cultural and symbolic capital of an expanding urban middle class and the educational possibilities that enabled this development. Palestinian Arab doctors are ex…
Politics of Hospitality: African Students at the Hebrew University Medical School in the 1960s
From 1961-1965, the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem taught four cohorts of medical students from developing countries, mostly African. This article explores the program through the theory of hospitality. First, we find that hospitality is constructed and enabled by international interests. Second, those interests build a status which has unexpected consequences that reveal sorts of hosts, welcoming and xenophobic. Third, as a…
Introduction: Medical Mobilities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
This themed section contributes to efforts to conceptualize medical mobility. It does so by observing medical histories within the Middle East while following concrete movements. This focus on what moves and how, rather than on largely static and fixed units of analysis on where to, is central to the studies in this issue. The location of the Middle East, as a crossroad for imperial mobilities-is ideal for exploring transnational medical movement…
Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Historians of the professionalization of medicine in colonized regions, including the Middle East, have mostly focused on male practitioners, whereas histories of women in the medical professions are mostly centered in Western societies. The present issue examines histories of female medical practitioners by looking at case studies spanning the twentieth century from Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Iraq. The introduction to this issue offer…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · History (20 works) · Law (20 works) · Islamic Studies and History (15 works) · History (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Colonialism (10 works)