Sarah Irving
Biographic Data
| ID | 1079783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Irving |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Irving |
| SIGNATURE | IRVING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Staffordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8470-175X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nassar Issam, Stephen SHEEHI, and Salim Tamari. 2022. Camera Palæstina
Book review of: NASSAR Issam, Stephen SHEEHI, and Salim TAMARI. 2022. Camera Palæstina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (University of California Press 2022)
Unsettled Responsibilities
The 1927 Jericho earthquake caused widespread damage across Palestine and Transjordan, both ruled at the time by Britain. The worst-hit city was Nablus, where the Old City’s historic buildings became a field for conflict. Drawing on G. Gordillo’s differentiation between ruins and rubble and his analysis of colonial anxiety, power, and oppression, this article considers local and colonial reactions and competition over the material heritage of Nab…
Land, indigeneity and archaeological ruins in Ottoman Palestine
Palestinian nationalism and visions of Palestine as a nation have, since the loss in 1948 of 78 per cent of Mandate Palestine to the newly-founded State of Israel, focused on notions of rootedness and connection to the land. However, as a result of the disruptions to Palestinian culture stemming from the refugee lives of a large proportion of the population, and the loss or fragmentation of many personal and institutional archives, sources for th…
Aleppo Buttons and Sulphur Injections
This article explores the experiences of two doctors, Jamil Tutunji and Tawfiq Canaan, in their efforts to interact with, contribute to and debate with international colleagues in the medical journals of the 1920s–40s. Respectively from Transjordan and Palestine, both at the time ruled by British colonial administrations under League of Nations Mandates, these men’s work seems to have been ignored or sidelined in favour of that by European or Eur…
Gendering Labour in Palestinian Archaeology, 1890s–1930s
The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (BHA) was inaugurated over 20 years ago as a forum to exchange research, information on on-going projects, and resources devoted to a growing interest in the histories of archaeology. As this interest has grown, BHA has become global in reach, and has taken an increasingly expansive definition of its subject matter and its place within wider historical contexts. To this end, the journal publishes researc…
The Social and Cultural History of Palestine
Explores the social and cultural landscape of Palestine under Late Ottoman and British rule Highlights the rise of social and cultural history within scholarly research on Palestine Discusses issues of gender, class, race and empire, set against the background of the diverse Palestinian society of the first half of the 20th century Draws on a wide range of archival materials in Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, French and other languages, many of …
The Social and Cultural History of Palestine
Since the turn of the millennium, histories of Late Ottoman and especially Mandate Palestine have moved away from the political framing of the Arab-Israeli conflict to consider questions of society and culture, as well as, increasingly, adopting frameworks such as environmental and medical history. One of the most important voices in this movement, as a scholar and as a mentor of others’ work, has been Salim Tamari. This volume brings together ne…
Earthquakes, Unemployment, and the Infrastructure of Mandate Palestine
Although Lord Plumer’s tenure as high commissioner for Palestine (1925–28) is sometimes characterized by mainstream Euro-American histories as a period of comparative peace, the year 1927 saw two major disruptions: the Jericho earthquake in July, which caused serious damage to towns and cities including Jerusalem, Nablus, and Lydda; and unrest among Jewish immigrants who found that the local economy had no jobs to offer them—or at least not ones …
Improving family social and mental wellbeing in the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
Within mental health systems, families are often poorly integrated into planning and treatment yet tasked with unsustainable care and support responsibilities. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated impacts on families’ social and mental wellbeing. This study explores understanding family experiences through a co-operative inquiry methodology with staff who facilitated 26 meetings with over 300 mental health family, carer, and supporter participants. …
Introduction
In 2023, travel between Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and the rest of the Levant-when the barriers presented by passports and visas do not render it impossible-entails multiple border crossings, flights, and likely interrogations and potential denial of passage.In the Ottoman period, no formal borders divided the territory, although local divisions (official or unofficial) often determined where a foreigner might go.During the Man…
Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho
In press coverage of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, frequent mention is made of the deaths of three women at the Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho. That the three were from British-occupied India apparently rendered them unusual enough to be noted by a journalist, whose observation was reproduced around the world. This article draws on newspapers, official documents and secondary literatures on the hajj, tourism and the British Empire to consider…
'The House of the Priest'
Let's start at the beginning, with the startling opening of Nikula Khoury's memoirs, with his assertion that he had lost the materials for his memoirs not once and not twice but three times, because of the 1910 Karak Revolt and the First World War and the nakba. "Here, I have returned yet again to collect these memories and to write them down for the fourth time," he concludes. "All I can hope for is that the luck of this account will not be, thi…
The Kidnapping of ‘Abdullah al-Masri
This article draws on the archives of the British Mandatory administration's Department of Antiquities to consider archaeology not as an increasing body of literature does, as a source of discursive power for the colonial regime, but instead as an employer of working-class Palestinians.Through a close study of the correspondence between the department and its antiquities guards, men employed to look after important sites, protect archaeological f…
Elias Nasrallah Haddad
whose career spanned the final decades of Ottoman rule in Palestine, the whole of the British Mandate period, and the Nakba and after.Based for most of his life at the German-run Syrian Orphanage in Jerusalem, he asserted, in his many books and articles on Palestinian life and language, his adopted country's right to progress, alongside the importance of recording its traditions.He highlighted the Arab nature of Palestinian society while urging t…
Women versus Wheelbarrows
Women versus Wheelbarrows:Labor and British Archaeology in Late Ottoman Palestine Sarah Irving (bio) KEYWORDS archaeology, efficiency, gender, labor, Palestine In the summer of 1912, Duncan Mackenzie, director of the Palestine Exploration Fund's (PEF) archaeological excavations, sacked several dozen women who had been working on the dig at Ain Shems, west of Jerusalem. On the large-scale excavations that typified archaeology in Palestine in this …
Palestine’s Syriac Orthodox community and the Dead Sea scrolls
In 1947, a shepherd in the hills north of the Dead Sea visited a contact in Bethlehem, a dealer of antiquities to foreign visitors, offering fragments of written material. The dealer, from the Syriac community, was unsure of the items’ value and began enquiries which followed Syriac Orthodox religious and intellectual networks. Despite initial scepticism, the fragments were the first of the now globally famous Dead Sea Scrolls, and ever since hav…
Al-Fahum and the al-Fahum Registry
Al-Fahum and the al-Fahum Registry: A study of Nazareth." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 153(1), pp. 75–76
Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World
This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the …
This is Palestine’
Tourist guides to colonised territories are usually understood as instruments of the coloniser, imposing ideas of native inferiority through orientalism and convictions of primitiveness. This article, however, shows how Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews in the later period of British Mandate rule used guidebooks, written in English and particularly aimed at a readership of Commonwealth soldiers on leave, as a means of asserting and conveying the…
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements
Ella Shohat’s development of the concept of the Arab Jew and her use of theories of diaspora and displacement have been some of the most important in considering questions of identity, discriminati
From Khartoum to Jerusalem
In the past decade or so, increasing amounts of research have been directed at uncovering the lives of the ‘ordinary’ people of Palestine—not notables such as the Husseini and Khalidi families, but
A Tale of Two Yusifs
The scholarly literature on the history of archaeology and archaeological organisations in late nineteenth/early twentieth century Palestine focuses almost exclusively on the Western excavators and scholars who headed this work. But Arab workers did the bulk of the actual digging, and on a daily basis they were often overseen by fellow Arabs as foremen and gang leaders. This paper applies lessons from relational history as it has been used in Lev…
Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance
National or ethnic collectivities are often coded in art, propaganda, and other media as “female”—passive, possessed, and penetrable by the enemy other. Particularly during times of conflict, the nation or homeland is depicted as a woman whose purity must be protected by men. Feminist explorations of this phenomenon have often focused on the language and practice of sexual violence against women in war. Mary Layoun’s discussion of Cypriot fiction…
Agency and Gender in Gaza
As Nicola Pratt notes in the foreword to this book, “Paradoxically, the increased international attention to the impacts of conflict on women has been accompanied by an increased silencing of voices of ordinary women living in conflict zones, except where they conform with liberal notions of agency or are victims of violence and patriarchy” (vii). Aitemad Muhanna’s exploration of how Palestinian women in poor and vulnerable families in Gaza adapt…
Rhetorics of belonging
Rhetorics of belonging: nation, narration, and Israel/Palestine." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 16(1), pp. 173–174
A Tale of Two Yusifs
The scholarly literature on the history of archaeology and archaeological organisations in late nineteenth/early twentieth century Palestine focuses almost exclusively on the Western excavators and scholars who headed this work. But Arab workers did the bulk of the actual digging, and on a daily basis they were often overseen by fellow Arabs as foremen and gang leaders. This paper applies lessons from relational history as it has been used in Lev…
In a pure soil’
Early modern natural philosophers such as Francis Bacon are frequently seen as providing a legitimating ideology for British imperial expansion. Although this has been challenged by one recent study, much of Bacon's work on English colonisation remains unexplored. This article argues that far from being an ideological apologist for English colonisation, Bacon had two sets of colonial anxieties. The first derived from a tradition of civic humanism…
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion
This is Palestine’
Tourist guides to colonised territories are usually understood as instruments of the coloniser, imposing ideas of native inferiority through orientalism and convictions of primitiveness. This article, however, shows how Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews in the later period of British Mandate rule used guidebooks, written in English and particularly aimed at a readership of Commonwealth soldiers on leave, as a means of asserting and conveying the…
The history of Atlantic science
Gendering Labour in Palestinian Archaeology, 1890s–1930s
The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (BHA) was inaugurated over 20 years ago as a forum to exchange research, information on on-going projects, and resources devoted to a growing interest in the histories of archaeology. As this interest has grown, BHA has become global in reach, and has taken an increasingly expansive definition of its subject matter and its place within wider historical contexts. To this end, the journal publishes researc…
Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance
National or ethnic collectivities are often coded in art, propaganda, and other media as “female”—passive, possessed, and penetrable by the enemy other. Particularly during times of conflict, the nation or homeland is depicted as a woman whose purity must be protected by men. Feminist explorations of this phenomenon have often focused on the language and practice of sexual violence against women in war. Mary Layoun’s discussion of Cypriot fiction…
Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World
This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the …
In a pure soil’
Early modern natural philosophers such as Francis Bacon are frequently seen as providing a legitimating ideology for British imperial expansion. Although this has been challenged by one recent study, much of Bacon's work on English colonisation remains unexplored. This article argues that far from being an ideological apologist for English colonisation, Bacon had two sets of colonial anxieties. The first derived from a tradition of civic humanism…
The history of Atlantic science
Leila Khaled
Leila Khaled
Introduction 1 Haifa, Lebanon, Kuwait 2 Leila The Fighter 3 Black September 4 Marriage And Death 5 Revolutionary Women 6 Moving To Jordan And Returning To Palestine 7 Leila Khaled In The Future, Palestine In The Future References Index
Rethinking Corruption
Governing Nature
Scholars have explored the history of attitudes toward northern Australia primarily in the context of the White Australia policy and its implications for the troubling human diversity of the north. This article argues that alongside this history is another story, in which the problem of northern Australia was not so much about managing humanity, as managing nature. This article explores the way in which conceptions of northern Australia, and ambi…
Natural Law and Protestantism
For much of the 20th century, natural law discourse has centred upon the primacy of human reason. Consequently, there has been scepticism towards natural law in much modern Protestant thought because of its critique of reason in post Lapsarian, sinful humanity. This reluctance to engage with natural law, however, is increasingly incongruous in the contemporary global world, in which thinkers from various cultures are attempting to develop univers…
Aesthetics of Sorrow
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion
Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance
National or ethnic collectivities are often coded in art, propaganda, and other media as “female”—passive, possessed, and penetrable by the enemy other. Particularly during times of conflict, the nation or homeland is depicted as a woman whose purity must be protected by men. Feminist explorations of this phenomenon have often focused on the language and practice of sexual violence against women in war. Mary Layoun’s discussion of Cypriot fiction…
Agency and Gender in Gaza
As Nicola Pratt notes in the foreword to this book, “Paradoxically, the increased international attention to the impacts of conflict on women has been accompanied by an increased silencing of voices of ordinary women living in conflict zones, except where they conform with liberal notions of agency or are victims of violence and patriarchy” (vii). Aitemad Muhanna’s exploration of how Palestinian women in poor and vulnerable families in Gaza adapt…
Rhetorics of belonging
Rhetorics of belonging: nation, narration, and Israel/Palestine." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 16(1), pp. 173–174
Copts, Islamists and Jews
Bahaa Abdelmegid's novellas Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers feature a range of intertwined relations: sexual, commercial, as neighbours, and as colleagues between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egyptian society since 1967. This paper explores the implications of Abdelmegid's portrayal of Egyptian society, in which he celebrates its internal diversity whilst simultaneously warning of the dangers and disruptions of 'too much' hybridity a…
A Tale of Two Yusifs
The scholarly literature on the history of archaeology and archaeological organisations in late nineteenth/early twentieth century Palestine focuses almost exclusively on the Western excavators and scholars who headed this work. But Arab workers did the bulk of the actual digging, and on a daily basis they were often overseen by fellow Arabs as foremen and gang leaders. This paper applies lessons from relational history as it has been used in Lev…
From Khartoum to Jerusalem
In the past decade or so, increasing amounts of research have been directed at uncovering the lives of the ‘ordinary’ people of Palestine—not notables such as the Husseini and Khalidi families, but
This is Palestine’
Tourist guides to colonised territories are usually understood as instruments of the coloniser, imposing ideas of native inferiority through orientalism and convictions of primitiveness. This article, however, shows how Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews in the later period of British Mandate rule used guidebooks, written in English and particularly aimed at a readership of Commonwealth soldiers on leave, as a means of asserting and conveying the…
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements
Ella Shohat’s development of the concept of the Arab Jew and her use of theories of diaspora and displacement have been some of the most important in considering questions of identity, discriminati
Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World
This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the …
Elias Nasrallah Haddad
whose career spanned the final decades of Ottoman rule in Palestine, the whole of the British Mandate period, and the Nakba and after.Based for most of his life at the German-run Syrian Orphanage in Jerusalem, he asserted, in his many books and articles on Palestinian life and language, his adopted country's right to progress, alongside the importance of recording its traditions.He highlighted the Arab nature of Palestinian society while urging t…
Women versus Wheelbarrows
Women versus Wheelbarrows:Labor and British Archaeology in Late Ottoman Palestine Sarah Irving (bio) KEYWORDS archaeology, efficiency, gender, labor, Palestine In the summer of 1912, Duncan Mackenzie, director of the Palestine Exploration Fund's (PEF) archaeological excavations, sacked several dozen women who had been working on the dig at Ain Shems, west of Jerusalem. On the large-scale excavations that typified archaeology in Palestine in this …
Palestine’s Syriac Orthodox community and the Dead Sea scrolls
In 1947, a shepherd in the hills north of the Dead Sea visited a contact in Bethlehem, a dealer of antiquities to foreign visitors, offering fragments of written material. The dealer, from the Syriac community, was unsure of the items’ value and began enquiries which followed Syriac Orthodox religious and intellectual networks. Despite initial scepticism, the fragments were the first of the now globally famous Dead Sea Scrolls, and ever since hav…
Al-Fahum and the al-Fahum Registry
Al-Fahum and the al-Fahum Registry: A study of Nazareth." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 153(1), pp. 75–76
'The House of the Priest'
Let's start at the beginning, with the startling opening of Nikula Khoury's memoirs, with his assertion that he had lost the materials for his memoirs not once and not twice but three times, because of the 1910 Karak Revolt and the First World War and the nakba. "Here, I have returned yet again to collect these memories and to write them down for the fourth time," he concludes. "All I can hope for is that the luck of this account will not be, thi…
The Kidnapping of ‘Abdullah al-Masri
This article draws on the archives of the British Mandatory administration's Department of Antiquities to consider archaeology not as an increasing body of literature does, as a source of discursive power for the colonial regime, but instead as an employer of working-class Palestinians.Through a close study of the correspondence between the department and its antiquities guards, men employed to look after important sites, protect archaeological f…
The Social and Cultural History of Palestine
Explores the social and cultural landscape of Palestine under Late Ottoman and British rule Highlights the rise of social and cultural history within scholarly research on Palestine Discusses issues of gender, class, race and empire, set against the background of the diverse Palestinian society of the first half of the 20th century Draws on a wide range of archival materials in Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, French and other languages, many of …
History (27 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (22 works) · Ancient history (21 works) · History (19 works) · Palestine (18 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art (11 works)