Orit Bashkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 126510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orit Bashkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orit |
| FAMILY NAME | Bashkin |
| SIGNATURE | BASHKIN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8096-8430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Professional development: A mixed methods study of Masters of Public Health alumni
Introduction: We examined the perceptions of the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree graduates regarding their personal competencies, job performance and professional development using a mixed method, explanatory sequential design. Methods: A cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire of the Haifa School of Public Health alumni who graduated between 2005 and 2022 was disseminated to 849 graduates between March and June 2022, from which 127…
A Patient-Centered Approach to Communication during Endoscopic Procedures: The Importance of Providing Information to Patients
The study aimed to explore patients’ experiences and perceptions throughout the various stages of endoscopic procedures and examine the association between patient-centered communication and the patient’s experience. A total of 191 patients responded to pre- and post-procedure surveys that inquired about fear and pain, patients’ satisfaction regarding the information provided to them, perceptions and experience. Pain was associated with post-proc…
On Freedom-Loving Roosters and Beloved Goats: Animals, Humans, and Iraqi Narrative Prose 1948–1954
This article explores the relationships between humans and animals in Iraqi prose fiction from the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that Iraqi authors wrote about animals to underline not only the inhumane conditions in the nation’s rural regions but also the inhumanity of urban existence, which was associated with greed, deception, the absence of family and ethical values, and social death. More specifically, the article studies two short stories: ʿAb…
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Simulation as a key training method for inculcating public health leadership skills: A mixed methods study
Background: Successful management of public health challenges requires developing and nurturing leadership competencies. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of training simulations to assess public health leadership and decision-making competencies during emergencies as an effective learning and training method. Methods: We examined the effects of two simulation scenarios on public health school students in terms of their experience (compared …
Mena Jewry after "the Middle Eastern Turn": Modernity and Its Shadows
MENA Jewry after "the Middle Eastern Turn":Modernity and Its Shadows Michelle Campos (bio), Orit Bashkin (bio), and Lior Sternfeld (bio) In the fall of 2021 Netflix began broadcasting an original Turkish dramatic series, "Kulüp" (The Club), which centered on the tragic story of a Sephardi Jewish convicted murderer, Matilda Aseo, as she earned early release from prison and attempted to rebuild her new life. Based on the family story of one of the …
Higher Education in Public Health as a Tool to Reduce Disparities: Findings from an Exploratory Study among the Bedouin Community in Israel
The Bedouin community is a minority disadvantaged population in Israel that suffers from a variety of health and socioeconomic disparities and limited access to higher education. The current study aimed to examine perceptions, successes, and challenges experienced by Bedouin students during their studies and to assess an internship program developed on the principles of a community-based participatory research approach to public health. In-depth …
Poetics as a counter archive: Neoclassical Shi‘i poetry and de-sectarianizing knowledge
In this article, I highlight the importance of literary products as an alternative archive. Focusing on Iraqi history in the first two decades of the twentieth century, I suggest that relying on Arabic literature is a useful method of decolonizing knowledge, which allows us to reconstruct, even partially, voices of Iraqis and exposes to us to their creativity and world-views. Some of Iraq’s poets, novelists and writers supported, and were support…
Emerging lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic about the decisive competencies needed for the public health workforce: A qualitative study
The global COVID-19 crisis exposed the critical need for a highly qualified public health workforce. This qualitative research aimed to examine public health workforce competencies needed to face COVID-19 challenges and identify the gaps between training programs and the competency demands of real-world disasters and pandemics. Through a sample of thirty-one participant qualitative interviews, we examined the perspectives of diverse stakeholders …
Revisiting Multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire
Evliya Çelebi (d. after 1685), in his Seyahatname , Book of Travels , completed circa 1683, records a host of languages and dialects spoken within the Ottoman Empire at the time and provides practical word lists in transcription, especially for those less familiar to his Turkophone audience, such as Hungarian in the western borderlands and varieties of Kurdish in the eastern regions. Evliya also remarks of places where he met bilingual speakers. …
On Noble and Inherited Virtues: Discussions of the Semitic Race in the Levant and Egypt, 1876–1918
This article examines new notions about race, ethnicity and language current in modern movements of Arabic literary and cultural revival. I argue that the Arab print market before World War I adopted the racial category of the Semite as highly relevant to Arab ethnicity and language, but the philological and literary significations of the term subverted the negative constructions affiliated with the Semitic races in Western race theories. Combini…
The Organizational Atmosphere in Israeli Hospital during Covid-19: Concerns, Perceptions, and Burnout
The COVID-19 crisis poses challenges to healthcare systems and requires micro- and macro-organizational adaptations. This study examined the organizational atmosphere in Israeli hospitals by evaluating workers' perceptions and concerns about the COVID-19 crisis and its management. At the end of the pandemic's first wave in Israel, 547 healthcare workers responded to an online survey, which inquired about COVID-19 concerns at the individual and fa…
The Future Public Health Workforce in a Changing World: A Conceptual Framework for a European–Israeli Knowledge Transfer Project
Health services quality and sustainability rely mainly on a qualified workforce. Adequately trained public health personnel protect and promote health, avert health disparities, and allow rapid response to health emergencies. Evaluations of the healthcare workforce typically focus on physicians and nurses in curative medical venues. Few have evaluated public health workforce capacity building or sought to identify gaps between the academic traini…
The Fruit of the Arts and the Mob
This essay considers accounts of the Dreyfus Affair published in the newspaper Thamarat al-Funun (founded 1875) during 1898 to demonstrate how Arab writers addressed the rights of minorities in Europe and examined failed emancipatory projects. Writing about the Dreyfus Affair allowed intellectuals in the Levant to reverse the power relationship between themselves and Europe and to comment on the kinds of politics that would ensure the equality be…
The Colonized Semites and the Infectious Disease: Theorizing and Narrativizing Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870-1914
This article studies the ways in which Arab intellectuals in Egypt and the Levant wrote about modern anti-Semitism during the four decades preceding the demise of the Ottoman Empire. This period is often described as the era of the Arab Nahda (revival); it refers to an era when Arab thinkers and writers showed great interest in the Arabic language, Islamic history, and Arab culture and consumed European literary and philosophical works. Arab inte…
Multilingual journeys: Jewish travel narratives and multicultural identities in interwar Iraq
This article suggests that the Jews in northern Iraq lived in, and were part of, multiethnic and multireligious communities, whose identities were fluid, mobile and volatile. While some northern Jewish experiences serve as testimony to the strength of the new nation state, other historical experiences underline the fragmented nature of Iraqi society, where individuals were members of multiple linguistic and cultural communities. These shifting Je…
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot , or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available at all. Rather than returning to a homeland as nat…
Cyrus Schayegh. The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World
Cyrus Schayegh’s excellent new book, The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, invites us to think differently about the relationships between cities, villages, modes of communication and transportation, the global economy, and various political systems. Ambitious in its scope and conceptualization, the book presents a lucid history of the region, which combines various forms of historical writings—macrohistory, mircohistory, spatial hi…
Solidarity in the Galilee
Adel Manna's Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 appeared in Arabic and Hebrew in 2016-2017. Manna's book gives voice to the experience of the first generation of Palestinians living within the State of Israel. Here, four scholars of Palestinian and Israeli history review Nakba and Survival and weigh its importance for reckoning with the entangled history of the creation of Israel and…
Subversives and mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A subaltern history , edited by Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar
Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, written by Lital Levy
The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women and Baghdadi Men: A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah
This chapter provides a detailed reading of al-Misbah , a Jewish Iraqi publication which appeared in Baghdad between the years 1924 and 1929 and has been characterised both as a Zionist mouthpiece and a testimony to the success of Arab nationalism. In addressing this apparent contradiction, the chapter examines the issues which dominated its pages in order to highlight the identity of the paper and to enrich our understanding of the Iraqi press u…
Three Syrian intellectuals, a French Jewish Officer, and the Question of Late Ottoman Pluralism
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Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)
On time: Technology and temporality in modern Egypt, by On Barak
On 6 August 2015, Reuters News Agency published a report about the opening of the new Suez Canal. President ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi was quoted as saying: ‘We promised a gift to the world and we acco
Hybrid Nationalisms: Waṭanī and Qawmī Visions in Iraq Under ʿabd Al-Karim Qasim, 1958–61
This paper analyzes Iraqi national narratives in the years from 1958 to 1961 to consider how innovative definitions of Arab nationalisms were affected by worldwide processes of decolonization. It demonstrates how Pan-Arabism was transformed in Qasimite Iraq because of its hybridization with Iraqi patriotism and, concurrently, how various elements of Arabist discourses were integrated into local and patriotic perceptions of Iraqi nationalism. Exam…
The Middle Eastern Shift and Provincializing Zionism
Scholars working on Jewish communities in the Middle East are in the midst of an important historiographical moment, in which the major categories, historical narratives, and key assumptions within the field are undergoing radical changes. A cluster of books and articles written by scholars trained in history, anthropology, and area studies departments, and published in Middle East studies rather than Jewish studies book series and journals, sugg…
Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958
This essay examines representations of Iraqi women in the works of poets, novelists, and public intellectuals during the Hashemite period. Defining the functions of women in modern Muslim societies, Iraqi intellectuals sought inspiration in the writings of Egyptian and Turkish writers. I demonstrate, however, that the discourse about women grew more Iraqi-centric in the 1940s and 50s. I also argue that the changes in the representations of women …
The Colonized Semites and the Infectious Disease: Theorizing and Narrativizing Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870-1914
This article studies the ways in which Arab intellectuals in Egypt and the Levant wrote about modern anti-Semitism during the four decades preceding the demise of the Ottoman Empire. This period is often described as the era of the Arab Nahda (revival); it refers to an era when Arab thinkers and writers showed great interest in the Arabic language, Islamic history, and Arab culture and consumed European literary and philosophical works. Arab inte…
Three Syrian intellectuals, a French Jewish Officer, and the Question of Late Ottoman Pluralism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Fruit of the Arts and the Mob
This essay considers accounts of the Dreyfus Affair published in the newspaper Thamarat al-Funun (founded 1875) during 1898 to demonstrate how Arab writers addressed the rights of minorities in Europe and examined failed emancipatory projects. Writing about the Dreyfus Affair allowed intellectuals in the Levant to reverse the power relationship between themselves and Europe and to comment on the kinds of politics that would ensure the equality be…
When the Safras Met the Dajānīs: Arabic in Hebrew and the Rethinking of National Ideology
This paper explores how readers can hear Arabic voices within Hebrew novels written by Jews who came to Israel from Arab countries or who were born in Israel to Arabic-speaking parents.1 I look at the ways in which the Arabic language itself, as well as Arabic literature and Islamic religious texts, are mediated in these novels. The inclusion of Arabic voices within the Hebrew texts, I argue, acts powerfully against national monolingualism and ge…
Unholy Pilgrims in a New Diaspora: Iraqi Jewish Protest in Israel, 1950–1959
This article explores the protests, demonstrations, and sit-ins organized by Iraqi Jews in Israel during the 1950s. Protesting their living conditions and discrimination by the state, Iraqi Jews traveled from their transit camps to urban centers, demanding housing, employment, education, and access to water and electricity services. I argue that the protests challenged both the invisible borders between cities and transit camps and the notion tha…
Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958
This essay examines representations of Iraqi women in the works of poets, novelists, and public intellectuals during the Hashemite period. Defining the functions of women in modern Muslim societies, Iraqi intellectuals sought inspiration in the writings of Egyptian and Turkish writers. I demonstrate, however, that the discourse about women grew more Iraqi-centric in the 1940s and 50s. I also argue that the changes in the representations of women …
Out of Place”: Home and Empire in the Works of Mahmud Ahmad Al-Sayyid and Dhu Nun Ayyub
This essay highlights silenced aspects of Arab-Iraqi nationalism. While scholars of Iraqi nationalism paid great heed to intellectuals affiliated with the state, I explore sources that were written outside of official circles, namely, novels, to rescue a more nuanced understanding of Iraqi nationalism and, concurrently, to reconstruct the richness of the Iraqi cultural field. I focus on two intellectuals, Mahmud Ahmad al-Sayyid (1904-37) and Dhu …
Un Arabe juif dans l'Irak de l'entre-deux-guerres: La carrière d'Anwar Shā'ul
Cet article étudie l'œuvre d'Anwar Shā'ul, un intellectuel irakien juif, pendant la période de l'entre-deux-guerres. Né en 1904 à Hilla, Shā'ul est devenu l'un des journalistes et des auteurs de nouvelles les plus influents de la nation. La carrière de Shā'ul dans l'entre-deux-guerres montre comment celui-ci a choisi de construire une identité juive-arabe qui refléterait le désir de sa communauté d'être intégrée dans la communauté nationale arabo…
Lands, Hands and Socio-cultural Boundaries: A Reading of Dhu Nun Ayyub's The Hand, the Land and the Water (1948)
This article offers a literary analysis of the novel The Hand, the Land and the Water (Al-Yad wa'l ard aa'l ma'), written by communist intellectual Dhu Nun Ayyub (b.1908). I read this novel in an attempt to analyze the boundaries between Baghdad and countryside (al-rif), as understood by the novel's protagonists, and to underscore the ways in which such boundaries were not only constructed, but also crossed and challenged. The novel conveys many …
Hybrid Nationalisms: Waṭanī and Qawmī Visions in Iraq Under ʿabd Al-Karim Qasim, 1958–61
This paper analyzes Iraqi national narratives in the years from 1958 to 1961 to consider how innovative definitions of Arab nationalisms were affected by worldwide processes of decolonization. It demonstrates how Pan-Arabism was transformed in Qasimite Iraq because of its hybridization with Iraqi patriotism and, concurrently, how various elements of Arabist discourses were integrated into local and patriotic perceptions of Iraqi nationalism. Exam…
The Barbarism from Within-Discourses about Fascism amongst Iraqi and Iraqi-Jewish Communists, 1942-1955
This article looks at the changing significations of the word "fascist" within communist discourses in Iraq and in Israel. I do so in order to illustrate how fascism, a concept signifying a political theory conceptualized and practiced in Italy, Germany, and Spain, became a boarder frame of reference to many leftist intellectuals in the Middle East. The articles shows that communist discourses formulated in Iraq during the years 1941-1945 evoked …
Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading up to and during World War II. Using new source materials taken largely from Arab memoirs, archives, and print media, the articles reexamine Egyptia…
The Middle Eastern Shift and Provincializing Zionism
Scholars working on Jewish communities in the Middle East are in the midst of an important historiographical moment, in which the major categories, historical narratives, and key assumptions within the field are undergoing radical changes. A cluster of books and articles written by scholars trained in history, anthropology, and area studies departments, and published in Middle East studies rather than Jewish studies book series and journals, sugg…
Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe
Dina Rizk Khoury. Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance
Journal Article Dina Rizk Khoury. Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance. Get access Dina Rizk Khoury. Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii, 281. $29.99. Orit Bashkin Orit Bashkin University of Chicago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 2, April 2015, …
On time: Technology and temporality in modern Egypt, by On Barak
On 6 August 2015, Reuters News Agency published a report about the opening of the new Suez Canal. President ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi was quoted as saying: ‘We promised a gift to the world and we acco
When the Safras Met the Dajānīs: Arabic in Hebrew and the Rethinking of National Ideology
This paper explores how readers can hear Arabic voices within Hebrew novels written by Jews who came to Israel from Arab countries or who were born in Israel to Arabic-speaking parents.1 I look at the ways in which the Arabic language itself, as well as Arabic literature and Islamic religious texts, are mediated in these novels. The inclusion of Arabic voices within the Hebrew texts, I argue, acts powerfully against national monolingualism and ge…
Unholy Pilgrims in a New Diaspora: Iraqi Jewish Protest in Israel, 1950–1959
This article explores the protests, demonstrations, and sit-ins organized by Iraqi Jews in Israel during the 1950s. Protesting their living conditions and discrimination by the state, Iraqi Jews traveled from their transit camps to urban centers, demanding housing, employment, education, and access to water and electricity services. I argue that the protests challenged both the invisible borders between cities and transit camps and the notion tha…
The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women and Baghdadi Men: A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah
This chapter provides a detailed reading of al-Misbah , a Jewish Iraqi publication which appeared in Baghdad between the years 1924 and 1929 and has been characterised both as a Zionist mouthpiece and a testimony to the success of Arab nationalism. In addressing this apparent contradiction, the chapter examines the issues which dominated its pages in order to highlight the identity of the paper and to enrich our understanding of the Iraqi press u…
Three Syrian intellectuals, a French Jewish Officer, and the Question of Late Ottoman Pluralism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)
Subversives and mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A subaltern history , edited by Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar
Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, written by Lital Levy
Multilingual journeys: Jewish travel narratives and multicultural identities in interwar Iraq
This article suggests that the Jews in northern Iraq lived in, and were part of, multiethnic and multireligious communities, whose identities were fluid, mobile and volatile. While some northern Jewish experiences serve as testimony to the strength of the new nation state, other historical experiences underline the fragmented nature of Iraqi society, where individuals were members of multiple linguistic and cultural communities. These shifting Je…
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot , or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available at all. Rather than returning to a homeland as nat…
Cyrus Schayegh. The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World
Cyrus Schayegh’s excellent new book, The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, invites us to think differently about the relationships between cities, villages, modes of communication and transportation, the global economy, and various political systems. Ambitious in its scope and conceptualization, the book presents a lucid history of the region, which combines various forms of historical writings—macrohistory, mircohistory, spatial hi…
Solidarity in the Galilee
Adel Manna's Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 appeared in Arabic and Hebrew in 2016-2017. Manna's book gives voice to the experience of the first generation of Palestinians living within the State of Israel. Here, four scholars of Palestinian and Israeli history review Nakba and Survival and weigh its importance for reckoning with the entangled history of the creation of Israel and…
Revisiting Multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire
Evliya Çelebi (d. after 1685), in his Seyahatname , Book of Travels , completed circa 1683, records a host of languages and dialects spoken within the Ottoman Empire at the time and provides practical word lists in transcription, especially for those less familiar to his Turkophone audience, such as Hungarian in the western borderlands and varieties of Kurdish in the eastern regions. Evliya also remarks of places where he met bilingual speakers. …
On Noble and Inherited Virtues: Discussions of the Semitic Race in the Levant and Egypt, 1876–1918
This article examines new notions about race, ethnicity and language current in modern movements of Arabic literary and cultural revival. I argue that the Arab print market before World War I adopted the racial category of the Semite as highly relevant to Arab ethnicity and language, but the philological and literary significations of the term subverted the negative constructions affiliated with the Semitic races in Western race theories. Combini…
The Organizational Atmosphere in Israeli Hospital during Covid-19: Concerns, Perceptions, and Burnout
The COVID-19 crisis poses challenges to healthcare systems and requires micro- and macro-organizational adaptations. This study examined the organizational atmosphere in Israeli hospitals by evaluating workers' perceptions and concerns about the COVID-19 crisis and its management. At the end of the pandemic's first wave in Israel, 547 healthcare workers responded to an online survey, which inquired about COVID-19 concerns at the individual and fa…
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