Ahmad H Sa’di
Biographic Data
| ID | 147580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmad H Sa’di |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmad H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sa’di |
| SIGNATURE | SA’DI A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Democracy as a utopia and democracy as a tool of domination: The structural roles of race, class, and coloniality in Western democratic regimes
Decolonizing the Study of Palestine: Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik
Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continues to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists the mission of guiding the “backward” natives of Palestine to modernity. However, since the work of Palestinian scholar Elia Zureik, the study of Israel, the Arab countries and the “ethnic relation…
Arts in Dark Times: On the Goodness and Thorniness of Palestinians under Israeli Rule
This article explores Palestinians' representations in visual art of the existential crisis they faced following the destruction of Palestinian society during the 1948 War, known as the Nakba. The article explores how this colossal event has been conveyed artistically, and discusses artworks that revolve around Palestinians' subsequent states of being, which are represented by two main motifs, the 'good Arab' and the cactus tree. In particular, i…
Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm
Israeli surveillance industries are well integrated in the global surveillance market. This incorporation is achieved through marketisation, labour processes and the circulation of capital. Even Israel has been considered by many as a successful securitising model. In this article, it is argued that this success is the outcome of several factors, including the shared premises of Israel’s settler-colonial regime and neoliberal data-based globalise…
Orientalism in a globalised world: Said in the twenty-first century
From its publication in 1978, Edward Said’s magnum opus Orientalism has generated fierce and unrelenting debates regarding its epistemology and scope, and the interpretive validity of its Western cultural representations of the self and other. Since then, however, the world has become increasingly governed by different sets of assumptions, ideologies, relations of production and reproduction, and matrixes of power relations. This article consider…
Drew Paul, Israel/Palestine: Border Representations in Literature and Film
Manar H. Makhoul, The Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History Through Fiction, 1948–2010
After the Catastrophe: A Reading of Manna’s Nakba and Survival
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 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 th…
The Nation State of the Jewish People's Basic Law: A Threshhold of Elimination
The Nation State of the Jewish People's basic law, passed in July 2018, constitutes a landmark in the evolution of Israel's settler-colonial nationalism and self-presentation. The law underscores the shift Israel has made from aligning itself with the Western liberal order to embracing, even spearheading, a radical right-wing populist worldview. The Jewish exclusivity and racism that the law embodies, I argue, did not result from changes in Israe…
State power and the role of education in the constitution of natives' subjectivities: The Druze in Israel
Collective identities are largely conceived as the essence of human subjectivity, the basis of moral collectivities and the code by which people tend to relate to histories and current affairs. Michel Foucault, notwithstanding, argued that identities are the product of power relations. Through various techniques, such as the classification of populations to certain categories, the hierarchical ordering of these categories, the allocation of diffe…
Thorough surveillance: The genesis of Israeli policies of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinian minority
Widely regarded as expert in techniques of surveillance and political control, Israel has been successful in controlling a native population for a long time. Despite tremendous challenges, it has maintained a tight grip over a large Palestinian population in the territories it occupied in the 1967 war. Moreover, it has effectively contained the Palestinian minority inside its 1948 borders. This book discusses the foundation of an Israeli discours…
Representations of Exile and Return in Palestinian Literature
Given the continued centrality of national identity among Palestinians, despite the absence of a nation-state of their own, and in light of their unfaltering endeavor to reconstitute their society which was destroyed sixty-seven years ago, the notions of exile and return have dominated their understanding of their calamity. Palestinian sociopolitical discourses and literary production have been premised on a presupposition that in the fullness of…
Social Protest under Authoritarianism: A Critique of Regime Type and Instrumental Rationality-based Explanations
This article critically examines two key assumptions of the research on social protest. First, it explores the validity of the typologies of regime type that guide the literature on social protest and the presupposition that democracies are reasonably responsive to popular demands, including to those made through public contestation. Since citizenship rights are not evenly distributed among all citizens in these countries, it is argued that this …
Remembrance and Narcissism in Narrating 1948 Palestine: A Reading of Ben-Ze'ev on Remembering Palestine in 1948
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy
Strangers in Their Homeland: A Critical Study of Israel's Arab Citizens. By Ra'anan Cohen
Communism and Zionism in Palestine-Israel: A Troubled Legacy
The political marginalisation of the Palestinians inside Israel between 1948 and 1977 has been widely discussed in the literature. The Israeli Communist Party is often credited with being the sole political organisation which gave an outlet during this period to the critical and oppositional political, literary and artistic activities of the Palestinian citizens of Israel. The Party organs in particular have done their utmost to popularise this c…
The Borders of Colonial Encounter: The Case of Israel’s Wall
The Borders of Colonial Encounter: The Case of Israel’s Wall
Beyond the Pale? Avigdor Lieberman and Demographic Racism in Israel
The long-term shift of the Israeli public to the right has resulted in the ascendance of a host of radical right wing ideologies and political parties. Yisrael Beitenu party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, an émigré from the former USSR, has attracted special attention for its xenophobic and fierce anti-Palestinian racist platform on the one hand, and for its audience which is largely composed of new Russian immigrants on the other. Various explanatio…
Remembering Al-Nakba in a Time of Amnesia: On Silence, Dislocation and Time
Keywords: Al-Nakbaamnesiadialecticdislocationmemorysilencetime
The Politics of ‘collaboration’: Israel's Control of A National Minority and Indigenous Resistance
Although considerable research has been published on the Palestinian citizens of Israel, very little has been done to explore the methods of their incorporation into the Israeli state after 1948. This article analyses the changes in the modes of the Israeli governance of the Palestinians and the ways in which various methods of control have produced various types of Arab ‘collaborators’ and ‘informants’ in an ethnic Jewish state. Moreover, the ar…
Kimmerling: The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAhmad H. Sa'diAhmad H. Sa'di is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Trends in Israeli Social Science Research on the National Identity of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Construction and reconstruction of racialised boundaries: Discourse, Institutions and Methods
Considerable research has been published on the divisions between the various groups of Israeli citizens. Researchers have mostly studied the socio‐economic and political ‘gaps’ as well as the cultural differences that exist between the various groups. However, very little (if any) research has examined the constructed boundaries themselves, and the conceptual frameworks on the basis of which they were instituted. This article aims to look at one…
The Incorporation of the Palestinian Minority by the Israeli State,1948-1970
Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity
Ahmad H. Sa’di, Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity, Israel Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Memory and Identity in Israel: New Directions (Summer, 2002), pp. 175-198
Minority Labour Force Participation in the Post-Fordist era: The case of the Arabs in Israeli
This study investigates the impact of economic restructuring on the labour force participation of subordinate minority men. Taking Israel as a case study, we review the trends of labour force parti
The Incorporation of the Palestinian Minority by the Israeli State,1948-1970
Incorporation without Integration: Palestinian Citizens in Israel's Labour Market
The Palestinian citizens of Israel have been concentrating in blue-collar, less well paid, and insecure jobs. This is viewed as a result of two processes: their gradual incorporation into the state/Jewish labour market, and at the same time, the reproduction of an elaborate division of labour within a split labour market. Unlike the bulk of the existing research, which explains the disadvantaged position of these Palestinians by variables relatin…
Remembering Al-Nakba in a Time of Amnesia: On Silence, Dislocation and Time
Keywords: Al-Nakbaamnesiadialecticdislocationmemorysilencetime
Modernization as an explanatory discourse of Zionist‐Palestinian relations
Since the inception of the Zionist movement in the 1890s, Zionist‐Palestinian relations have been characterized by a long and continuous conflict. A dominant perspective through which these relations have been articulated is modernization. Zionism and the Jewish population in Palestine/Israel have been presented as a modernizing agent; they assist the Palestinians in progressing from backwardness to modernity. This article traces the origins of t…
State power and the role of education in the constitution of natives' subjectivities: The Druze in Israel
Collective identities are largely conceived as the essence of human subjectivity, the basis of moral collectivities and the code by which people tend to relate to histories and current affairs. Michel Foucault, notwithstanding, argued that identities are the product of power relations. Through various techniques, such as the classification of populations to certain categories, the hierarchical ordering of these categories, the allocation of diffe…
Trends in Israeli Social Science Research on the National Identity of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
The peculiarities of Israel's democracy: Some theoretical and practical implications for Jewish–Arab relations
Construction and reconstruction of racialised boundaries: Discourse, Institutions and Methods
Considerable research has been published on the divisions between the various groups of Israeli citizens. Researchers have mostly studied the socio‐economic and political ‘gaps’ as well as the cultural differences that exist between the various groups. However, very little (if any) research has examined the constructed boundaries themselves, and the conceptual frameworks on the basis of which they were instituted. This article aims to look at one…
Minority Resistance to State Control: Towards a Re-analysis of Palestinian Political Activity in Israel
The patterns of political behaviours of the Palestinians in Israel have been the subject of growing research. Despite the heterogeneity of the theoretical perspectives through which this research has been conducted, the Palestinians are treated as an object of history. Their history is described as a product of process and acts initiated and conducted by outside agents, primarily by the state and the Jewish majority. Meanwhile, the behaviours and…
Orientalism in a globalised world: Said in the twenty-first century
From its publication in 1978, Edward Said’s magnum opus Orientalism has generated fierce and unrelenting debates regarding its epistemology and scope, and the interpretive validity of its Western cultural representations of the self and other. Since then, however, the world has become increasingly governed by different sets of assumptions, ideologies, relations of production and reproduction, and matrixes of power relations. This article consider…
After the Catastrophe: A Reading of Manna’s Nakba and Survival
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 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 th…
Representations of Exile and Return in Palestinian Literature
Given the continued centrality of national identity among Palestinians, despite the absence of a nation-state of their own, and in light of their unfaltering endeavor to reconstitute their society which was destroyed sixty-seven years ago, the notions of exile and return have dominated their understanding of their calamity. Palestinian sociopolitical discourses and literary production have been premised on a presupposition that in the fullness of…
Remembrance and Narcissism in Narrating 1948 Palestine: A Reading of Ben-Ze'ev on Remembering Palestine in 1948
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy
Incorporation without Integration: Palestinian Citizens in Israel's Labour Market
The Palestinian citizens of Israel have been concentrating in blue-collar, less well paid, and insecure jobs. This is viewed as a result of two processes: their gradual incorporation into the state/Jewish labour market, and at the same time, the reproduction of an elaborate division of labour within a split labour market. Unlike the bulk of the existing research, which explains the disadvantaged position of these Palestinians by variables relatin…
Minority Resistance to State Control: Towards a Re-analysis of Palestinian Political Activity in Israel
The patterns of political behaviours of the Palestinians in Israel have been the subject of growing research. Despite the heterogeneity of the theoretical perspectives through which this research has been conducted, the Palestinians are treated as an object of history. Their history is described as a product of process and acts initiated and conducted by outside agents, primarily by the state and the Jewish majority. Meanwhile, the behaviours and…
Modernization as an explanatory discourse of Zionist‐Palestinian relations
Since the inception of the Zionist movement in the 1890s, Zionist‐Palestinian relations have been characterized by a long and continuous conflict. A dominant perspective through which these relations have been articulated is modernization. Zionism and the Jewish population in Palestine/Israel have been presented as a modernizing agent; they assist the Palestinians in progressing from backwardness to modernity. This article traces the origins of t…
Minority Labour Force Participation in the Post-Fordist era: The case of the Arabs in Israeli
This study investigates the impact of economic restructuring on the labour force participation of subordinate minority men. Taking Israel as a case study, we review the trends of labour force parti
Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity
Ahmad H. Sa’di, Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity, Israel Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Memory and Identity in Israel: New Directions (Summer, 2002), pp. 175-198
The peculiarities of Israel's democracy: Some theoretical and practical implications for Jewish–Arab relations
The Incorporation of the Palestinian Minority by the Israeli State,1948-1970
Trends in Israeli Social Science Research on the National Identity of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Construction and reconstruction of racialised boundaries: Discourse, Institutions and Methods
Considerable research has been published on the divisions between the various groups of Israeli citizens. Researchers have mostly studied the socio‐economic and political ‘gaps’ as well as the cultural differences that exist between the various groups. However, very little (if any) research has examined the constructed boundaries themselves, and the conceptual frameworks on the basis of which they were instituted. This article aims to look at one…
The Politics of ‘collaboration’: Israel's Control of A National Minority and Indigenous Resistance
Although considerable research has been published on the Palestinian citizens of Israel, very little has been done to explore the methods of their incorporation into the Israeli state after 1948. This article analyses the changes in the modes of the Israeli governance of the Palestinians and the ways in which various methods of control have produced various types of Arab ‘collaborators’ and ‘informants’ in an ethnic Jewish state. Moreover, the ar…
Kimmerling: The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAhmad H. Sa'diAhmad H. Sa'di is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Remembering Al-Nakba in a Time of Amnesia: On Silence, Dislocation and Time
Keywords: Al-Nakbaamnesiadialecticdislocationmemorysilencetime
Beyond the Pale? Avigdor Lieberman and Demographic Racism in Israel
The long-term shift of the Israeli public to the right has resulted in the ascendance of a host of radical right wing ideologies and political parties. Yisrael Beitenu party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, an émigré from the former USSR, has attracted special attention for its xenophobic and fierce anti-Palestinian racist platform on the one hand, and for its audience which is largely composed of new Russian immigrants on the other. Various explanatio…
Communism and Zionism in Palestine-Israel: A Troubled Legacy
The political marginalisation of the Palestinians inside Israel between 1948 and 1977 has been widely discussed in the literature. The Israeli Communist Party is often credited with being the sole political organisation which gave an outlet during this period to the critical and oppositional political, literary and artistic activities of the Palestinian citizens of Israel. The Party organs in particular have done their utmost to popularise this c…
The Borders of Colonial Encounter: The Case of Israel’s Wall
The Borders of Colonial Encounter: The Case of Israel’s Wall
Strangers in Their Homeland: A Critical Study of Israel's Arab Citizens. By Ra'anan Cohen
Remembrance and Narcissism in Narrating 1948 Palestine: A Reading of Ben-Ze'ev on Remembering Palestine in 1948
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy
Representations of Exile and Return in Palestinian Literature
Given the continued centrality of national identity among Palestinians, despite the absence of a nation-state of their own, and in light of their unfaltering endeavor to reconstitute their society which was destroyed sixty-seven years ago, the notions of exile and return have dominated their understanding of their calamity. Palestinian sociopolitical discourses and literary production have been premised on a presupposition that in the fullness of…
Social Protest under Authoritarianism: A Critique of Regime Type and Instrumental Rationality-based Explanations
This article critically examines two key assumptions of the research on social protest. First, it explores the validity of the typologies of regime type that guide the literature on social protest and the presupposition that democracies are reasonably responsive to popular demands, including to those made through public contestation. Since citizenship rights are not evenly distributed among all citizens in these countries, it is argued that this …
Thorough surveillance: The genesis of Israeli policies of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinian minority
Widely regarded as expert in techniques of surveillance and political control, Israel has been successful in controlling a native population for a long time. Despite tremendous challenges, it has maintained a tight grip over a large Palestinian population in the territories it occupied in the 1967 war. Moreover, it has effectively contained the Palestinian minority inside its 1948 borders. This book discusses the foundation of an Israeli discours…
State power and the role of education in the constitution of natives' subjectivities: The Druze in Israel
Collective identities are largely conceived as the essence of human subjectivity, the basis of moral collectivities and the code by which people tend to relate to histories and current affairs. Michel Foucault, notwithstanding, argued that identities are the product of power relations. Through various techniques, such as the classification of populations to certain categories, the hierarchical ordering of these categories, the allocation of diffe…
The Nation State of the Jewish People's Basic Law: A Threshhold of Elimination
The Nation State of the Jewish People's basic law, passed in July 2018, constitutes a landmark in the evolution of Israel's settler-colonial nationalism and self-presentation. The law underscores the shift Israel has made from aligning itself with the Western liberal order to embracing, even spearheading, a radical right-wing populist worldview. The Jewish exclusivity and racism that the law embodies, I argue, did not result from changes in Israe…
Drew Paul, Israel/Palestine: Border Representations in Literature and Film
Manar H. Makhoul, The Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History Through Fiction, 1948–2010
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