Sherene Seikaly
Biographic Data
| ID | 238174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherene Seikaly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherene |
| FAMILY NAME | Seikaly |
| SIGNATURE | SEIKALY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Unitika (Japan) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kantousha and the Pox
This article reconstructs a1903 smallpox outbreak in Omdurman by following the life of a sixteen-year- old girl, Kantousha, whose illness sheds light on an expansive regime of colonial medical surveillance. Drawing on Sudan Medical Department archives, the article reads clinical records against their intended logic, tracing how colonial medicine simultaneously enacted care, coercion, and obfuscation particularly around slavery and unfreedom. Fore…
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
In the midst of the relentless Nakba and ongoing genocide, Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha have built a shore, a refuge, a piece of suspended earth. My Brother, My Land teaches us about everyday lif...
At the Threshold: Remembering Elias Khoury
Pandemic Histories
Meditations and MigrationsThe pandemic mandates new histories of the global.Even as racial capitalism and the attendant erosion of social provision escalates global ecological doom, the meteoric rise of authoritarianism as explicit statecraft shapes universalized conditions of catastrophe.On the one hand, the global reach of the virus makes the perils and possibilities of geopolitical interdependence more urgent than ever.Asymmetries of the past …
Introduction: Infrastructure, Environment, and Health in Palestine
The Journal of Palestine Studies’ special issue on infrastructure, environment, and health in Palestine sheds new light on the conditions and possibilities of politics. Although it is commonly viewed as “an entity ostensibly separate from technology and other human constructions,” the environment is in fact a particular configuration of “socio-technical arrangements.” The special issue’s four articles and two reflection essays—by Nadi Abusaada, L…
In the Shadow of War: The Journal of Palestine Studies as Archive
In this article, coeditor Sherene Seikaly examines the Journal of Palestine Studies’ first two decades as the premier English-language academic publication on the Palestinian question and what was once referred to as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Using the keyword “war” in article titles as a prism for a granular analysis of the knowledge produced in the Journal, Seikaly traces some of the trends that undergirded JPS’s evolution—its prescriptive, pr…
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Lead…
Introduction: History from Below; Lessons from Palestine
Journal of Palestine Studies coeditor Sherene Seikaly introduces a cluster of essays by Sreemati Mitter, Alex Winder, Charles W. Anderson, and Haneen Naamneh that examines Palestinian “history from below.” The focus of these essays is on the everyday losses endured and the community-based forms of resistance enacted by ordinary Palestinians. Seikaly explains how, through the struggle against financial dispossession, the journey into insurgent law…
I sabella H ammad . The Parisian
In 1914, Midhat Kamal departs from Nablus to Cairo and boards a ship to Marseille. Fashionable and graceful, he arrives in France, the “pinnacle of Europe and the exemplar of the modern age” (25). Isabella Hammad’s debut historical novel, The Parisian, traces Midhat’s cosmopolitan life. She is at her most lyrical in excavating interiority. One day in the shower at Istanbul’s Mekteb-i Sultani high school, Midhat looks at his body and is overwhelme…
Beyond Trigger Warnings
This roundtable asks what queer studies might offer to an analysis of debates on campus safety. New approaches in queer studies take as their object of study not only sex and gender but also the cultural politics of liberalism; in turn, scholarship on the geopolitics of injury demonstrates the situatedness of both identity and economic forms. Brought together, these scholarly approaches provide an important lens on many of the contradictions of c…
The Matter of Time
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over "peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world" to …
How I Met My Great-Grandfather
Research Article| May 01 2018 How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History Sherene Seikaly Sherene Seikaly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 6–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389931 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sherene Seikaly; How I Met My Great-Grandfather: …
Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine
This essay examines Palestinian "men of capital" in British-ruled Palestine. It lays out their historical erasure as the product of settler colonialism; the historiographic dominance of the aristocrat, the comprador, and the middle-class hero; and how nostalgia, mourning, and the idealization of pre-1948 Palestine have flattened social life. Elites were not homogenous landowners but worked in commercial and industrial ventures. These men (and to …
Special Issue: Queering Palestine
In this introduction to “Queering Palestine,” the curators of this special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies explore what queer theory and activism can teach us about the Palestinian condition, and vice versa. They contextualize the arguments made by the contributors for the relevance of queer politics to the question of Palestine, which encompass queer theory and dissent, sexuality politics and the nation-state, and queerness as decoloni…
Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colon…
Kevin W. Martin. Syria’s Democratic Years: Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s
Kevin W. Martin powerfully traces the coterminous production of citizen and expert in twentieth-century Syria. The “democratic years” began in 1954, when the military dictator Colonel Adib al-Shishakli resigned as president. They end in 1958 with the proclamation of the United Arab Republic, the short-lived union that subsumed Syrian political activity under Egyptian president Jamal ʿAbd al-Nasir’s tight authority. After 1958, governing regimes i…
Men of Capital: Making Money, Making Nation in Palestine
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Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism by Paul Amar
The reality that one’s body is subject to random acts of state brutality is an organizing tenet of everyday life under military rule. At first glance, The Security Archipelago is an account of military and police corruption and brutality on, in, and through Brazilian and Egyptian bodies. But Paul Amar has done much more than lay out technologies of rule and their hold on the individual and collective body in this dense and exhilarating work.Throu…
Bodies and Needs: Lessons from Palestine
We have come to understand developmental indices such as growth, standard of living, and the calorie as “universal.” Such indices promise an objective means of erasing developmental differences. They promise sameness. However, what happens when we shift our focus away from inclusion and exclusion in the process of development, and instead look at when and how these categories themselves were constituted
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Diamonds and War. State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine
Diamonds and War. State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine." Social History, 37(1), pp. 107–108
Jones: 500 Dunam on the Moon
How I Met My Great-Grandfather
Research Article| May 01 2018 How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History Sherene Seikaly Sherene Seikaly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 6–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389931 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sherene Seikaly; How I Met My Great-Grandfather: …
Bodies and Needs: Lessons from Palestine
We have come to understand developmental indices such as growth, standard of living, and the calorie as “universal.” Such indices promise an objective means of erasing developmental differences. They promise sameness. However, what happens when we shift our focus away from inclusion and exclusion in the process of development, and instead look at when and how these categories themselves were constituted
In the Shadow of War: The Journal of Palestine Studies as Archive
In this article, coeditor Sherene Seikaly examines the Journal of Palestine Studies’ first two decades as the premier English-language academic publication on the Palestinian question and what was once referred to as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Using the keyword “war” in article titles as a prism for a granular analysis of the knowledge produced in the Journal, Seikaly traces some of the trends that undergirded JPS’s evolution—its prescriptive, pr…
Introduction: History from Below; Lessons from Palestine
Journal of Palestine Studies coeditor Sherene Seikaly introduces a cluster of essays by Sreemati Mitter, Alex Winder, Charles W. Anderson, and Haneen Naamneh that examines Palestinian “history from below.” The focus of these essays is on the everyday losses endured and the community-based forms of resistance enacted by ordinary Palestinians. Seikaly explains how, through the struggle against financial dispossession, the journey into insurgent law…
Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine
This essay examines Palestinian "men of capital" in British-ruled Palestine. It lays out their historical erasure as the product of settler colonialism; the historiographic dominance of the aristocrat, the comprador, and the middle-class hero; and how nostalgia, mourning, and the idealization of pre-1948 Palestine have flattened social life. Elites were not homogenous landowners but worked in commercial and industrial ventures. These men (and to …
Special Issue: Queering Palestine
In this introduction to “Queering Palestine,” the curators of this special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies explore what queer theory and activism can teach us about the Palestinian condition, and vice versa. They contextualize the arguments made by the contributors for the relevance of queer politics to the question of Palestine, which encompass queer theory and dissent, sexuality politics and the nation-state, and queerness as decoloni…
Jones: 500 Dunam on the Moon
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Diamonds and War. State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine
Diamonds and War. State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine." Social History, 37(1), pp. 107–108
Bodies and Needs: Lessons from Palestine
We have come to understand developmental indices such as growth, standard of living, and the calorie as “universal.” Such indices promise an objective means of erasing developmental differences. They promise sameness. However, what happens when we shift our focus away from inclusion and exclusion in the process of development, and instead look at when and how these categories themselves were constituted
Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism by Paul Amar
The reality that one’s body is subject to random acts of state brutality is an organizing tenet of everyday life under military rule. At first glance, The Security Archipelago is an account of military and police corruption and brutality on, in, and through Brazilian and Egyptian bodies. But Paul Amar has done much more than lay out technologies of rule and their hold on the individual and collective body in this dense and exhilarating work.Throu…
Men of Capital: Making Money, Making Nation in Palestine
A summary 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.
Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colon…
Kevin W. Martin. Syria’s Democratic Years: Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s
Kevin W. Martin powerfully traces the coterminous production of citizen and expert in twentieth-century Syria. The “democratic years” began in 1954, when the military dictator Colonel Adib al-Shishakli resigned as president. They end in 1958 with the proclamation of the United Arab Republic, the short-lived union that subsumed Syrian political activity under Egyptian president Jamal ʿAbd al-Nasir’s tight authority. After 1958, governing regimes i…
How I Met My Great-Grandfather
Research Article| May 01 2018 How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History Sherene Seikaly Sherene Seikaly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 6–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389931 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sherene Seikaly; How I Met My Great-Grandfather: …
Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine
This essay examines Palestinian "men of capital" in British-ruled Palestine. It lays out their historical erasure as the product of settler colonialism; the historiographic dominance of the aristocrat, the comprador, and the middle-class hero; and how nostalgia, mourning, and the idealization of pre-1948 Palestine have flattened social life. Elites were not homogenous landowners but worked in commercial and industrial ventures. These men (and to …
Special Issue: Queering Palestine
In this introduction to “Queering Palestine,” the curators of this special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies explore what queer theory and activism can teach us about the Palestinian condition, and vice versa. They contextualize the arguments made by the contributors for the relevance of queer politics to the question of Palestine, which encompass queer theory and dissent, sexuality politics and the nation-state, and queerness as decoloni…
The Matter of Time
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over "peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world" to …
Beyond Trigger Warnings
This roundtable asks what queer studies might offer to an analysis of debates on campus safety. New approaches in queer studies take as their object of study not only sex and gender but also the cultural politics of liberalism; in turn, scholarship on the geopolitics of injury demonstrates the situatedness of both identity and economic forms. Brought together, these scholarly approaches provide an important lens on many of the contradictions of c…
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Lead…
Introduction: History from Below; Lessons from Palestine
Journal of Palestine Studies coeditor Sherene Seikaly introduces a cluster of essays by Sreemati Mitter, Alex Winder, Charles W. Anderson, and Haneen Naamneh that examines Palestinian “history from below.” The focus of these essays is on the everyday losses endured and the community-based forms of resistance enacted by ordinary Palestinians. Seikaly explains how, through the struggle against financial dispossession, the journey into insurgent law…
I sabella H ammad . The Parisian
In 1914, Midhat Kamal departs from Nablus to Cairo and boards a ship to Marseille. Fashionable and graceful, he arrives in France, the “pinnacle of Europe and the exemplar of the modern age” (25). Isabella Hammad’s debut historical novel, The Parisian, traces Midhat’s cosmopolitan life. She is at her most lyrical in excavating interiority. One day in the shower at Istanbul’s Mekteb-i Sultani high school, Midhat looks at his body and is overwhelme…
Introduction: Infrastructure, Environment, and Health in Palestine
The Journal of Palestine Studies’ special issue on infrastructure, environment, and health in Palestine sheds new light on the conditions and possibilities of politics. Although it is commonly viewed as “an entity ostensibly separate from technology and other human constructions,” the environment is in fact a particular configuration of “socio-technical arrangements.” The special issue’s four articles and two reflection essays—by Nadi Abusaada, L…
In the Shadow of War: The Journal of Palestine Studies as Archive
In this article, coeditor Sherene Seikaly examines the Journal of Palestine Studies’ first two decades as the premier English-language academic publication on the Palestinian question and what was once referred to as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Using the keyword “war” in article titles as a prism for a granular analysis of the knowledge produced in the Journal, Seikaly traces some of the trends that undergirded JPS’s evolution—its prescriptive, pr…
Pandemic Histories
Meditations and MigrationsThe pandemic mandates new histories of the global.Even as racial capitalism and the attendant erosion of social provision escalates global ecological doom, the meteoric rise of authoritarianism as explicit statecraft shapes universalized conditions of catastrophe.On the one hand, the global reach of the virus makes the perils and possibilities of geopolitical interdependence more urgent than ever.Asymmetries of the past …
At the Threshold: Remembering Elias Khoury
Kantousha and the Pox
This article reconstructs a1903 smallpox outbreak in Omdurman by following the life of a sixteen-year- old girl, Kantousha, whose illness sheds light on an expansive regime of colonial medical surveillance. Drawing on Sudan Medical Department archives, the article reads clinical records against their intended logic, tracing how colonial medicine simultaneously enacted care, coercion, and obfuscation particularly around slavery and unfreedom. Fore…
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
In the midst of the relentless Nakba and ongoing genocide, Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha have built a shore, a refuge, a piece of suspended earth. My Brother, My Land teaches us about everyday lif...
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