Zachary Lockman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Lockman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Lockman |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKMAN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Discussion of the history of the Middle East Studies Association and Academic Freedom in the United States: Interview with Prof. Zachary Lockman (New York, December 16, 2024), followed by Prof. Lock…
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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
In recent decades the scholarly literature on the social history of modern Egypt—including working-class and labor history, though not necessarily in the ways those fields were typically studied back in the 1970s and 1980s—has advanced enormously, spearheaded by a younger generation of scholars deploying new paradigms and methodologies and utilizing rich new sources. One landmark recent contribution is Hanan Hammad’s Industrial Sexuality: Gender,…
Roger Owen (1935-2018)
Roger Owen (1935–2018) Zachary Lockman Zachary Lockman New York University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 90, Autumn 2020, Pages 321–325, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbaa027 Published: 27 August 2020
Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897–1929
Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagement with Gershon Shafir
From roughly the 1930s into the 1970s, labor-Zionist ideology, parties and institutions played a central role in the Zionist movement in Palestine, and then from 1948 in the State of Israel, manifesting one crucial way in which the Zionist project differed from other comparable settler colonial enterprises. Gershon Shafir’s 1989 book Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914 argued forcefully that it was labor Zio…
The Middle East and North Africa on the eve of the First World War
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Said's Orientalism: A book and its aftermath
Edward W. Said (pronounced “Sah-eed”) was born in Jerusalem, then the capital of British-ruled Palestine, in 1935, but spent most of his childhood in Cairo, where his father ran a successful stationery and office supplies business. Said's family returned to live in Jerusalem in 1947 but, like hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians, was soon compelled to leave by the outbreak of Arab–Jewish fighting that followed the United Nations' decision …
The Ottoman empire to 1566
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Orientalism and empire
Over the course of the nineteenth century, Europeans and Americans would increasingly come to see the Orient as divided into two distinct units: a “Near East” comprising southeastern Europe, the Levant (as I mentioned in Chapter 2, the lands along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and their hinterlands) and other parts of western Asia nearer to Europe, and a “Far East” encompassing India, southeast Asia, China and Japan. By the latter part …
The Middle East and North Africa between the Two World Wars
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Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
Zachary Lockman's informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and U.S. Middle East studies, the 'clash of civilizations' debate and America's involvement in the region has become a highly recommended and widely used text since its publication in 2004. The second edition of Professor Lockman's book brings his analysis up to date by considering how the study of the Middle East has evolved in the intervening years, in the context of the …
Mesa Presidential Address 2007: Challenges and Responsibilities in a Time of Crisis
Our annual meeting this year is distinguished both by its large number of participants and by its intellectual breadth and depth. To me these indicate, as I will be discussing a bit later, that Middle East studies as an academic field, and MESA as the pre-eminent professional organization in that field, are flourishing. But this annual meeting is, I would suggest, also significant because this year, for the first time since 1989, we are meeting o…
Did the Events of 9/11 Change the Field of Middle East Studies? Pensée 1: Of Course—But How
The short answer to the question as posed is, Yes, of course, 9/11 changed the field of Middle East studies. However, the next question we need to ask is, In what ways have the events of 9/11 (and all that they set in motion, in the United States and internationally, including the U.S. invasion of Iraq) actually affected our work as scholars, students, teachers, resource specialists, and so forth, whose primary focus is the Middle East and/or the…
Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
Critique from the Right: The Neo-conservative Assault on Middle East Studies
Critique from the Right:The Neo-conservative Assault on Middle East Studies Zachary Lockman (bio) In November 1998, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) organized a special plenary session at its annual meeting to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism. The praise heaped on Said on this occasion for his contribution to the field of Middle East studies was in sharp contrast to the dismay or disdai…
Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
Zachary Lockman's book offers a broad survey of the development of Western knowledge about Islam and the Middle East. Beginning with ancient Greek and Roman conceptions of the world, the book goes on to discuss European ideas about Islam from its emergence in the seventh century, with particular attention to the age of European imperialism, the era of deepening American involvement in this region, and the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. …
Exploring the Field: Lost Voices and Emerging Practices in Egypt, 1882–1914
Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions
Reflecting cutting-edge scholarship and covering more than two centuries of change, this seminal collection represents key trends in the historiography of the modern Middle East. The authors each combine a methodological theme with concrete, original research, relating theoretical issues to the actual writing of history. Their topics range from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to globalization, from well-established historical figures to new acto…
The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948.
Historical Memory
Historical Memory: Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. . Ted Swedenburg
Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948
Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
Zachary Lockman's book offers a broad survey of the development of Western knowledge about Islam and the Middle East. Beginning with ancient Greek and Roman conceptions of the world, the book goes on to discuss European ideas about Islam from its emergence in the seventh century, with particular attention to the age of European imperialism, the era of deepening American involvement in this region, and the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. …
Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Imagining the Working Class: Culture, Nationalism, and Class Formation in Egypt, 1899-1914
Zachary Lockman, Imagining the Working Class: Culture, Nationalism, and Class Formation in Egypt, 1899-1914, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period II (Summer, 1994), pp. 157-190
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies
British Policy Toward Egyptian Labour Activism, 1882–1936
In May 1896 Lord Cromer, the British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt and that country's de facto ruler, received a “very numerously signed petition” from the coalheavers of Port Said. These workers, most of them migrants from Upper Egypt, were employed through labor contractors by several English and other foreign-owned companies to carry coal onto ships transiting the Suez Canal. The coalheavers complained of ill-treatment by the contractors (…
Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Railway Workers and Relational History: Arabs and Jews in British-Ruled Palestine
During the period of Ottoman rule over the Arab East, from 1516 until the end of the First World War, the term Palestine (Filastin) denoted a geographic region, part of what the Arabs called al-Sham (historic Syria), rather than a specific Ottoman province or administrative district. By contrast, from 1920 to 1948, Palestine existed as a distinct and unified political (and to a considerable extent economic) entity with well-defined boundaries. Ru…
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
In recent decades the scholarly literature on the social history of modern Egypt—including working-class and labor history, though not necessarily in the ways those fields were typically studied back in the 1970s and 1980s—has advanced enormously, spearheaded by a younger generation of scholars deploying new paradigms and methodologies and utilizing rich new sources. One landmark recent contribution is Hanan Hammad’s Industrial Sexuality: Gender,…
Did the Events of 9/11 Change the Field of Middle East Studies? Pensée 1: Of Course—But How
The short answer to the question as posed is, Yes, of course, 9/11 changed the field of Middle East studies. However, the next question we need to ask is, In what ways have the events of 9/11 (and all that they set in motion, in the United States and internationally, including the U.S. invasion of Iraq) actually affected our work as scholars, students, teachers, resource specialists, and so forth, whose primary focus is the Middle East and/or the…
Demythologizing the Land and Labor Question: Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. . Gershon Shafir
Notes on Egyptian Workers' History
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The Left in Israel: Zionism vs. Socialism
Israel at a Turning Point
Notes on Egyptian Workers' History
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The Israeli Opposition
Zionism Good and Bad: Jacobo Timerman and the Lebanon War
The Egyptian nationalist movement and the Syrians in Egypt
By the end of the nineteenth century, members of the small Syrian community in Egypt had come to play a disproportionately large role in the government bureaucracy, in journalism and in business. This aroused the resentment of many educated young Egyptian nationalists, who saw the Syrian immigrants as competitors for government and professional positions. At the same time, newspapers published by Syrians were among the most outspoken supporters o…
Israel and the Jewish Question
From the West Bank to Armageddon
"The First Prime Time Bombing in History"
Arie Arnon: "You have to Prove to the Palestinians That You are Serious about Peace"
Labor Zionism and Its Heirs: Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War, by Shabtai Teveth/Sharon: An Israeli Caesar, by Uzi Benziman
(1987). Labor Zionism and Its Heirs: Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War, by Shabtai Teveth/Sharon: An Israeli Caesar, by Uzi Benziman. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 141-144
Labor Zionism and Its Heirs: Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War. . Shabtai Teveth. ; Sharon: An Israeli Caesar. . Uzi Benziman
Original Sin
Israel’s Ayatollahs: Meir Kahane and the Far Right in Israel, by Raphael Mergui and Philippe Simonnot. 203 pages, appendix, chronology, maps, tables, glossary, index. Al Saqi Books, London1987. $15.00…
Israel’s Ayatollahs: Meir Kahane and the Far Right in Israel, by Raphael Mergui and Philippe Simonnot. 203 pages, appendix, chronology, maps, tables, glossary, index. Al Saqi Books, London1987. $15.00 pb. - Volume 22 Issue 1
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
British Policy Toward Egyptian Labour Activism, 1882–1936
In May 1896 Lord Cromer, the British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt and that country's de facto ruler, received a “very numerously signed petition” from the coalheavers of Port Said. These workers, most of them migrants from Upper Egypt, were employed through labor contractors by several English and other foreign-owned companies to carry coal onto ships transiting the Suez Canal. The coalheavers complained of ill-treatment by the contractors (…
Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Demythologizing the Land and Labor Question: Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. . Gershon Shafir
Demythologizing the Land and Labor Question
Success and Failure in Palestine
Success and Failure in Palestine: The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47. . David A. Charters
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Algeria's Democracy between the Islamists and the Elite
Lahouari Addi, Zachary Lockman, Joost R. Hiltermann, Algeria's Democracy between the Islamists and the Elite, Middle East Report, No. 175, Palestine and Israel in the New Order (Mar. - Apr., 1992), pp. 36-38
A History of the Arab Peoples
History (42 works) · Political science (42 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (34 works) · Ancient history (27 works) · Law (25 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · Islamic Studies and History (18 works) · History (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Sociology (13 works)