Salim Tamari

Biographic Data

ID4196814
NAMESalim Tamari
GIVEN NAMESSalim
FAMILY NAMETamari
SIGNATURETAMARI S
AFFILIATIONSSalim Tamari is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Bir Zeit University. This paper was presented at the Conference on Development in the Service of Steadfastness convened by the Arab Thought Forum (Jerusalem, August 21, 1981).
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS112
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Tawfiq Canaan and Gustav Dalman: German Orientalism and the Native Informant

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2025

  • Tawfiq Canaan: The Ethnographer Revisited

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2025

  • An Air-Smelling Event: The Metamorphosis of Simon the Just and His Shrine

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2023

    The appropriation of Simon's shrine as an exclusively Jewish site of worship marks a progression of national-religious claims over several sites that used to be shared (as well as celebrated) by multiple religious communities.These include Rachel's Tomb (at the northern entrance to Bethlehem), Nabi Samwil (northwest of Jerusalem), and Nabi Rubin (south of Jaffa), a particularly important shrine, whose festival brought revelers from the central an…

  • Linking the Four Data Sources on Palestinian Refugees (Republished)

    Salim Tamari, Elia T Zureik et al.ARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2023

  • Elia and the Israeli Gaze

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2023

    Leafing through earlier issues of the Jerusalem Quarterly I came across an essay by Elia Zureik titled "The Israeli Gaze" (JQ 66, 2016), in which he dealt with the origins of the surveillance protocols defining much of the Israeli culture of control that emerged in the 1990s.That essay took me to an earlier time of dialogue and polemics over the future of Palestine during Elia's sojourn to Jerusalem in 1995-96.During that period Elia, accompanied…

  • Farewell to Elia Zureik: The Son of Akka Who Came Home

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2023

    Farewell to Elia Zureik: The Son of Akka Who Came Home." Journal of Palestine Studies, 52(2), pp. 98–99

  • Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

    Open AccessSalim Tamari, Issam Nassar et al.BOOKCamera Palaestina2022

  • Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

    Open AccessIssam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi et al.BOOKCamera Palaestina2022

    Camera Palæstina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums titled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shed…

  • Archaeology, Historical Memory, and Peasant Resistance: The Gezer Excavations at Abu Shusha

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2022

    The identification of Tal al-Jazar in Abu Shusha as the site of ancient Gezer by Clermont-Ganneau in 1874 was accompanied by one of the first colonial (in this case German) settlements in Palestine.With the work of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), Gezer became an important base for the use of biblical archaeology in interpreting the history of ancient Palestine.This interpretation circumvented the extensive Roman-Byzantine, early Islamic, an…

  • Subaltern Archaeology and Strange Beginnings

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2022

  • Rebel at Night, Colonial Official by Day

    Salim TamariARTICLEJerusalem Quarterly2021

    The memoirs of 'Arif al-'Arif in Amman from 1926 to 1929 cover the period when he was secretary to the Ministerial Council, on "loan" from the Mandate authorities.This diary covers the relationship between 'Arif and Prince Abdallah during the formative period of the Jordanian state.It includes his description of the relationship between the British Colonial Office and the Hashemites, as well as a detailed assessment of the early oppositional grou…

  • JPS “Hidden Gems” and “Greatest Hits”: Fifty Years of Ottoman Studies of Palestine

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2021

    In this essay, emeritus sociology professor Salim Tamari surveys the study of Ottoman Palestine within the pages of JPS, identifying two groundbreaking articles: Beshara Doumani’s “Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History” (1992) and Louis Fishman’s “The 1911 Haram al-Sharif Incident: Palestinian Notables versus the Ottoman Administration” (2005). Tamari argues that the two contributions have, in different ways, fundamen…

  • From “Stab in the Back” to “Good Riddance”: Recollections of Ayyam al-Atrak

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2020Cited by: 1

    Selim Deringil's The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War is an account of five memoirs written after World War I by leading Ottoman military commanders and intellectuals who spent the war years in the Arab provinces. The memoirs include those of Falih Rifki Atay, Ahmad Cemal Pasha's deputy in the Fourth Army and head of intelligence in Damascus and Jerusalem; Hüseyin Kazım Kadri, a founder of the Y…

  • The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

    Salim TamariBOOKGreat War and the Remaking of…2019

  • Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

    Open AccessSalim TamariBOOKGreat War and the Remaking of…2017

    This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, this book discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere. New urban sensibilities, schools, monuments, public parks, railways…

  • Interview with Ibrahim Dakkak (1929–2016): A Life of Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2017

    This interview and remembrance marks the passing in 2016 of Ibrahim Dakkak, the last of the great socialist leaders of Palestine's post-Nakba generation. Dakkak helped lead three major movements inside the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt): al-Jabha al-wataniyya or Palestine National Front, a coalition launched in August 1973 that mobilized civil resistance to Israeli land confiscations and a whole host of other rights violations; Lajnat al-…

  • Normalcy and Violence: The Yearning for the Ordinary in Discourse of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2013Cited by: 10

    This essay explores the evolving usage and meanings of normalcy (the routinization of daily life)—as opposed to normalization-during various phases of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, with particular emphasis on the post-1967 period. It does so by highlighting how Palestinians and Israelis have understood and continue to perceive normalization both at the high politics level, as well as in their daily lives. In particular, it focuses on how cond…

  • Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past

    Ihsan Salih Turjman, Salim TamariBOOKYear of the Locust2011

  • A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941–1945: The Life of Sami 'Amr

    Salim Tamari, Kimberly KatzBOOKYoung Palestinian's Diary,…2009

    Writing in his late teens and early twenties, Sāmī ‘Amr gave his diary an apt subtitle: The Battle of Life, encapsulating both the political climate of Palestine in the waning years of the British Mandate as well as the contrasting joys and troubles of family life. Now translated from the Arabic, Sāmī's diary represents a rare artifact of turbulent change in the Middle East. Written over four years, these ruminations of a young man from Hebron br…

  • Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

    Salim TamariBOOKMountain Against the Sea2008

    This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intell…

  • Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem

    Open AccessSalim TamariCHAPTERPalestine, Israel, and the…2005

  • Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

    Mark Levine, Salim Tamari et al.BOOKPalestine, Israel, and the…2005

    This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli …

  • Fischbach: Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2005

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsSalim TamariSalim Tamari is currently visiting professor at the history department of the University of California at Berkeley and director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies

  • Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City

    Salim TamariARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2003Cited by: 6

    Research Article| August 01 2003 Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City SALIM TAMARI SALIM TAMARI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-173 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation SALIM TAMARI; Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City. Comparative Studies of Sou…

  • Najati Sadqi (1905-79): The Enigmatic Jerusalem Bolshevik

    Salim TamariARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2003Cited by: 3

    (2003). Najati Sadqi (1905-79): The Enigmatic Jerusalem Bolshevik. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 79-94