Roy Marom
Biographic Data
| ID | 4418989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Marom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Marom |
| SIGNATURE | MAROM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7897-3537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yibnā (Yavneh) in the Late Ottoman and British Mandate Periods (ca. 1750–1948)
This article examines the history, archaeology, and material culture of the Palestinian village of Yibnā (Yavneh) during the Late Ottoman and British Mandate periods (ca. 1750–1948). Yibnā, located in the southern coastal plain between Jaffa and Majdal ʿAsqalān, was one of the largest villages in the Gaza subdistrict, occupying the ancient mound of Iamnia/Yavneh and its environs. The study integrates diverse sources in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, an…
Preservation through Transformation
This paper identifies Late Roman sites in the Hula Valley mentioned in Diocletianic boundary stones. Employing a threefold methodological framework—toponymic preservation, archaeological evidence, and spatial analysis—it challenges longstanding assumptions that ancient toponyms in the region were entirely lost. Instead, it demonstrates that the majority of place names engraved on the boundary stones have survived, albeit through significant lingu…
Lost and Found
The Mosque of Ibrahim
This paper discusses the Mosque of Ibrahim/Abraham at Lajjūn, a now lost building known from Early Islamic and Mamluk historical sources (10th–15th centuries CE). These sources describe the mosque as a pilgrimage site: early Muslim tradition attributes Ibrahim with the miraculous creation of Lajjūn’s main spring, and it is written that the mosque was constructed to commemorate this event. However, despite featuring prominently in geographical tre…
An Infant Jar Burial from Zarnūqa
The article presents an exceptional late Ottoman-period funerary assemblage excavated in 2001 at the former Arab village of Zarnqa, on Israel's southern coastal plain.The assemblage, which formed part of a small cemetery in which mostly children were buried, included three storage jars covered by a stone surface-one contained the remains of a newborn baby, another contained grains and the third had an unknown content.The burial and grain jars wer…
An Ecological Comparison of Two Abandoned Heritage Orchards in Northern Israel
In this study, we documented two relict traditional Palestinian orchards; one was abandoned following the 1948 war when the farmers were exiled to Lebanon and the second was tended by farmers up until the early 1970s. The orchards examined are located in two different Mediterranean phytogeographic regions, one in the hilly Upper Galilee and the other on the slopes of Mount Carmel in the hinterland of the Mediterranean coast. We found differences …
Bayyarat al-Khuri
This paper presents the first study devoted to a Late Ottoman/ British Mandate ecclesiastical estate in the Levant, focusing on Bayyarat al-Khuri in Caesarea on the coast of Palestine (1903– 1948). The study follows the remarkable tale of the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem’s endeavour to establish a Christian agricultural foothold in Caesarea’s holy landscape. The Church’s Caesarea properties consisted of residential and sacred precincts, includ…
A Line in the Sand
This article explores property and dune cultivation in Late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine as exemplified by Rimāl Yibnā and al-Nabī Rūbīn/Yavneh-Palmachim dune field on the southeastern Mediterranean coastal plain. The study describes native agricultural practices from synchronous and diachronous perspectives, while proposing a way of bridging the epistemological gaps between native typologies of dune agriculture and modern scholarly anal…
Rural adaptation and settlement change in the late Islamic Jabal al-Khalīl (Judean Foothills)
This study examines the transformation of rural settlement in the Shephelah region of Ottoman Palestine as a reflection of communal adaptation to changes in the political and security landscapes. Focusing on Khirbet Drūsye (Horvat Midras), we integrate archaeological evidence with Ottoman fiscal surveys and Sharia court registers to trace the site's transition from a prosperous Mamluk-era village to a seasonal habitation ( ʿizbeh ) by the 1550s. …
Vines among the dunes
This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Palestinian economic exploitation of marginal dunefields along the coast of the Southern Levant. It focuses on the agricultural rehabilitation and agrarian development of Rimāl Isdūd (around modern Ashdod) between 1870 and 1948. After outlining the area’s long history, and presenting a novel typology of Palestinian sand/dune agriculture, the article sketches the transformation of an area long l…
The Palestinian Rural Notables’ Class in Ascendency
This paper discusses the Palestinian rural notables’ class, comprised of rural sheikhs, village or clan headmen with similar life trajectories in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. The paper uses the Palestinian Hannun family of Tulkarm to demonstrate how these notables exploited changing legal, administrative and political conditions, and global economic realities, to attain socio-economic and political ascendency in the Palestinian cou…
Hamama
This article explores the history of Hamama, an Arab village in the Gaza Sub-District during the Late Ottoman and British Mandate period c. 1750–1948 CE, combining the often disparate fields of Ottoman/Levantine archaeology and Ottoman/Palestinian history for tracing its rise from an ordinary village into the Sub-District’s third largest settlement. Ethnographic sources and historical evidence testify that the village of Hamama had been inhabited…
Al-Lajjun
This paper provides a social and geographic account of al-Lajjun (Jenin Sub-district), a prominent Palestinian village during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It portrays a countryside in renewal, encapsulated in the story of Umm al-Fahm’s expansion and Lajjun’s resettlement. In contrast to existing scholarship, the present work contextualizes the site within the wider diachronic, longue durée, history of the region, and the synchronous, s…
Beit Loya
Arab-Jewish ‘neighbourly relations’ in rural Mandatory Palestine
Lajjun
During the 16th century CE, the town of al-Lajjun in the Marj ibn ‘Amir (the Jezreel Valley), served as one of Ottoman Palestine’s provincial capitals under the administration of the Turabay Dynasty (1517–1688 CE), and was an important centre on the imperial highway between Damascus and Cairo. However, the town of this period has never been the subject of historical investigation. This paper seeks to bring together, assess and synthesize, rarely …
Ḥamāma
This paper deals with the dialectics of settlement continuity and change in Palestine's southern coastal plain during the Mamluk and Early Ottoman periods (1270–1750 CE). Using Ḥamāma, an Arab village in Majdal ‘Asqalān's hinterland as a test-case, the paper introduces a new method of establishing settlement continuity — a major challenge in the study of the historical geography of late medieval and Ottoman Palestine, by showing continual presenc…
Hadera
The article explores the interplay between transnational migration, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. It discusses the role played by Russian Jews in the development of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine until 1948. It focuses on the Northern Sharon, where three distinct immigrant groups – Circassians, Bosnians and Russian Jews – settled in the 1870s–1890s. Methodol…
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis
Mulabbis was the first Arab village whose lands were acquired by Jews for settlement purposes (1878), and is counted among the earliest villages to be fully depopulated due to Zionist settlement during the Late Ottoman period. However, the history of Mulabbis, or of any of the other villages depopulated at that time, has not been discussed in any depth. By adopting oral history as its socio-cultural prism, this paper identifies the residents of t…
RAF Ein Shemer
This article explores lingering recollections of a marginalised sphere of participation by Jewish and Arab citizens of Mandatory Palestine in the Allied war effort. During the war, Palestine became a major staging ground for Allied troops in the Middle East. Some 15,000 Jewish and 35,000 Arab workers worked in administrative, construction, catering, and maintenances roles within the newly built army bases. The story of civilian labour in RAF Ein …
A short history of Mulabbis (Petah Tikva, Israel)
The following article summarizes our current knowledge of the history of Tell Mulabbis (in modern Petah Tikva). As a key archaeological site in the Yarkon River basin, it was inhabited during the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Late Ottoman periods. Based on the published results of recent excavations, older scholarship, and hereto-unnoticed written evidence, the article examines and interprets Mulabbis's material culture wi…
Al-Lajjun
This paper provides a social and geographic account of al-Lajjun (Jenin Sub-district), a prominent Palestinian village during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It portrays a countryside in renewal, encapsulated in the story of Umm al-Fahm’s expansion and Lajjun’s resettlement. In contrast to existing scholarship, the present work contextualizes the site within the wider diachronic, longue durée, history of the region, and the synchronous, s…
Ḥamāma
This paper deals with the dialectics of settlement continuity and change in Palestine's southern coastal plain during the Mamluk and Early Ottoman periods (1270–1750 CE). Using Ḥamāma, an Arab village in Majdal ‘Asqalān's hinterland as a test-case, the paper introduces a new method of establishing settlement continuity — a major challenge in the study of the historical geography of late medieval and Ottoman Palestine, by showing continual presenc…
Hadera
The article explores the interplay between transnational migration, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. It discusses the role played by Russian Jews in the development of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine until 1948. It focuses on the Northern Sharon, where three distinct immigrant groups – Circassians, Bosnians and Russian Jews – settled in the 1870s–1890s. Methodol…
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis
Mulabbis was the first Arab village whose lands were acquired by Jews for settlement purposes (1878), and is counted among the earliest villages to be fully depopulated due to Zionist settlement during the Late Ottoman period. However, the history of Mulabbis, or of any of the other villages depopulated at that time, has not been discussed in any depth. By adopting oral history as its socio-cultural prism, this paper identifies the residents of t…
A short history of Mulabbis (Petah Tikva, Israel)
The following article summarizes our current knowledge of the history of Tell Mulabbis (in modern Petah Tikva). As a key archaeological site in the Yarkon River basin, it was inhabited during the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Late Ottoman periods. Based on the published results of recent excavations, older scholarship, and hereto-unnoticed written evidence, the article examines and interprets Mulabbis's material culture wi…
A short history of Mulabbis (Petah Tikva, Israel)
The following article summarizes our current knowledge of the history of Tell Mulabbis (in modern Petah Tikva). As a key archaeological site in the Yarkon River basin, it was inhabited during the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Late Ottoman periods. Based on the published results of recent excavations, older scholarship, and hereto-unnoticed written evidence, the article examines and interprets Mulabbis's material culture wi…
RAF Ein Shemer
This article explores lingering recollections of a marginalised sphere of participation by Jewish and Arab citizens of Mandatory Palestine in the Allied war effort. During the war, Palestine became a major staging ground for Allied troops in the Middle East. Some 15,000 Jewish and 35,000 Arab workers worked in administrative, construction, catering, and maintenances roles within the newly built army bases. The story of civilian labour in RAF Ein …
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis
Mulabbis was the first Arab village whose lands were acquired by Jews for settlement purposes (1878), and is counted among the earliest villages to be fully depopulated due to Zionist settlement during the Late Ottoman period. However, the history of Mulabbis, or of any of the other villages depopulated at that time, has not been discussed in any depth. By adopting oral history as its socio-cultural prism, this paper identifies the residents of t…
Lajjun
During the 16th century CE, the town of al-Lajjun in the Marj ibn ‘Amir (the Jezreel Valley), served as one of Ottoman Palestine’s provincial capitals under the administration of the Turabay Dynasty (1517–1688 CE), and was an important centre on the imperial highway between Damascus and Cairo. However, the town of this period has never been the subject of historical investigation. This paper seeks to bring together, assess and synthesize, rarely …
Ḥamāma
This paper deals with the dialectics of settlement continuity and change in Palestine's southern coastal plain during the Mamluk and Early Ottoman periods (1270–1750 CE). Using Ḥamāma, an Arab village in Majdal ‘Asqalān's hinterland as a test-case, the paper introduces a new method of establishing settlement continuity — a major challenge in the study of the historical geography of late medieval and Ottoman Palestine, by showing continual presenc…
Hadera
The article explores the interplay between transnational migration, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. It discusses the role played by Russian Jews in the development of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine until 1948. It focuses on the Northern Sharon, where three distinct immigrant groups – Circassians, Bosnians and Russian Jews – settled in the 1870s–1890s. Methodol…
The Palestinian Rural Notables’ Class in Ascendency
This paper discusses the Palestinian rural notables’ class, comprised of rural sheikhs, village or clan headmen with similar life trajectories in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. The paper uses the Palestinian Hannun family of Tulkarm to demonstrate how these notables exploited changing legal, administrative and political conditions, and global economic realities, to attain socio-economic and political ascendency in the Palestinian cou…
Hamama
This article explores the history of Hamama, an Arab village in the Gaza Sub-District during the Late Ottoman and British Mandate period c. 1750–1948 CE, combining the often disparate fields of Ottoman/Levantine archaeology and Ottoman/Palestinian history for tracing its rise from an ordinary village into the Sub-District’s third largest settlement. Ethnographic sources and historical evidence testify that the village of Hamama had been inhabited…
Al-Lajjun
This paper provides a social and geographic account of al-Lajjun (Jenin Sub-district), a prominent Palestinian village during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It portrays a countryside in renewal, encapsulated in the story of Umm al-Fahm’s expansion and Lajjun’s resettlement. In contrast to existing scholarship, the present work contextualizes the site within the wider diachronic, longue durée, history of the region, and the synchronous, s…
Beit Loya
Arab-Jewish ‘neighbourly relations’ in rural Mandatory Palestine
The Mosque of Ibrahim
This paper discusses the Mosque of Ibrahim/Abraham at Lajjūn, a now lost building known from Early Islamic and Mamluk historical sources (10th–15th centuries CE). These sources describe the mosque as a pilgrimage site: early Muslim tradition attributes Ibrahim with the miraculous creation of Lajjūn’s main spring, and it is written that the mosque was constructed to commemorate this event. However, despite featuring prominently in geographical tre…
An Infant Jar Burial from Zarnūqa
The article presents an exceptional late Ottoman-period funerary assemblage excavated in 2001 at the former Arab village of Zarnqa, on Israel's southern coastal plain.The assemblage, which formed part of a small cemetery in which mostly children were buried, included three storage jars covered by a stone surface-one contained the remains of a newborn baby, another contained grains and the third had an unknown content.The burial and grain jars wer…
An Ecological Comparison of Two Abandoned Heritage Orchards in Northern Israel
In this study, we documented two relict traditional Palestinian orchards; one was abandoned following the 1948 war when the farmers were exiled to Lebanon and the second was tended by farmers up until the early 1970s. The orchards examined are located in two different Mediterranean phytogeographic regions, one in the hilly Upper Galilee and the other on the slopes of Mount Carmel in the hinterland of the Mediterranean coast. We found differences …
Bayyarat al-Khuri
This paper presents the first study devoted to a Late Ottoman/ British Mandate ecclesiastical estate in the Levant, focusing on Bayyarat al-Khuri in Caesarea on the coast of Palestine (1903– 1948). The study follows the remarkable tale of the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem’s endeavour to establish a Christian agricultural foothold in Caesarea’s holy landscape. The Church’s Caesarea properties consisted of residential and sacred precincts, includ…
A Line in the Sand
This article explores property and dune cultivation in Late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine as exemplified by Rimāl Yibnā and al-Nabī Rūbīn/Yavneh-Palmachim dune field on the southeastern Mediterranean coastal plain. The study describes native agricultural practices from synchronous and diachronous perspectives, while proposing a way of bridging the epistemological gaps between native typologies of dune agriculture and modern scholarly anal…
Rural adaptation and settlement change in the late Islamic Jabal al-Khalīl (Judean Foothills)
This study examines the transformation of rural settlement in the Shephelah region of Ottoman Palestine as a reflection of communal adaptation to changes in the political and security landscapes. Focusing on Khirbet Drūsye (Horvat Midras), we integrate archaeological evidence with Ottoman fiscal surveys and Sharia court registers to trace the site's transition from a prosperous Mamluk-era village to a seasonal habitation ( ʿizbeh ) by the 1550s. …
Vines among the dunes
This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Palestinian economic exploitation of marginal dunefields along the coast of the Southern Levant. It focuses on the agricultural rehabilitation and agrarian development of Rimāl Isdūd (around modern Ashdod) between 1870 and 1948. After outlining the area’s long history, and presenting a novel typology of Palestinian sand/dune agriculture, the article sketches the transformation of an area long l…
Yibnā (Yavneh) in the Late Ottoman and British Mandate Periods (ca. 1750–1948)
This article examines the history, archaeology, and material culture of the Palestinian village of Yibnā (Yavneh) during the Late Ottoman and British Mandate periods (ca. 1750–1948). Yibnā, located in the southern coastal plain between Jaffa and Majdal ʿAsqalān, was one of the largest villages in the Gaza subdistrict, occupying the ancient mound of Iamnia/Yavneh and its environs. The study integrates diverse sources in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, an…
Preservation through Transformation
This paper identifies Late Roman sites in the Hula Valley mentioned in Diocletianic boundary stones. Employing a threefold methodological framework—toponymic preservation, archaeological evidence, and spatial analysis—it challenges longstanding assumptions that ancient toponyms in the region were entirely lost. Instead, it demonstrates that the majority of place names engraved on the boundary stones have survived, albeit through significant lingu…
Lost and Found
History (13 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Palestine (9 works)