Yafa El Masri
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yafa El Masri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yafa |
| FAMILY NAME | El Masri |
| SIGNATURE | EL MASRI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Global Development University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park Norwich UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5410-6009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When ‘Yes’ Means No
This paper reconceptualises Palestinian infiltration—historically associated with clandestine border‐crossing after the 1948 Nakba—as a contemporary mode of research refusal within heritage research conducted under settler‐colonial conditions. Bringing scholarship on Palestinian infiltration into dialogue with literature on refusal, it argues that participation in heritage research projects can operate as camouflaged consent: a strategic ‘yes’ th…
Confronting Epistemic Erasures
From Mill to Memory
The 2024 documentary Aisha's Story centers on the life of Aisha Azzam, a displaced Palestinian woman who uses food to create an entire world of belonging, identity, food security, growth and care for her family and community.Scenes of picking herbs, exchanging ingredients and recipes, cooking, baking, and eating together as a family, illuminate the everyday life of Palestinians living in exile and the extraordinary practices of resistance that ma…
Decolonizing education in Bourj Albarajenah
Palestinian refugee camps have long been challenging the coloniality over their land, but also of a humanitarian government that provides standardized educational services without responding to the unique educational needs of the community. So how can Palestinian refugees decolonize their own educational process to provide their children with education that meets their needs, acknowledges their story, and responds to their unique livelihood as a …
Years of Homemaking in Waiting Zones
The "permanently temporary" Palestinian refugee community, present in Lebanon since 1948 with no solution in sight, has the highest rate of abject poverty within all five areas of operation of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East (UNRWA), and it still occupies the same limited geographic space it did 72 years ago. This harsh reality stems from the refugees' statelessness but is also worsened by the local condit…
Years of Homemaking in Waiting Zones
The "permanently temporary" Palestinian refugee community, present in Lebanon since 1948 with no solution in sight, has the highest rate of abject poverty within all five areas of operation of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East (UNRWA), and it still occupies the same limited geographic space it did 72 years ago. This harsh reality stems from the refugees' statelessness but is also worsened by the local condit…
Years of Homemaking in Waiting Zones
The "permanently temporary" Palestinian refugee community, present in Lebanon since 1948 with no solution in sight, has the highest rate of abject poverty within all five areas of operation of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East (UNRWA), and it still occupies the same limited geographic space it did 72 years ago. This harsh reality stems from the refugees' statelessness but is also worsened by the local condit…
Decolonizing education in Bourj Albarajenah
Palestinian refugee camps have long been challenging the coloniality over their land, but also of a humanitarian government that provides standardized educational services without responding to the unique educational needs of the community. So how can Palestinian refugees decolonize their own educational process to provide their children with education that meets their needs, acknowledges their story, and responds to their unique livelihood as a …
From Mill to Memory
The 2024 documentary Aisha's Story centers on the life of Aisha Azzam, a displaced Palestinian woman who uses food to create an entire world of belonging, identity, food security, growth and care for her family and community.Scenes of picking herbs, exchanging ingredients and recipes, cooking, baking, and eating together as a family, illuminate the everyday life of Palestinians living in exile and the extraordinary practices of resistance that ma…
Confronting Epistemic Erasures
When ‘Yes’ Means No
This paper reconceptualises Palestinian infiltration—historically associated with clandestine border‐crossing after the 1948 Nakba—as a contemporary mode of research refusal within heritage research conducted under settler‐colonial conditions. Bringing scholarship on Palestinian infiltration into dialogue with literature on refusal, it argues that participation in heritage research projects can operate as camouflaged consent: a strategic ‘yes’ th…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Active listening (1 work) · Agency (philosophy (1 work)