Mohammad Sakhnini
Biographic Data
| ID | 644698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Sakhnini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakhnini |
| SIGNATURE | SAKHNINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Khalifa University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nineteenth-Century Palestine and the British Imperial Imagination
This article studies the account of travels in Palestine by one of the most controversial travel writers in early nineteenth century Britain, James Silk Buckingham, whose life, career, and writings sparked a political storm. Buckingham criticised British imperial and missionary activities in the East through his journalism and travel books which reached large audiences. He was the first writer in nineteenth century Britain to use a travel narrati…
Three Nineteenth-Century British Travellers in Palestine
In Jerusalem, many Christian, Muslim and Jewish pilgrims, European excavators, writers, local peddlers, and Ottoman soldiers crossed paths despite the different purposes of their walks. This essay examines the travel accounts of three Britons who enjoyed walking in a city whose economic, social and religious life was, in part, sustained by pedestrianism. James Silk Buckingham, Robert Richardson and John Ashworth, toured Jerusalem on foot; and in …
Improving Experiences
This article shows how some early-modern British travellers found in the idea of travelling among and writing about Arabs an opportunity to reflect on a changing society at home. In Enlightenment Britain, many philosophers and writers thought of economic achievements as the roadmap to civility, humanity and progress. Many conservative moralists and clergymen of the period, however, protested this ideology and associated excessive materialism with…
Walking, telling and resisting in Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks
This essay examines the Palestinian experience of internal exile in Raja Shehadeh’ Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2007). For Shehadeh, as the essay argues, walking in the lands and documenting Israeli colonialist policies show the extent to which Israel was seeking to ruin the natural and social landscape of Palestine. The essays shows how the life of internal exile for the Palestinian writer drives him to “speak truth to powe…
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Walking, telling and resisting in Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks
This essay examines the Palestinian experience of internal exile in Raja Shehadeh’ Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2007). For Shehadeh, as the essay argues, walking in the lands and documenting Israeli colonialist policies show the extent to which Israel was seeking to ruin the natural and social landscape of Palestine. The essays shows how the life of internal exile for the Palestinian writer drives him to “speak truth to powe…
Three Nineteenth-Century British Travellers in Palestine
In Jerusalem, many Christian, Muslim and Jewish pilgrims, European excavators, writers, local peddlers, and Ottoman soldiers crossed paths despite the different purposes of their walks. This essay examines the travel accounts of three Britons who enjoyed walking in a city whose economic, social and religious life was, in part, sustained by pedestrianism. James Silk Buckingham, Robert Richardson and John Ashworth, toured Jerusalem on foot; and in …
Improving Experiences
This article shows how some early-modern British travellers found in the idea of travelling among and writing about Arabs an opportunity to reflect on a changing society at home. In Enlightenment Britain, many philosophers and writers thought of economic achievements as the roadmap to civility, humanity and progress. Many conservative moralists and clergymen of the period, however, protested this ideology and associated excessive materialism with…
Nineteenth-Century Palestine and the British Imperial Imagination
This article studies the account of travels in Palestine by one of the most controversial travel writers in early nineteenth century Britain, James Silk Buckingham, whose life, career, and writings sparked a political storm. Buckingham criticised British imperial and missionary activities in the East through his journalism and travel books which reached large audiences. He was the first writer in nineteenth century Britain to use a travel narrati…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Palestine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)