Sarah Ihmoud
Biographic Data
| ID | 87735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Ihmoud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Ihmoud |
| SIGNATURE | IHMOUD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0071-1171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fugitive Anthropology
Hunger and the Palestinian Womb
This article theorizes the Palestinian womb as both a site of Zionist colonial violence and Palestinian futurity through the story of Shema, a young woman who became pregnant and gave birth during Gaza’s ongoing genocide. Drawing on decolonial Palestinian feminism and Indigenous feminist scholarship, I argue that Israel’s weaponization of starvation constitutes a gendered assault on Palestinian social reproduction, targeting pregnant and breastfe…
Countering Reproductive Genocide in Gaza
Palestinian women's ways of experiencing and narrating violence offer important insights into the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Drawing on women's testimonies, I theorize this matrix of gendered colonial violence as Ibaada-Arabic for "annihilation," which refers to the annihilation of the Palestinian collective. Ibaada names extermination of the Palestinian people as the central imperative of Zionist colonialism, in Gaza and beyond, at the same time …
Decolonial Futures Lab
On Love, the Palestinian Way
This article centres the forms of kinship and care work that Palestinian women perform within and beyond the institution of the colonial prison in occupied territory through an analysis of letters expressing grief, care and radical hope as material expressions of an abolitionist feminist praxis of decolonial love. Women’s letter-writing practices offer a material expression of the sentient life forms that suture the social fabric of the Palestini…
Love in a Time of Genocide
This essay centers the affective insights and pedagogies of transnational Palestinian feminism through a conversation and friendship that emerged between Mona Ameen, a young feminist scholar trapped in Gaza, and the author, during Israel’s latest military assault, which is still ongoing at the time of writing. It argues that practicing decolonial love in a time of genocidal war is a life-affirming practice of critical Palestinian feminist conscio…
Palestinian feminism
This article theorizes Palestinian feminism as an analytical lens and a political project. Grounded in histories and ongoing organizing for anticolonial liberation, it outlines contemporary challenges and possibilities for Palestinian feminist organizing in the homeland and the shataat . Further, it centers Palestine as a space for enacting feminist praxis more broadly, and calls on feminist scholars and activists to join the struggle for Palesti…
A poetics of living rebellion
In this experimental year-in-review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that "liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility" (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the "ethnographic and politic…
Born Palestinian, Born Black
Murabata
512 Feminist Studies 45, no. 2/3. © 2019 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Sarah Ihmoud Murabata: The Politics of Staying in Place Making my way from the Muslim quarter to the Al-Aqsa compound , known throughout the Muslim world as Al Haram al-Sharif (the noble sanctuary), the streets are empty but for the children—Palestinian and Jewish—walking to school.1 The Jewish children travel in groups under the protection of private settler security agents, who …
The Limitations and Liberatory Potential of Feminist Anthropology (Part One)
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
Security Theology, Surveillance, and the Politics of Fear by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
In the summer of 2014 Israel waged a fifty-day military assault on Gaza that claimed the lives of 2,205 Palestinians, leaving in its wake a scale of destruction and displacement human rights groups deemed unprecedented since the beginning of Israel’s 1967 occupation. Israel rationalized its assault on the occupied territory as a matter of national security. Yet how could such a scale of human devastation against a captive population (under siege,…
Theologizing State Crime
This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on the occupied Gaza Strip over the last ten years, with a particular focus on the violent attack perpetrated in 2014. Taking the 2006 election of Hamas as a point of departure, the article analyses various manifestations of violence inscribed on the people of Gaza, including killing, injuring, starving, collective punishment, military assaults and othe…
Exiled at Home
Drawing on our personal histories navigating the violence of Israeli settler colonialism and militarization, we theorize the Palestinian home space as not only a physical, but also a psychological and epistemological space of yearning, of belonging, and of radical thinking and becoming. In light of the colonial state's continued attempts to further fragment and dislocate indigenous Palestinians from their homeland, we posit an analytics of return…
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
Love in a Time of Genocide
This essay centers the affective insights and pedagogies of transnational Palestinian feminism through a conversation and friendship that emerged between Mona Ameen, a young feminist scholar trapped in Gaza, and the author, during Israel’s latest military assault, which is still ongoing at the time of writing. It argues that practicing decolonial love in a time of genocidal war is a life-affirming practice of critical Palestinian feminist conscio…
A poetics of living rebellion
In this experimental year-in-review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that "liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility" (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the "ethnographic and politic…
Murabata
512 Feminist Studies 45, no. 2/3. © 2019 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Sarah Ihmoud Murabata: The Politics of Staying in Place Making my way from the Muslim quarter to the Al-Aqsa compound , known throughout the Muslim world as Al Haram al-Sharif (the noble sanctuary), the streets are empty but for the children—Palestinian and Jewish—walking to school.1 The Jewish children travel in groups under the protection of private settler security agents, who …
Exiled at Home
Drawing on our personal histories navigating the violence of Israeli settler colonialism and militarization, we theorize the Palestinian home space as not only a physical, but also a psychological and epistemological space of yearning, of belonging, and of radical thinking and becoming. In light of the colonial state's continued attempts to further fragment and dislocate indigenous Palestinians from their homeland, we posit an analytics of return…
On Love, the Palestinian Way
This article centres the forms of kinship and care work that Palestinian women perform within and beyond the institution of the colonial prison in occupied territory through an analysis of letters expressing grief, care and radical hope as material expressions of an abolitionist feminist praxis of decolonial love. Women’s letter-writing practices offer a material expression of the sentient life forms that suture the social fabric of the Palestini…
Exiled at Home
Drawing on our personal histories navigating the violence of Israeli settler colonialism and militarization, we theorize the Palestinian home space as not only a physical, but also a psychological and epistemological space of yearning, of belonging, and of radical thinking and becoming. In light of the colonial state's continued attempts to further fragment and dislocate indigenous Palestinians from their homeland, we posit an analytics of return…
Security Theology, Surveillance, and the Politics of Fear by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
In the summer of 2014 Israel waged a fifty-day military assault on Gaza that claimed the lives of 2,205 Palestinians, leaving in its wake a scale of destruction and displacement human rights groups deemed unprecedented since the beginning of Israel’s 1967 occupation. Israel rationalized its assault on the occupied territory as a matter of national security. Yet how could such a scale of human devastation against a captive population (under siege,…
Theologizing State Crime
This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on the occupied Gaza Strip over the last ten years, with a particular focus on the violent attack perpetrated in 2014. Taking the 2006 election of Hamas as a point of departure, the article analyses various manifestations of violence inscribed on the people of Gaza, including killing, injuring, starving, collective punishment, military assaults and othe…
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
The Limitations and Liberatory Potential of Feminist Anthropology (Part One)
Murabata
512 Feminist Studies 45, no. 2/3. © 2019 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Sarah Ihmoud Murabata: The Politics of Staying in Place Making my way from the Muslim quarter to the Al-Aqsa compound , known throughout the Muslim world as Al Haram al-Sharif (the noble sanctuary), the streets are empty but for the children—Palestinian and Jewish—walking to school.1 The Jewish children travel in groups under the protection of private settler security agents, who …
Born Palestinian, Born Black
Palestinian feminism
This article theorizes Palestinian feminism as an analytical lens and a political project. Grounded in histories and ongoing organizing for anticolonial liberation, it outlines contemporary challenges and possibilities for Palestinian feminist organizing in the homeland and the shataat . Further, it centers Palestine as a space for enacting feminist praxis more broadly, and calls on feminist scholars and activists to join the struggle for Palesti…
A poetics of living rebellion
In this experimental year-in-review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that "liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility" (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the "ethnographic and politic…
Love in a Time of Genocide
This essay centers the affective insights and pedagogies of transnational Palestinian feminism through a conversation and friendship that emerged between Mona Ameen, a young feminist scholar trapped in Gaza, and the author, during Israel’s latest military assault, which is still ongoing at the time of writing. It argues that practicing decolonial love in a time of genocidal war is a life-affirming practice of critical Palestinian feminist conscio…
On Love, the Palestinian Way
This article centres the forms of kinship and care work that Palestinian women perform within and beyond the institution of the colonial prison in occupied territory through an analysis of letters expressing grief, care and radical hope as material expressions of an abolitionist feminist praxis of decolonial love. Women’s letter-writing practices offer a material expression of the sentient life forms that suture the social fabric of the Palestini…
Countering Reproductive Genocide in Gaza
Palestinian women's ways of experiencing and narrating violence offer important insights into the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Drawing on women's testimonies, I theorize this matrix of gendered colonial violence as Ibaada-Arabic for "annihilation," which refers to the annihilation of the Palestinian collective. Ibaada names extermination of the Palestinian people as the central imperative of Zionist colonialism, in Gaza and beyond, at the same time …
Decolonial Futures Lab
Fugitive Anthropology
Hunger and the Palestinian Womb
This article theorizes the Palestinian womb as both a site of Zionist colonial violence and Palestinian futurity through the story of Shema, a young woman who became pregnant and gave birth during Gaza’s ongoing genocide. Drawing on decolonial Palestinian feminism and Indigenous feminist scholarship, I argue that Israel’s weaponization of starvation constitutes a gendered assault on Palestinian social reproduction, targeting pregnant and breastfe…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)