Nadeem Karkabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 904166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadeem Karkabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadeem |
| FAMILY NAME | Karkabi |
| SIGNATURE | KARKABI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4440-1047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decolonizing Haifa: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Return
Late in the summer of 2024, one of the authors of this introduction (EM) boarded a bus from the neighborhood of Bat Galim to Hadar HaCarmel in Haifa. Sitting across from her was an elderly Jewish woman who, clearly seeking conversation, began complaining about changes to the bus’s schedule, her neighborhood, and the city in general. “It’s all Arabs here now,” she said without reservation, “we always lived with them. I grew up with the Arabs who l…
Interview with Ruba Salih
On the occasion of publishing a special issue of Palestine/Israel Review (PIR) on the decolonization of the city of Haifa, PIR interviewed Ruba Salih, a professor of anthropology at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. Salih’s research focuses on transnational migration and diasporas across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa; Islam and gender; the Palestine question and refugees; and trauma and conflict in the Middle East. She is…
Arab music and the changing political imaginaries of cultural citizenship in Israel: The Musrara School as a case study
On Assimilation Politics in Israel: Miscegenation, Conversion, and Indigeneity
Haifa City profile: Emergent binationalism in a settler colonial city
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: Self-Imitation, accent, and mockery
The Mistaʿarvim are Jewish undercover agents who masquerade as Arabs in order to infiltrate Palestinian and other Arab societies in the service of the Israeli military. The first Mistaʿarvim unit, which served in the pre-1948 Palmach Zionist militia, was based on Jews of Arab origin. Arabs in appearance and in speech, these undercover Jewish agents masqueraded as Arabs to blend into Arab communities without raising suspicion. They successfully ex…
The Re-Enchantment of the Orient: Mista‘arvim and Their Special Status in Jewish-Israeli Society
Mista‘arvim – Jewish-Israeli soldiers who masquerade as Arabs – and Hista‘arvut (the act thereof) hold a special place in Jewish-Israeli culture. By analyzing popular television programs – a thriller titled Fauda (Arabic for “chaos”) and documentaries by journalist Zvi Yehezkeli – we argue that “cultural Hista‘arvut” is a powerful reflection of Zionist perceptions of Palestinian and Arab Others. Cultural Hista‘arvut helps frame the paradox of a J…
The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
The impossible quest of Nasreen Qadri to claim colonial privilege in Israel
Nasreen Qadri is an Israeli pop singer of Palestinian-Arab origin whose professional achievements came in return for her loyalty to Israel. Successfully crossing cultural lines, Qadri claims Mizrahi identity, challenges the Ashkenazi-Zionist definition of Jews and Arabs as antagonistic ethnonational binaries, and helps Mizrahim reclaim their Judeo-Arabic heritage. However, following her controversial attempts to convert to Judaism, she fell short…
On fleeing colonial captivity: Fugitive arts in the occupied Jawlan
This article examines artistic production in the formerly Syrian land of the Jawlan (Golan Heights) as a way of tracing Indigenous politics of decolonization. Through consideration of the Jawlanis’ longstanding refusal to integrate into the Israeli state, the article demonstrates how Yasser Khanger’s poetry and the music of the band Toot Ard are practices of artistic fugitivity that flee colonial captivity. It argues that these cases offer two di…
Self-Liberated Citizens: Unproductive Pleasures, Loss of Self, and Playful Subjectivities in Palestinian Raves
This article explores the meaning of taharrur (self-liberation) in an emerging Palestinian rave scene in Israel, which includes dancing to electronic music and consumption of illicit drugs. While identifying how the Israeli state enforces soft power on its Palestinian citizens by producing complicit and resistant Palestinian subjectivities, the article explains the connection between Palestinian nationalist and social religious moralities towards…
Sounding Arabic: Postvernacular modes of performing the Arabic language in popular music by Israeli Jews
Popular music in Israel has recently seen a surge in the use of Arabic in music made by Israeli-Jewish musicians. Most of these, although descendants of immigrants from Arab countries, never acquired Arabic at home or in school, owing to national ideology which sought to label Arabic as the language of the non-Jewish other. This article reveals and contextualises this recent trend, offering a typology of the ways in which musicians engage with Ar…
Electro-Dabke: Performing Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Borderless Humanity
Dabke is traditional, nonreligious dance music from Greater Syria. In the 1980s, it went through a rapid transition from live into synthesized performance, allowing musicians to experiment with new available sounds that reached global electronic music dance floors. This article examines how the Palestinian electro-dabke bands Ministry of Dub-Key and 47Soul perform rooted authenticity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aesthetics to appeal stylistic…
How and Why Haifa Has Become the “Palestinian Cultural Capital” in Israel
With the growth of Palestinian original cultural productions and independent performance venues in Haifa, its residents have dubbed it the “Palestinian cultural capital in Israel.” An important cosmopolitan center prior to the loss of its majority Palestinian population in 1948, how have Haifa's Palestinian residents today revived the city and claimed this ambitious new title? What factors have enabled this development to take place specifically …
The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt, written by Samuli Schielke
Staging Particular Difference: Politics of Space in the Palestinian Alternative Music Scene
In recent years, an alternative popular music scene has emerged among young Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. Musicians and their audiences produce a politicized counterculture that innovatively fuses local and international musical expressions as a form of protest that aims to challenge external and internal impositions of structural oppression and othering. This scene constitutes the struggle of young Palestinians against civil marg…
Couples in the Global Margins: Sexuality and Marriage between Egyptian Men and Western Women
This article examines relations between older Western women and younger Egyptian men in South Sinai, Egypt. Eschewing the label 'female sex tourism', it analyses the practices that these couples adopt in order to legitimate their relationships and further refers to alternative modifications of urfi marriages and polygenic relations. The article argues that these partnerships, as practised in the Sinai periphery, have come into existence in an eff…
How and Why Haifa Has Become the “Palestinian Cultural Capital” in Israel
With the growth of Palestinian original cultural productions and independent performance venues in Haifa, its residents have dubbed it the “Palestinian cultural capital in Israel.” An important cosmopolitan center prior to the loss of its majority Palestinian population in 1948, how have Haifa's Palestinian residents today revived the city and claimed this ambitious new title? What factors have enabled this development to take place specifically …
Staging Particular Difference: Politics of Space in the Palestinian Alternative Music Scene
In recent years, an alternative popular music scene has emerged among young Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. Musicians and their audiences produce a politicized counterculture that innovatively fuses local and international musical expressions as a form of protest that aims to challenge external and internal impositions of structural oppression and othering. This scene constitutes the struggle of young Palestinians against civil marg…
Sounding Arabic: Postvernacular modes of performing the Arabic language in popular music by Israeli Jews
Popular music in Israel has recently seen a surge in the use of Arabic in music made by Israeli-Jewish musicians. Most of these, although descendants of immigrants from Arab countries, never acquired Arabic at home or in school, owing to national ideology which sought to label Arabic as the language of the non-Jewish other. This article reveals and contextualises this recent trend, offering a typology of the ways in which musicians engage with Ar…
Haifa City profile: Emergent binationalism in a settler colonial city
Couples in the Global Margins: Sexuality and Marriage between Egyptian Men and Western Women
This article examines relations between older Western women and younger Egyptian men in South Sinai, Egypt. Eschewing the label 'female sex tourism', it analyses the practices that these couples adopt in order to legitimate their relationships and further refers to alternative modifications of urfi marriages and polygenic relations. The article argues that these partnerships, as practised in the Sinai periphery, have come into existence in an eff…
The Re-Enchantment of the Orient: Mista‘arvim and Their Special Status in Jewish-Israeli Society
Mista‘arvim – Jewish-Israeli soldiers who masquerade as Arabs – and Hista‘arvut (the act thereof) hold a special place in Jewish-Israeli culture. By analyzing popular television programs – a thriller titled Fauda (Arabic for “chaos”) and documentaries by journalist Zvi Yehezkeli – we argue that “cultural Hista‘arvut” is a powerful reflection of Zionist perceptions of Palestinian and Arab Others. Cultural Hista‘arvut helps frame the paradox of a J…
The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
Self-Liberated Citizens: Unproductive Pleasures, Loss of Self, and Playful Subjectivities in Palestinian Raves
This article explores the meaning of taharrur (self-liberation) in an emerging Palestinian rave scene in Israel, which includes dancing to electronic music and consumption of illicit drugs. While identifying how the Israeli state enforces soft power on its Palestinian citizens by producing complicit and resistant Palestinian subjectivities, the article explains the connection between Palestinian nationalist and social religious moralities towards…
Couples in the Global Margins: Sexuality and Marriage between Egyptian Men and Western Women
This article examines relations between older Western women and younger Egyptian men in South Sinai, Egypt. Eschewing the label 'female sex tourism', it analyses the practices that these couples adopt in order to legitimate their relationships and further refers to alternative modifications of urfi marriages and polygenic relations. The article argues that these partnerships, as practised in the Sinai periphery, have come into existence in an eff…
Staging Particular Difference: Politics of Space in the Palestinian Alternative Music Scene
In recent years, an alternative popular music scene has emerged among young Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. Musicians and their audiences produce a politicized counterculture that innovatively fuses local and international musical expressions as a form of protest that aims to challenge external and internal impositions of structural oppression and othering. This scene constitutes the struggle of young Palestinians against civil marg…
The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt, written by Samuli Schielke
Electro-Dabke: Performing Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Borderless Humanity
Dabke is traditional, nonreligious dance music from Greater Syria. In the 1980s, it went through a rapid transition from live into synthesized performance, allowing musicians to experiment with new available sounds that reached global electronic music dance floors. This article examines how the Palestinian electro-dabke bands Ministry of Dub-Key and 47Soul perform rooted authenticity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aesthetics to appeal stylistic…
How and Why Haifa Has Become the “Palestinian Cultural Capital” in Israel
With the growth of Palestinian original cultural productions and independent performance venues in Haifa, its residents have dubbed it the “Palestinian cultural capital in Israel.” An important cosmopolitan center prior to the loss of its majority Palestinian population in 1948, how have Haifa's Palestinian residents today revived the city and claimed this ambitious new title? What factors have enabled this development to take place specifically …
Sounding Arabic: Postvernacular modes of performing the Arabic language in popular music by Israeli Jews
Popular music in Israel has recently seen a surge in the use of Arabic in music made by Israeli-Jewish musicians. Most of these, although descendants of immigrants from Arab countries, never acquired Arabic at home or in school, owing to national ideology which sought to label Arabic as the language of the non-Jewish other. This article reveals and contextualises this recent trend, offering a typology of the ways in which musicians engage with Ar…
On fleeing colonial captivity: Fugitive arts in the occupied Jawlan
This article examines artistic production in the formerly Syrian land of the Jawlan (Golan Heights) as a way of tracing Indigenous politics of decolonization. Through consideration of the Jawlanis’ longstanding refusal to integrate into the Israeli state, the article demonstrates how Yasser Khanger’s poetry and the music of the band Toot Ard are practices of artistic fugitivity that flee colonial captivity. It argues that these cases offer two di…
Self-Liberated Citizens: Unproductive Pleasures, Loss of Self, and Playful Subjectivities in Palestinian Raves
This article explores the meaning of taharrur (self-liberation) in an emerging Palestinian rave scene in Israel, which includes dancing to electronic music and consumption of illicit drugs. While identifying how the Israeli state enforces soft power on its Palestinian citizens by producing complicit and resistant Palestinian subjectivities, the article explains the connection between Palestinian nationalist and social religious moralities towards…
The impossible quest of Nasreen Qadri to claim colonial privilege in Israel
Nasreen Qadri is an Israeli pop singer of Palestinian-Arab origin whose professional achievements came in return for her loyalty to Israel. Successfully crossing cultural lines, Qadri claims Mizrahi identity, challenges the Ashkenazi-Zionist definition of Jews and Arabs as antagonistic ethnonational binaries, and helps Mizrahim reclaim their Judeo-Arabic heritage. However, following her controversial attempts to convert to Judaism, she fell short…
The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: Self-Imitation, accent, and mockery
The Mistaʿarvim are Jewish undercover agents who masquerade as Arabs in order to infiltrate Palestinian and other Arab societies in the service of the Israeli military. The first Mistaʿarvim unit, which served in the pre-1948 Palmach Zionist militia, was based on Jews of Arab origin. Arabs in appearance and in speech, these undercover Jewish agents masqueraded as Arabs to blend into Arab communities without raising suspicion. They successfully ex…
The Re-Enchantment of the Orient: Mista‘arvim and Their Special Status in Jewish-Israeli Society
Mista‘arvim – Jewish-Israeli soldiers who masquerade as Arabs – and Hista‘arvut (the act thereof) hold a special place in Jewish-Israeli culture. By analyzing popular television programs – a thriller titled Fauda (Arabic for “chaos”) and documentaries by journalist Zvi Yehezkeli – we argue that “cultural Hista‘arvut” is a powerful reflection of Zionist perceptions of Palestinian and Arab Others. Cultural Hista‘arvut helps frame the paradox of a J…
Haifa City profile: Emergent binationalism in a settler colonial city
Decolonizing Haifa: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Return
Late in the summer of 2024, one of the authors of this introduction (EM) boarded a bus from the neighborhood of Bat Galim to Hadar HaCarmel in Haifa. Sitting across from her was an elderly Jewish woman who, clearly seeking conversation, began complaining about changes to the bus’s schedule, her neighborhood, and the city in general. “It’s all Arabs here now,” she said without reservation, “we always lived with them. I grew up with the Arabs who l…
Interview with Ruba Salih
On the occasion of publishing a special issue of Palestine/Israel Review (PIR) on the decolonization of the city of Haifa, PIR interviewed Ruba Salih, a professor of anthropology at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. Salih’s research focuses on transnational migration and diasporas across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa; Islam and gender; the Palestine question and refugees; and trauma and conflict in the Middle East. She is…
Arab music and the changing political imaginaries of cultural citizenship in Israel: The Musrara School as a case study
On Assimilation Politics in Israel: Miscegenation, Conversion, and Indigeneity
Political science (15 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works)