Hilary Falb Kalisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 919625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Falb Kalisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary Falb |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalisman |
| SIGNATURE | KALISMAN H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8443-0400 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Apostles of knowledge
During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary lives, impact on their students and the feminine modernity that these women represented. Policymakers, officials and intellectuals sought to spread women's education, linking it to a global vision of modern domesticity. In contrast, the schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq, the fir…
The historiography of education in the modern Middle East
This review outlines the historiography of education in the Middle East, focusing on events from the nineteenth century through the 1980s, and on Bilad al-Sham, mainly Jordan, Palestine and Israel, Iraq, and Northern Africa, including Egypt and Türkiye. Modernisation and nationalism were the main lenses through which educators, researchers, and students viewed the significance of their schooling in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middl…
Teachers as State-Builders
The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world-and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideolo…
Teachers as State-Builders
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideologies. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, this book brings to light educators' outsized role in shaping the politics of the modern…
Educating Palestine
While a disproportionate amount of ink has been spilled over the history of the Mandate for Palestine, its educational systems and practitioners remain somewhat neglected subjects. Yoni Furas's excellent work does what few scholars of Israel and Palestine are able and willing to do. He addresses each of the Mandate's different national groups, specifically in the context of schooling, which is a fundamentally nationalist endeavor.Furas argues tha…
A World of Tomorrow”
This article contributes to Palestinian intellectual history by discussing the lives and writings of three diaspora intellectuals during the transitional period of the 1950s: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abdul-Latif Tibawi, and Nicola Ziadeh. I argue that they fused a conservative acceptance of state authority and avoidance of radical politics with a liberal understanding of nationalism and scholarship, including freedom, secularism, and objectivity. Wit…
Michael Brenner
The next generation of cultivators
Agriculture was the key economic sector of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan/Jordan during the first half of the 20th century. Local and colonial administrators alike saw increasing agricultural productivity as indispensable, emphasising the development of education as one of the most effective ways of developing agriculture, and improving the status of cultivators overall. British and Jewish narratives of development went a step further, linking t…
Bursary Scholars at the American University of Beirut
This article investigates the first generation of scholarship students sent by the Mandate governments of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan to the American University of Beirut (AUB). These students lived at the front lines of the transition from empire to nation-state, as the borders enforced by colonial powers and the 'fictive kinship' of newly colonized people were at odds with one another. Students inscribed limits of belonging based on shared …
Bursary Scholars at the American University of Beirut
This article investigates the first generation of scholarship students sent by the Mandate governments of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan to the American University of Beirut (AUB). These students lived at the front lines of the transition from empire to nation-state, as the borders enforced by colonial powers and the 'fictive kinship' of newly colonized people were at odds with one another. Students inscribed limits of belonging based on shared …
The next generation of cultivators
Agriculture was the key economic sector of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan/Jordan during the first half of the 20th century. Local and colonial administrators alike saw increasing agricultural productivity as indispensable, emphasising the development of education as one of the most effective ways of developing agriculture, and improving the status of cultivators overall. British and Jewish narratives of development went a step further, linking t…
Bursary Scholars at the American University of Beirut
This article investigates the first generation of scholarship students sent by the Mandate governments of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan to the American University of Beirut (AUB). These students lived at the front lines of the transition from empire to nation-state, as the borders enforced by colonial powers and the 'fictive kinship' of newly colonized people were at odds with one another. Students inscribed limits of belonging based on shared …
The next generation of cultivators
Agriculture was the key economic sector of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan/Jordan during the first half of the 20th century. Local and colonial administrators alike saw increasing agricultural productivity as indispensable, emphasising the development of education as one of the most effective ways of developing agriculture, and improving the status of cultivators overall. British and Jewish narratives of development went a step further, linking t…
Michael Brenner
Educating Palestine
While a disproportionate amount of ink has been spilled over the history of the Mandate for Palestine, its educational systems and practitioners remain somewhat neglected subjects. Yoni Furas's excellent work does what few scholars of Israel and Palestine are able and willing to do. He addresses each of the Mandate's different national groups, specifically in the context of schooling, which is a fundamentally nationalist endeavor.Furas argues tha…
A World of Tomorrow”
This article contributes to Palestinian intellectual history by discussing the lives and writings of three diaspora intellectuals during the transitional period of the 1950s: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abdul-Latif Tibawi, and Nicola Ziadeh. I argue that they fused a conservative acceptance of state authority and avoidance of radical politics with a liberal understanding of nationalism and scholarship, including freedom, secularism, and objectivity. Wit…
Teachers as State-Builders
The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world-and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideolo…
Teachers as State-Builders
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideologies. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, this book brings to light educators' outsized role in shaping the politics of the modern…
The historiography of education in the modern Middle East
This review outlines the historiography of education in the Middle East, focusing on events from the nineteenth century through the 1980s, and on Bilad al-Sham, mainly Jordan, Palestine and Israel, Iraq, and Northern Africa, including Egypt and Türkiye. Modernisation and nationalism were the main lenses through which educators, researchers, and students viewed the significance of their schooling in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middl…
Apostles of knowledge
During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary lives, impact on their students and the feminine modernity that these women represented. Policymakers, officials and intellectuals sought to spread women's education, linking it to a global vision of modern domesticity. In contrast, the schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq, the fir…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Nationalism (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)