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Camera Palaestina

Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
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Camera Palaestina delves into the rich cultural and historical landscape of Palestine through the lens of photography. The authors explore the evolution and impact of photographic practices in the region, offering insights into both personal and collective experiences and the role of images in shaping Palestinian identity. This narrative sheds light on the intersection of art, history, and politics within a turbulent socio-political context.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in how photography has shaped and reflected historical narratives, particularly in Palestinian history. This collaborative work offers deep insights into the cultural and political contexts of photographs from Palestine, exploring both their significance and the stories behind them. It's ideal for those fascinated by the intersection of visual culture and Middle Eastern history.

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Camera Palaestina

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Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine.

Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community.

Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.

Series: New Directions in Palestinian Studies

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520382886

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 92 b-w photographs

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Issam Nassar is Chair of History at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and coeditor of Jerusalem Quarterly. He is the coauthor of The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawahariyyeh and Gardens of Sand  

Stephen Sheehi is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary. He is coauthor of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine and author of The Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography, 1860–1910.

Salim Tamari is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and Director of its Jerusalem Studies Program. He is also Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at Birzeit University and the author of The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, Year of the Locust, and The Mountain Against the Sea

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