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Monday March 18, 2024

Scholarship about Palestine/Israel has long been produced within separated and counterposed scholarly associations, centers, and publications for Palestine studies and Israel studies. What are the implications of this separation for our scholarly understanding of dynamics in Palestine/Israel? Could we imagine an alternative way of organizing our knowledge? Is it possible to build an intellectual community that considers Palestinians and Israelis as belonging to the same scholarly field?

Tamir Sorek is a liberal arts professor of Middle East history at Penn State University. He studies culture as field of conflict and resistance, particularly in the context of Palestine/Israel. His research has highlighted the political role of sports, poetry, and collective memory, as well as tensions around the boundaries of the religious and the secular realms. He is the author of The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad (2020), Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendar, Monuments, and Martyrs (2015), Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave (2007), editor of Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel (2022) and coeditor of Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East (2019).

Sponsored by:
Israel Studies | Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, History Department