Salim Tamari - Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

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Camera Palstina

NEW DIRECTIONS IN PALESTINIAN STUDIES

Series Editorial Committee

Beshara Doumani, Brown UniversitySeries Editor

Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College and Columbia University

Samera Esmeir, University of California, Berkeley

Nouri Gana, University of California, Los Angeles

Rema Hammami, Birzeit University

Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara

The New Directions in Palestinian Studies series publishes books that put Palestinians at the center of research projects and that make an innovative contribution to decolonizing and globalizing knowledge production about the Palestinian condition.

Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile , Loren D. Lybarger

Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization , Lynn Welchman

The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp , Perla Issa

Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition , edited by Leila H. Farsakh

Camera Palstina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine , Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, and Salim Tamari

Camera Palstina

Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

Issam Nassar

Stephen Sheehi

Salim Tamari

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press Oakland, California

2022 by Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, Salim Tamari

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses

Suggested citation: Nassar, I., Sheehi, S., and Tamari, S. Camera Palstina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine . Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.126

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nassar, Issam, author. | Sheehi, Stephen, 1967 author. | Tam r , Sal m, author.

Title: Camera Palstina : photography and displaced histories of Palestine/ Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, Sal m Tam r

Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] | Series: New directions in Palestinian studies ; 5 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021042440 (print) | LCCN 2021042441 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520382886 (paperback) | ISBN 9780520382893 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Jawhar yah, W s if, 1897 1973. | Jerusalem History 20th centuryPictorial works. | PalestineHistory 20th century Pictorial works. | JerusalemDescription and travel. | Palestine Description and travel.

Classification: LCC DS109.93 .N38 2022 (print) | LCC DS109.93 (ebook) | DDC 956.940022/2 dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042440

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042441

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We are grateful to the Jawhariyyeh family for making available copies of the four volumes of the original albums in Athens and their indices in Beirut. Aya Shaker Jawhariyyeh in Jerusalem was the first person to encourage the editing of the handwritten memoirs of her father. Wasif Jawhariyyeh in Amman, his grandfathers namesake, graciously expedited our access to the Athens Collection. Katy Jawhariyyeh kindly hosted us in her Glyfada home and patiently supervised the scanning process. In Beirut, we were fortunate to have full access to the Institute of Palestine Studies (IPS) collection over the last fifteen years, from the Director to the staff of the library and the photographic archive. Particular thanks go to Mona Nsouli (former director), Jeanette Saroufim (former head librarian), and Mirna Itani (archivist), who have been generous with their time, energy and expertise. They greatly facilitated our research during our many visits to Beirut as well as while we were abroad. Our gratitude goes to Hala Zeinelabidin, the head librarian, and the archival staff Nour Bahja, Rihab Sakr, Tamara Bourji, Salwa Jaradat, Yousef Naanaa, and Hadeel al-Ali. Hala Zeinelabidin was crucial in providing us with advice and high-quality images in the final stages of preparing the manuscript.

We extend a special and warm thanks to Beshara Doumani, the editor of New Directions in Palestinian Studies series. Not only did he graciously encourage us in the submission of the manuscript and facilitate its publication by the University of California Press, he generously followed up throughout the process of review, revisions, and production of the book, even after his appointment as President of Birzeit University. We not only appreciate his energies in contributing to Palestine Studies writ large but, more personally, we thank him for his friendship, honesty, and support.

Our sincere gratitude goes to the external evaluators and anonymous readers of the earliest submission of the proposal and of our final draft to the press. These scholars provided us with critical assessment, suggestions, and support that significantly improved the book. They aided us to think about how our three disciplinary methodologies integrate into a larger coherent project around the social history and photography of Palestine, while also sharing their enthusiasm for our vision.

At the University of California Press, we are indebted for the continued support of Niels Hooper. He remains an extraordinarily gracious and supportive editor, whose affable personality, keen intellect, and willingness to talk with us throughout the process made getting Camera Palstina to print a collaborative pleasure. Likewise, this book would not be the same without the tireless and sustained attention of Naja Pulliam Collins. Her meticulous help, care, and sincerity in final preparation and production of manuscript was not only exemplary but heartfelt and meaningful to us.

Each of us thank our academic institutions and departments for providing financial support for travel to Beirut and various MESA conferences, where we three could meet in person to plan and discuss this book. Particularly, Istifan (Stephen Sheehi) acknowledges his research funds and professorship from the Sultan Qaboos Endowment to William & Mary as well as the supportive environment from the Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Modern Languages and Literature Department, and Asian and Pacific-Islander American Studies Program. Likewise, he thanks Eve Zimmerman and the Suzanne Newhouse Center for the Humanities for hosting him as the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Wellesley College for part of the time that we were completing this monograph.

Finally, the generosity and friendship between we three authors made collaboration in organizing, researching, and writing this book a pleasure and truly a cooperative enterprise. Relatedly, we would like to thank our family and friends for their love and friendship over the past several years (including during the Covid-19 pandemic). Without their presence and affection, this book would have been impossible. It is their love that give us inspiration and motivation to continue to fight for the liberation of Palestine.