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Anthropology Department |
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Amahl Bishara |
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Assistant Professor
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Anthropology Department
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Ph.D. in Anthropology, and Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University |
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Media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, ethnography of place.
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Amahl.Bishara@tufts.edu
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Publications:
2010: Palestinian Christian Networked Activism: Reifying "Nonviolence" or Divining Justice? The Review of Middle East Studies (formerly the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin). (Peer Reviewed.)
2010: Culture Concepts in Political Struggle, co-written with Jessica Winegar. Introduction to special section of the journal, co-edited with Jessica Winegar. The Review of Middle East Studies (formerly the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin). (Peer Reviewed.)
2010: New Media and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Assembling Media Worlds and Cultivating Networks of Care. The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. (Peer Reviewed.)
2010: Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War. In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency. John Kelly, Sean Mitchell, Beatrice Jauregui, and Jeremy Walton, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Peer Reviewed.)
2009: Three-Part "Fieldnotes" Series: (1) Re-Starting a Conversation, (2) So Many Interviewees, How Shall I Choose?, and (3) Eating Watermelon, Parsing Chaos. In AnthroNow, http://anthronow.com/category/fieldnotes.
2009: Covering the Barrier in Bethlehem: The Production of Sympathy and the Reproduction of Difference. In The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives. Elizabeth Bird, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2008: “Watching U.S. Television from the Palestinian Street: Representational Contests of the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. Media, and the Palestinian Public.” Cultural Anthropology 23(3):488-530.
2006: “Local Hands, International News: Palestinian Journalists and the International Media.” Ethnography, 7(2):19-46.
2003: “House and Homeland: Examining Sentiments about and Claims to Jerusalem and Its Houses.” Social Text, 21(2):141-162.
2002: Across Oceans, Among Colleagues. Documentary film produced under the auspices of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media. Screened at: “Docs on the Edge,” New York University, May 2002; American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 2002; broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (cable television), November 2003; “Dreams of a Nation” film festival in Jerusalem, Gaza, and Ramallah, February and March 2004.
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