CURRICULUM VITAE Issam Nassar Department of Humanities Qatar University Email: inassar@qu.edu.qa ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2015 Professor, Department of Humanities, Qatar University 2014 Professor, Department of History, Illinois State University 2009-‐2014 Associate Professor, Department of History, Illinois State University 2006-‐2009 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Illinois State University Spring 2006 Visiting Professor, Department of History, UC-‐Berkeley 2003-‐2006 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bradley University 1998-‐2004 Associate Director, Institute of Jerusalem Studies (Jerusalem) 1998-‐2003 Assistant Professor, Center of Area Studies, Al-‐Quds University (Jerusalem) EDUCATION 1997 Doctor of Arts in History, Illinois State University, Illinois 1987 Master of Arts in Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 1984 Bachelor of Commerce in Economics, Birzeit University, West Bank. HONNORS AND AWARDS • Memoir Prize, Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award for my co-‐edited book The Storyteller of Jerusalem, 2014. • College Researcher Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University, 2013. • Participant in the National Endowment for Humanities Seminar on WWI in the Middle East, Summer 2013. PUBLISHED BOOKS Authored books: • European Portrayals of Jerusalem: Religious Fascinations and Colonialist Imaginations (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006). • Laqatat mughayira: al-‐tasweer al-‐fotografi al-‐mubaker fi filastin 1850-‐1948 [Different Snapshots: Early Local Photography in Palestine 1850-‐1948], (Beirut: Kutub Publishing, 2005). • Photographing Jerusalem: The Image of the City in Nineteenth-‐Century Photography (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1997). Edited and co-‐edited books • The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-‐ 1948, edited, annotated and introduced with Salim Tamar (Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2013). • Karimeh Abbud: Raedat al-‐taweer al-‐Nassawi fi filastin, 1893-‐1940 (Karimeh Abbud: Pioneering Woman Photographer in Palestine, 1893-‐1940), edited with 1 • • • • • • • • Mitri al-‐Raheb and Amad Mwroat (Bethlehem: Diyar Publications, 2011). Al-‐Quds: Tarikh al-‐Mustaqbal [Jerusalem: History of the Future] (Beirut and Ramallah: Institute for Palestine Studies, December 2010) Gardens of Sand, edited with Clark Worswick and Patricia Almarcegui (TrunerPhoto Middle East, October 2010) I Would Have Smiled: Photographing the Palestinian Refugee Experience, co-‐ edited with Rasha Salti (Jerusalem: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2009) Awraq ’A‘iliya: Dirasat fi al-‐Tarikh al-‐Ijtima’I la-‐falastin [Family Papers: Studies in the Social History of Palestine] co-‐edited with Zakariya Mohammad and others (Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2009) Dirasat fi al-‐tarikh al-‐ijtima’i libilad al-‐Sham [Studies in the Social History of the Levant], co-‐edited with Salim Tamari (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2007). Pilgrims, Lepers and stuffed Cabbage: Essays on Jerusalem’s Cultral History co-‐ edited with Salim Tamari (Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2005). Al-‐Quds al-‐Intidabeyah fil al-‐Muthakarat al-‐Jawhariyyeh [British Mandate Jerusalem in the Memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1918-‐1948], co-‐edtied with Salim Tamari (Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2005). Al-‐Quds al-‐Othmaniyah fi al-‐Muthakrat al-‐Jawhariyyeh [Ottoman Jerusalem in the Jawhariyyeh Memoirs 1904-‐1917], co-‐edited with Salim Tamari, (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2003). PUBLISHED CHAPTERS • Jerusalem Under the Rule of the Young Turks in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule (Library of Ottoman Studies), edited by Yuval Ben-‐ Bassat and Eyal Ginio (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2011), 125-‐141. • Jerusalem of the Heavens: How the Abrahamic Religions View The City, Issam Nassar, ed., Jerusalem History of the Future (Ramallah and Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2010), 2-‐16. • Palestinian Nationalism: The Difficulties of Narrating an Ambivalent Identity, Ilan Pappe and Jamil Hilal, eds., Across the Wall: Narratives of Israeli-‐Palestinian History (London: I. B. Tauris & Company, 2010), 217-‐234. • Memoirs and Family Papers: a Source for the Study of Jerusalem from the Margins, Maher Charif and Kaïs Ezzerelli, eds., L'autobiographie dans le Bilâd al-‐Châm (Damascus: L’Institut français du Proche-‐Orient /Dâr al-‐Mada, 2009), 91-‐122. • Photographs and Photographic Albums as Autobiographical Source Materials for the Social History of Modern Jerusalem in Transformed Landscapes Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honour of Walid Khalidi, edited by Camille Mansour and Leila Fawaz (American University in Cairo Press, 2009) • Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman Period: Historical Writing and the Native Voice in Jerusalem: Idea and Reality, edited by Tamar Mayer and Suleiman Murad (Routledge: 2008) • The Trauma of al-‐Nakba: Collective Memory and the Rise of Palestinian National 2 • • • • • • Identity in Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law edited by Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch, and Michal Alberstein (Stanford University Press, 2008) Palestinian Identity: The History and the Formation (in Hebrew) in To Invent a Nation, edited by Yossi Dahan and Henry Wasserman with a forward by Eric Hobsbawm, (Raanana, Israel: The Open University of Israel, 2006). Nazionalismo palestinese. I problemi dello storico di fronte a una identità ambivalente (in Italian), in Jamil Hilal and Ilan pappe, Parle con il nemico, Bollati Bonrighieri, 2004. World Jewry in The Israel Guidebook (in Arabic) dalīl Israel al-‐āam 2004, Camille Mansour and Fawz Abdelhadi, editors, (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2004). Narrating a Homeland Identity: The Writing of the Histories of Palestinian Nationalism in Homelands: Poetic Power and the Politics of Space, Ron Robin and Bo Strath, editors (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2003). Decolonizing Imagination: The Palestinians in Modern Israeli Consciousness (in English and German) in Remapping the Region: Culture and Politics in Israel/Palestine (Vienna: Folio Verlag, 2003) Photographing Jerusalem at War in Salim Tamari, editor, Jerusalem 1948 (Bethlehem and Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Badil Center for Refugee Studies, second edition, 2002) ESSAYS IN MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION BOOKS • A Witness to History: The Humanizing Lense of Noor Rashid Ali in the forthcoming catalogue for the exhibition of the photographic work of Noor Rashid Ali (forthcoming). • The Pasha, the Photographer and I in Not Just a Memory: Palestine in the Photography of Khalil Raad, edited by Vera Tamari (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2013). • The Lure of the Orient: Early Photography of the Middle East, Issam Nassar. Patricia Almárcegui and Clark Worswick, Gardens of Sand: Commercial Photography in the Middle East, 1859-‐1905 (Madrid: TurnerPhoto MIDDLE EAST, 2010), 5-‐12. • Early Photography in the Eastern Arab World in Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World, exhibition at the Noorderlicht in Holland curated by Win Melis. Book published by Stiching Aurora Borealis in Amsterdam in 2004. • Between Social and Imaginary Landscape: Early Photography in Palestine in Christine Tohme and Mona Abu Rayyan, editors, Home Works (Beirut: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, 2003). 3 PUBLISIHED ARTICLES (partial list) • John Whiting’s Album of the Great War in Palestine, Jerusalem Quarterly, issue 53 (Spring 2013). • Reflections on What a Palestinian State is Worth, Reason Papers, 34, no. 2 (October, 2012). • Al-‐Quds tahta hokum turkiya al-‐fatat [Jerusalem Under the Young Turks: A Study Based on Local Sources], Hawliyat al-‐Quds, no. 12 (Winter 2011). • Al-‐Quds kamadina uthmaniyeh [Jerusalem as an Ottoman City], Hawliyat al-‐ Quds, no. 7 (Spirng and Summer 2009). • Early Local Photography in Palestine: The Legacy of Karimeh Abbud, Jerusalem Quarterly, issue 46 (Summer, 2011). • Familial Snapshots: Representing Palestine in the Work of the First Local Photographers, History and Memory, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2006. • Biblification in the Service of Colonialism: Jerusalem in Nineteenth-‐century Photography, Third Text, Vol. 20, No. 80-‐81, issue 3/4 (May/July 2006): 317-‐ 326. • Early Photography of Jerusalem: from the Imagined to the Social Landscapes, History of Photography, issue no. 4, winter 2003. • Palestinian Nationalism: the Paradox of Narrating an Ambivalent Identity in Hagar: International Social Science Review, 2003. • Reflections on Writing the History of Palestinian Identity, Palestine-‐Israel Journal, May 2002. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES • “Photography of the Great War in the Ottoman Lands,” International Encylcopedia of World War I, 1914-‐1918, Online, 2014. • “Palestine,” The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2012. • “Gaza Strip,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, 1 ed., 2008. Book Reviews • Review of Abigail Jacobson, From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem Between Ottoman and British Rule in International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 18 (no. 1 & 2; 2012). • Review of Elias Sanbar, Les Palestiniens: La photographie d’une terre et de son people de 1839 à nos jours in Journal of Palestine Studies, No. 4 (summer 2006) • Review of Michael Dumper’s The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict, Journal of Palestine Studies, no. 126, 2003. • Review of Colin Osman’s Jerusalem: Caught in Time, Journal of Palestine Studies, no. 120, 2001. • Maundrell in Jerusalem: reflections on the Writing of an Early European Tourist, a Review of Henry Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697, Jerusalem Quarterly File, Summer 2000. • Naser-‐e Khosraw’s Journey to Jerusalem, a review of Naser-‐e Khosraw, 4 • • • • Safarnama in Jerusalem Quarterly File, Autumn ,1999. Review of Jamil Hilal’s al-‐Haqel al-‐Siyasi al-‐Falastinin ba’d Oslo, in al-‐Siyasa al-‐ Filastiniyaa (Palestine Policy), Spring 1999. Review of Guy Le Strange’s Jerusalem Under the Moslems in Jerusalem Quarterly File, Spring 1999. Review of Rashid Khalidi’s Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness in al-‐Siyasa al-‐Filastiniyya (Palestine Policy), Spring 1998. Review of Algerian films, The American Historical Review, October, 1994. GUEST SPEAKER (partial selected list) • Photographing the Egyptian-‐Palestine Front in WWI, University of Dayton, and Wrighty State University, September 2014. • Photographing the Suez Campaign During the Great War, Center for Arab Studies, Georgetown University, February 2014. • The Conflict over Syria, Newson Lecture on International Affairs, Eurika College, October 17, 2013. • Photography as History, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine, July 3, 2013. • Palestine, Israel: the Path to Peace, at Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy, February 17, 2013. • The Colonial Gaze: Representing Jerusalem in photography, Universtity of Evensville, IN, March 24, 2011. • Arab Photography, New York University at Abu Dhabi, May 2012. • The Catastrophe: Conversation between Ariella Azzoulay and Issam Nassar on the photography of the war of 1948. Berlin Documentary Forum, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, June 3, 2010. • The forgotten multi-‐religious history of Jerusalem, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, April 20, 2010. • The Historiography of Jerusalem, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, October 2009. • Citizens of one homeland: lessons from late Ottoman Palestine, a plenary address at the Beyond The Nation? Critical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Uncertain Times conference at Queens University, Belfast, North of Ireland, September 2007. • Jerusalem in Early Palestinian Photography, presented at the The Third Annual Conference for the Preservation of the Audio-‐Visual Memory in Israel as part of the activities of the 2007 Jerusalem Film Festival. • Photography and Colonialism: The Case of the Middle East, Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 7, 2006. • Nineteenth Century Photography of Palestine at the French Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan at the opening of the exhibition of the nineteenth century photographs of Palestine by Bonfils, July, 2004. • Decolonizing Imagination: The Palestinians in Modern Israeli Consciousness, 5 • • plenary address, Writing and Transformation, Cittadellarte -‐ Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy, June, 2004. The Making of the Image: Media Coverage of the Current Conflict in Palestine-‐ Israel, Johns Hopkins University and sponsored by the American Anthropological Association, Baltimore, October 2002. Speaking Tour on the Palestine-‐Israel Conflict (at Colombia, New York University, Harvard, Tufts, Yale, UCLA, and Berkeley), April 2002. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (partial list since 2000) • Photography and the Great War: Contextualizing Images of War on the Ottoman Front , Photography’s Shifting Terrain: Emerging Histories & New Practices at New York University Abu Dhabi, March 2015. • The Jerusalem lost in 1948, at the Palestine Center Annual Conference, The Jerusalem Fund, Washignton, D.C., November 14, 2014. • Jamal Pasha and his Photographers, at the Conference The Syrian Lands During the Great War, 1914-‐1918, Şahir University, Istanbul, June 2014. • Photography of the Suez Front, at the Conference Not all Quiet on the Ottoman Fronds: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-‐1918, Bilgi University of Istanbul, Istanbul, April 2014. • Towards the Centennial-‐WWI in the Middle East-‐-‐Visual Media and the Great War (1914-‐1918): John Whiting’s Album of the Great War in Palestine, at the Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, MESA, New Orleans, LA, October 11, 2013. • Family Albums and the Writing of Palestine’s History presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, MESA, San Diego, CA, November, 2010. • Photography for Historians, presented at Birzeit University, Palestine during the Symposium on Research Gaps in Palestine, October 2010. • Family Albums and the History of Palestine, presented at the Symposium on Vernacular Photography of the Middle East held at St. John’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, Marc, 2010. • “Alone in Ba’qaa: The 1949 Diary of Jiryes Salti of Jerusalem” presented at the Family Papers and Public Archives as Sources for Research in the Social History of Palestine conference held at Birzeit University, July 2008. • “Armenian Contribution to Photography of the Middle East” organized by The Calouste Gulbenkian Library of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem, Jerusalem June 2008. • “Photographing the Refugees at Comparative Studies on the Palestinian Refugees” an International Conference held at Birzeit University in Palestine, March 17, 2008. • “Palestinian Articulation of the Past: The Role of al-‐Nakba as a Collective Memory” presented as part of the panel The Wild Card of Memory, Challenging the Present: Egyptian, Palestinian and Armenian Historical Consciousness, Middle East Studies Association 2007 meeting, Montreal, 6 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Canada, November, 2007. “Subaltern Histories: Memoirs and Autobiographies as a Source” at the International Symposium on Memoirs and Diaries held at the Institut Trancais du proche-‐Orient in Damascus, Syria, June 19th and 20th. “Jerusalem in Early Photography: The native population in and out of the frame” at Jerusalem Across the Disciplines International Conference at Arizona State University, February 19-‐21, 2007. “Palestinian Articulation of the Past: The Role of al-‐Nakba as a Collective Memory” at the 2007 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada, November 2007. Subaltern Histories of Jerusalem: Memoirs and Photography as Sources presented as part of the Jerusalem: Cultures and Communities in Contention, Ohio State University, November, 2006. Representing Palestine in Early Local Photography as part of the panel “Photography and the Local: Self Representation in Constructing the Past and Present” at the 2006 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Boston, November 2006. Palestine in Early Zionist Photography, presented at the Israeli Film Festival at al-‐Casaba Theater in Ram Allah, West Bank, July 2004. Palestinian Nationalism(s), presented as part of the symposium on Boundaries and Borders held at Erfurt University, Efurt, Germany, January 2004. War Photography: Reflections on Representation of the war of 1948, presented as part of the 2003 Photo Cairo event at the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo, Egypt, January 2004. Al-‐Nakba as a Trauma in Palestinian Historiography, presented at Trauma and Memory: Subjective and Collective Experiences held at Bar-‐Ilan University, Israel, December 2003. Is a Bi-‐national State the Solution for Palestine, presented at the Ninth International Karl Polanyi Conference at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, November 2003. The Formation of Palestinian National Identity, at the symposium “Perceptions of Palestine,” at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March 2003. Decolonizing Imagination: The Palestinians in Modern Israeli Consciousness, at the symposium “Remapping the Region” at the O. K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst,Linz, Austria, March 2003. Palestine-‐Israel: Prospects and Obstacles, literaturWERKstatt, Berlin, December 2002. Narrating the Nation in the New Palestinian History Curriculum, presented at the Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2002. Violence and Memory in Palestinian Historiography, Memory and Violence Workshop held in Cortona, Italy, June 2002. Early Photography in Palestine: Between Social and Imaginary Landscapes, Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region, held at al-‐Madina Theater 7 • • • • • in Beirut, April, 2002. Jerusalem in 19th Century English Travel Narratives, Jerusalem in History: New Trend in Research, held at the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, December 2001. The Writing of the new Palestinian History Curriculum, Teaching History: a Powerful Tool in Building a National and Human Identity, held at University of Bari, Italy, September 2000. Photography as a Local Career, Two Millennia of Christianity in the Holy Land, a Conference organized by the Christian Heritage Institute, Jerusalem, June 2000. Early Photography in Palestine: Between Social and Imaginary Landscapes, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, February 2000. Watan: Imaginings of the Palestinian Homeland, Homeland, a workshop sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advance Studies, European University Institute and Haifa University, Florence, Italy, April 2000. OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION • Co-‐organizer of Photography’s Shifting Terrian: Histories and New Practices, held at New Tork University-‐Abu Dhabi, March, 8-‐10, 2015. • Co-‐organizer of the Symposium on Photography in the Arab World, New York University at Abu Dhabi, May 2012. • Member of the organizing committee and the spokesperson for Jerusalem: History of the Future conference organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies held at Birzeit University in Palestine, July-‐August, 2009. • Member of the organizing committee of the Family Papers and Public Archives Conference organized by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies at the Law Center in Birzeit University in Palestine, July 2008. • Co-‐organized a symposium in Beirut on biographies and autobiographies as sources for the study of Palestine and Syria, held at the Institute for Palestine Studies, December 2004. • Co-‐organized the Symposium, Jerusalem in History: New Trends in Research, held at the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Jerusalem, December 2001. • Member of the Advisory Committee for Landscape Perspectives on Palestine held at Birzeit University, November 1998. • Participated in the Seminar on Minority Returns and Refugees held on 20 and 21 of November 1998 in Bugojno, Bosnia. • Member of the Organizing Committee for Border Subjects Conference, Illinois State University, October 1996. MUSEUM ADVISING ACTIVITIES • Advisor to the Palestine Museum, Ramallah, Palestine, 2014. • Author of Concept Document, RIWAYA Museum in Bethlehem, Palestine, 2012. • Advisor on Visual Culture, The Palestinian Museum Project, Birzeit, Palestine. 2009-‐2010. • 8 MANUSCRIPT REFEREE • Referred book msuscripts for the following publishers: Princeton University Press, University of Texas Press, McMillan, University of California Press, The Intitute for Palestine Studies, and RIWAQ: Center for Presevation. • Refereed Articles for the following academic journals: The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, Arab Studies Journal, Jerusalem Quarterly, Comparative Studies for South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Jadaliya. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Co-‐editor, Jerusalem Quarterly Associate Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2002, 2012 LANGUAGE SKILLS Fluent in Arabic and English, basic knowledge of Hebrew MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Member of the Board, Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011-‐2014 Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1994-‐present The American Historical Association, 1994-‐present Palestinian Historical Society, 1997-‐2000 9
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