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Home and House I HOME AND HOUSE I MATERIALITIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES Mobile Homes: The Refashioning of Palestinian Merchant Homes in the Late Ottoman Period Jacob Norris Housing and Generality in Palestine Studies Autumn 2020 Kareem Rabie Autumn 2020 83 Occupied Home-Sharing: Airbnb in Palestine Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Ordinary Lives: A Small-town Middle Class at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Lisa Taraki “The Roots for a Palestinian Nahda”: Zulfa al-Sa‘di and the Advent of Palestinian Modern Art Laura Tibi Behind the Big Blue Gate: The Kenyon Institute, a British Eccentricity in Shaykh Jarrah Mandy Turner 83 INSTITUTE OF JERUSALEM STUDIES Editors: Beshara Doumani and Salim Tamari Executive Editor: Alex Winder Managing Editor: Carol Khoury Consulting Editor: Issam Nassar Editorial Committee: Rana Barakat, Rema Hammami, Penny Johnson, Nazmi Jubeh, Roberto Mazza Advisory Board: Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University, U.S. Michael Dumper, University of Exeter, U.K. Rania Elias, Yabous Cultural Centre, Jerusalem George Hintlian, Christian Heritage Institute, Jerusalem Huda al-Imam, Imam Consulting, Jerusalem Hassan Khader, al-Karmel Magazine, Ramallah Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, U.S. Yusuf Natsheh, al-Quds University, Jerusalem Khader Salameh, al-Khalidi Library, Jerusalem Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Queen Mary University of London, U.K. Tina Sherwell, Birzeit University, Birzeit Contributing Editors: Yazid Anani, A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah Khaldun Bshara, RIWAQ Centre, Ramallah Sreemati Mitter, Brown University, U.S. Falestin Naili, Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Jordan Jacob Norris, University of Sussex, U.K. Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge, U.K. Omar Imseeh Tesdell, Birzeit University, Birzeit Hanan Toukan, Bard College Berlin, Germany The Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) is the leading journal on the past, present, and future of Jerusalem. It documents the current status of the city and its predicaments. It is also dedicated to new and rigorous lines of inquiry by emerging scholars on Palestinian society and culture. Published since 1998 by the Institute for Palestine Studies through its affiliate, the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, theJerusalem Quarterly is available online in its entirety at www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jq/about. The Jerusalem Quarterly follows a double-blind peer review process for select contributions. Peer reviewed articles are indicated as such in the table of contents. This journal is produced with the financial assistance of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Palestine/ Jordan. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and therefore do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, nor those of the editors or the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Email: [email protected] www.palestine-studies.org Cover photo: Hanna and Mathilde Bisharat, with other family members, in front of Villa Harun al-Rashid, ca. 1929. Source: George Bisharat. ISSN 2521-9731 (print version) ISSN 2521-974X (online version) Back cover: Untitled, Ahed Izhiman, acrylic on canvas, 190 x 130 cm, 2019. Autumn 2020 — Issue 83 For submissions to JQ, send email to: [email protected] For local subscriptions to JQ, contact: The Institute of Jerusalem Studies P.O. Box 21649, Jerusalem 9121501 Tel: 972 2 298 9108, Fax: 972 2 295 0767 E-mail: [email protected] For international or U.S. subscriptions, contact: The Institute for Palestine Studies 3501 M Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007 Or subscribe at the IPS website: www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jq/about Autumn 2020 — Issue 83 HOME AND HOUSE I MATERIALITIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES Editorial JQ 83 ..............................................................................................................................................3 * Mobile Homes: The Refashioning of Palestinian Merchant Homes in the Late Ottoman Period .........9 Jacob Norris * Housing and Generality in Palestine Studies ............................................................................................34 Kareem Rabie * Occupied Home-Sharing: Airbnb in Palestine ..........................................................................................54 Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Ordinary Lives: A Small-town Middle Class at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ............................79 Lisa Taraki “The Roots for a Palestinian Nahda”: Zulfa al-Sa‘di and the Advent of Palestinian Modern Art ...106 Laura Tibi Performing the Collective: Al-Hakawati and Beyond ...........................................................................124 Ruba Totah LETTER FROM JERUSALEM Behind the Big Blue Gate: The Kenyon Institute, a British Eccentricity in Shaykh Jarrah .............139 Mandy Turner BOOK REVIEW Reading Jerusalem ....................................................................................................................................152 Review by Roberto Mazza FACTS & FIGURES COVID-19 and the Systematic Neglect of Palestinians in East Jerusalem ..........................................158 Al-Haq, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) Planned Annexation in Greater Jerusalem: A 2020 map by Ir Amim..................................................170 Call for Submissions for the Jerusalem Quarterly ..................................................................................171 The Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem - 2021 Round .............................172 * Peer reviewed article. EDITORIAL It is a strange experience to write an introduction for the first of two special House and Home issues of the Jerusalem Quarterly on the theme of Palestinian homes and houses at a Materialities and time when we are largely confined indoors during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Subjectivities We recognize, of course, that we belong to the privileged minority of people in this world who still have jobs, monthly salaries, comfortable places to live, and resources for working remotely. Like everyone else, however, this pandemic- driven isolation – somewhat similar to long-term involuntary confinements familiar to Palestinians through curfews, house arrests, and military invasions – has deepened our appreciation for the centrality of house and home to Palestinian life, as well as for the generative impact of these two concepts on advancing the field of Palestinian studies. This is also a strange experience because it was over two years ago, in the spring of 2018, that Beshara Doumani and Alex Winder began organizing the sixth annual workshop of New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS) on the theme of “Palestinian Homes and Houses: Subjectivities and Materialities.”1 The idea emerged from a simple observation Doumani made about the experience of summers in Palestine: everyday conversations between family members, neighbors, friends, and even strangers, disproportionately revolves around house and home. This may well be true year- around, but several factors intensify this phenomenon in the summer. June through August is the wedding season, which unleashes anxieties about the availability and cost of housing. It is also a time of feverish house construction following the end of the rainy season and an all-too- Jerusalem Quarterly 83 [ 3 ] brief spring interlude. For the tens of thousands of expatriates on their annual visits, summer is a season of mixed emotions about places of belonging. After the usual tense experience of crossing borders, the drive home reveals an estranged landscape where villages, towns, and cities are increasingly suffocated by sprawling Zionist colonies, walls, checkpoints, and the infrastructure that serves them. Entering the family house and reintegrating to “home” is a moment of joy that struggles to remain whole under the grinding stress and survival strategies of life under occupation. Water shortages, electrical power outages, and the relentless litany of house demolitions by the Israeli military are constant reminders that houses also have precarious lives. At first, the thought was to devote the workshop to the theme of the roof as a liminal space for unpacking the conversations about house and home. The roof is a material landscape where buildings are physically connected to water, electrical, satellite, and cable infrastructures that are so essential to everyday life. Roofs are also an affective landscape of communal sociabilities and private escapes. During uprisings, they are sites of protest and a target of soldiers. After a series of widening discussions, which came to include gardens and domiciles as equally important spaces, the idea expanded to the twin concepts of house (materialities) and home (subjectivities). The simple binary of materialities versus subjectivities is for heuristic purposes only, as the concepts of house and home are organically intertwined and expansive concepts which enable fresh new perspectives. As the call for papers issued in early fall 2018 articulated, “home” is a vexed concept for those who share a history of displacement, an experience from which few Palestinians are exempt. Home can be seen as a subjective field of memory and loss for a geographically dispersed, marginalized, and largely stateless people. But home is also the primary site of social relations, emotional investments, and aesthetic sensibilities. It is the nexus for quotidian strategies of survival and resistance; and a silent witness to deeply emotional entanglements, secrets, and fissures; as well as the insecurities
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