Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

10.7.2014

Curriculum Vitae Nimrod Luz

1. Personal Data: נמרוד לוז :Name in Hebrew Name in English: Nimrod Luz E-Mail: [email protected] Current position and rank – senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Western Galilee College

2. Education Certificates and Degrees: Education Institute Department From - To

Kreitman Post Ben Gurion Geography 2003-2005 Doctorate fellow University of the Negev Lady Davis Post The Hebrew Islamic and 2002-2003 Doctorate fellow University of Middle Eastern Jerusalem Studies Post Doctorate UW-Madison Geography 2000-2001 fellow

Third Degree The Hebrew Geography and 1995-2000 University of Islamic and Jerusalem Middle Eastern Studies Second Degree The Hebrew Geography and 1991-1994 University of Islamic and Jerusalem Middle Eastern Studies First Degree The Hebrew History and 1988-1991 University of Liberal Studies Jerusalem, Israel

3. Title of Master's Thesis: Umayyad al-Ramla – an Urban Innovation in Palestine. [Magna cum Laude]. Supervisors: Prof. Amikam Elad (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies), Prof. Buni Rubin (Geography).

Title of Doctoral Thesis: Provincial Cities in Mamluk Syria 1260-1517. [Summa cum Laude]. Supervisors: Prof. Reuven Amitai (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies), Prof. Buni Rubin (Geography).

4. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutions of Higher Education:

2006 – 2010 Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Western Galilee Academic College (100%). 2009 Senior Lecturer, Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, The Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yizrael (25%) /102/11 Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Western Galilee Academic College (100%) (re-confirmation).

5. Grants and Awards:

1988 Dean of Humanities, list of outstanding undergraduate students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1990 The Herzel Halevi Prize for an excellent undergraduate paper, The Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1991 The Frantz Günter Award for an outstanding undergraduate paper, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1995 a. Travel Grant of the British Historical Geographers Association. b. Yad Hanadiv Grant.

1996 Research and Traveling Grant of the French Government (Cultural Attaché, Israel).

1997 a. The Starosta Doctoral Scholarship for Outstanding Ph. D. Candidate, Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. b. The Bartuv Award, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2000 a. Post-Doctoral Scholarship of the Hebrew University Fellowship Committee.

b. Distinguished Teacher Award – Social Science Dean's List.

2002 The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2004 UCLA and the Getty Institute, Fellowship for the International Summer Workshop: 'Constructing the Past in the Middle East' Istanbul, Turkey.

2003-2005 Kreitman Post Doctoral Fellowship, The Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

2010 The Western Galilee Research Authority grant for a book manuscript (6000 NIS).

2012 The Western Galilee Research Authority grant for a book manuscript (5000 NIS).

2014 The Western Galilee Distinguished Research Award (4500$).

6. Reasearch Grants:

2004 Research Grant from the Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study (5000$). Project title: Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Arab-Palestinian Public Discourse in Israel: Identity, Collective Memory and Social Construction

2005 Research Grant from the Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study (6000$). Project title: The Mosque of Hassan Bey and the Arab Community of Jaffa.

2007 Research Grant from the Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study (10000$). Project title: Land and Planning Discourse(s) between Majority and Minority in Israel: The case of Misgav-Sakhnin Land Dispute.

2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar in Residence Scholarship (47000$). Visiting Professor at Indiana University South Bend, IN, USA. Project title: The Politics of Sacred Places.

2010 The Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant. The Connect Program (2500 €). Max Planck Institute for the History of Sceince, Research fellow. Berlin, Germany.

2012-2016 The Israeli Sceince Foundation Research Grant (ISF) (100000$). Project title: Enchanted Places on the Margins (with Dr. Nurit Stadler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

2013 The TOPOI-BAK Visiting Research Fellowship (10500€). Research fellowship at the Antike-Kolleg Berlin (3 months). 2014 The Erasmus Mundi Visiting Research Fellowship (2500€). Research fellows at the School of Geography, University College Dublin

7. Scientific Areas of Specialization: Cultural Geography Urbanism in the Middle East – Past and Present Urban Geography Urban Sociology Anthropology and Geography of Religion Islam and Middle East - History and Geography Historical Geography Anthropology and Politics of Food Landscape of Cultural Changes in the Middle East Mixed cities in Israel Cultural Theories

Publications Nimrod Luz, Ph.D.

Books (as author) 1. Luz, N. (April, 2014). Reading Mamluk Cities: Culture and the Urban Landscape. Cities and Urbanism of the Pre-Modern Middle East. New York: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press.

Monographs

2. Luz, N. (2004). Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Arab-Palestinian Public Discourse in Israel: Identity, Collective Memory and Social Construction. Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study, Jerusalem: Achva Press. [Hebrew]. (74 pages).

3. Luz, N. (2005). The Arab Community of Jaffa and the Hassan Bey Mosque. Collective Identity and Empowerment of the Arabs in Israel via Holy Places. Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study, Jerusalem: Achva Press. [Hebrew]. (52 pages).

4. Luz, N. (2007). On Land and Planning Majority-Minority Narrative in Israel: The Misgav-Sakhnin Conflict as a Parable. Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study, Jerusalem: Achva Press. [Hebrew]. (107 pages).

Books (as editor)

5. Luz, N. (2004). (ed.). Islam, Society, and Space in Jerusalem. Past and Present. The New East, XLIV (Hamizrach Hachadash). The Israel Oriental Society, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magness Press. [Hebrew]. (850 copies) (305 pages).

Articles and Chapters in Books

6. Luz, N. (1999). Amwas – The First Capital of Jund Filastin. In: Y. Ben Artzi, I. Bartal & E. Reiner (eds.), Studies in Geography and History in Honor of Yehushua Ben-Arie (pp. 168-183). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magness Press. [Hebrew].

7. Luz, N. (2002). Tripoli Reinvented: A Case of Mamluk Urbanization. In: Y. Lev (ed.), Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East (pp. 52-72). Leiden: Brill.

8. Luz, N. (2004). Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria. Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-Cultural Forces. In: A. Levanoni & M. Vinter (eds.), The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society (pp. 339-358). Boston and Leiden: Brill.

9. Luz, N. (2004). Pictures from the Galilee – Resident Accessibility: A Qualitative Approach. In: S. Hasson & K. Abu Asbah (eds.), Jews and Arabs in Israel Facing a Changing Reality. Dilemmas, Trends, Scenarios and Recommendations (pp. 215-226). Jerusalem: The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies. [Hebrew].

10. Luz, N. (2005). The Re-making of Beersheba: Winds of Modernization in Late Ottoman Sultanate. In: I. Weissman & F. Zachs (eds.), Ottoman Reforms and Muslim Regeneration. Studies in Honor of Prof. Butrus Abu Manneh (pp. 187-210). London and New York: I. B. Tauris.

11. Luz, N. (2008). Symbols, Landscape, and Ideology in Mamluk Jerusalem. In: Y. Aviram, Y. Ben Arie, D. Bahat, M. Broshi & G. Barkai (eds.) Eretz-Israel, Archeological, Historical and Geographical Studies, Teddy Kollek, 28, Jerusalem, The Israel Exploration Society (pp. 248-254). Jerusalem: Old City Press. [Hebrew].

12. Luz, N. (2008). The Creation of Modern Beersheba. An Imperial Ottoman Project. In: Y. Garduz & E. Meir-Glizenstein (eds.), Beer Sheva: Metropolis in the Making (pp. 177-194). Negev Center for Regional Development, Beersheba: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press. [Hebrew].

13. Luz, N. (2010). Self-Empowerment through the Sacred Culture and Representation the Urban Landscape: The Mosque of Hassan Bey and the Arab Community in Jaffa. In: M. Berger, Y. Reiter & L. Hammer (eds.), Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Confrontation and Co-Existence (pp. 249-263). London, New York: Routledge.

14. Luz, N. (2011). Mamluk Jerusalem and the Concept of the ‘Muslim City’: Geographic-Historic-Cultural Readings of the Urban Landscape. In: K. Cohen- Hattab, A. Selzer & D. Bar (eds.), A City Reflected Through its Research (pp. 25-55). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magness Press. [Hebrew].

15. Luz, N. (2011). The Islamic Movement and the Lure of the Sacred: The Struggle for Land through Sacred Sites. In: E. Rekhess & A. Rudnitzky (eds.), Muslim Minorities in non-Muslim Majority Countries: The Test Case of the Islamic Movement in Israel, (pp. 75-84). Tel Aviv University: The Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation, Tel Aviv: Eyal Press. [Hebrew] (English version in preparation).

16. Luz, N. (2011). Sufi Orders in the Urban Landscape: Islamization and Religious Radicalization in Ayyubid and Mamluk Jerusalem. In: A. Layish (ed.), Conversion, Sufism, Revival and Reform in Islam. Essays in Memory of Nehemia Levtzion (pp. 178-207). Tel Aviv: Hidekel Press. [Hebrew].

17. Luz, N. (2012). Jerusalem as a Mamluk City: Urban Characteristics and the Model of a Muslim City. In: Y. Friedman & J. Drory (eds.), The History of Jerusalem. The Mamluk Period (1260-1517) (pp. 59-77). Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications. [Hebrew].

18. Luz, N. (2013). Metaphors to live by: Identity Formation and Resistance among Minority Muslims in Israel. In: P. Hopkins, L. Kong & E. Olson (eds.), Religion and Place. Identity, Community and Territory (pp. 57-74). Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer.

19. Luz, N. (2014). The Glocalization of al-Haram al-Sharif. Landscape of Islamic Resurgence and National Revival: Designing Memory, Mystification of Place. In: U. Martensson, I. Weismman & M. Sedgwick (eds.), Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization (99-120). London: Ashgate.

20. Luz, N. (forthcoming). Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamluk Patronage. In: K. Cytryn-Silverman & D. Talmon-Heller (eds.), Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East (34 pages). Leiden: Brill.

Refereed Articles

Articles in periodicals

21. Luz, N. (1996). Umayyad al-Ramla – Historical and Geographical Aspects. Cathedra for the History of Eretz-Israel and its Yishuv, 79, 22-52. [Hebrew].

22. Luz, N. (1997). Umayyad al-Ramla – An Urban Innovation in Palestine. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 7(1), 27-54.

23. Luz, N. (1998). The Aqueduct that Overcame the Force of Gravity? The Case of the Aqueduct of al-Ramla – A Geographical Analysis of Historical Sources. Studies in the Geography of Israel, 15, 117-126. [Hebrew].

24. Luz, N. (2002). Aspects of Islamization of Space and Society in Mamlūk Jerusalem and Its Hinterland. Mamlūk Studies Review, 6, 135-155.

25. Luz, N. (2004). The Events of the Jewish Synagogue as a Mirror of the Public Sphere in Mamluk Jerusalem. The New East (Hamizrach Hachadash), 44, 127-143. [Hebrew].

26. Luz, N. (2005). Kennedy and The Islamic City Model: Preliminary Remarks to: From Polis to Madina. Jammaa, 13, 103-107. [Hebrew].

27. Luz, N. (2//2). The Politics of Sacred Places. Palestinian identity, collective memory, and resistance in the Hassan Bek mosque conflict. Society and Space: Environment and Planning D, 26(6), 1036-1052.

28. Luz, N. (2008). Darwin, Sociology, and the Sacred in Modernity. Confluence XIV(1), 84-89.

29. Luz, N. (2013). Islam, Culture and the 'Others': Landscape of Religious (in) Tolerance in Jerusalem 638-1517. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 40, 301- 334.

30. Stadler, N. & Luz, N. (2014). The Veneration of Womb Tombs: Body-based rituals and politics at Mary’s Tomb and Maqam Abu al-Hijja. Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 70, 2, 183-205.

31. Stadler, N., & Luz, N. (forthcoming, 2015). Two Venerated Mothers Separated by a Fence: Iconic Spaces and Borders in Israel: Palestine. Journal of Religion & Society.

Book reviews

(1) Luz, N. (2004). The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. The Power of Identity, A Review of Manuel Castells' Book. Geographical Research Forum, 24(2), 135-136.

(2) Luz, N. (2010). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine, A review of David Grossman’s Book. The New East, 49, 203-204. [Hebrew].

Participation in Scientific Conferences, Invited lectures and Colloquia:

Invited Lectures and Colloquia

(1) Luz, N. "Metaphors to Live By, Identity Formation and Resistance: The Case of Maqam Abu al-Hija", A guest lecture at The Joan, B. Krok Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre-Dame, September 2006.

(2) Luz, N. "The Shape of the Holy", A guest lecture at The Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, An-Arbor, September 2006.

(3) Luz, N. "Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Arab-Palestinian Public Discourse in Israel: Identity, Collective Memory, and Social Construction", A guest lecture at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, October 2006.

(4) Luz, N. "Planning and Land Discourses in Israel: The Case of Misgav- Sakhnin", The Floersheimer Conference, Jerusalem, January, 2007.

(5) Luz, N. "The Politics of Sacred Places: Palestinian Identity, Collective Memory, and Resistance in the Hassan Bek Mosque Conflict" Middle East Conflict & Reform Lecture Series, Indiana University Bloomington, February 7, 2008.

(6) N. Luz, "Palestinian Identity, Collective Memory, and Resistance in the Hassan Bek Mosque Conflict" A guest lecture at the Graduate Workshop, The Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University, February 15, 2008.

(7) Luz, N. "The Shape of the Holy; The Trouble with Jerusalem" Public guest lecture, Indiana University South Bend, February 25, 2008.

(8) Luz, N. "Religion and Politics in Jerusalem" Public guest lecture, Western Kentucky University, March 20, 2008.

(9) Luz, N. "Producing the sacred as a national symbol: Ethnography under fire: reflections on a research project" Faculty Colloquium, Indiana University South Bend, March 26, 2008.

(10) Luz, N. "Producing the Sacred: Jerusalem and the Three 'Abrahamic' Religions. Past, Present and Future Ramifications" Public guest lecture University of Dayton Ohio, April 3, 2008.

(11) Luz, N. "The Islamic Movement in Israel: Origins, historical and political development and ideology" guest lecture, Ohio University, April 8, 2008.

(12) Luz, N. "Sanctity Produced: Religion, and Politics in Jerusalem. Past and Present" Public guest lecture, Ohio University, April 8, 2008.

(13) Luz, N. "Becoming a Mamluk City. Reading the Maturing Process of the Historical Middle Eastern City – The Case of Mamluk Jerusalem", lecture presented at the Concept of Urban Change, A research group at the IAS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 29, 2009.

(14) Luz, N. “Sacred Sites of Palestinian Communities in Israel: Identity Politics, Memory Construction and Resistance, invited lecture at The Israeli Institution for National Security, Tel Aviv University, June 14, 2010.

(15) Luz, N. “Urbanism and the Politics of Culture”, guest lecture at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Germany, August 17, 2010.

(16) Luz, N. “Where is the Local in Global History?" Keynote speaker at a workshop held at The Global History and Culture Centre, Warwick University UK, May 12, 2011.

(17) Luz, N. “The Facebook Revolution and the ‘Arab Spring’: A Glance at the Rage of Democracy across the Middle East", Invited lecture held at De Paul University Chicago IL, USA, September 12, 2011.

(18) Luz, N. “The Facebook Revolution and the Changing Faces of the Middle East”, Invited public lecture held at Indiana University South Bend, IN, USA, September 14, 2011.

(19) Luz, N. “The Many Faces of Hummus: Food and Politics in Israeli Society, Invited lecture Dean’s Seminar, held at Indiana University South Bend, IN, USA, September 16, 2011.

(20) Luz, N. "Islam, Culture and the 'Others': Religious (in) Tolerance in Jerusalem 638-1517", in Research Seminar: Eretz-Israel from the Arab Conquest to the end of the Mamluk Period: Demographic, Social, Religious, and Economic Trends. Colloquium held at Yad Ben Zvi Institute Jerusalem, June 14, 2012.

(21) Luz, N. "Whither Cosmopolis? Faith, Identity Conflicts and Resistance in the Post Secular City: The Re-Construction of the Lababidi Mosque in Acre", Invited lecture held at the Department of Education, The Western Galilee Academic College, Acre Israel, January 21, 2013.

(22) Luz, N. "Sacred sites and Faith Based Organization in the Post Secular City", Invited lecture held at The Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre, for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest Hungary, June 24, 2013.

Papers Presented at Conferences

(1) Luz, N. "Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik - A Creator of a New City", Place and Purpose: The Role of Institution in Historical Geography, British-Israeli Bi-National Conference, Cambridge University UK, April 2-6, 1995.

(2) Luz, N. "Religious Endowments (Awqaf) as an Urban Administrative Instrument, The Role of the Waqf in Shaping the Urban Milieu", International workshop: Order in Anarchy: The Management of Urban Space and Society in the Islamic World, , The Department of Middle Eastern Studies and The Herzog Center, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, March 17, 1997, Beer Sheva, Israel.

(3) Luz, N. "Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria, So What is so Islamic About Them?", The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society, International Conference held at Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, May 5-6, 2000, Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel.

(4) Luz, N. "Nationalizing the Noble Sanctuary. The Creation of a Palestinian National Shrine at The Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem", The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), March 20, 2002, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

(5) Luz, N. "Sufis, Islamization, and the Physical Aspects of Cultural Change – Reflections on the Spread of Islam in Palestine", The Ninth International Workshop of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies: The Dissemination of Islam within and Beyond Muslim Societies, Historical, Anthropological and Comparative Perspective. Ben Gurion University in The Negev, June 9, 2003, Beer Sheva Israel.

(6) Luz, N. "Urban Landscape as Text: The Mamluk City in Syria", Cities in the Middle East: History, Representation and Politics. An International Conference held The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, January 19, 2004, Beer Sheva Israel.

(7) Luz, N. "Palestinian Sacred Places in Israel. The Cultural-Politics of Identity Formation and Group Resistance", delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), April 5, 2005, Denver Co. USA.

(8) Luz, N. "Self- Empowerment through the Sacred Culture and Representation in the Urban Landscape. The Mosque of Hassan Bey and the Arab Community of Jaffa", Globalization, Unification, and European Cities, International Workshop at the Center for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, May 20, 2005, Beer Sheva Israel.

(9) Luz, N. "Two Cases of Palestinian Sacred Places: National Identity, Nostalgia and Collective Memory Restored", International Conference on Confrontation and Coexistence in Holy Places: Religious Political and Legal Aspects in the Israeli- Palestinian Context, Haifa University and Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, January 12, 2006, Haifa Israel.

(10) Luz, N. "Restoration Projects of Palestinian Sacred Places in Israel: National Identity, Nostalgia and Collective Memory Restored", The Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, The Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, March 7, 2006, Florence and Montecatini, Italy.

(11) Luz, N. "'Culture, Power, Landscape: Reflections on the Development of the Urban Landscape under the Mamluks", The Mamluk Sultanate: Political Military, Social and Cultural Aspects, International Conference held at Haifa University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 20-21, 2006, Haifa and Jerusalem Israel.

(12) Luz, N. "Sufi Revival? Islamic Movements and the State of Israel" Islamic Fundamentalism and Sufism: Continuities and Confrontations through Modernity and Globalization, International Conference held at The Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa, July, 1-4, 2007.

(13) Luz, N. "Mixed Towns: Between a Jewish-Arab Dialogue and Overall Deafness. The Case of Jaffa and the Hassan Bey Mosque" in After the Acre Events: Mixed Towns in Israel – Reality and Vision. A conference held the Western Galilee Academic College, December 15, 2008.

(14) Luz, N. "Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamluk Patronage", in Material Evidences and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies. The 14th annual workshop of the Department of Middle East Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, June 30th - July 3rd 2009.

(15) Luz, N. "The Glocalisation of al-Haram al-Sharif Landscape of Islamic resurgence and national revival: Designing memory, mystification of place", International conference on: Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Emotion, NTNU, Trondheim Norway, 4-6 September 2009.

(16) Luz, N. "Metaphors of Resistance – Minorities' Sacred Sites as Nexus of Resistance", in The Galilee as a Multi-Cultural Region. A conference held at Oranim College, February 24-25 2010.

(17) Luz, N. and Shavit, Z. "Higher Education Institutions in the Galilee as Spaces of Trust", A conference held at Oranim College, February 24-25 2010.

(18) Luz, N. “The Islamic Movement and the Lure of the Sacred: The Struggle for the Land through Sacred Sites”, Conference held at Tel Aviv University and Konard Adenauer Stiftung, Mulsim Minorities in non Muslim States: Islamic Movement in Israel as a Parabele, March 18, 2010.

(19) Luz, N. “Metamorphosis of Food Taste and Desertification of Foodscape in Nazareth: The Construction of "Authentic" Palestinian Fast Food”. Paper presented at the Food in Bloom: Cross Pollination and Cultivation of Food. Systems, Cultures and Methods, Conference held at Indiana University 2-6 June, 2010.

(20) Luz, N. “Public Sphere and Public Space- Reflections on Urban Autonomy and Its Limitations in Syrian Cities”, Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and Cultural Aspects, International conference held at Haifa University, Haifa Israel, April 11-13, 2011.

(21) Luz, N. “The Role of the Sacred in The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Al-Haram al-Sharif a Stepping Stone or a Stumbling Block in Future Reconciliation”, in Religious Belief and the Jewish Arab Conflict. A conference held at the Jewish-Arab Center, Haifa University, Haifa Israel, April 12-13, 2011.

(22) Luz, N. “Spatial Discourses of Sanctity as Means of Struggle and Empowerment in a Contested Israeli City. Israeli-Palestinians and Re-Inventing of Traditions Regarding the Haram al-Sharif”, in Urban Conflicts. Ethno-National Divisions, States and Cities, International conference held at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland May 19-21, 2011.

(23) Luz. N. "The Other Side of Conservation: Project Block 10 in the Old City of Acre", in The Third Conference for Conservation: Conservation of Old Acre: Compounds, People, Conservation. A conference held at The Western Galilee Academic College, April 30, 2012.

(24) Luz, N. "Memories, Planning, and the Right to the City: The Lababidi mosque in Acre". Paper presented at Contested Urban Spaces at the 21th Century: Planning with Recognition, International workshop held at Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. May 16-17, 2012. (25) Luz, N. "Myopia, Hyperopia, and a Speck of Local Patriotism: The Landscape of Mamluk Jerusalem in Mujir al-Din's Descriptions". Paper presented in Jerusalem's Days, Yad Ben Zvi Conference of Jerusalem Research. A conference held at Yad Ben Zvi Institution, July 2-5, 2012.

(26) Luz, N. "Exiles in their homeland. Reinterpretations of food Symbols: Palestinians and the Israeli Appropriation and "De-Ethnicization" of Humus. Paper presented at 2nd International Sociological Association Forum of Social Justice and Democratization, Universidad de Buenos Aires, International Conference held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012. (27) Luz, N. "The Land as a Factor in Arab-Jewish Relations in the Galilee", lecture at Facing the Security Regional Challenges in the North of Israel – Contemporary Gaze. Lecture presented at a conference held at Tel Hai Academic College, Tel Hai Israel, May 6, 2013. The Fridriech Ebert Stiftung and the Council for Security and Peace. (28) Luz, N. "Multivocality and Rivalry in the Post Secular City: The Reconstruction of the Lababidi Mosque in Acre". A paper presented at Religious Rivalry and the City, 32nd ISSR Conference, Turku-Åbo, Finland, June 27-30, 2013. (29) Luz, N. "Whither Cosmopolis? Faith as Negotiated Identity and Bastion of Resistance in the Postsecular City". A paper presented at Faith, Social Justice and the City, The Forth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotinal Geography, University of Groningen, Groningen The Netherland, July 1-3, 2013.

(30) Luz, N. "Where to Cosmopolis? Faith, Identity Struggles and Resistance in the Mixed City: The Reconstruction of the Lababid Mosque in Acre". A paper presented at The 16 Conference: New Research on the Galilee and Environs, Tel Hai Academic College, Tel-Hai, Israel, April 30, 2014

(31) Luz, N. "Reconstructing the Urban Landscape of Mamluk Jerusalem: Spatial and Socio-political Implications". A paper presented at ,The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History: Economic, Social and Cultural Development in an Era of Increasing International Interaction and Competition, The Minerva Gentner International Symposium, Jerusalem, Israel, June 11-16, 2014.

(32) Luz, N. "Texts, Landscapes and Imagining the sacred Constructing Narratives of Jerusalem". A paper presented at Narrative Matters 2014: Narrative Knowing/ Récit et Savoir, The American University of Paris, in Paris France, June 23-27, 2014.

(33) Luz, N, and Stadler, N. "Religious voices, Gray Spacing and, Urban Informality The Lababidi Mosque in Acre and its Reconstruction". Paper presented in Rethinking Urban Geopolitics in "Ordinary" and "Contested" Cities”, in RGS-IBG 2014 Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) sponsored session, Imprerial College and the Royal Geographic Society, London, UK, August, 26-29, 2014.