, Edward Said Professor of PALESTINIAN Modern Arab Studies, STUDIES

“This initiative is really one of the one or two MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | BROWN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS instances in the American academy where serious attention, serious resources, and quite substantial scholarly work is being devoted to a question that is NEW DIRECTIONS This year’s symposium is organized and largely funded by Middle East burgeoning.” Studies at Brown University. The senior scholars in the program have IN PALESTINIAN kindly agreed to pay their own expenses, thus freeing resources for Nadia Hijab, Co-founder of al-Shabaka, younger scholars. STUDIES The Palestinian Policy Network brings together emerging and established scholars The following institutions also contributed, in a variety of ways, to the “NDPS is vital for an organization like mine—which to shape knowledge production on Palestine realization of this gathering: is a think tank that deals with Palestinian policy—to keep abreast of what the recent and the . The Watson Institute, Brown University research is and what the recent thinking is, and also The Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University to identify people whose expertise we can tap for The Hagob Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University Birzeit University the network.” The Institute for Palestine Studies Muwatin: Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy Nadim Rouhana, General Director of Masarat: the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies Mada al-Carmel, Arab Center for Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Institute for Applied Social Research. Applied Social Research “NDPS is a very important symposium. It is trying to establish the field of Palestinian Studies.”

New Directions in Palestinian Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor of Studies continues to expand its History, University of California, Santa Barbara collaboration with universities, programs, “NDPS is important because it brings together three and centers inside and outside of the United States generations of scholars working on the study of in support of emerging scholars in the growing field Palestine and Israel. It is unique because it gives us of Palestinian Studies a site to think about the relationship between political practice and historiographic practice.” Middle East Studies at Brown University is home to the first endowed postdoctoral position in Sa’ed Atshan, Assistant Professor of Palestine and Palestinian Studies in the United Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College States. “It has been heartening to just watch the field [of Palestinian Studies] blossom and flourish.... What is The New Directions in Palestinian Studies book being built here at Brown, I think, is tremendously series, published through University of California encouraging.” Press’s open access platform Luminos, will be inaugurated with the publication of Camera Palaestinia: The Seven Photography Albums of MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST Wasif Jawhariyyeh, by Issam Nassar, Stephen STUDSTUDIESIES Sheehi, and Salim Tamari. BROWNBROWN

www.palestinianstudies.orgwww.palestinianstudies.org 2014 WORKSHOP POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ECONOMY OF THE POLITICAL Over the past generation, the field of Palestine and Palestinian studies has grown rapidly, attracting some of the best and brightest scholars.

2015 WORKSHOP Launched as a research initiative of Brown PALESTINE: University’s Middle East Studies program in POLITICAL CULTURES AND THE 2012, New Directions in Palestinian Stud- CULTURES OF POLITICS ies (NDPS) has built an international commu- nity of scholars dedicated to decolonizing and globalizing this field of study.

2016 WORKSHOP Annual thematically-organized NDPS workshops APPROACHES TO are designed to showcase the research of RESEARCH ON PALESTINE emerging scholars working on Palestinian AND THE PALESTINIANS history, society, and culture.

Over 150 different junior, mid-career, and senior scholars participated in NDPS 2017 WORKSHOP workshops since 2013. THE POLITICS OF ARCHIVES AND THE PRACTICES OF MEMORY NDPS coordinates with academic partners such as Columbia University, Birzeit University, SOAS University of London, and University of Exeter, and with research centers such as the Institute for Palestine Studies, Mada al-Carmel, 2018 WORKSHOP and the Palestinian American Research Center. THE SHADOW YEARS: MATERIAL HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE