Salim Tamari
The sociologist Salim Tamari draws upon archival materials and personal diaries, and has produced numerous studies documenting and analyzing Palestinian society. Books by Tamari include The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine (2017), Year of the Locust—A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past (2011), Mountain against the Sea—Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture (2008). Tamari is the editor of the journal The Jerusalem Quarterly. He is currently Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Ramallah and a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York.
After the Wildly Improbable
Why Are We Here Now?
Trains in the Past, Tracks in the Present
Rania Stephan: Train-Trains: A Bypass, film
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity, lecture
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train, lecture
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel That Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track, staged literary reading
- After the Wildly Improbable -
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity, lecture
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train, lecture
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel That Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track, staged literary reading
- After the Wildly Improbable -
Sep 15, 2017