War as a Vehicle of Modernity: The Experience of WWI in the Middle East
Salim Tamari is director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and professor of sociology at Birzeit University. He is also currently a visiting fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. Dr. Tamari, who holds a PhD in sociology from Manchester University, is one of Palestine’s most distinguished scholars. His research draws heavily on archival materials and personal diaries to examine the social and political forces that shaped and re-shaped Palestine in the 20th century and focuses on urban culture, political sociology, biography and social history of the Eastern Mediterranean. He has also held the Eric Lane Fellowship at Cambridge University in 2008. He is author of “Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods and Their Fate in the War,” “Palestinian Refugee Negotiations: From Madrid to Oslo II,” and most recently, “Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture,” published in 2008 by the University of California Press. Dr. Tamari served on the refugee committee in the multilateral peace talks that began in the wake of the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference. He is currently researching Syrian and Ottoman Prison Experiences in Siberia during WWI and planning Jerusalem in the late Ottoman and Mandate Periods.

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