Camera Palaestina

Salim Tamari; Issam Nassar; Stephen Sheehi

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2022

Camera Palaestina

Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar and Stephen Sheehi

Volume 5 in the series New Directions in Palestinian Studies

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520382893

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Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.

Author information

TamariSalim:

Issam Nassar is Professor of History at Illinois State University and coeditor of Jerusalem Quarterly. He is the coauthor of The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawahariyyeh and Gardens of Sand.

Stephen Sheehi is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary. He is coauthor of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine and author of The Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography, 1860–1910.

Salim Tamari is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and Director of its Jerusalem Studies Program. He is also Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at Birzeit University and the author of The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, Year of the Locust, and The Mountain Against the Sea.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Note on Translations and Transliterations Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
1 Ways of Seeing the Palestinian Visual Archive Open Access Download PDF	1
2 The Archival and Narrative Nature of the Photographic Albums of Wasif Jawhariyyeh Issam Nassar Open Access Download PDF	20
3. Visual Interlude: Photographic Images from Ottoman and Mandate Palestine Open Access Download PDF	45
4. Patronage and Photography: Hussein Hashim’s Melancholic Journey Salim Tamari Open Access Download PDF	78
5. Our Photography: Refusing the 1948 Partition of the Sensible Stephen Sheehi Open Access Download PDF	109
6. Epilogue: The Presence and Potential of Palestine Open Access Download PDF	154
Notes Open Access Download PDF	165
Index Open Access Download PDF	179

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 208

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Published: July 28, 2022
ISBN: 9780520382893