Summary
Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, author of the Foreword to ‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), “Khoury’s Memoirs as a Palestinian Palimpsest” (‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), PDF p.9, p.14).
Details
- He was previously Associate Professor at Princeton University and, in 2005–2008, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut; his book projects include an introduction to questions of space and scale in modern history writing and “The Middle East in the World: A Twentieth-Century History” (PDF p.14).
- His Foreword reads Niqula Khoury’s memoirs as a virtual triple palimpsest: the materials were lost three times — through the 1910 Karak Revolt, the First World War and the nakba — and rewritten for the fourth time in exile; the nakba stands out as a singularity with roots looking backward to 1917, and multi-religious nationalism in the memoirs was not a fait accompli but a project in the making (PDF p.9-11).
Related pages
‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), Niqula Khoury, Nakba, Exile