Summary
Palestinian scholar at Birzeit University whose article in Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 (2012) argues that communal conflict and violence among the 1948 Palestinians are explained by the Israeli settler colonial state’s exploitation of religion to fragment Palestinian identity, not by ‘Arab violence’ as a cultural trait (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.1-2 / printed p.108-109).
Details
- Shihade teaches at the Abu-Lughod Institute for International Studies at Birzeit University; his research interests focus on modernity, violence, and identity, and his articles had appeared in the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in Social Sciences, the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, and Arab Studies Quarterly (Biographical Note, Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.15 / printed p.122).
- His Kafr Yassif research rests on more than three years of fieldwork (2002-2005), interviews of eye witnesses, archival work in the village, and Israeli official reports on the 1981 incident (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.2 / printed p.109).
- His earlier works cited in the article: Why the Palestinians in Israel have been so ‘Peaceful’? (MA dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, 2001), cited for the non-completion of transfer, the repression policies and the details of the events (notes 4, 5, 13), and Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel (Syracuse University Press, 2011), cited for the categorisation of the remaining Palestinians as ‘Israeli Arabs’ and religious sects (note 6) (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.15-16 / printed p.122-123).
- With Maria Sunaina [as printed], he co-authored ‘Palestinian Hip-Hop: Youth, Identity, and the Nation’, ORIEN, III, 2010, pp.26-35 [journal name as printed], cited for the 1948 Palestinians’ disconnection from Arab culture (note 12) (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.16 / printed p.123).
- In the Editors’ Introduction to the same issue, Shihade’s article is surveyed as a case study of state practices fragmenting and dissolving Palestinian social identities, and Shihade is named among the additional editors of the Arabic translation of Patrick Wolfe’s ‘Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native’ printed in the issue (Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.5-7).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, Birzeit University, Settler Colonialism, Racialisation of religious communities, Kufr Yasif