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Nur Shams Prison Labor Camp: Imperial Class War against Palestinian Men (1920-1948) |
Samar al-Saleh |
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Policing Palestine: Colonial Appropriation of Colonized Bodies |
Bret Windhauser |
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Policing Palestine: Gender, Discipline, and the Social Order |
Marisa Gabrielle Natale |
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The Responsibility of the British Mandate for International Crimes in Palestine: The Politics of Reparation (Arabic) |
Joni Aasi |
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Palestine as a Laboratory: The Long Life of the “Mandate” in International Law |
Laura Robson |
This session will address some of the British control methods, such as detention centers and labor camps, as well as the use of the Palestinian police as a tool to appropriate and discipline the Palestinian body. The session examines how the Mandate in Palestine was a laboratory to test out the control and reach of a mandate within international law and how some of the methods used by the Mandate government can be classified as international crimes that require the compensation of its victims.
Issam Nassar: is a professor of modern Middle East cultural history with an interest in visual culture, particularly photography. He is the chair of the history program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and served as a professor of history at a number of universities, include Illinois State University.
Samar al-Saleh: is a PhD candidate in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. Her research focuses on the history of Britain’s prison labor camps in Palestine from 1920 to 1948.
Bret Windhauser: is a history teacher at Saint Andrew’s–Sewanee School in Tennessee. In addition to teaching, Bret works with the Svoboda Diaries Project, a digital humanities research initiative that transcribes and analyzes handwritten diaries written in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Ottoman Iraq.
Marisa Gabrielle Natale: is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the role of policing practices and criminal law in constructing the boundaries of gender, normative sexuality, and the family in Mandate Palestine.
Joni Aasi: is a professor of public law at An-Najah University since 2013. His research interests include national reification, international water law, resistance economy, and constitutional law.
Laura Robson: is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University and a 2021-22 fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on the relationship between violence and the state in the twentieth-century eastern Mediterranean region, and on of ethnic partition in the decolonizing world.
