البناء من أجل البقاء: سياسة الإسمنت في فلسطين الانتدابية

Nimrod Ben Zeev is a PhD candidate in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Research for this article was conducted with the support of the Social Sciences Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship. A version of this article was first presented at the New Directions in Palestinian Studies Workshop at Brown University, in March 2018. He would like to thank On Barak, Beshara Doumani, Basma Fahoum, Marc Flandreau, Dotan Halevy, Naama Maor, Sherene Seikaly, Heather Sharkey, Salim Tamari, Eve Troutt Powell, Alex Winder, and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments and suggestions on various iterations of this article. He would also like to thank Ohood Mrqaten and Hamze Awawde for their help throughout, and David Ferentz, warehouse manager and self-taught archivist at the Nesher factory in Haifa, for granting access to his remarkable collection of company records.