بين الفناء والإفناء: تأريخ بياني لآخر تمساح فلسطيني (1870 – 1935)
Keyword:
Crocodile
extinction
historiography
Palestine
zoology
nakba
Zionism
Jisr al-Zarqa
marsh drainage
Author biography:
Elizabeth Bentley is a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies postdoctoral fellow at New York University. Research for this article was conducted with the support of the American Association of University Women and the Bilinski Education Foundation. The author thanks Beshara Doumani, Paul Kohlbry, Alex Winder, Sa’ed Atshan, Zachary Lochman, Sherene Seikaly, Nour Joudah, Ahmad Amara, Qussay Al-Attabi, Maha Nassar, Leerom Medovoi and the two anonymous reviewers for sharing feedback on the New Directions Palestine Studies presentation and earlier versions of this article. Thanks also to archivists at the Archiv der Tempelgesellschaft and Kibbutz Maagan Michael for their research support and to Mazin Qumsiyeh for sharing his expertise on Palestinian ecology. Finally, special thanks are due to Sami al-Ali, Saidah al-Ali, and Mohamad Hamdan for being generous with their time and for allowing me to share their insights in this article.