قبل الرسم: نقولا صايغ، الرسم والرؤية الفوتوغرافيّة
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Nicola Saig
Palestine
Jerusalem
painting
Kamal Boullata
Arab Subjectivity
nahda
British Mandate
Late Ottoman Empire
Author biography: 

Stephen Sheehi is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William & Mary in the United States. Stephen and Lara Sheehi are the authors of Psychoanalysis under Occupation: Theories and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Palestine (Routledge, 2022), winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Award. Stephen Sheehi is also co-author of Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories (University of California Press, 2022), with Issam Nassar and Salim Tamari.

He is grateful to the late Kamal Boulatta and Sarah Rogers for their helpful, informative, and very generous comments and reading. A previous version of this article was published in the catalogue Arab Art Histories: Khaled Shoman Collection (Qira’at fil-fann al-‘arabi), edited by Sarah Rogers (Darat al-Funun and Idea Books, 2014).