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Maria Chiara Rioli

Open Jerusalem Project Manager, Research Associate, Digital Humanist and Administrative Secretary

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Mahmoud Yazbak

Historian, Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa

Among his publications:

  • Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period, 1864-1914: A Muslim Town in Transition, Leiden: Brill, 1998
  • “Nabulsi Ulama in the Late Ottoman Period, 1864-1914,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29 (1997), 71-91
  • “The Municipality of A Muslim Town: Nablus 1864-1914,” Archiv Orientalni: Journal of African and Asian Studies, 67 (1999), 339-360
  • “Templars as Proto-Zionists: The German Colony in Late Ottoman Haifa,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 28/4 (summer 1999), 40-54

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Stéphane Ancel

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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSoR), Paris

Among his publications:

  • Looking for the Daily Life of Orthodox Ethiopians in Jerusalem (1840-1940): Breaking Down Barriers Between Archives for Revealing Ethiopian Social Networks in Jerusalem”, Proceedings of Open Jerusalem International Symposium “Revealing Ordinary Jerusalem (1840-1940), New Archives and Perspectives on Urban Citizenship and Global Entanglements” (ERC, Forth), Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Greece, May 2016, forthcoming
  • Across the Archives: New Sources about the Ethiopian Christian Community in Jerusalem (1840-1940)”, (with Vincent Lemire), Jerusalem Quarterly, forthcoming
  • Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture”, in Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin (eds.), Tracing Manuscript in Time and Space through Paratexts, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, De Gruyter, Berlin-München-Boston: 269-299, 2016 URL
  • «L´Église orthodoxe d´Éthiopie et la révolution: assurer sa survie par la réforme (1974-1991)», in Cahiers d´Études Africaines, vol. 220, Paris, 2015, 687-710

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Vincent Lemire

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Historian, University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Director of Open Jerusalem

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«Ouvrir les archives d’une ville fermée?», «Ouvrir les archives», 13-14 April 2015

 

Katerina Stathi

Historian, Laskaridis Foundation; Research Team Assistant, Université Paris-Est Marné-la-Vallée

Among her publications:

  • “Athens in the Ottoman map of 1827”, in Maloutas T., Spyrellis S. (eds), Athens Social Atlas. Digital compendium of texts and visual material, Athens 2015
  • “The Carta Incognita of Ottoman Athens”, Marios Hadjianastasis (ed.), Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination. Studies in Honour of Rhoads Murphey, Brill, 2014, 169-184
  • “Greek notes on Labraunda and Milas”, LABRYS. Studies presented to Pontus Hellström, edited by Lars Karlsson, Susanne Carlsson and Jesper Blid Kullberg, 101-106, Uppsala Universitet, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 35, Uppsala 2014

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Salim Tamari

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Historian and Sociologist, Institute of Palestine Studies Senior Fellow

Among his publications:

  • The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh (with Issam Nassar, trans. by Nada Elzeer (North Hampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2014)
  • Year of the Locust. A Soldier’s Diary and the Erasure of Palestine’s Ottoman Past (with Ihsan Salih Turjman), Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011
  • Jerusalem 1948. The Arab Neighbourhoods and Their Fate in the War, Institute of Jerusalem Studies &Badil, Jerusalem 1999

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Yann Potin

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Historian, University of Paris XIII; Archivist, French National Archives

Among his publications:

  • Jérusalem. Histoire d’une ville-monde, ed. by Vincent Lemire, Paris: Flammarion, 2016
  • «Archives Duby: un inventaire provisoire», in Georges Duby, portrait de l’historien en ses archives, Patrick Boucheron et Jacques Dalarun (eds.), Paris: Gallimard, 2015, 26-57
  • «Les archives et la matérialité différée du pouvoir. Titres, écrins ou substituts de la souveraineté?», Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n. 153, 2015, 5-21
    Lucien Febvre, Michelet, créateur de l’Histoire de France, Paris: La Librairie Vuibert, 2014 [édition annotée avec Brigitte Mazon, et avant-propos «De Febvre à Michelet, naissance de l’historiographie de la France]

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Falestin Naili

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Historian, Institut français du Proche-Orient, Amman

Among her publications:

  • with V. Bontemps, «Une épreuve entre espace et temps: le pont Allenby comme signe de piste», in L. Dakhli et V. Lemire (eds), Etudier en liberté les mondes méditerranéen, Mélanges offerts à Robert Ilbert, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016
  • «Hilma Granqvist: râ’idat ‘ilm al-anthrupulujiya fi Filastîn » (Hilma Granqvist: a pioneering anthropologist in Palestine), critical introduction for the Arabic translation of the monographs entitled «Marriage Conditions in a Palestinian Village», vol 1 and 2, Beirut, Publications of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2015
  • with Y. Avci & V. Lemire, «Publishing Jerusalem’s Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892-1917): A Turning Point for the City’s Historiography», Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 60, 2015, pp. 110-119
  • «Memories of Home and Stories of Displacement: The Women of Artas and the “Peasant Past”», Journal of Palestine Studies, no. 152, Summer 2009, pp. 63-74, abstract online

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«The Ottoman Municipality of Jerusalem: How to Reconstruct the History of a Forgotten Urban Institution», Open Jerusalem Workshop, January 2015

 

Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali

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Historian, Institut français du Proche-Orient, Amman

Among his publications:

  • Jerusalem’s public sphere as reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Zvi, (with Hassan Ahmad Hassan) (chapter, forthcoming)
  • La doctrine de la prophétie chez Maïmonide: entre pensée juive et pensée musulmane, Éditions Universitaires Européenes, 201
  • «The Existence of God in Maimonides’ Philosophy: a Comparative Study» (in Arabic), Al-Mawaqif Journal, Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Université de Mascara, vol. 2, June, 2008.
  • «Maimonides: The philosopher of Judaism» (in Arabic), The Journal of Israeli Affairs, The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies, vol. 22, July, 2006

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«The Hebrew newspaper Ha-Zvi: a mirror of Jerusalem’s public affairs at the turn of the century», Open Jerusalem Workshop, 22 January 2015

Hassan Hassan

Lecturer of Hebrew Languages, University of Jordan, Amman

Among his publications:

  • “Hebräische Elemente und ihre Wege in die deutsche Sprache”, in A. Noor (ed.), Naharaim: Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, vol. 5, pp. 96–114, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2011
  • “Spoken and written Arabic of Israeli Arabs, mutual influences with Modern Hebrew language”, Dirasat, Vol. l42, No 2, June 2015, Amman (Arabic)

 

Angelos Dalachanis

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Historian, French School  at Athens

Among his publications:

  • The Greek Exodus from Egypt. Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962, New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017 forthcoming
  • (ed. with Vincent Lemire), Revealing Ordinary Jerusalem (1840-1940). New Archives and Perspectives on Urban Citizenship and Global Entanglements. Proceedings of Open Jerusalem International Symposium, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Greece, May 2016, Leiden: Brill, 2017 forthcoming
  • Ακυβέρνητη παροικία. Οι Έλληνες στην Αίγυπτο από την κατάργηση των προνομίων στην έξοδο, 1937-1962, Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2015

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Leyla Dakhli

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Historian, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

Among her publications:

  • (ed.), Le Moyen Orient (Fin XIXè-début XXè), Paris: Éditions du Seuil «Points», 2016
  • with Vincent Lemire (eds.), Etudier en liberté les mondes méditerranéens. Mélanges offerts à Robert Ilbert, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016
  • Histoire du Proche-Orient contemporain, Paris: La Découverte, 2015
  • Une génération d’intellectuels arabes. Syrie et Liban, 1908-1940, Paris: Karthala-IISMM, 2009

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