Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

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Born1979 (age 44–45)
Mi'ilya, Israel
OccupationSociologist, academic
Known forSettler colonial studies, historical sociology
AwardsDistinguished Scholars Grant, H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; Fulbright Israel
Academic background
EducationTel Aviv University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Arabic: أريج صباغ-خوري, Hebrew: אריז' סבאע'-ח'ורי; born 1979) is a Palestinians|Palestinian sociologist, scholar, author, and educator. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] She is most known for her scholarship on Zionist settler colonization and the Palestinian citizen population in Israel.

Biography

Early life and education

Sabbagh-Khoury was born in Mi'ilya, the Galilee, Israel,[2] in 1979, to a Palestinian family.

She attended high school in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, before beginning her undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University, from which she obtained a BA in sociology, anthropology, and political science. She obtained an MA from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University in 2006, writing a thesis entitled, "Between the ‘Law of Return’ and the Right of Return: Reflections on Palestinian Discourse in Israel," and then a PhD from the same department in 2015. Her dissertation, advised by Yehouda Shenhav and Joel Beinin, was entitled, "Colonization Practices and Interactions at the Frontier: Ha–Shomer Ha–Tzair Kibbutzim and the Surrounding Arab Villages at the Margins of the Valley of Jezreel/Marj Ibn ‘Amer, 1936–1956."[3]

Between 2015-2018, Sabbagh-Khoury held postdoctoral fellowships in the United States. She was the Ibrahim Abu–Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University,[4] Meyers Postdoctoral Fellow at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University,[5] Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in Palestine and Palestinian Studies at the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University,[6] and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. During this time she obtained postdoctoral scholar grants from and the Israel Science Foundation.[7][8]

Academic career

Sabbagh-Khoury is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There she has taught undergraduate and graduate-level on political and historical sociology, the Palestinians in Israel, and settler colonialism. Between 2018 and 2021 she held a Maof Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists, Members of Arab Society, Citizens of the State of Israel from the Israeli Council for Higher Education.[9] In 2022 she was awarded a Distinguished Scholars Grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.[10] Through ERASMUS+ Mobility Grants, she has been a visiting scholar at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Bologna, and Wageningen University,

In addition to her teaching and publishing, Sabbagh-Khoury has served as a Research Associate, Academic Coordinator, and Board Member at Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Center for Applied Social Studies in Haifa. She is also a member of the scholar-activist network Academia for Equality.

Research

Sabbagh-Khoury has published on settler colonialism, citizenship, indigeneity, collective memory, and political developments in Israeli and Palestinian societies.[11][12] She has been recognized as an authority on the Palestinians in Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the sociology of settler colonialism. She has been invited to lecture in Israel, Palestine, the United States, and Europe.[13][14] Her primary scholarship on the historical sociology of settler colonialism centers on interactions between self-identified socialist-leftist Zionist settlers and Palestinian Arab inhabitants in the Jezreel Valley prior to, amidst, and following the Nakba, based on fieldwork in kibbutz and state archives.[15][16][17] She is the author of Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023).[18]

References

  1. "Areej Sabbagh-Khoury د. أريج صباغ-خوري". en.sociology.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  2. "Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury: Sociology". campaign.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  3. "Announcing the fifth recipient of the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Award in Palestine Studies, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury". Center for Palestine Studies | Columbia University. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  4. "Areej Sabbagh-Khoury". Center for Palestine Studies | Columbia University. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  5. "Visiting scholars".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "2016-2017 | Palestinian Studies". palestinianstudies.org. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  7. "Israeli Post-doctoral Fellows | Fulbright". fulbright.org.il. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  8. "Israel Science Foundation (ISF)". www.isf.org.il. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  9. "Scholarships for the Integration of Outstanding Faculty". המועצ. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  10. "The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars".
  11. "Long overlooked, Israel's Arab citizens are increasingly asserting their Palestinian identity". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  12. "Areej Sabbagh-Khoury | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Academia.edu". shamash.academia.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  13. "Video: The Decolonizing Rubric: Modernity, Religion and Re-imagining Palestine/Israel". rpl.hds.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  14. "LCHP hosts second event in series "Deadlock in Israel-Palestine: How to Imagine a Better Future?"". UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. 2022-01-12. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  15. "הערבים שהאמינו בעתיד משותף בטוחים: הדו קיום כבר לא מחזיק". הארץ (in עברית). Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  16. "Areej Sabbagh-Khoury – The Zionist Left: Settler Colonial Practices and the Representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine | Watson Institute". Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  17. Piterberg, Gabriel (2015). "Israeli Sociology's Young Hegelian: Gershon Shafir and the Settler-Colonial Framework". Journal of Palestine Studies. 44 (3): 17–38. doi:10.1525/jps.2015.44.3.17. ISSN 0377-919X. JSTOR 10.1525/jps.2015.44.3.17.
  18. Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (2023). Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503602700.

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