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The Department of History welcomes scholar Kareem Rabie, PhD ( (U-IL, Chicago), giving a lecture on urban development in the Palestinian West Bank.
Title TBD.
History lecture on urban development in the Palestinian West Bank.
Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His work focuses on privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC; visiting fellow at CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and Committee on Globalization and Social Change; Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago; and Marie Curie Fellow/Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society. His work on Palestine and China has been supported by the American Council on Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advancement in the Fine Arts, COMPAS, The University of Chicago Beijing Center, and the UIC Institute for the Humanities. His first book, Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited came out in 2021 from Duke University Press.
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.