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Nur Masalha

Nur ad-Din Masalha (Arabic: نور الدين مصالحه, romanizedNūr ad-Dīn Maṣālḥa; born 4 January 1957) commonly known in English as Nur Masalha is a Palestinian writer, historian, and academic.[1][2]

He is a historian of Palestine and formerly professor of religion and politics and director of the Centre for Religion and History and the Holy Land Research Project at St. Mary's University. He was also programme director of the MA in religion, Politics and Conflict Resolution at St Mary's University (2005–2015).

He is currently member of the Centre for Palestine Studies and the London Middle East Institute, (both hosted at the School of Oriental and African Studies) as well as the University of London. He is also a member of the Centre for the Philosophy of History, St. Mary's University.

He was a professorial research associate, at the Department of History of SOAS (University of London), from 2009–2015. He was a member of the Kuwait Programme, Department of Government, London School of Economics (monograph, with Stephanie Cronin, on ‘The Islamic Republic of Iran and the GCC States: From Revolution to Realpolitik?).

He is the editor of Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies (formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal), published by Edinburgh University Press, and the author of many books on Palestine-Israel, including Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives (2014), Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (2018), The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory (2013), The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (January 2012), The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel (2007), Catastrophe Remembered (2005), A Land Without a People (1997), Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948 (1992), Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion (2000) and The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (2003).[3] Nur Masalha also sits on the editorial board of Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies whose inaugural issue[4] on Palestine he describes as a "major achievement."[5]

Masalha has also served as an honorary fellow in the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University; research associate in the Department of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies; and has taught at Birzeit University in Ramallah, West Bank.

Masalha is also the historian commentator in the documentary film La Terre Parle Arabe [the Land Speaks Arabic] (2007), which tells the story of the background and build-up to the expulsion and flight of the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 from the newly created State of Israel.[citation needed]

Education

Masalha completed his undergraduate studies with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Politics from Hebrew University in 1979, where he also earned a Master of Arts in Middle East Politics in 1982. Masalha achieved a Doctor of Philosophy in Middle Eastern Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 1988.

Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies

Masalha is co-founder and editor of Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal, a fully refereed journal published by Edinburgh University Press. A Spanish-language edition, Estudios de Tierra Santa: Una Revista Multidisciplinaria, is published by Editorial Canaán.[6]

The journal was co-founded with Michael Prior in 2002. Members of the editorial board and International Advisory Board included the late Edward W. Said, Hisham Sharabi and Samih Farsoun. Current members include Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Dan Rabinowitz, Naim Ateek, Oren Yiftachel, William Dalrymple, Salim Tamari, and Thomas L. Thompson.[citation needed]

Critique of Benny Morris

Alongside Norman Finkelstein,[7][8] Masalha has been critical of Benny Morris's first publication on the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (1988). Masalha argues that Morris's conclusions have a pro-Israeli bias, in that:

In a reply to Finkelstein and Masalha, Morris answers he "saw enough material, military and civilian, to obtain an accurate picture of what happened," that Finkelstein and Masalha draw their conclusions with a pro-Palestinian bias, and that with regard to the distinction between military assault and expulsion they should accept that he uses a "more narrow and severe" definition of expulsions. Morris holds to his central conclusion that there was no transfer policy.[10]

Posts held

1985-86: SOAS (University of London), part-time lecturer in Middle East politics
1988-93: Constantine Zureik Research Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington DC
1994-95: assistant professor of the modern history of the Middle East, Birzeit University, Palestine
1997-2000: part-time lecturer, Richmond-The American International University in London
2000: visiting lecturer, St Mary's University College (University of Surrey)
2001-2002: research fellow, St Mary's University College (University of Surrey)
January 2001-November 2015: director of Holy Land Research Project, St Mary's University
2002-2006: senior lecturer, St Mary's University College (University of Surrey)
2005-November 2015: director of MA Programme in Religion, Politics and Conflict Resolution, St Mary's University
2006-2009: reader in religion and politics, School of Theology, Philosophy and History, St Mary's University College (University of Surrey)
2009-November 2015: professor of religion and politics, School of Arts and Humanities, St Mary's University
January 2007-November 2015: director of the Centre for Religion and History, School of Arts and Humanities, St Mary's University[citation needed]

Books in English, Spanish and Arabic

Articles and chapters in books

See also

References

  1. ^ "Professor Nur Masalha | Staff | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk.
  2. ^ "Kitāb ṭard al-falasṭīniyīn - mafhūm at-tarānsfīr fī al-fikr wa-at-taḫṭīṭ aṣ-ṣihyūnī" كتاب طرد الفلسطينيين - مفهوم الترانسفير في الفكر والتخطيط الصهيوني [Book: The Palestinians' Expulsion - Idea of the Transfer in the Zionist Thinking and Planning] (in Arabic).
  3. ^ University of Surrey School of Theology, Philosophy, and History
  4. ^ "Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies".
  5. ^ Masalha, Nur. "Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies". Facebook.
  6. ^ "Holy Land Studies Estudios De Tierra Santa Revista Canaan X1 - $ 2.500". articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  7. ^ N. Finkelstein, 1995, ‘Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict’, Verso, London, ISBN 1-85984-339-5
  8. ^ Finkelstein, Norman (1991). "Myths, Old and New" (PDF). Journal of Palestine Studies. 21 (1): 66–89. doi:10.2307/2537366. JSTOR 2537366. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 March 2023.
  9. ^ Masalha, Nur (1991). "A Critique of Benny Morris" (PDF). Journal of Palestine Studies. 21 (1): 90–97. doi:10.2307/2537367. JSTOR 2537367. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2023.
  10. ^ Morris, Benny (1991). "Response to Finkelstein and Masalha" (PDF). Journal of Palestine Studies. 21 (1): 98–114. doi:10.2307/2537368. JSTOR 2537368. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 November 2023.

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