When
Sep 24 202612:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Jenkins-Nanovic Halls 10301030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, Indiana
Description
Intimacy and Domination in the Production of Settler Indigenization
Please join us as Professor Mostafa Hussein, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, discusses how Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance Zionism’s goals in the decades leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will moderate.
Mostafa Hussein is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is a historian specializing in modern Israel-Palestine and the neighboring Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East (19th-21st centuries), with a focus on the subfield of Jewish-Arab/Muslim studies.
Dr. Hussein’s recent work focuses on the intellectual and cultural intersections between Jews and Arabs in modern Israel/Palestine and the Middle East. In particular, he is interested in the manner in which Arabo-Islamic culture contributed to the development of Jewish thought in Palestine/Israel during the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. He also examines various perceptions of Jews in the Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and the evolution of Jewish imageries from the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries. Other recent publications include, Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media (Penn State University Press, 2024) with Brahim El Guabli, and “Scholarship on Islamic Archaeology between Zionism and Arab National Movements,” in The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism, edited by Susannah Heschel and Amr Ryad (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019). He received his doctorate from Brandeis University.
About the Speaker
Mostafa Hussein is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is a historian specializing in modern Israel-Palestine and the neighboring Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East (19th-21st centuries), with a focus on the subfield of Jewish-Arab/Muslim studies.
Dr. Hussein’s recent work focuses on the intellectual and cultural intersections between Jews and Arabs in modern Israel/Palestine and the Middle East. In particular, he is interested in the manner in which Arabo-Islamic culture contributed to the development of Jewish thought in Palestine/Israel during the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. He also examines various perceptions of Jews in the Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and the evolution of Jewish imageries from the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries. Other recent publications include, Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media (Penn State University Press, 2024) with Brahim El Guabli, and “Scholarship on Islamic Archaeology between Zionism and Arab National Movements,” in The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism, edited by Susannah Heschel and Amr Ryad (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019). He received his doctorate from Brandeis University.
