Salim Tamari

Visiting Fellow

Salim Tamari is senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and the former director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. He is former editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and Hawliyyat al Quds. Tamari is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Birzeit University. He has authored several works on urban culture, political sociology, biography and social history, and the social history of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Tamari’s recent publications include: Camera Palaestina: Photography and the Silenced History of Palestine (2023); The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine (2020); Year of the Locust: Palestine and Syria during WWI (UC Press, 2010); The Mountain Against the Sea (University of California Press, 2008); Biography and Social History of Bilad al Sham (edited with I. Nassar, 2007, Beirut IPS); Pilgrims, Lepers, and Stuffed Cabbage: Essays on Jerusalem’s Cultural History (edited, with I. Nassar, IJS, 2005) and Essays on the Cultural History of Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem (editor, IJS, 2005). Tamari has served as visiting professor, University of California at Berkeley (2005, 2007, 2008); Eric Lane Fellow, Cambridge University (2008); lecturer in Mediterranean Studies Ca Foscari University in Venice (2002-2020); among other posts.