How do you write the history of a displaced society when sites of memory have been destroyed, libraries looted, and archives made inaccessible? Tracing the evolution of Palestinian historiography is to analyse responses to this enduring challenge.
Jihane Sfeir
Historian of the modern Arab world and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is the founder of the Observatoire des Mondes Arabe et Musulman (OMAM). A researcher attached to REPI (Recherche en Enseignement et Politique Internationale), she teaches the history of the Arab world, the Ottoman Empire and relations between Europe and the Arab world. Her research and publications focus on Palestinian refugees, archives, history, political thought and memory in the Arab world, with a particular focus on Lebanon.
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