We start this conversation about the interrupted futures of Palestine and the Palestinians in the year 1948 in the city of Jaffa, known also as 'Arûs al-bahr (the bride of the sea) and as Um al-gharîb (mother of strangers) in Arabic.
00:00 - Introduction
02:22 - Jaffa: A history of interrupted futures
04:25 - Jaffa in the Nakba (1948)
12:35 - The fate of the refugees
13:23 - Yusuf Haikal, the last mayor of Jaffa and his role
19:17 - Understanding Gaza through the history of interrupted
futures in Jaffa
26:48 - The Role of Orthodox Clubs and Communities
31:00 - Engaging with Palestinian history and its sources
About Salim Tamari:
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. He 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. 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 (2010); The Mountain Against the Sea (2008); among many others. 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 positions.
Credits:
Episode No. 1
Release Date: 10 June 2025
Recording location: New Media Center (NMC), University of Basel
Sound production by Sebastian Schell, NMC
Episode image: Library of Congress
Series logo: drawing by Sara Nuria Leitner
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