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Books by Lorenzo Kamel
A. DIRK MOSES, City College of New York, author of The Problems of Genocide.
"Drawing on his splendid knowledge of diverse and rarely matched historiographies, as well as decades of first-hand historical research, Lorenzo Kamel sets out in this remarkable book to decipher the many ways in which the interpretive paradigms of colonisation have endured in the contemporary world. In so doing, he also lays the foundations for a collective stance that is likely to inspire a renewal of the profession of historian, based not only on a critical eye, but also on a method that is attentive to those whom history has too often forgotten or disdained."
NORA LAFI, Université de Tunis and ZMO Berlin.
"A highly significant intervention that goes a long way in mitigating the dangers of ethnocentrism. History Below the Global provides a stimulating and provocative way to debate the hopes and challenges that characterize epistemologies among various people in the “North” and the “South”."
OBERT BERNARD MLAMBO, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.
“Lorenzo Kamel’s History Below the Global recasts the very terms of our historicality in terms both real and present and yet to be fully grasped. He is calling for a leveling of the planetary field of reading the world that has long since lost its fictional center and defetishized its alienated peripheries. His is an inaugural prose where our future historiography has already started.”
HAMID DABASHI, Columbia University, author of Europe and its Shadows.
NICHOLAS DOUMANIS
Author of Before the Nation and Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, The University of New South Wales – Sydney
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‘This book will make an important mark on the field. From Empire to Sealed Identities shows the ways in which ethnic and other divisions were historically constructed in the Middle East under the influence of imperial powers. The work combines meticulous archival research in multiple languages with careful analysis of broader trends to map the transition from empire to homogenized nation-states. This ability to document with rich detail and at the same time be able to present the larger picture with great clarity is rare. The author pulls off the feat with great erudition.’
BETH BARON
Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center and City College, CUNY
Past President, Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center
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‘In this engaging revisionary study, Lorenzo Kamel shows how modern Western-ist intellectual prejudices have distorted our understanding of identity and conflict in the modern Middle East. Based on original archival research and an exhaustive survey of secondary literature, the author reveals a world that can only be characterized as “medieval” if one misunderstands the Middle Ages. Focussing on the long nineteenth century, the book provides a chronological continuation of much of the most interesting work being done in pre-modern Mediterranean Studies.’
BRIAN A. CATLOS
Author of Muslims of Latin Christendom and Professor, Faculty of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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‘Lorenzo Kamel is a dedicated and meticulous scholar, extremely experienced and internationally recognized for his research methodology. His extensive archival work, which forms the basis of many of his most important publications, is impressive by any academic standard. His archival research, informed by exemplary linguistic skills, has, without question, created new understandings of the complex dynamics shaping our inquiry into modern European empires, and the history of the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities will continue this outstanding trend.’
SARA ROY
Senior Research Scholar, Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
‘A scholarly, original study that offers several new insights and a balanced criticism of British and Zionist perceptions of Palestinian history and society. For anyone with an interest in deconstructing the present of our region this book is a must.’
MOSHE MA'OZ, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
‘Based on meticulous and extensive archival work, Imperial Perceptions of Palestine is a powerful and truly illuminating study of Palestine’s history under British influence that will challenge common conceptions and understandings of that period.'
SARA ROY, Harvard University
‘This book offers important critical research about the roots of the conflict over Palestine. The author has made a thorough investigation based on a wide range of resources and documents, opening new avenues for re-reading a crucial period in the history of the Middle East.’
NAZMI JUBEH, Birzeit University, Ramallah
‘This is a truly outstanding academic work. It fills a gap in the literature on modern Palestine and, more generally, on the construction of the modern Middle East. It is based on a wide range of primary sources in six languages. It offers a comprehensive outlook on a wide number of issues such as cultural, social and spatial boundaries, local identities, land tenure, institutions, toponomy and borders.’
ILARIA PORCIANI, Bologna University
Link: https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/napoleone-e-muhammad-ali-0070351/
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Link: https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/ripensare-la-storia-0066581/
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http://www.carocci.it/index.php?option=com_carocci&task=schedalibro&Itemid=72&isbn=9788829014507
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Sciismo e Potere. Il peso della storia tra Iran, Libano e Iraq [Shi’ism and Power: the weight of history between Iran, Lebanon and Iraq], Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2021, 205 pp. ISBN: 978-8897622604 (co-authored with L. Trombetta)
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http://www.ipocan.it/index.php/it/cd-top
Introduction
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Nader Hashemi
Chapter 1: From Sectarianization to De-Sectarianization: How to Advance Human Security in the Middle East
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Coralie Pison Hindawi
Chapter 2: Selective Arms Flows and Arms Control: Producing Insecurity in the Middle East … and Beyond
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Waleed Hazbun
Chapter 3: Insecurity, Order and Pluralism in the Middle East: An Agenda for a Critical Approach to Security Studies
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Elijah J. Magnier
Chapter 4: Beyond Security and Stability
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Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Chapter 5: Contra-Identity: Psycho-Nationalism After the ‘Middle East’
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Abdullah Al-Arian
Chapter 6: Islamists and the Arab Counter-Revolutions
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Youssef Cherif
Chapter 7: Dahlan vs Belhaj: The Maghreb in the Arab War of Narratives
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Morten Valbjørn
Chapter 8: Dialogues in New Middle Eastern Politics: On (the Limits of) Making Historical Analogies to the Classic Arab Cold War in a Sectarianized New Middle East
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Lorenzo Kamel
Chapter 9: Whose Stability? Assessing the ‘Iranian Threat’ through History
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In this edited book, several leading scholars address a number of security-related issues, all connected to one main research question: What (in)security means from the perspective of people living in the Middle East and North Africa? In doing so, the contributors shed light on the contours of a stable and legitimate order that responds to the needs of the peoples in the region, on what history tells us about the ongoing debates on security and stability in the region, and, last but not least, on "human security", which encompasses the dimension of human rights, political rights and social-economic security.
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/71741
Ed. by Lorenzo Kamel
Chapters by Rami G. Khouri, Francesco Cavatorta, Florence Gaub, Kristina Kausch, Waleed Hazbun, Raffaele Marchetti, Yahya Al Zahrani, Lorenzo Kamel
http://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/frailty-authority
Link: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72953
challenged the authoritarianism of the state before, during and after
the 2010-12 Arab uprisings. Yet, youth in the MENA still suffer from the
highest unemployment rates in the world and the chronic lack of jobs
and opportunities are widely considered a significant factor fuelling
radical ideologies in the area. While many studies have focused on
the category of “youth” in the Arab world, it is rare to hear how young
people themselves view and interpret developments unfolding
in their societies. Rarer still is to have these voices contribute to
ongoing policy debates on the future of the Mediterranean. This
edited volume collects the revised and updated versions of chapters produced by eight outstanding young scholars and activists
from the Middle East and North Africa.
A. DIRK MOSES, City College of New York, author of The Problems of Genocide.
"Drawing on his splendid knowledge of diverse and rarely matched historiographies, as well as decades of first-hand historical research, Lorenzo Kamel sets out in this remarkable book to decipher the many ways in which the interpretive paradigms of colonisation have endured in the contemporary world. In so doing, he also lays the foundations for a collective stance that is likely to inspire a renewal of the profession of historian, based not only on a critical eye, but also on a method that is attentive to those whom history has too often forgotten or disdained."
NORA LAFI, Université de Tunis and ZMO Berlin.
"A highly significant intervention that goes a long way in mitigating the dangers of ethnocentrism. History Below the Global provides a stimulating and provocative way to debate the hopes and challenges that characterize epistemologies among various people in the “North” and the “South”."
OBERT BERNARD MLAMBO, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.
“Lorenzo Kamel’s History Below the Global recasts the very terms of our historicality in terms both real and present and yet to be fully grasped. He is calling for a leveling of the planetary field of reading the world that has long since lost its fictional center and defetishized its alienated peripheries. His is an inaugural prose where our future historiography has already started.”
HAMID DABASHI, Columbia University, author of Europe and its Shadows.
NICHOLAS DOUMANIS
Author of Before the Nation and Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, The University of New South Wales – Sydney
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‘This book will make an important mark on the field. From Empire to Sealed Identities shows the ways in which ethnic and other divisions were historically constructed in the Middle East under the influence of imperial powers. The work combines meticulous archival research in multiple languages with careful analysis of broader trends to map the transition from empire to homogenized nation-states. This ability to document with rich detail and at the same time be able to present the larger picture with great clarity is rare. The author pulls off the feat with great erudition.’
BETH BARON
Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center and City College, CUNY
Past President, Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center
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‘In this engaging revisionary study, Lorenzo Kamel shows how modern Western-ist intellectual prejudices have distorted our understanding of identity and conflict in the modern Middle East. Based on original archival research and an exhaustive survey of secondary literature, the author reveals a world that can only be characterized as “medieval” if one misunderstands the Middle Ages. Focussing on the long nineteenth century, the book provides a chronological continuation of much of the most interesting work being done in pre-modern Mediterranean Studies.’
BRIAN A. CATLOS
Author of Muslims of Latin Christendom and Professor, Faculty of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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‘Lorenzo Kamel is a dedicated and meticulous scholar, extremely experienced and internationally recognized for his research methodology. His extensive archival work, which forms the basis of many of his most important publications, is impressive by any academic standard. His archival research, informed by exemplary linguistic skills, has, without question, created new understandings of the complex dynamics shaping our inquiry into modern European empires, and the history of the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities will continue this outstanding trend.’
SARA ROY
Senior Research Scholar, Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
‘A scholarly, original study that offers several new insights and a balanced criticism of British and Zionist perceptions of Palestinian history and society. For anyone with an interest in deconstructing the present of our region this book is a must.’
MOSHE MA'OZ, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
‘Based on meticulous and extensive archival work, Imperial Perceptions of Palestine is a powerful and truly illuminating study of Palestine’s history under British influence that will challenge common conceptions and understandings of that period.'
SARA ROY, Harvard University
‘This book offers important critical research about the roots of the conflict over Palestine. The author has made a thorough investigation based on a wide range of resources and documents, opening new avenues for re-reading a crucial period in the history of the Middle East.’
NAZMI JUBEH, Birzeit University, Ramallah
‘This is a truly outstanding academic work. It fills a gap in the literature on modern Palestine and, more generally, on the construction of the modern Middle East. It is based on a wide range of primary sources in six languages. It offers a comprehensive outlook on a wide number of issues such as cultural, social and spatial boundaries, local identities, land tenure, institutions, toponomy and borders.’
ILARIA PORCIANI, Bologna University
Link: https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/napoleone-e-muhammad-ali-0070351/
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Link: https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/ripensare-la-storia-0066581/
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http://www.carocci.it/index.php?option=com_carocci&task=schedalibro&Itemid=72&isbn=9788829014507
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Sciismo e Potere. Il peso della storia tra Iran, Libano e Iraq [Shi’ism and Power: the weight of history between Iran, Lebanon and Iraq], Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2021, 205 pp. ISBN: 978-8897622604 (co-authored with L. Trombetta)
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http://www.ipocan.it/index.php/it/cd-top
Introduction
--
Nader Hashemi
Chapter 1: From Sectarianization to De-Sectarianization: How to Advance Human Security in the Middle East
--
Coralie Pison Hindawi
Chapter 2: Selective Arms Flows and Arms Control: Producing Insecurity in the Middle East … and Beyond
--
Waleed Hazbun
Chapter 3: Insecurity, Order and Pluralism in the Middle East: An Agenda for a Critical Approach to Security Studies
--
Elijah J. Magnier
Chapter 4: Beyond Security and Stability
--
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Chapter 5: Contra-Identity: Psycho-Nationalism After the ‘Middle East’
--
Abdullah Al-Arian
Chapter 6: Islamists and the Arab Counter-Revolutions
--
Youssef Cherif
Chapter 7: Dahlan vs Belhaj: The Maghreb in the Arab War of Narratives
--
Morten Valbjørn
Chapter 8: Dialogues in New Middle Eastern Politics: On (the Limits of) Making Historical Analogies to the Classic Arab Cold War in a Sectarianized New Middle East
--
Lorenzo Kamel
Chapter 9: Whose Stability? Assessing the ‘Iranian Threat’ through History
---
In this edited book, several leading scholars address a number of security-related issues, all connected to one main research question: What (in)security means from the perspective of people living in the Middle East and North Africa? In doing so, the contributors shed light on the contours of a stable and legitimate order that responds to the needs of the peoples in the region, on what history tells us about the ongoing debates on security and stability in the region, and, last but not least, on "human security", which encompasses the dimension of human rights, political rights and social-economic security.
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/71741
Ed. by Lorenzo Kamel
Chapters by Rami G. Khouri, Francesco Cavatorta, Florence Gaub, Kristina Kausch, Waleed Hazbun, Raffaele Marchetti, Yahya Al Zahrani, Lorenzo Kamel
http://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/frailty-authority
Link: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72953
challenged the authoritarianism of the state before, during and after
the 2010-12 Arab uprisings. Yet, youth in the MENA still suffer from the
highest unemployment rates in the world and the chronic lack of jobs
and opportunities are widely considered a significant factor fuelling
radical ideologies in the area. While many studies have focused on
the category of “youth” in the Arab world, it is rare to hear how young
people themselves view and interpret developments unfolding
in their societies. Rarer still is to have these voices contribute to
ongoing policy debates on the future of the Mediterranean. This
edited volume collects the revised and updated versions of chapters produced by eight outstanding young scholars and activists
from the Middle East and North Africa.
given to the post-World War I zeitgeist, as well as to the Kurdish historiography and the ongoing attempts and efforts made by some of its most prominent theorists to deal with identity-related issues from a non-nationalist or post-nationalist perspective.
Key words: Peripheries, Arab Spring, Transition, Bottom-Up Empowerment
and a new regional order is still far from being established. Yet, it
appears increasingly clear that few matters will affect its developments
more than the ongoing regional demographic dynamics. The region’s
history and spatial background provide a framework for approaching
these epochal shifts and critically examining the ‘ethnic stabilisation’
thesis, which interprets current demographic movements as a kind
of normalisation of the region’s ‘original’ demographics. Instead of
this ‘medievalization of the Middle East’, many people in the region
are keen on ‘getting back into history’ and ‘regaining possession’
of their multifaceted past: a powerful antidote to the geopolitical
reductionism so popular nowadays.
https://www.rivisteweb.it/isni/67467
Introduzione
di Marco Bresciani e Fulvio Conti
1. Gli imperi del nazionalismo: politica e appartenenza nell’Europa centro-orientale
di Simone Attilio Bellezza
2. Democrazia, conflitto sociale e violenza politica
di Matteo Millan
3. Guerre mondiali, Guerra fredda e oltre: relazioni trans-atlantiche e processi di integrazione europea
di Umberto Tulli
4. I “dopoguerra” in Europa: transizioni, violenze e persistenze
di Marco Bresciani
5. Governare le migrazioni, tra l’Europa e il mondo
di Silvia Salvatici
6. Colonialismi, decolonizzazioni: decostruire il passato, ricomporre il presente
di Lorenzo Kamel
7. Antropocene: ambiente e sviluppo in età contemporanea
di Simone Neri Serneri
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Con l’ausilio di fonti primarie e secondarie in farsi, arabo e inglese, l’articolo offre una prospettiva di genere in relazione alla formazione e allo sviluppo del Medio Oriente tardo-moderno e contemporaneo, soffermandosi in particolare sui casi dell’Egitto, – storicamente il Paese arabo più popoloso e importante – dell’Iran, – fulcro dello “sciismo politico” – e della “Terra Santa”, culla delle tre religione monoteiste: molte delle rivoluzioni e delle lotte anti-coloniali che più hanno plasmato lo sviluppo delle aree analizzate e, di riflesso, di larga parte del resto della regione, sono state innescate e/o profondamente influenzate da figure di donne locali.
https://nyupress.org/9781479846641/women-rising/
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629395.2015.1033901
In the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, academic answers to these questions appear to me more relevant than ever. To this end, the chapter provides a detailed historical framework by focusing on four interrelated historical junctures: (1) the Tobacco Revolt of 1891–2, which triggered the conditions ‘to the emergence of Shi’ism as an insurrectionary movement against colonialism’; (2) the dynamics which prompted London to foster the rising of Reza Shah (1921) as the penultimate Shah of Persia and the first of the Pahlavi dynasty; (3) the coup d’état of 1953, which ended Iran’s drive to assert sovereign control over its own resources and (4) the 1979 ‘Islamic Revolution’, whose causes and implications are still very much visible in the lacerations that affect the region. Fernand Braudel noted that even an apparently minor event may be the mirror of a long-term reality, or of a ‘structural conjuncture’. The four ‘moments’ on which the chapter focuses are themselves the components of a larger and more complex ‘structure’ that, in different ways and forms, continues to echo in Iran, as well as in a large part of the Middle East. The qablan (before), alan (now) and ayandeh (future) of Iran – as well the rest of the region – are and will remain inextricably bound together.
Forthcoming in the print edition in September 2022.
Versione italiana: https://legrandcontinent.eu/it/2021/05/28/il-conflitto-israelo-palestinese-sul-lungo-periodo-tra-esodi-e-oltranzismi/
Nelle ultime settimane, sullo sfondo della catastrofe epocale ancora in corso, quella stessa tesi è tornata in auge. A suggerirla, tra moli altri, sono stati Yair Netanyahu (figlio del premier israeliano), così come numerose altre figure pubbliche israeliane ed europee, a cominciare da Geert Wilders, uscito trionfatore dalle ultime elezioni in Olanda.
Per comprendere ciò che la storia e il diritto internazionale ci dicono riguardo a questo tema, – e più nello specifico a un presunto diritto esclusivo (storico e legale) sull’intera Palestina da parte di Israele – è utile iniziare da un testo dell’VIII secolo attribuito allo studioso medievale Abū Khālid Thawr Ibn Yazīd al-Kalā‘ī: “Il luogo più sacro [al-quds] della terra”, scrisse al-Kalā‘ī, “è la Siria; il luogo più sacro in Siria è la Palestina; il luogo più sacro in Palestina è Gerusalemme [Bayt al-maqdis]”.
Special 10th anniversary issue of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs
March 2022
Ahmad Dallal, Nathan Brown, Ibrahim Awad,
Lisa Anderson, Lorenzo Kamel, Khaled Elgindy,
Leslie Cohen, Arianna Bennett, Hesham Youssef,
Robert Mogielnicki, Nabil Fahmy
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Many different opinions abound concerning Resolution 181, but one fact cannot be denied or overlooked: it was not a solution born out of the "free and sovereign" world states of the time.
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Open access: https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/framing-the-partition-plan-for-palestine/
È un’eventualità meno remota di quanto si possa supporre. In anni recenti Cina e Russia hanno aumentato a dismisura i propri investimenti in Messico. Quest’ultimo ha rapporti di lunga data con tutti i paesi BRICS (Brasile, Russia, India, Cina e Sudafrica), ma guarda soprattutto a Cina, Russia e Brasile per i propri scambi in settori chiave come l’energia, il comparto minerario e quello tecnologico.
Come dunque reagirebbe Washington a un tale scenario?
I rifiuti dell’uranio raffinato in Francia vengono poi rispediti in Niger e in altri paesi dell’Africa, dove migliaia di persone sono esposte alle radiazioni provenienti dalle miniere di uranio. Tutto ciò contribuisce a rendere il Niger uno dei paesi più poveri dell’Africa e, stando a Save the Children, «il peggiore al mondo dove essere bambini».
È OPPORTUNO AGGIUNGERE che, pur essendo storicamente meno coinvolti rispetto alla Francia, anche gli Stati Uniti (che vantano 27 basi e avamposti militari in Africa e stanno prendendo il controllo della filiera produttiva del rame e del cobalto in paesi come lo Zambia e il Congo), la Cina (che ha 1 base militare a Gibuti e sta, tra l’altro, decimando le foreste del Ghana), il Canada e, più di recente, la Russia, sono quattro attori particolarmente rilevanti nella promozione di pratiche neo-coloniali e di politiche discriminatorie che perpetuano oppressione e disuguaglianze.
Eppure, come hanno notato Ndongo Samba Sylla e Fanny Pigeaud in un nuovo libro sull’impatto del Franco CFA, – nonché sull’ECO, la nuova moneta meglio nota come «il Franco CFA sotto un altro nome» – la Francia è «l’unico paese al mondo a gestire a priori e direttamente, seppur in modo opaco, un insieme di valute diverse dalla propria».
Born in 1980 in Haspin, a settlement in the occupied Golan Heights, Smotrich made these remarks from a lectern wrapped in a flag that showed Jordan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as part of Israel.
Also on the stage next to Smotrich was a picture of the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky.
A century ago, in November 1923, Jabotinsky himself used words that seemed to suggest a very different understanding of Palestine to the one Smotrich has outlined.
“There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs […] it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting ‘Palestine’ from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority,” Jabotinsky wrote.
“Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised”.
Jabotinsky’s words remind us that the extremists of the 1920s had no problem recognising the existence of the Palestinians, nor that of what has been known as Palestine for many centuries.
Conversely, the current Israeli finance minister, whose family is of Ukrainian origin (Smotryc is the name of a town in western Ukraine), claimed that his grandfather, “who was the 13th generation in Jerusalem, was a true Palestinian”.
13 generations correspond to about 300 years if not more. This means that, according to the family tree provided by Smotrich himself, some of his ancestors may have met the mufti Khayr al-Din al-Ramli, an influential lawyer in 17th-century Ottoman Palestine, who lived in the city of Ramla from which he drew his surname.
They might have also come across al-Ramlī’s manuscripts (Jews in Palestine spoke Arabic in their daily life), and the concept of “Filastin”, which al-Ramlī referred to as “biladuna” (“our homeland”).
Bottom of Form
Unsurprisingly, Filastin was commonly referred to in much older works too, including in al-Uns al-Jalil bi-Tarikh al-Quds wa’l-Khalil (The glorious story of Jerusalem and Hebron), written around 1495 by the Qadi of Jerusalem Mujir al-Din, who used the expression “‘Ard Filastin” (the Land of Palestine) 22 times.
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Le origini della dinastia Pahlavi sono riconducibili a un colpo di Stato (1921) avallato e sostenuto dalle autorità britanniche presenti al tempo in Iran. Tanto Reza Khan, – un “violento” e “analfabeta” ufficiale che venne scelto dal capo di stato maggiore Sir Edmund Ironside – quanto suo figlio Reza Pahlavi, soppressero sin da subito ogni forma di opposizione, al fine di consolidare il proprio potere personale.
A dispetto di alcune riforme portate avanti dallo stesso Reza Pahlavi, quest’ultimo mostrò da subito un atteggiamento sprezzante nei riguardi delle donne, da lui considerate come esseri “inferiori”. Si pensi, tra altri possibili esempi, a quanto dichiarò nell’intervista concessa a Oriana Fallaci: “Nella vita di un uomo, le donne contano solo se sono belle e graziose e mantengono la loro femminilità e… Questa storia del femminismo, ad esempio. Cosa vogliono queste femministe? Cosa volete? Dice: l’uguaglianza. Oh! Non vorrei apparire sgarbato ma… siete uguali per legge ma, scusatemi, non per capacità”.
A ciò si aggiunga che quasi nessuno tra quanti manifestano un improvviso
interesse per i diritti umani in Qatar sembra avvertire l’esigenza di esporsi
con la stessa energia riguardo i miliardi di euro in armi che le industrie
della “Difesa” dei paesi europei esportano ogni anno a Doha, Riyad e verso
altri regimi che – anche grazie a quelle stesse armi – riescono a soffocare
ogni forma di dissenso interno, tanto di ordine politico quanto sociale
(anche riguardo le questioni di genere).
Il Regno Unito, che negli ultimi 12 anni ha concesso in licenza al regime di
Doha armi per un valore di oltre 3,4 miliardi di sterline, vanta in
questo senso un rapporto particolarmente stretto con il Qatar (dove è
peraltro stazionata la più grande base militare Usa in Medio Oriente).
Diversi paesi dell’Ue, che secondo l’Alto commissariato delle Nazioni unite
per i rifugiati «violano gravemente» i diritti umani dei migranti,
mostrano trend simili. L’Italia, quarto esportatore di armi nell’Unione
europea, è fra questi.
Per quanto riguarda la Germania – che ha da poco ripreso a
esportare ingenti armi utilizzate nello Yemen (dove si stima che muoia un
bambino ogni 10 minuti) – è sufficiente ricordare l’affaire Mesut Özil:
quando il calciatore denunciò con un Tweet (dicembre 2019) la
persecuzione contro gli Uiguri musulmani in Cina, diversi suoi
compagni di nazionale si espressero contro di lui, mentre l’Arsenal,
la squadra inglese presso cui era tesserato, rilasciò la seguente
dichiarazione: «In quanto squadra di calcio, l’Arsenal ha sempre aderito al
principio di non farsi coinvolgere in questioni politiche».
Interview by William Billows
On Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIpjKRaUgDs
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/5nafoF1Zs7F48mGZjlhrze?si=65b842d0c02d4f1f
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-afikra-podcast/id1529437743
Raffaella Del Sarto (European University Institute), Rula Jebreal (University of Miami), Chantal Meloni (University of Milan), Sara Roy (Harvard University), Lorenzo Kamel (University of Turin).
Registration: https://eisa-net.org/israel-palestine-history-economy-international-law/
-Welcome by Simon Neumaier with explanation for why it was organised
-Introduction of DI by Amber Burbidge
-Introduction of Moderator (Simon Schaffer) by Anna Reißig
-Introduction of Lorenzo Kamel by Aurora Burbidge
14:15- 14:35 Lorenzo Kamel Keynote
14:35- 15:00 Simon Schaffer (moderator) opens questions on presentation
15:00- 15:55 Simon Schaffer opens broader discussion where all participants can offer comments, questions, advice, queries etc as a roundtable discussion
15:55-16:00 DI organisers close the event
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2024/02/19/lo-storico-kamel-gli-appelli-delloccidente-a-israele-per-fermare-i-bombardamenti-frasi-di-circostanza-le-pressioni-concrete-sono-ben-altro/7450871/
Intervista su Radio Capital (dal minuto 59:20): https://www.capital.it/programmi/the-breakfast-club-we/puntate/the-breakfast_club-del-18-02-2024/
Articolo su Il Manifesto:
24/02/2024 https://ilmanifesto.it/nata-con-israele-quella-striscia-da-ripulire
https://www.micromega.net/terra-contesa-israele-palestina-e-il-peso-della-storia-intervista-a-lorenzo-kamel/
https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/5fzlCIjga6
https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/3y1HrHcZkk
https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/uqgABgX6XZ
https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/k0GKfIZcdx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyAPaZBJGSAù
Intervista su RaiNews:
https://www.rainews.it/video/2024/04/medio-oriente-onu-tregua-sanzioni-analisi-lorenzo- kamel-1bedbb88-85e2-46ac-97f3-23025b41e672.html
Interview 2 on Al Jazeera:
https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/6iCTCEME5g
Interview 3 on Al Jazeera:
https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/aUhbI57i40
Articolo:
https://ilmanifesto.it/il-doppio-standard-che-alimenta-guerre-e-
dispotismi
https://www .ilfattoquotidiano.it/2023/10/31/gaza-lipotesi-dei-due-stati-ha-ancora- senso-lo-storico-soluzione-piu-giusta-e-una-chimera-dal-47-anche-per-ipocrisie-usa-e- indifferenza-ue/7338259/
https://www.mondadorieducation.it/webinar-e-eventi/appuntamenti/israele-palestina-le-radici-profonde-di-un-conflitto-secolare/