Posts by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum

By Arpan Roy  I arrived in Madrid after a year and a half of fieldwork in Palestine just in time for quarantine. Not much in Elias’s apartment indicated that I had ever left Palestine. His library, a relic of his days as a PhD student in economics, must be one of the most extensive in…

Read our feature article for “World Anthropologies” written by Khaled Furani. The article is published in the upcoming issue of American Anthropologist. Download article

  By Gabi Kirk When shelter-in-place began in northern California in early March, I immediately did two things. First, I canceled my flight to Tel Aviv, originally scheduled for the end of March, for my year of dissertation fieldwork. Second, I signed up for ten weeks of Arabic practice over Skype. Omar,[1] a software engineer…