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Third Biennial Conference: “Pessoptimism: Anthropologies of Palestinian Hope and Uncertainty”
In cold January in Beit-Jala, Insaniyyat held a heartwarming third biennial conference titled, “Pessoptimism: Anthropologies of Palestinian Hope and Uncertainty.” The conference brought 80 participants (physical and virtual) from some 30 locations around the world. It opened with Insaniyyat recognizing Rosemary Sayigh’s life-long, tireless work in support of Palestine and Palestinian anthropology. Stef Jansen on…
Read MoreHallucinations
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 MoreInsaniyyat Featured in American Anthropologist
Read our feature article for “World Anthropologies” written by Khaled Furani. The article is published in the upcoming issue of American Anthropologist. Download article
Read MoreDisplacement and Solidarity: Lessons from Palestine to California
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…
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