Jerusalem: The Politics of Sacred Space
“Jerusalem: The Politics of Sacred Space”
Lecture by Salim Tamari, Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine.
Professor Tamari has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an Eric Lane Fellow, Cambridge University. He has authored several publications on urban culture, political sociology, biography and the social history of the Eastern Mediterranean. His recent publications include: Biography and Social History of Bilad al Sham (edited with I. Nassar, Beirut, IPS, 2007), The Mountain Against the Sea (University of California Press, 2008) and Year of the Locust: Palestine and Syria during WWI (forthcoming, UC Press, 2009). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Agha Khan Program, Dept. of Architecture at MIT.