Haneen Naamneh
Arab Jerusalem after the Partition: Social and Legal History of Palestinian Urban Citizenship and Participation in Jerusalem (1948–1967)
Haneen Naamneh holds a PhD in Sociology from LSE (2020), an LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and an LLB from Haifa University. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Sociology Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a former fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2020. In the past, she worked as a lawyer and later as a researcher with LSE Middle East Centre. She contributed to a number of Arab newspapers and cultural media platforms, including Assafir al-Arabi and Jadaliyya. Her essay titled “A Municipality Seeking Refuge – Jerusalem Municipality in 1948”, published in the Jerusalem Quarterly journal, won the 2019 Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem. In the academic year 2021/22, she is a EUME Fellow.
Arab Jerusalem after the Partition: Social and Legal History of Palestinian Urban Citizenship and Participation in Jerusalem (1948–1967)
Naamneh’s research focuses on the social and legal history of Arab Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967. Through a study of the records of the Jerusalem Municipality Archive, she traces the political, social, legal and economic transformations in Arab Jerusalem after 1948. She studies questions of urban loss and revival through municipal law and labour rights, local economy, tourism and infrastructure.
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