PhD Thesis
Title: Cycles of Water, Life and Death: Histories of Water Management and Sanitation in Palestine under British Rule, 1917-1948
PhD Supervisor & 2nd Reader: Davide Rodogno and Amalia Ribi Forclaz
Expected completion date: 2023
Profile
My research titled "Cycles of Water, Life and Death: Histories of Water Management and Sanitation in Palestine under British Rule, 1917-1948", focuses on the politics behind water management schemes and projects in the name of development, while also being tools for social engineering of the land. I attempt to employ different lenses to look at assess the water management projects including public health, agriculture, and landscape and environment. I am also Prof. Rodogno’s Research Assistant in the SNF-funded project titled "Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization, 1920s-1970s", a propographic research focusing on the trajectories of the Rockefeller fellows. I am fluent in Arabic, English and Hebrew and can read in French, Modern and Ottoman Turkish.
Research Interests
- International Histories
- Ottoman History
- Histories of Settler Colonialism
- Circulation of Knowledge and Ideas
- History of Medicine
- Environmental History
Academic Work Experience
Research Experience
Research Assistant of Prof. Davide Rodogno in the SNF-funded project "Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization, 1920s-1970s” led by Prof. Ludovic Tournès from the University of Geneva.