Talat and Isabelle Othman Lecture with Amahl Bishara: "Against Fragmentation: Palestinian Practices of Connection Against Erasure”

Amahl Bishara is Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and affiliated with the Department of Studies of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora. She is the author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022), about different conditions of expression for and exchange between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, and Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013), an ethnography of the production of U.S. news during the second Palestinian intifada. She also writes about popular refugee politics in the West Bank, attending to struggles over and through media, water, space, and protest. Working with youth at Lajee Center, in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, she has co-produced two bilingual children’s books, including The Aida Alphabet Book (2014). She is director or co-director three documentaries, including “Take My Pictures For Me” (2016). She is past-president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.