Ilana Feldman: 3 books
Governing Gaza
Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers. Still not part of a sovereign state, it would seem too exceptional to be a revealing site for a study of government. Ilana Feldman proves otherwise. She demonstrates...
Life Lived in Relief
Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future...
Police Encounters
Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948–1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned itself not only with crime and politics, but also with control of social and moral order. Through surveillance,...