Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine

with Sherene Seikaly

hosted by Graham Pitts

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In this episode, Sherene Seikaly discusses the intersection of politics and economics under the British Mandate in Palestine through the lens of Palestinian capitalists, who are the subject of her new book entitled Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press).

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PARTICIPANT BIOS

Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of the Arab Studies Journal, and co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body. (see academia.edu)

Graham Auman Pitts is a PhD Candidate in Georgetown University's History department, where he studies the environmental history of the modern Middle East. He is currently finishing a dissertation entitled "Fallow Fields: Famine and the Making of Lebanon (1914-1952)," which probes the intersections of ecology, capital, and colonialism. (see academia.edu)

CREDITS

Episode No. 206
Release date: 30 October 2015
Recording Location: Georgetown University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Graham Pitts
Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Bozlak and Halay - Yozgatli Hafiz Suleyman Bey; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla
Click for Sherene Seikaly's Men of Capital on Stanford University Press website

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital
(Stanford University Press, 2016)

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib,"Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut," International Journal of Middle East Studies 43.03 (2011): 475-492.

Charles W. Anderson, From Petition to Confrontation: The Palestinian National Movement and the Rise of Mass Politics, 1929-1939, Diss. New York University, 2013.

Ghassan Kanafani, Thawrat 1936-1939 fi Filastin [The 1936-1939 Revolt in Palestine], 1972.

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914, University of California Press, 2010.

Weldon C. Matthews, Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation: Arab Nationalities and Popular Politics in Mandate Palestine, London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.

Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine, Stanford University Press, 2016.

_____. “Bodies and Needs: Lesson from Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014); 784-786.

_____. "Gender and the People in Revolutionary Times" Jadaliyya (June, 2013).