Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Arabic: أريج صباغ-خوري, Hebrew: אריז' סבאע'-ח'ורי; born 1979) is a Palestinian sociologist, scholar, author, and educator. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] She is most known for her scholarship on Zionist settler colonization and the Palestinian citizen population in Israel.

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
أريج صباغ-خوري
Born1979 (age 43–44)
Mi'ilya, Israel
Occupation(s)Sociologist, academic
Known forSettler colonial studies, historical sociology
AwardsDistinguished Scholars Grant, H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; Fulbright Israel
Academic background
EducationTel Aviv University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
WebsiteHebrew University faculty profile

Biography

Early life and education

Sabbagh-Khoury was born in Mi'ilya, the Galilee, Israel,[2] in 1979, to a Palestinian family.

She attended high school in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, before beginning her undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University, from which she obtained a BA in sociology, anthropology, and political science. She obtained an MA from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University in 2006, writing a thesis entitled, "Between the ‘Law of Return’ and the Right of Return: Reflections on Palestinian Discourse in Israel," and then a PhD from the same department in 2015. Her dissertation, advised by Yehouda Shenhav and Joel Beinin, was entitled, "Colonization Practices and Interactions at the Frontier: Ha–Shomer Ha–Tzair Kibbutzim and the Surrounding Arab Villages at the Margins of the Valley of Jezreel/Marj Ibn ‘Amer, 1936–1956."[3]

Between 2015 and 2018, Sabbagh-Khoury held postdoctoral fellowships in the United States. She was the Ibrahim Abu–Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University,[4] Meyers Postdoctoral Fellow at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University,[5] Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in Palestine and Palestinian Studies at the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University,[6] and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. During this time she obtained postdoctoral scholar grants from Fulbright Israel and the Israel Science Foundation.[7][8]

Academic career

Sabbagh-Khoury is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There she has taught undergraduate and graduate-level on political and historical sociology, the Palestinians in Israel, and settler colonialism. Between 2018 and 2021 she held a Maof Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists, Members of Arab Society, Citizens of the State of Israel from the Israeli Council for Higher Education.[9] In 2022 she was awarded a Distinguished Scholars Grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.[10] Through ERASMUS+ Mobility Grants, she has been a visiting scholar at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Bologna, and Wageningen University,

In addition to her teaching and publishing, Sabbagh-Khoury has served as a Research Associate, Academic Coordinator, and Board Member at Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Center for Applied Social Studies in Haifa. She is also a member of the scholar-activist network Academia for Equality.

Research

Sabbagh-Khoury has published on settler colonialism, citizenship, indigeneity, collective memory, and political developments in Israeli and Palestinian societies.[11][12] She has been recognized as an authority on the Palestinians in Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the sociology of settler colonialism. She has been invited to lecture in Israel, Palestine, the United States, and Europe.[13][14] Her primary scholarship on the historical sociology of settler colonialism centers on interactions between self-identified socialist-leftist Zionist settlers and Palestinian Arab inhabitants in the Jezreel Valley prior to, amidst, and following the Nakba, based on fieldwork in kibbutz and state archives.[15][16][17] She is the author of Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023).[18]

Published works (selected)
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2023). Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2022). “Memory for Forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a Memory Practice of Settler Colonial Disavowal.” Theory and Society.
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2022). "Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession: The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship." Sociological Theory.[19]
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2021). “Tracing Settler Colonialism: A Genealogy of a Paradigm in the Sociology of Knowledge Production in Israel.” Politics and Society: 1-40.[20]
  • Rouhana, N. and A. Sabbagh-Khoury (2019). “Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-Colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21, no. 4: 527-550.[21]
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. and N. Rouhana (eds.) (2018). The Palestinians in Israel: Readings in History, Politics and Society, vol. 2. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel (English, also published in Arabic and Hebrew).[22]
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2018). “Settler Colonialism, the Indigenous Perspective, and Sociology of Knowledge Production in Israel.” Teoria u’Bikoret [Theory and Criticism] 50: 391- 418.[23]
  • Rouhana, N. and A. Sabbagh-Khoury (2014). “Settler-colonial Citizenship: Conceptualizing the Relationship between Israeli and its Palestinian Citizens.” Settler Colonial Studies 5, no. 3: 205-225.[24]
  • Sabbagh-Khoury, A. and N. Rouhana (eds.) (2011). The Palestinians in Israel: Readings in History, Politics and Society, vol. 1. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel.[25]

References
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  9. "Scholarships for the Integration of Outstanding Faculty". המועצ. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
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  11. "Long overlooked, Israel's Arab citizens are increasingly asserting their Palestinian identity". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
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  13. "Video: The Decolonizing Rubric: Modernity, Religion and Re-imagining Palestine/Israel". rpl.hds.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
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  15. "הערבים שהאמינו בעתיד משותף בטוחים: הדו קיום כבר לא מחזיק". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  16. "Areej Sabbagh-Khoury – The Zionist Left: Settler Colonial Practices and the Representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine | Watson Institute". Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  17. Piterberg, Gabriel (2015). "Israeli Sociology's Young Hegelian: Gershon Shafir and the Settler-Colonial Framework". Journal of Palestine Studies. 44 (3): 17–38. doi:10.1525/jps.2015.44.3.17. ISSN 0377-919X. JSTOR 10.1525/jps.2015.44.3.17.
  18. Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (2023). Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503602700.
  19. Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (2022-05-06). "Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession: The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship". Sociological Theory. 40 (2): 151–178. doi:10.1177/07352751221095474. ISSN 0735-2751. S2CID 248653917.
  20. Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (2021-03-15). "Tracing Settler Colonialism: A Genealogy of a Paradigm in the Sociology of Knowledge Production in Israel". Politics & Society. 50: 44–83. doi:10.1177/0032329221999906. ISSN 0032-3292. S2CID 233635930.
  21. Rouhana, Nadim N.; Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (2019-05-19). "Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel". Interventions. 21 (4): 527–550. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2018.1558102. ISSN 1369-801X. S2CID 157129456.
  22. Rouhana, Nadim; Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej. "The Palestinians in Israel Readings in History, Politics and Society II". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (January 2019). "Settler Colonialism, the Indigenous Perspective and Sociology of Knowledge Production-Areej Sabbagh-Khoury.pdf". קולוניאליזם התיישבותי, נקודת המבט הילידית והסוציולוגיה של ייצור ידע בישראל.
  24. Rouhana, Nadim N.; Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej (2015-07-03). "Settler-colonial citizenship: conceptualizing the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens". Settler Colonial Studies. 5 (3): 205–225. doi:10.1080/2201473X.2014.947671. ISSN 2201-473X. S2CID 56244739.
  25. Rouhana, Nadim; Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej. "The Palestinains in Israel: Readings in History, Politics and Society". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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