Salim Tamari: Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Birzeit University; Research Associate, Institute for Palestine Studies; Editor, The Jerusalem Quarterly.Recent Publications: Mountain Against the Sea: A Conflicted Modernity;  The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh (with Issam Nassar);    Year of the Locust: Erasure of the Ottoman Era in Palestine;    The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine (forthcoming 2017: UC Press);   Landed Property and Public Endowments in Jerusalem (with Munir Fakhr Ed Din, forthcoming 2017).Ph.D. Sociology, Manchester University; Visiting Professor: Ca Foscari University (Venice); Georgetown University (Washington); New York University; Cornell University; University of Chicago; Harvard University (Cambridge); Columbia University (New York).