The Center for Palestine Studies congratulates Nadia Abu El-Haj, Co-Director of CPS, on the publication of her latest article, “A ‘Common Space’? The Impossibilities of a New Grammar of the Holocaust and Nakba,” in The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new grammar of trauma and history, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Read the article here.

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and coDirector of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. She is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001) and The Genealogical Science: The Origins of the Jews and the Politics of Epistemology (2012), both published by the University of Chicago Press. Her next book, An Ethics for Militarism: Soldier Trauma, The Obligations of Citizenship, and the Forever Wars is forthcoming from Verso Press.

Nadia Abu El-Haj (2019) A “Common Space”? The Impossibilities of a New Grammar of the Holocaust and Nakba, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2019.1670383