The Center congratulates Nadia Abu El-Haj and Lana Tatour on winning a 2020-21 Joint Projects Award from the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia!
The project, which will lead to a publication, will explore the intertwining of racial and religious difference in the context of Israel-Palestine. By pulling race and religion into a single analytic frame, it seeks to expand the existing conversation on the different practices and projects of racialization that govern Palestinians (citizens of Israel, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and refugees), the “Other” Jews (Mizrachim and Ethiopian), and African refugees and asylum seekers. The papers will address the historical genealogies and contemporary linkages among race, religion, and settler-nationhood and examine how race politics in Israel-Palestine is tied to religious difference, citizenship status, and political and civil rights.
We extend our congratulations to the other winners of the 2020-21 Joint Projects Award. Read more here.