Comments on: The New Yorker on Nadia Abu El-Haj

By: Kerim

Kerim — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:21:55 +0000

While not available on the New Yorker website, the article has been posted to MESA.

By: ddas-edEn

ddas-edEn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:11:36 +0000

Looks interesting.
Please add a link to The New Yorker article.

By: L.L. Wynn

L.L. Wynn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:22:15 +0000

I was just in Cairo meeting with a Palestinian publisher based in Damascus. He’s the head of Cadmus Press which publishes a lot of Western scholarly literature in translation, and he also reviews English language books for Al-Jazeera (see his recent review of Fear Up Harsh here: http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/73EBFA18-531C-49D8-95B0-AECDEFE22AA8.htm). We were talking about the anthropology of archaeology and we got to talking about Abu El-Haj. He was very familiar with her book and I told him that he should translate it and publish it in Arabic, if it wasn’t already. But he said that he wasn’t really interested because she was Palestinian. Why? It was because, he told me, he thought that an argument like the one Abu El-Haj makes isn’t as powerful when it comes from a Palestinian as when it comes from an Israeli or Jewish academic (he mentioned Ilan Pappe as an example). Isn’t that depressing to hear an argument like that coming from a Palestinian who used to work for the PLO?

By: rex

rex — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:18:13 +0000

Wow I totally managed to miss Chris’s earlier post… sorry for the double posting!

By: Strong

Strong — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:40:45 +0000

Well, we know that CKelty liked the article too:
/2008/04/14/more-anthropologists-in-the-news/