ISSUE 8.2

PESI 2021 Keynote: "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited"

Kareem Rabie

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Interviewed by Sherene Seikaly
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In the Political Economy Summer Institute 2021 Keynote, Jadaliyya co-editor Sherene Seikaly leads a conversation with Kareem Rabie about his new book Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

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Guests

Kareem Rabie
Kareem Rabie

Anthropologist & author of Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited.

Kareem Rabie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. He studies privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank. His first book, Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited came out mid-May from Duke University Press. While on research leave in 2021, Kareem will be a visiting fellow at CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics; and Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Previously he was Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago and Marie Curie Fellow/Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford.

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