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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Munir Fakhreddine is a Syrian writer, researcher, and academic lecturer, born in the occupied Golan in 1967, specializing in modern Palestinian history. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Master's Program in Israeli Studies at Birzeit University - Palestine, and holds a Ph.D. in History from New York University in 2008.
In 2017, he published a review of Israeli policies towards the Palestinian issue, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies, edited by: Jamil Hilal and Khaled Farraj. In the context of periodic seminars organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies and dedicated to keeping pace with the developments of the Palestinian cause in all its fields, this seminar is distinguished by addressing the study of Israel, whether in its economic, social and ideological affairs, or in the evolution of its position on issues of settlement, settlement, and the Arab minority in the 1948 areas and others. The most important thing is that the group of scholars are specialized in producing scientific studies on Israel and the issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and most of them studied in Israeli schools and graduated from its universities, and they live there and suffer from the suffering of their families as a result of discrimination, oppression and inferiority that characterize the lives of the Arab minority.
In 2018, he was published by the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Welfare Association, the book “The Endowments and Jerusalem Properties: A Study of the Real Estate of the Old City in the Twentieth Century,” with researcher Salim Tamari.
The 110-page book sheds light on the characteristics of the urban space in the Old City of Jerusalem, and its historical and social implications, by addressing the conditions of ownership patterns, atomic and charitable endowments. The book provides tables, graphs and illustrative maps, including property types, proportions and approximate sizes, and property descriptions and uses, extracted from primary research data, from archival resources and architectural field surveys, which enhances the usefulness of the study for researchers specialized in the history of Jerusalem, and the cities of the Levant in general.
The study presents the results of the project to document real estate ownership in the Old City of Jerusalem, which was carried out by the Al-Quds Program for the Reconstruction of the Old Towns of the Taawon Foundation, within a professional team in cooperation with the Map Department of the Arab Studies Association in Jerusalem, in the context of presenting the historical context of the various tenure systems in Palestine, leading to: A better historical understanding of the sources of this study, and a contribution to an attempt to understand the transformations and policies of the urban landscape in Palestine.
career path
After obtaining a BA in Philosophy and Sociology, he chose to complete his higher education for his MA and PhD in History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, between 1998 and 2008. The PhD project was based on in-depth archival research on the policy of the British colonial lands in Palestine and its social and political impact on the Palestinians . After completing his post-doctoral training and fellowship in New York and Berlin, he was fortunate enough to join the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in 2010 as an Assistant Professor. In the year 2014/15, he joined a committee responsible for launching a distinguished and cross-disciplinary program at the doctoral level in social sciences, and also served as a director between 2015 and 2021 as the director of the first master’s program in Israeli studies, launched by the university to promote knowledge and critical studies on Zionism and its colonial settlement project. In its internal mechanisms and its impact. Within this framework, he participated in supervising a joint research project between Birzeit University and the London School of Economics (LSE) on the memory of the resistance in the occupied Syrian Golan. In parallel with his academic and institutional activity at the university, he has collaborated with the Institute for Palestine Studies on several publishing projects, archiving and conferences, since 2011. His publications include a book with Salim Tamari on real estate and endowments in the Old City of Jerusalem (2017). He is currently working on a number of research publications in different stages of preparation, in two main research areas: the issue of land and colonialism in Palestine, and the societal, cultural and political confrontation of the people of the Golan with the Israeli occupation.
Munir Fakhreddine is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. He has several publications in national and international journals. He has academic activities with various national and international associations and academics. He is the recipient of famous awards and research funding support. The main research interest in is in studies related to bioethics and political philosophy. Research fellow at the Institute of Palestine Studies, member of the Board of Trustees of the Observatory: The Arab Center for Human Rights in the occupied Golan.
His writings
Wrote:
A review of Israeli policies towards the Palestinian issue. (2017)
Endowments and Jerusalem Property: A Study of Old City Real Estate in the Twentieth Century, Institute for Palestine Studies (2018)
Articles:
Book review: Al-Miri and the Amiri, the Owner and the Owner: Legal Notes on Distinguishing Individual Lands from Princely Lands in Palestine. (2012)
“Syrians in the Occupied Golan: Between Revolution, Regime and Occupation.” (2015)
British Framing of the Frontier in Palestine, 1918– 1923: Revisiting Colonial Sources on Tribal Insurrection, Land Tenure, and the Arab Intelligentsia (2014).
"The Obsessions of the Renaissance in the Letters of Gibran Kazma to Jamal Al-Husseini 1921-1923". (2011)
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