Critical Studies in Palestine/Israel

Critical Studies in Palestine/Israel takes as its starting point that Palestinian and Israeli societies are intertwined and interdependent through a history of settler colonialism and stark inequalities of power. Studying them separately obscures the processes that have shaped both societies.

In Western, especially US, contexts, Israel studies and Palestine studies emerged from competing political agendas, with unequal resources and institutional support that shaped divergent methodologies, archives, and scholarly priorities. This series seeks to establish a common scholarly lens without assuming symmetry, equality, or moral equivalence between Zionism and Palestinian experience.

The series publishes original, peer-reviewed monographs across the humanities and social sciences. It promotes relational and integrative scholarship examining social, cultural, economic, and political dynamics between Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine/Israel from the nineteenth century to the present. Its scope encompasses Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine, the State of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, alongside related regional and overseas processes, including Palestinian refugee experiences and the involvement of Jewish communities abroad.

Through multidisciplinary research across regions and historical periods, the series examines how unequal but interconnected relationships have shaped Palestinian and Israeli lives, identities, and beliefs.

Acquiring Editor:

Tristan Bates,

Editors:
Awad Halabi
Tamir Sorek

Advisory Board:
Saed Atshan
Joseph R. Farag
Honaida Ghanim
Liora Halperin
Lior B. Sternfeld
Yair Wallach