SPECIALIZATIONS  - Modern Middle East History   - European Colonialism and Expansion in the Middle East   - Islamic Religious Tradition and Ritual

EDUCATION Ph.D. - University of Toronto, 2006 M.A. - Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 1993 B.A. - University of Toronto, 1991

FALL 2012 OFFICE HOURS Monday & Wednesday 12:30-1:30 pm Friday 3:30-4:00 pm  Email Prof. Halabi

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PUBLICATIONS (Articles)

 “Tradition and the Tombs of the Prophet Moses: The Medieval Islamic Period,” Saints and the Sacred: proceedings of a St. Michael’s College symposium (25-26 February 2000), eds. J. Goering et. al., Legas: New York, 2001. pp. 25-34. (R)

 

“Symbols of Hegemony and Resistance: Banners and Flags in British-ruled Palestine,” Jerusalem Quarterly, Winter 2009, Vol. 36: 66-78. (R)

 

 “Liminal Loyalties: Ottomanism and Palestinian Responses to the Turkish War of Independence, 1919-1922,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Spring 2012, Vol. 41 No. 3:19-37 (R)

Retrieve article:

http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?href=issue&jid=1&iid=163

“Islamic Ritual and Palestinian Nationalism: al-Hajj Amin and the Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1921 to 1936,” in Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917-Present, ed. Lena Jayyusi. (in-press, ISBN: 9781566567879, Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing: 2013). (R)

Reference Entries

“Constitution of Medina,” ed. John Esposito, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, (Oxford University Press, 2009).

“Pilgrimages,” Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia, ed. Mel E. Page (ABC-CLIO, 2003).

 

 “Arabs,” Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, ed. David Levinson, et al. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002).

“Muslims, Sunni,” Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, ed. David Levinson, et al. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002).

 

“The Nabi Musa Festival under British-Ruled Palestine,” in ISIM: Newsletter (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World New) Vol. 10 (July 2002): 27.

 

Works in Progress

 

 “The Medieval Islamic Debate on the Location of the Tomb of the Prophet Moses”