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'Conflict in Cities is pleased to announce Professor Salim Tamari's forthcoming lecture on 13th November entitled "(Un)sacred Geography - Jerusalem as a Worldly City" and his seminar on 14th November entitled "Diaries as a source of studying Urban History".
Professor Tamari is spending two months in Cambridge as the Eric Lane Visiting Fellow at Clare College. He is director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and professor of sociology at Birzeit University. Professor Tamari is the editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. He is also the author of several works on urban culture, political sociology, biography and social history, and the social history of the Eastern Mediterranean. Recent publications include: Jerusalem 1948 (2001); Ottoman Jerusalem (2002); Mandate Jerusalem in the Memoirs of Wasif Jawahariyyeh (with Issam Nassar, 2005); Pilgrims, Lepers, and Stuffed Cabbage: Essays on the Cultural History of Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem (editor) (IJS, 2005); Year of the Locust: WWI and the End of the Ottoman Era (2007); Mountain Against the Sea: Studies in Palestinian Society and Culture (UC Press; 2008).
