Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: (646) 515-8309
ABOUT
Sahar Bostock is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the impact of development projects on the people and environment of Southern Palestine during the late Ottoman period and under the British Mandate. She is particularly interested in the ways in which urban planning, transportation networks, and communication technologies shaped daily life in the desert and the interactions between Palestinian Bedouins, fellahin, urbanites, and Zionist settlers. Her previous work examined Palestinian practices of radio listening during the British Mandate and listeners' discourse on the Palestine Broadcasting Service (1936-1948).
Before coming to Columbia, Sahar was an Arabic teacher, developed digital materials for teaching Arabic and Hebrew, and promoted the study of spoken Arabic in schools, universities, and private organizations in Israel.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Technology
Ottoman Studies
Environment
Development
History Of Science
Palestinian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Israel
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Relations Between Technology And Popular Culture
Languages
French (intermediate)
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Hebrew (native)
Persian (elementary)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2018
| Middle Eastern and African History
| Tel Aviv University
Abstracts
Arab Palestinian listenership to the radio in Mandate Palestine
Speaking Back: Arab Palestinian Listeners’ Discourse on Radio in Mandate Palestine
